大学英语精读第三册课后close练习题.docVIP

Choose the best word or phrase for each blank from the four supplied in brackets. Whether you are a CEO, engineer, firefighter, teacher, or sales professional, the (1) ______ (ability, capacity, chance, opportunity) to persuade individuals to believe you, (2) ______ (otherwise, still, then, yet) act on what you are saying, is critical to your success and central to your economic well-being. No matter (3) ______ (how, when, who, whoever) you are, you have something to sell. Frequently, in the course of your career you will be (4) ______ (called upon, put upon, seized on, urged on) to sell either yourself or your ideas. (5) ______ (Either, Neither, Weather, Whether) you are selling yourself in an interview for a job, or selling a product, service, philosophy, or idea—everybody sells (6) ______ (anything, everything, nothing, something)! Perhaps engineers constitute (7) ______ (less, more, the least, the most) sales and promotion—oriented group I know. Engineers like to (8) ______ (live on, rely on, resort to, stick to) facts, number, and technology to lead people (9) ______ (backward, forward, sideward, toward) making the right decisions. Yet they still (10) ______ (have to, ought to, must, should) sell. If you need to convince a board of directors, company president, or your supervisor why a project needs more funding, additional support, or even more time, you have a (11) ______ (sale, saleable, sales, selling) job ahead of you. The most common (12) ______ (form, pattern, shape, way) of selling today may be simply finding a job. Even firefighters have to (13) ______ (cut through, go through, enroll in, participate in) a series of in-depth interviews in which they are probed on why they should be selected over hundreds of other candidates (14) ______ (applied, applying, to apply, having applied) for the same position. These men and women have to explain why they would be assets to the department. (15) ______ (What, Whatever, Which, Whichever) position you are applyin