I’ve been trying to _________ you all day

I’ve been trying to phone Chrlesll evening, but there must be something wrong with the network; I c

A．get through

B．get off

C．get in

D．get along

A.touch

B.communicate

C.catch

— I’ve been trying to call my Mom and Dad for almost an hour, but_______________.

— They must have hung up the phone improperly.

A. the line is always busy

B. the line is always taken

C. the phone is always busy

D. the phone is always used

A. with

B. to

C. on

D. at

I’ve been writing for most of my life. The book Writing Without Teachers introduced me to one distinction and one practice that has helped my writing processes tremendously. The distinction is between the creative mind and the critical mind. While you need to employ both to get to a finished result, they cannot work in parallel no matter how much we might like to think so.

Trying to criticize writing on the fly is possibly the single greatest barrier to writing that most of us encounter. If you are listening to that 5th grade English teacher correct your grammar while you are trying to capture a fleeting (稍纵即逝的) thought, the thought will die. If you capture the fleeting thought and simply share it with the world in raw form, no one is likely to understand. You must learn to create first and then criticize if you want to make writing the tool for thinking that it is.

What prevents people from writing on is ________.

A) putting their ideas in raw form

B) attempting to edit as they write

C) ignoring grammatical soundness

D) trying to capture fleeting thoughts（B）

Revise the following e-mail message. And the formatting of the message is to be scored.

TO: Andrea Kana

This message is in response to your recent inquiry about mail costs. Your message of April 30 said that you wanted a brief explanation of what is being done in Mail Services to cut back on overall costs. I can tell you that I've been doing many things to cut costs.

For one thing. l' m trying very hard to locate duplicate names and addresses inadvertently included in our mailing lists. This problem is particularly difficult when we merge multiple mailing lists. Another thing l'm doing relates to envelope size. Departments that use envelopes larger than 631 by 1131 are costing us a lot of money. which they do not realize. Therefore. 1 am making a proposal to all departments to limit the envelope size.

Finally. l' m looking into the possibility of presorting some of our first- and third-class mail. Mailings that are presorted are charged less.

George Miller

A．equally

B．eventually

C．naturally

D．evidently

I’ve been writing for most of my life. The book Writing Without Teachers introduced me to one distinction and one practice that has helped my writing processes tremendously. The distinction is between the creative mind and the critical mind. While you need to employ both to get to a finished result, they cannot work in parallel no matter how much we might like to think so.

Trying to criticize writing on the fly is possibly the single greatest barrier to writing that most of us encounter. If you are listening to that 5th grade English teacher correct your grammar while you are trying to capture a fleeting (稍纵即逝的) thought, the thought will die. If you capture the fleeting thought and simply share it with the world in raw form, no one is likely to understand. You must learn to create first and then criticize if you want to make writing the tool for thinking that it is.

When the author says the creative mind and the critical mind “cannot work in parallel” (Line 4, Para. 1) in the writing process, he means ________.

A) no one can be both creative and critical

B) they cannot be regarded as equally important

C) they are in constant conflict with each other

D) one cannot use them at the same time（D）

A.fling into

B.browsing through

C.finding out

D.giving out