第二卷（非选择题 35分）

第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节：对话填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

　　　阅读下面对话，掌握其大意，并根据所给字母的提示，在标有题号的右边横线上写出一个英语单词的完整、正确形式，使对话通顺。

M: Miss Dermott, let me ask you straight away. Do you think, within a few years, many people could be working at home instead of working in o   76  ?

W: Oh, yes. It’s h   77   now. You see, the communication industry has made much progress in the last ten years.

M: And how do these people manage to work? I mean, what e    78  do they have at home?

W: Well, they have a television set, a computer, a printer, and a telephone c   79   with other computers.

M: Oh, I see. But surely there’re some a___80____ in being able to work at home.

W: Yes. Working at home, people don’t have to spend a lot of time g__81___ to and back from their work places. The rush hours are the time of day with the s____82_____ traffic. Millions of people have to get up early to a___83____ the rush hours.

M: Ah, yes, I see. What do you think about the conditions of home workers?

W: Oh, let me tell you what might b__84______ of them. In the future a British firm in, for example, London, might e____85____ clerks in Belfast, or a Paris company could had their secretaries in spain, and then they just use a telephone to call around for the labor.