____ had a bitter hatred of the meaningless drudgery （toil) which wasted two－thirds of his lifetime.

A.illusion

B.disillusion

C.disillusionment

D.illusions

His father had a ________ life when he was young.

A. suffered

B. cruel

C. bitter

D. little

One country received its second-place medals with visible indignation after the hockey. There had been noisy scenes at the end of the hockey match, the losers objecting to the final decisions. They were convinced that one of their goals should not have been disallowed and that their opponents' victory was unfair. Their manager was in a rage when he said, "This wasn't hockey. Hockey and the International Hockey Federation are finished." The president of the Federation said later that such behavior. could result in suspension of the team for at least three years.

The American basketball team announced that they wouldn't yield the first place to Russia, after a disputable end to their contest. The game had ended in disturbance. It was thought at first that the United States had won, by a single point, but it was announced that there were three seconds still to play. A Russian player then threw the ball from one end of the court to the other, and another player popped it into the basket. It was the first time the USA had ever lost an Olympic basketball match. An appeal jury debated the matter for four and a half hours before announcing that the result would stand. The American players then voted not to receive the silver medals.

Incidents of this kind will continue as long as sport is played competitively rather than for the love of the game. The suggestion that athletes should compete as individuals, or in non-national teams, might be too much to hope for. But in the present organization of the Olympics there is far too much that encourages aggressive patriotism.

According to the author, recent Olympic Games have______.

A．created goodwill between the nations

B．bred only false national pride

C．barely showed any international friendship

D．led to more and more misunderstanding and hatred

1. We were limited to two-ten minute breaks and an unpaid half hour for lunch.

2. Working at an apple plant was the worst job I ever had.

3. The second bad feature of the job was the pay.

4. Each carton contained twenty-five pounds of bottled apple juice, and they came down the track almost nonstop.

5. I was getting minimum wage at that time, $3.65 an hour, plus a quarter extra for working the night shift.

6. I was very lonely on the job because I had no interest in common with the other truck loaders.

7. I felt this isolation especially when the production line shut down for the night, and I spent two hours by myself, cleaning the apple vats.

8. First of all, the work was physically hard.

9. I had to work over sixty hours a week to get decent take-home pay.

10. Most of my time was spent outside on the loading dock in near-zero-degree temperatures.

11. The vats were an ugly place to be on a cold morning, and the job was a bitter one to have.

12. For ten hours a night, I took cartons that rolled down a metal track and stacked them onto wooden skids in a tractor trailer.

13. Finally, I hated the working conditions.

A.2、8、12、4、3、5、9、13、1、10、6、7、11

B.2、8、4、12、9、5、13、1、10、6、7、11

C.2、8、12、4、3、5、9、13、10、1、11、7、6

D.2、4、12、9、8、5、1、13、10、6、7、11、3

These are not the usual hard-boiled Raymond Chandler imitations found in some bookstores and at airport lounges. The works, written originally in German, French, Spanish and Italian, offer social criticism and a slice of culture with the who-done-it, according to Von Hurter, who likened some of Bitter Lemon's titles to travel fiction. The books, translated into English for the first time, take readers to locales like Mexico City, Munich and Havana. "I'd always go to bookstores in countries where I can read" the language, 58-year old yon Hurter told Reuters while in New York this month to promote the company. In fact, he admits to making sure that, whenever possible, his U.S. flights went through Minneapolis, which has one of his favorite second-hand bookstores.

Von Hurter, born and raised in Geneva, Switzerland, and a graduate of University of Pennsylvania's Wharton business school, is not the only Wall Street veteran financing Bitter Lemon Press. His brother Frederic yon Hurter, a former commodities trader at Cargill, the Minneapolis food giant, and Laurence Colchester, a former economist at Citibank, are partners. Though the trio speaks French, Greek, German and Italian, they employ translators to bring the books to life in English.

Francois von Hurter would not detail how much of the groups's own money they put into Bitter Lemon. Bitter Lemon has published six books in Britain and has plans for five titles in the next six months or so as part of its launch in the United States. One such title, "Thumbprint", is a mystery written by Friedrich Glauser, who was born in Vienna in 1896 and has been referred to as a Swiss Simenon--a reference to the noted Belgian mystery writer known for his French detective Maigret. "Thumbprint", translated from German, has been one of the Bitter Lemon's most popular books, selling 5,000 copies. Other Bitter Lemon titles include Gunter Ohnemus' "The Russian Passenger", the story of a cab driver who gets entangled with the Russian Mafia that has been translated from German, and "The Snowman" by Jorg Fauser, a German author born in 1944 who died in 1987. "Fauser was one of the romantic heroes of post-war German literature, a friend of Charles Bukowski ... he is now being rediscovered," news magazine Der Spiegel noted in July, responding to a biography of Fauser published this summer.

As a banker for First Boston, known today as Credit Suisse First Boston, and Morgan Stanley, Francois von Hurter worked not only in New York but London and Saudi Arabia. Among other deals, he had a hand in Seagram Co Ltd.'s purchase of MCA Inc. and Coca-Cola Co.'s purchase of Columbia Pictures. And white the players are different, book publishing has some similarities to Wall Street's merger business. Like a company put up for sale, a book needs a specific market and needs to have potential for growth. "You have to put together a business plan ... negotiate with suppliers like printers, a sales force and distributors. You need to apply the same marketing savvy to decide how to position the book," he said.

What is different about this latest venture, though, is that the hours spent in the office seem to race by much more rapidly. "In a way, the hardest part of the second career, is that it creates such enthusiasm that you tend never to turn off," he said. "The line be

A．English mystery novels written by London-based writers.

B．Mystery novels which offer social criticism and a slice of culture, written originally not in English.

C．Travel fiction which take readers to locales like Mexico City, Munich and Havana.

D．Hard-boiled mystery novels translated into English for the first time.

A.A.distort

B.B.exert

C.C.reinforce

D.D.scramble

Moscow, Russia (Space news) ——"The computer is a better chess player, insisted Viktor Prozorov, the loser. It seemed as if it were laughing after every good move. I know I should have beaten it for the sake of mankind (人类), but I just couldn't win", he announced and shook his head sadly. Prozorovs disappointment was shared by several grand masters who were present, some of whomwere so upset that they shouted at the machine. Many chess players said that this meant the end of chess championships (冠军) around the world, since the fun had been taken out of the game. The computer walked——or rather——rolled away with 5 000 dollars in prize money and limited its remarks to a set of noises and lights.

1、Which of the following best gives the main idea of this newspaper article？ ()

A、5 000 dollars goes to a computer!

B、New invention : a laughing computer!

C、World''s best chess player beaten!

D、Computer defeats man in chess!

2、How did some of the grand masters feel about the chess game between Prozorov and the computer？ ()

A、They thought that the game was not fun.

B、They thought that the game wasn''t fair.

C、They agreed that Prozorov didn''t play well.

D、They were unhappy that the cProzoro didn''t play well.

3、What was it that Prozorov felt most bitter (痛苦 ) about？ ()

A、That he didn''t win the $5 000.

B、That he hadn''t tried his best.

C、That he had lost to a machine.

D、 That this was the end of the chess game.

4、After wining the game, the computer()

A、laughed

B、walked away

C、made some remarks

D、gave out some lights and sounds

5、Many chess players felt that playing with a computer would()

A、make the game tougher

B、make the game less interesting

C、make man appear foolish

D、make man lose lots of money

The last sentence of the text indicates the author’s______.

［A］ hatred

［B］ affection

［C］ stubbornness

［D］ rejection

A.Indiffernet

B.Critical

C.Favorable

D.Hatred