Question

as usual   B.difficult    C.well     D.properly     E.out of

I had to make a big decision. Five years ago, I was working for a small engineering company. However, things were not going very well for the company and it was losing money. One day, the boss told us that the company was     小題1:      business. We were all unemployed.
That lunch time we went to the pub 小題2:   . We were all very sad.Well,of course, we talked about the problem. Then the landlord of the pub heard the news. He said, "Why don't you buy the company?" At first we all laughed,but then we started to discuss it     小題3:     . We knew the problems. The company had lost a lot of customers because it hadn't developed new products, but finally we decided to go for it.
So we bought the company. The first few years were very   小題4:   . But we worked hard and we had a bit of luck. We began to improve three years ago. Since then we have done pretty well. Last year we took on(招聘)four new people. And so far we haste taken on another ten.

Answer 1

小題1:E
小題2:A
小題3:D
小題4:B

試題分析：幾年前我所在的公司破產。后來我們把公司買了下來，經過自己的努力之后，公司走上了正規(guī)，情況漸漸好了起來。
小題1:E考查固定短語。句意：一天，老板告訴我們公司破產了。out of business破產。
小題2:A 考查固定短語。句意：中午我們像往常一個到了酒館。as usual 像往常一樣。
小題3:D考查副詞。句意：開始我們都大笑起來，但是然后我們真正的討論起來。properly副詞，恰當地，真正地。
小題4:B考查形容詞。句意：開始的幾年非常的難。dfficult形容詞，困難的。