49.What happened after Odland dropped the ice cream onto the woman’s dress? A. He was fired.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. He was blamed.　　　　 C. The woman comforted him.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. The woman left the restaurant at once.

45.What can we learn about Lieberman from the text? A. He is clever but lonely.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. he is friendly and active. C. He enjoys traveling around.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. He often changes his menus.

答案　 41. B　 42.C　 43.A　 44.D　 45.B

Passage 30

(07·全国ⅡC篇)

Odland remembers like it was yesterday working in an expensive French restaurant in Denver. The ice cream he was serving fell onto the white dress of a rich and important woman.

Thirty years have passed, but Odland can’t get the memory out of his mind, nor the woman’s kind reaction(反应). She was shocked, regained calmness and, in a kind voice, told the young Odland. “It’s OK. It wasn’t your fault.” When she left the restaurant, she also left the future Fortune 500 CEO(总裁)with a life lesson: You can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she treats the waiter.

Odland isn’t the only CEO to have made this discovery. Rather, it seems to be one of those few laws of the land that every CEO learns on the way up. It’s hard to get a dozen CEO’s to agree about anything, but most agree with the Waiter Rule. They say how others treat the CEO says nothing. But how others treat the waiter is like a window into the soul.

Watch out for anyone who pulls out the power card to say something like, “I could but this place and fire you,” or “I know the owner and I could have you fired.” Those who say such things have shown more about their character(人品)than about their wealth and power.

The CEO who came up with it, or at least first wrote it down, is Raytheon CEO Bill Swanson. He wrote a best-selling book called Swanson’s Unwritten Rules of Management.

“A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, or to others, is not a nice person,” Swanson says. “I will never offer a job to the person who is sweet to the boss but turns rude to someone cleaning the tables.”

44.Why did the airline company give Lieberman the job? A. He could prepare meals in a small kitchen.　　　

B. He was famous for his shows on Food TV. C. He was good at using eggs to make sandwiches. D. He could cook cheap, delicious and simple meals.

43.What does the word “charisma” underlined in the text refer to? A. A natural ability to attract others.　　　　　　　　　　 B. A way to show one’s achievement. C. Lieberman’s after-class interest.　　　　　　　　　　　 D. Lieberman’s fine cooking skill.

42.The Food Network got to know Lieberman ____. A. at one of his parties　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. from his teachers　　　 C. through his taped show　　　　　　　　　　 D. on a television program

41.We can learn from the text that Lieberman’s family ____. A. have relatives in Europe　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. love cooking at home C. often hold parties　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. own a restaurant

59．The author learned from his experience that ___.

A．worldly possessions can be given up when necessary

B．generosity should be encouraged in some cases

C．people benefit from their sad stories

D．human beings are kind after all.

答案　 56.B　 57.C　 58.A　 59.D

Passage 29

(07·全国ⅡA篇)

Growing up in Philadelphia, Lieberman started cooking with his stay-at-home dad when he was seven. His food-loving family had two kitchens, and he quickly learned what was the best way to bake his cakes. Lieberman improved his kitchen skills greatly during a year abroad before college, learning from a cook in Italy and studying local specialties(地方特色菜)in Germany, Spain and France. At Yale, he was known for throwing dinner parties, single-handedly frying and baking while mixing drinks for dozens of friends. Just for fun, he and some friends decided to tape a show named Campus Cuisine about his cooking. Lieberman was a real college student showing his classmates how to do things like make drinks out of dining-hall fruit. That helped the show become very popular among the students. They would stop Lieberman after classes to ask for his advice on cooking. Tapes of the show were passed around, with which his name went beyond the school and finally to the Food Network.

Food Network producer Flay hopes the young cook will find a place on the network television. He says Lieberman’s charisma is key. “Food TV isn’t about food anymore,” says Flay. “It’s about your personality(个性)and finding a way to keep people’s eyeballs on your show.”

But Lieberman isn’t putting all his eggs in one basket. After taping the first season of the new show, Lieberman was back in his own small kitchen preparing sandwiches. An airline company(航空公司)was looking for someone to come up with a tasteful, inexpensive and easy-to-make menu to serve on its flights, Lieberman got the job.

58．It can be inferred from the text that ___.

A．the author’s family was in financial difficulty

B．rents were comparatively reasonable despite the disaster

C．houses were difficult to find in the hurricane0stricken area

D．the mortgage on the ruined house was paid off by the bank

57．What do we know about James Kemnedy?

A．He was a written of an online magazine.

B．He was a poet at the University of Florida

C．He offered the author a new house free of charge.

D．He learned about the author’s sufferings.

56．The garage employee’s attitude toward the author was that of ___.

A．unconcern 　　　　B．sympathy 　　　　C．doubt 　　　　　　D．tolerance