America’s first lady of software Four such a wealth

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问题                      America’s first lady of software
   Four such a wealthy couple, Pam Lopker and husband Karl live in  (29)  style. They have a house overlooking the ocean in California, a nanny and a cleaning lady who comes in once a week. ’We live a long way below our means,’ says Lopker.
   An obsessive timekeeper, Lopker  (30)  at 5:15 a.m. every day either goes for a long run  (31)  to gym. She returns home at 7:10 a.m.  (32)  to wake her two children--a boy of 10 and a girl of 8 and prepare their breakfast. She then drops them off at school  (33)  her way to work
   By the time she arrives at the headquarters of QAD it is already 8:30. Her day is usually full  (34)  meetings, or marketing, strategy or sales.
   Customers or potential customers come to her office at least three times a week,  (35)  she tries to sell them QAD’s products. She gave  (36)  designing programs in 1990, but she still takes an interest in technical work done by her research staff.
   Lopker leaves the office  (37)  6:30 p.m. every day in time to be home to see her children at 7 p.m. Her husband leaves the office at 6 p.m. since he makes supper  (38)  the family most evenings. It is important that the family eats together, says Lopker.
   In the evening she spends time  (39)  the children, playing games or reading. Television was  (40)  for the children last year--her son, she says, was spending too much time watching it and not enough doing his homework. Her son is, however, still allowed to play on the computer and on his Nintendo machine. [br]

选项 A、to
B、in
C、up

答案 C

解析 give up“ 放弃”,give in,“投降，让步”。

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