________ that they lost the game, tears came ...

________ that they lost the game, tears came down Kate's face.

A．On hearing the news

B．When heard the news

C．The moment she heard the news

D．While hearing the news

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_________ that they lost the game, tears came down her face.

A．On hearing the news

B．When heard the news

C．While hearing the news

D．The moment Kate heard the news

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Nobody would stand out admitting the fact，for some reason，________ they lost the game.

A．that　　 B．which　 C．what　　 D．why

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_______ the news that she didn’t pass the job interview, tears came into her eyes.

A. After hearing        B. On hearing

C. Heard         　　　　　 D. When she heard

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Worst Game Ever？

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a video game that came out for the Atari 2600 game system in 1982. It was based on a very popular film of the same name. Star programmer Howard Warshaw created it with consultation from the film director Steven Spielberg.

It was July 27th, 1982. Howard Warshaw was hot off the success of his most recent game, Raiders of the Lost Ark. He received a call from Atari C.E.O, Ray Kassar. Atari had bought the rights to make a video game version of Spilberg’s Movie, E.T., which had just been released（发行） in June. Kassar told Warshaw that Spielberg had specifically asked for Warshaw to make the game Warshaw was honored, but there was one huge problem. Atari needed the game finished by September 1st in order to start selling it during the Christmas season.

It had taken Warshaw six months to create Raiders of the Lost Ark. The game he made prior to that took him seven months. He was expected to create E.T. in around five weeks. Warshaw accepted the challenge anyway and production began. Spielberg wanted Warshaw to create a simple maze game similar to Pac-man, but V had a bigger vision. He wanted players to explore different environments in 3D world. Usually companies like Atari have people test games before releasing them, but they decided to skip testing due to time limitations.

The game was a hot holiday item at first. Unfortunately, Atari overestimated how many they would sell. They made 5 million copies and they only sold 1.5 million. Most people who played the game hated it. The graphics（画面）were bad. Game play was awkward. Players got stuck in holes that they couldn’t escape. Some people who stuck with the game grew to like it, but it wasn’t the mainstream success that Atari had hoped it would be.

Too many copies of the game sat on store shelves. One employee remembers the game being discounted five times, from $49.95 to less than a dollar. A newspaper in New Mexico reported that between 10 and 20 semitrailer truckloads of Atari products were crushed and buried at landfill in Alamogordo. Atari lost over $100 million on E.T.. The game was so bad that it was said to have affected Atari’s reputation. The video game industry soon fell into a deep depression, with a profit $3.2 billion in 1983 to just over $100 million in 1985, almost a 97% drop. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial will long be remembered as one of the worst games ever made, if not one of the causes of the decline of entire video game industry.

1.What can we learn about Howard Warshaw from the passage?

A. He was ambitious.　　 B. He was cautious.

C. He was unreliable.　 D. He was inexperienced.

2.Why did E.T. end up one worst video game ever?

A. It was produced in a hurry.

B. It was set in a 3D environment.

C. It was released at a wrong time.

D. It was based on a popular movie.

3.According to the passage, the failure of the game E.T. may have____

A. destroyed the reputation of the film E.T.

B. given chances to other companies to rise

C. led to the fall of the video game industry

D. made people lose interest in 3D environment

4.In the passage the author describes Atari’s failure________

A. in a disapproving way

B. with a supportive attitude

C. with a feeling of pity for the company

D. without expressing his/her own opinions

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He looked ________ at the news that his favorite team had lost the game and felt ________ that Martin should have taken part in it.

A．sad；strong　 B．sadly；strong

C．sad；strongly　 D．sadly；strongly

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163. Hearing the sad news that she lost the game, Jane’s mother couldn’t help _____.

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The news came as no surprise to me . I ____ for some time that the factory was going to shut down .

A. knew       B. know        C. have known       D.  had known

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The news came as no surprise to me. I _____ for some time that the factory was going to shut down.

A．knew             B．had known         C．have known        D．know

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The news came as no surprise to me． I _____ for some time that the factory was going to shut down．

A． knew 　　　　　　 B． had known

C． have known 　　 D． know

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