He is the murderer of his boss.他谋杀了老板。

A．doubted

B．believed to be likely

C．believed to be unlikely

A. make, think

B. makes, think

C. makes, to think

D. make, thinking

A. treat

B. hesitated

C. relax

D. contracted

Curtis: Who do you think is the murderer in this story？

Greg:I think it's Mr. Johnson, because he was in the house at the time of the murder.

Curtis: No, __________

A． you never know.

B． but you may be mistaken.

C． but you are on the right track.

D． I don't know either.

Bribery may lead to murder. A month ago reporters rushed to the(1)of a crime. At the spot the detective seemed even hardly aware of their(2)as he did his work. He carefully searched for(3)over every inch of the house. After a while, he bent over to pick up a small torn(4)of fabric. Nothing could(5)from his search. The detective(6)that this piece of fabric was(7)from the murderer's clothing during a struggle.

The(8)had been the finance director of a very large computer hardware manufacturer. His wife, a timid woman,(9)everything she knew with the detective, including a hot(10)her husband had with some of the company's top executives at a banquet. There had been a scandal(11)bribery at his company. He was(12)the business of many of the top executives. He had(13)that some people were giving special favors to government officials to get(14). He often questioned their moral(15)and told them that he would accuse them if they were doing something they shouldn't,(16)caused problems for him. His questioning and accusing often left him at(17)with many of the executives. This time it had led to a(18)blow on his head. The detective caught(19)of a crucial clue, a brass button in the corner. It was from a jacket of one of the top executives. Later this executive and the company's president was(20). Of course this is not the end of the story.

Bribery may lead to murder. A month ago reporters rushed to the(1)of a crime. At the spot the detective seemed even hardly aware of their(2)as he did his work. He carefully searched for(3)over every inch of the house. After a while, he bent over to pick up a small torn(4)of fabric. Nothing could(5)from his search. 正确he detective(6)that this piece of fabric was(7)from the murderer's clothing during a struggle.

正确he(8)had been the finance director of a very large computer hardware manufacturer. His wife, a timid woman,(9)everything she knew with the detective, including a hot(10)her husband had with some of the company's top executives at a banquet. 正确here had been a scandal(11)bribery at his company. He was(12)the business of many of the top executives. He had(13)that some people were giving special favors to government officials to get(14). He often questioned their moral(15)and told them that he would accuse them if they were doing something they shouldn't,(16)caused problems for him. His questioning and accusing often left him at(17)with many of the executives. 正确his time it had led to a(18)blow on his head. 正确he detective caught(19)of a crucial clue, a brass button in the corner. It was from a jacket of one of the top executives. Later this executive and the company's president was(20). Of course this is not the end of the story.

Passage Five

A young girl and a man were recently found murdered in a parked car in a Boston suburb. The police found no clue (线索) in the car. Then they found a witness who had seen a car pass by the murdered couple's car. He said it was a 1950 or 1951 Chevrolet (雪佛莱牌汽车).

Ordinarily, searching through the files for owners of elderly Chevies would have been an impossibly difficult task because there were two and a half million such cars. In this case, however, the police had a powerful tool--the computer.

The Boston Registry of Motor Vehicles programmed its computer to screen all 1950 and 1951 Chevrolets within a fifteen-mile radius (半径) of the suburb--the area in which the police believed the murderer was most likely to be found. Within minutes, the computer uncovered one thousand of the wanted cars. A few hours of careful hand screening turned up a 1950 Chevrolet owner who lived close to the scene of the crime and who had received many traffic tickets (交通罚款). He was among the first suspects to be investigated, and evidence linking him to the murdered couple was found. He was arrested, and is now waiting for trial (审判).

51. The computer DIDN'T help the police ______.

A. to find the suspect

B. to find the murdered couple

C. to arrest the suspect

D. to search a 1950 or 1951 Chevrolet

aphy？ I do not mean that it is bad, as the reviewers will agree. But it will cost you 65 pounds. And have you got the rest of volumes？ You need the basic 22 plus the largely decennial supplements to bring the total to 31. Of course, it will be answered, public and academic libraries will want the new volume. After all, it adds 1,068 lives of people who escaped the net of the original compilers. Yet in 10 years' time a revised version of the whole caboodle, called the New Dictionary of National Biography, will be published. Its editor, Professor Colin Matthew, tells me that he will have room for about 50,000 lives, some 13,000 more than in the current DNB. This rather puts the 1,068 in Missing Persons in the shade.

When Dr Nicholls wrote to The Spectator in 1989 asking for names of people whom readers had looked up in the DNB and had been disappointed not to find, she says that she received some 100, 000 suggestions. (Well, she had written to "other quality newspapers" too. ) As soon as her committee had whittled the numbers down, the professional problems of an editor began. Contributors didn't file copy on time; some who did sent too much: 50,000 words instead of 500 is a record, according to Dr Nicholls.

There remains the dinner-party game of who's in, who's out. That is a game that the reviewers have played and will continue to play. Criminals were my initial worry. After all, the original edition of the DNB boasted. Malefactors whose crimes excite a permanent interest have received hardly less attention than benefactors. Mr John Gross clearly had similar anxieties, for he complains that, while the murderer Christie is in, Crippen is out. One might say in reply that the injustice of the hanging of Evans instead of Christie was a force in the repeal of capital punishment in Britain, as Ludovie Kennedy (the author of Christie's entry in Missing Persons) notes. But then Crippen was reputed as the first murderer to be caught by telegraphy (he had tried to escape by ship to America).

It is surprising to find Max Miller excluded when really not very memorable names get in. There has been a conscious effort to put in artists and architects from the Middle Ages. About their lives not much is always known.

Of Hugo of Bury St Edmunds, a 12th-century illuminator whose dates of birth and death are not recorded, his biographer comments. "Whether or not Hugo was a wall painter, the records of his activities as carver and manuscript. painter attest to his versatility." Then there had to be more women, too (12 per cent, against the original DBN's 3), such as Roy Strong's subject, the Tudor painter Levina Teerlinc, of whom he remarks.. "Her most characteristic feature is a head attached to a too small, spindly body. Her technique remained awkward, thin and often cursory." Doesn't seem to qualify her as a memorable artist. Yet it may be better than the record of the original DNB, which included lives of people who never existed (such as Merlin) and even managed to give thanks to J. W. Clerke as a contributor, though, as a later edition admits in a shamefaced footnote, "except for the entry in the List of Contributors there is no trace of J. W. Clerke".

The writer suggests that there is no sense in buying the latest volume

A．because it is not worth the price.

B．because it has fewer entries than before.

C．unless one has all the volumes in his collection.

D．unless an expanded DNB will come out shortly.