1.（ ）Please____Natalie e-mail me your views to sport@times.co.uk.

A) keep B) have C) cater D) cause

2.（ ）As our clients, we strive to make sure you____with the highest in hospitality.

A) treat B) is treated C) are treating D) are treated

3.（ ） It’s an excellent and inexpensive hotel, ____they offer pick-up service.

A) so B) and C) for D) but

4.（ ）Bill Gates, 68, says he hopes to follow in the footsteps of longtime friend Warren Buffett, who serves

as chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway at age 94 and has no____plans to retire.

A) imminent B) avoidable C) never D) escapable

5.（ ） After nearly two decades in working on Wall Street, Charles Coristine burned out. He tried multiple____：switching to a vegetarian diet, meditating, enrolling in an MBA program. None of them worked.

A) injuries B) expression C) experiences D) remedies

【答案及解析】

1.【答案】(B)，解析：本題測驗使役動詞用法。空格應填入帶有指示或命令意思之動詞，故選 (B) have， 指「使；讓」之意。

2.【答案】(D)，解析：本題考文法。原句提到「我們努力確保您享受到高度熱忱的款待」。根據語法結構，此處應使用被動語態（be動詞 + p.p.），表示客人「被款待；被招待」之意。

3.【答案】(B)，解析：本題考上下文關係。空格前段提到這是間好旅館，空格後段又提到接送服務，可判斷空格處應填入(B) and，使句意完整。

4.【答案】(A)，語意: 現年68歲的比爾蓋茲希望他能像他的好朋友華倫巴菲特一樣 – 現年94歲仍然擔任

Berkshire Hathaway的總裁及CEO職位且近期無退休的打算。解析: 考字義，故答案選A。

5.【答案】(D)，語意: 在華爾街工作將近20年，Charles Coristine熱忱不再，他試了好幾種治療補救方法，包含吃素、冥想或是參加MBA課程，但是無一適用。解析: 考字義，injury字義為傷害、expression字義為表達、experiences字義為經驗、remedies字義為治療/補救方式，故答案選D。