Do you think it would be better to send out sale _____ directly to prospective buyers?
(A) book
(B) literature
(C) manual
(D) price
A
I was waiting for a phone call from my agent. He had left at message the night before, telling me that my show was to be cancelled. I called him several times, but each time his secretary told me that he was in a meeting and that he would call me later. So I waited and waited, but there was still no call. Three hours passing by, I became more and more and impatient. I was certain that my agent didn’t care about my work, and he didn’t care about me. I was overcome with that thought. I started to shout at the phone, “Let me wait, will you? Who do you think you are?”
At that time I didn’t realize my wife was looking on. Without showing her surprise, she rushed in, seized the phone, tore off the wires, and shouted at the phone, “Yeah! Who do you think you are? Bad telephone! Bad telephone!” And she swept it into the wastebasket.
I stood watching her, speechless. What on earth...?
She stepped to the doorway and shouted at the test of the house, “Now hear this! All objects in this room----if you do anything to upset my husband, out you go!”
Then she turned to me. Kissed me and said calmly, “Honey, you just have to learn how to take control.” With that, she left the room.
After watching a crazy woman rushing in and out, shouting at everything in sight , I noticed that something in my mood (情绪) had changed. I was laughing. How could I have trouble with that phone? Her anties helped me realize I had been driven crazy by small things. Twenty minutes later my agent did call. I was able to listen to him and talk to him and talk to him calmly.
56. Why did the author shout at the telephone?
A. He was mad at the telephone.
B. He was angry with his agent.
C. He was anxious about his wife.
D. He was impatient with the secretary?
Mary: What are you working on? Susan: I'm doing some embroidery. Mary: ______ Susan: I don't do very much, just for very special occasions.
A.I didn't know you did needlework.
B.I think you have done a good job.
C.Where did you learn to do needlework?
D.Why do you do needlework?
45.1 really want to know_________
A. what is wrong with my brother
B. how will he go to Beijing tomorrow
C.if had he bought that car
D. where did he go yesterday
A. how do you know it?
B. why do you say so?
C. what do you mean by that?
高级英语课后习题答案BLACKMAILI. Give brief answers to the following questions, using your own words as much as possible-1) Did Ogilvie deliberatedly delay his call at the Croydons suite? Why?2) Why did the Duchess send her maid and secretary out?3) Why do you think Ogilvie was being deliberately offensive to the Croydons in the beginning?4) How did the Duchess know where the Duke had gone the night the accident occurred?5) How did Ogilvie come to suspect the Croydons of the hit- n run crime?6) what is a brush trace?7) What made the Duchess jump to the conclusion that Ogilvie had come to blackmail them?8) Why didnt the police come immediately to the hotel to check the cars?9) Why couldnt the Duchess get her car repaired discreetly in New Orleans?10) Why did the Duchess decide to make the detective drive their car north?11) Why did the Duchess offer Ogilvie twenty-five thousand dollars instead of the ten thousand the detective asked for?12) Did Ogilvie accept the Duchess offer?II. Paraphrase:1) The house detectives piggy eyes surveyed her sardonically from his gross jowled face.2) Pretty neat set-up you folks got.3) The obese body shook in an appreciative chuckle.4) He lowered the level of his incongruous falsetto voice.5) The words spat forth with sudden savagery, all pretense of blandness gone.6) The Duchess of Corydon three centuries and a half of in-bred arrogance behind her - did not yield easily.7) It is no go, old girl. Im afraid. It was a good try.8) Thats more like it, Ogilvie said. He lit the fresh cigar, Now were getting somewhere.9) his eyes sardonically on the Duchess as if challenging her objection.10) The house detective clucked his tongue reprovingly. Translate the following into Chinese:1) Ill tell you, Duke - Ive been in this town and this hotel a long time. I got friends all over. I oblige them; they do the same for me, like letting me know what gives, an where. There aint much, out of the way, which people who stay in this hotel do, I don t get to hear about. Most of em never know I know, or know me. They think they got their little secret tucked away, and so they have except like now.2) Well now, theres no call for being hasty, The incongruous falsetto voice took on a musing note. Whats dones been done. Rushin any place aint gonna bring back the kid nor its mother neither. Besides, what they d do to you across at the headquarters, Duke, you wouldnt t like. No sir, you wouldnt like it at all.3) The Duchess of Croydon kept firm, tight rein on her racing mind. It wasessential, she knew, that her thinking remain calm and reasoned. In the last few minutes the conversation had become as seemingly casual as if the discussion were of some minor domest、ic matter and not survival itself. She intended to keep it that way. Once more, she was aware; the role of leadership had fallen to her, her husband now a tense but passive spectator of the exchange between the evil fat man and herself. No matter. What was inevitable must be accepted. The important 、thing was to consider all eventualities. A thought occurred to her. Write out the full words for the following shortenings:Models: 1) lab - laboratory2) Paper - newspaper1) ad11) mod2) bra12) perm3) doc13) polio4) fridge14) pop-song5) gym15) prep6) hi-fi16) prof7) intercom17) sis8) lib18) telly9) memo19) vet10) mike20) zoo. Put the following phrases into Englis
一I went to a fashion show last night.
--- ____.
A. What was it like
B. Why not
C. Do you know him well
A、did you put; have put
B、have you put; put
C、had you put; have put
D、were you putting; have put
Mary Cochran went out of therooms she lived with her father, Doctor Lester Cochran, at seven o' clock on aSunday evening. It was June of the year nineteen hundred and eight, and Marywas eighteen years old. She walked along Tremont to Main Street and across the railroadtracks toUpper Main, lined with small shopsand shabby houses, a rather quiet cheerless place on Sunday when there were fewpeople about. She had toldher father she was going to church but did notintend anything of the kind. She did not know what she wanted todo. "T' II get offby myself andthink," she told herself as she walked slowly along. The night,she thought, promised to be too fine to be spent sitting in a church andhearing aman talk of things that had apparently nothing to do with her ownproblem. Her own affairs were approaching a crisis, and it was time for hertobegin thinking seriously of her future.The thoughtful serious stateof mind in which Mary found herself had been induced in her by a conversationshe had with her father on the eveningbefore. Without any preliminary talk andquite suddenly and abruptly, he had told her that he was a victim of heartdisease and might die at anymoment. He had made the announcement as they stoodtogether in his office, behind which were the rooms in which the father anddaughter lived.
45. What did she intend to do that night?
A. She decided to go to church.
B. She decided not to think aboutthe problem.
C. She decided to talk over theproblem with her father.
D. She had no intention of goingto church.
46. What was the cause of Mary' S seriousstate of mind?
A. Concern about her future.
B. Her talk with her father.
C. Worry about her sudden heart attack.
D. Going to church made her worry.
47. Where did Mary live?
A. In the same building as herfather' s office.
B. Near the church.
C. In a shabby house as her father' soffice.
D. She lived in a small shop.
48. What was Dr. Cochran' S condition?
A. He had a serious heartbreak.
B. He had light heart trouble.
C. He had a fatal heart disease.
D. He had a bad cold.
A、crossing my fingers so that you can have fun
B、hoping you can see my crossed fingers
C、showing you my crossed fingers
D、hoping strongly for the best
Describe the situation where you had to convince someone who was not easily to be convinced? What did you do? (No more than 1000 letters)