1. The large number of expenditures made throughout the course of the year can seem ----- to managers and executives.

　　A. alarm

　　B. alarmed

　　C. alarmingly

　　D. alarming

　　2. The manager wants to ----- the new accounting procedures at the general company meeting on Tuesday.

　　A. deliver

　　B. talk

　　C. dispose

　　D. discuss

　　3. The accounting team uses an advanced spreadsheet software program to list company ----- by department.

　　A. diagrams

　　B. expenditures

　　C. applications

　　D. Insights

　　4. All workers have been asked to leave the office until the maintenance crew determines the cause of yesterday’s power-----.

　　A. outage

　　B. ending

　　C. delay

　　D. interval

　　5. Siphos Computer Inc. has assigned several market research ----- to gather information about foreign consumers.

　　A. couriers

　　B. manufacturers

　　C. composers

　　D. specialists

　　参考答案：

　　1、【答案】D。

　　2、【答案】D。

　　3、【答案】D。

　　4、【答案】A。

　　5、【答案】D。