课时同步（译林牛津版）高一M2 unit1.3

So far the police       no progress in the investigation of the case.

A long time ago, I         in the USA for two years.

-----Where  _    you_    ?
------I got caught in the traffic, or I would have been here earlier.

I          my washing machine the whole morning. I must get it done before noon.

–----Do you know our town?
------No, this is the first time I       here.
A was           
B. have been
C. came        
D. am coming

I          at the station half an hour ago, but the train       yet.

---I’m sorry to have kept you waiting.
---Oh, not at all. I        here only a few minutes.
A have been     .   
B. had been
C., was               
D. will be

I thought Jim would talk about his school report, but he       anything about it.
A doesn’t say        
B. hadn’t said
C. didn’t say         
D. hasn’t said

I can’t go to the cinema with you because I       my ticket.

I       violin lessons every two weeks, but I think I’II make it every week from next month.

This is the first time I        a multiple choice test and I am hating every minute of it!
A ever did        
B. have never done
C. am doing         
D. have ever done

-----How long have you lived here?
-----          .  
A. Not long ago.
B. Since the beginning of the year.
C. 2000.
D, Only until the end of the year.

I           Li Lei since he was a little boy.

---       the baseball match might be put off.
---Yes, well, it all depends on the weather.

----Did Alan enjoy seeing his old friends yesterday?
----Yes, he did. He        his old friends for a long time.

We’ve considered several ways of paying to cut in line: hiring line standers, buying tickets from scalpers (票贩子), or purchasing line-cutting privileges directly from, say, an airline or an amusement park. Each of these deals replaces the morals of the queue (waiting your turn) with the morals of the market (paying a price for faster service).
Markets and queues—paying and waiting—are two different ways of allocating things, and each is appropriate to different activities. The morals of the queue, “First come, first served, have an egalitarian (平等主义的) appeal. They tell us to ignore privilege, power, and deep pockets.
The principle seems right on playgrounds and at bus stops. But the morals of the queue do not govern all occasions. If I put my house up for sale, I have no duty to accept the first offer that comes along, simply because it’s the first. Selling my house and waiting for a bus are different activities, properly governed by different standards.
Sometimes standards change, and it is unclear which principle should apply. Think of the recorded message you hear, played over and over, as you wait on hold when calling your bank: “Your call will be answered in the order in which it was received.” This is essential for the morals of the queue. It’s as if the company is trying to ease our impatience with fairness.
But don’t take the recorded message too seriously. Today, some people’s calls are answered faster than others. Call center technology enables companies to “score” incoming calls and to give faster service to those that come from rich places. You might call this telephonic queue jumping.
Of course, markets and queues are not the only ways of allocating things. Some goods we distribute by merit, others by need, still others by chance. However, the tendency of markets to replace queues, and other non-market ways of allocating goods is so common in modern life that we scarcely notice it anymore. It is striking that most of the paid queue-jumping schemes we’ve considered—at airports and amusement parks, in call centers, doctors’ offices, and national parks—are recent developments, scarcely imaginable three decades ago. The disappearance of the queues in these places may seem an unusual concern, but these are not the only places that markets have entered.
According to the author, which of the following seems governed by the principle “First come, first served”?

The example of the recorded message in Paragraphs 4 and 5 illustrates ______.

The passage is meant to ______.