When John entered the office, the manager ____just____ (leave), so they had little time to talk about the agreement.

Speak louder, please! I can ____ hear you.

 

阅读理解

      More and more people are good at catching business chances to create wealth. Recently the Chinese Internet buzzwords (流行词) “thin blue mushroom” have become the name of a company in Shenzhen.

      How do the buzzwords come? In fact, they mean “sad and feeling like you want to cry” in English. When they were first spoken by a young man, they sounded similar to “lan shou xiang gu”. At that time, the young man just experienced a sad story of love and posted a video online. In the video, he said such words. Only a few days later, the words became popular among Internet users. Before that, some other buzzwords also became popular on the Internet.

      After Chinese swimmer Fu Yuan Hui got third prize in the Rio Olympics, she said that her success was because of “prehistoric powers (洪荒之力)”. As a result, her words became popular overnight. And just two days later, “Prehistoric Power” became a company's name in Shenzhen.

      Besides, Wang Jianlin, the richest man in China, ever discusses his “small” goal of earning 100,000,000 yuan on TV. His words became popular online quickly. After one week, a new company named “Earning 100,000,000 yuan” appeared in Shenzhen.

      So what will be the next company with a new buzzword?

连一连．

   One day. A farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The father said, “Look! There's a horseshoe 1 the ground. Pick it up and put it in your bag.” Thomas said, “It wastes my time. ” His father said 2 but he picked it up himself. When they got to a nearby town, they had a rest. There the farmer 3 the horseshoe and with the money he bought some strawberries.
   The father and the son went on walking. The sun was well up in the 4. They soon drank up their water, and there wasn't a house or even a tree for them to 5. Thomas felt too 6 to walk on. At this time, his father gave Thomas a strawberry 7 he quickly ate it. After a while, his father gave him 8strawberry and once again, his son lost no time in putting it in his mouth.
   And so they 9. The old farmer gave the strawberries and the son ate them. When Thomas had eaten up all the strawberries, his father said to him, “My dear son, if you picked up that horseshoe, you would have your own strawberries 10. Always remember the lesson: If you don't worry about the little things, you’ll find difficult to do the great things.”