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     1.      business. We were all unemployed.

That lunch time we went to the pub  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     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   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.E

2.A

3.D

4.B

【解析】

试题分析：几年前我所在的公司破产。后来我们把公司买了下来，经过自己的努力之后，公司走上了正规，情况渐渐好了起来。

1.E考查固定短语。句意：一天，老板告诉我们公司破产了。out of business破产。

2.A 考查固定短语。句意：中午我们像往常一个到了酒馆。as usual 像往常一样。

3.D考查副词。句意：开始我们都大笑起来，但是然后我们真正的讨论起来。properly副词，恰当地，真正地。

4.B考查形容词。句意：开始的几年非常的难。dfficult形容词，困难的。

考点：词语运用