17. How did the speaker feel before his first interview?

　A. Very confident. B. Very nervous. C. Very impatient.

18. Where did the speaker take up his first part-time job?

　A. In middle school. B. In high school. C. In college.

19. What made the speaker want to be an engineer?

　A Helping at Mcdonald's. B. Serving at a coffee shop. C.Working at a building company.

20. What is the speakers secret to success?

　A. He studied hard. B. He met lots of people. C. He had work experience.

第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）

第一节（共10小题；毎小题2．5分，满分25分）

　阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

　　Living next to the Spellmans, our new neighbors, almost drove my mother crazy. If shewasn't shaming them for not attending church, or complaining to her sister Jackie about theway the Spellman girls dressed, then she was shoeing theSpellman's dogs out of our yard orfiling noise complaints with the police, My mother had never been so busy.All she ever spokeof any more were the Spellmans and their wrongdoings.

　　One Sunday afternoon after church service, my mother was driving old Ms Parker hometo her house on the hill when we got a flat tire. As far as changing the tire, let's just say thatwe were at the mercy of the good Lord. Since old Ms. Parker lived so far up that hill, not a lotof traffic drove by us. It had been about fifteen minutes since the last car passed when weheard the rattling and puttering of an old pickup truck as it pulled over to assist us.

The Spellman boys ran up on our car like a NASCAR pit crew. Before my mother couldeven protest, they had taken the tire off. "Her spare is flat, " said the middle one to the big one. " Give her ours"replied the big one, barely acknowledging the sacrifice. My mother wasstunned. "I don,