A. will be                                                              B. would be                  

C. have been                                                       D. had been

14 See, your computer has broken down again! It doesn’t ______ sense to buy the cheapest brand of computer just to save a few dollars.

  A. have                        B. make                           C. display                         D. bring

15 The boss of the company is trying to create an easy atmosphere ______ his employees enioy their work.

A. where                    B. which                          C. when                           D. who

第二节：完形填空（共20小题：每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16～35各题所给出的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

My fiance (未婚夫) and I were excited about shopping for our first home. But our funds were  16  , and none of the houses in our price range seemed satisfactory.

        One agent  17  a house in particular. Although her description sounded wonderful, the price was   18   our range, so we declined. But she kept urging us to have a look  19  .

        We finally did and it was   20   at first sight. It was Our Home, small and charming, overlooking a quiet lake. Walking through the rooms and talking with the owners, a nice elderly couple, we felt the warmth and   21   of the marriage within that home. As perfect as it was, the price remained too high for us. But every day, we would sit by the lake, looking at the house and dreaming of   22  it would be like to live there.

        Days later, we made a(n)   23   —far below the asking price. Surprisingly, they didn’t 24   us. They renewed their offer   25  . It was also much more than we could afford, but far   26   than the original asking price.

The next day, we got a   27  message that another buyer had offered a much higher price. Even so, we decided to talk with the   28   directly. We made our final offer, which 29   was thousands of dollars less than the other buyer’s bid. We knew it,   30   we had to try.

        “Sold!” said the owner. Then he   31   : He’d seen us sitting by the lake all those times; he knew how much we loved the place and that we’d   32   the years of work they had put into their home; he realized he would take a   33   by selling it to us, but it was worthwhile; we were the people they wanted to live there. He told us to consider the   34   in the price “an early wedding present.”

        That’s how we found our home and how I learned that when people are   35   they are not strangers, only friends we haven’t yet met.

16. A. needed                B. limited                        C. enough                      D. large

17. A. recommended   B. decorated                          C. sold                             D. rented

18. A. below                  B. within                     &nbs