1、职称英语（理工类） C级模拟试卷 2及答案与解析 一、 词汇选项 (第 1-15题，每题 1分，共 15分 ) 下面每个句子中均有 1个词或短语在括号中，请为每处括号部分的词汇或短语确定1个意义最为接近选项。 1 First editions of certain popular books cannot be obtained for love or money. （ A） at any place （ B） at any price （ C） in any language （ D） in any country 2 The company recommended that a new p
2、etrol station (should) be built here. （ A） ordered （ B） insisted （ C） suggested （ D） demanded 3 It hard for the young people to imagine what severe conditions their parents .once lived uder. （ A） sincere （ B） hard （ C） strict （ D） fight 4 Hold the torch steady so I can see better. （ A） continuous （
3、B） quick （ C） finn （ D） exceptional 5 You must shine your shoes. （ A） lighten （ B） clean （ C） wash （ D） polish 6 While serving in the Senate in the early 1970s Barbara Jordan supported legislation to ban discrimination and to deal with environment problems. （ A） list （ B） forbid （ C） handle （ D） inv
4、estigate 7 A beautiful woman attended to me in that store yesterday. （ A） waited on （ B） talked to （ C） spoke to （ D） stayed with 8 Loud noises can be annoying. （ A） hateful （ B） painful （ C） horrifying （ D） disturbing 9 These are our motives for doing it. （ A） reasons （ B） arguments （ C） targets （
5、D） pursuit 10 Successful leaders dominate events rather than react to them. （ A） control （ B） contribute （ C） convey （ D） contact 11 My relationship .with the actors is fundamental to my work as a director. （ A） impressive （ B） public （ C） essential （ D） slight 12 They are still calculating the impa
6、ct of automation on the lives of factory workers. （ A） affect （ B） influence （ C） pressure （ D） passion 13 Our examination has been postponed until next Friday. （ A） put on （ B） put down （ C） put off （ D） put in 14 The minister headed the committee. （ A） was on the verge of （ B） was on the basis of
7、（ C） was at the cost of （ D） was in charge of 15 Her words offended me. （ A） made angry （ B） made happy （ C） made excited （ D） made disappointed 二、 阅读判断 (第 16-22题，每题 1分，共 7分 ) 下面的短文后列出了 7个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断：如果该句提供的是正确信息，请选择 A；如果该句提供的是错误信息，请选择 B；如果该句的信息文中没有提及，请选择 C。 16 New Product Will Save Lives D
8、rinking water that looks clean may still contain bugs (虫子 ), which can cause illness. A small company called Genera Technologies has produced a testing method in three stages, which shows whether water is safe. The new test shows if water needs chemicals added to it to destroy anything harmful. It w
9、as invented by scientist Dr.Adrian Patton, who started Genera five years ago. He and his employees have developed the test together with a British water company. Andy Headland, Generas marketing director, recently presented the test at a conference in the USA and forecast good American sales for it.
10、 Genera has already sold 11 of its tests at $ ;42,500 a time in the UK and has a further four on order. It expects to sell another 25 tests before the end of March. The company says it is the only test in the UK to be approved by the government. Genera was formed five years ago and until October las
11、t year had only five employees; it now employs 14. Mr. Headland believes that the company should make around $19 million by the end of the year in the UK alone. 16 Genera Technologies has developed a method that determines whether water is clean. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong （ C） Not mentioned 17 Before he
12、 set up Genera, Dr Parton had workedfor a British water company. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong （ C） Not mentioned 18 The new product has been a commercial Success in the USA. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong （ C） Not mentioned 19 Each of the tests costs $ 42,500. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong （ C） Not mentioned 20 Genera Tech
13、n61ogies orders 25 more tests before the end of the year. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong （ C） Not mentioned 21 The British government is helping Dr Parton to sell the tests abroad. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong （ C） Not mentioned 22 Genera has increased the number of its employees recently. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong （ C
14、） Not mentioned 三、 概括大意与完成句子 (第 23-30题，每题 1分，共 8分 ) 下面的短文后有 2项测试任务： (1)第 23-26题要求从所给的 6个选项中为第 2-5段每段选择一个最佳标题； (2)第 27-30题要求从所给的 6个选项 中为每个句子确定一个最佳选项。 23 Ford Fords great strength was the manufacturing process not invention. Long before he started a car company, he was a worker, known for picking up p
15、ieces of metal and wire and turning them into machines. He started putting cars together in 1891. Although it was by no means the first popular automobile.the Model T showed the world just how creative Ford was at combining technology and market. The companys assembly line alone threw Americas Indus
16、trial Revolution into overdrive (高速运转 ). Instead of having workers put together the entire .car, Fords friends, who were great toohnakers from Scotland, organized teams that added parts to each Model T as it moved down a line. By the time Fords Highland Park plant was humming (嗡嗡 作响 ) along in 1914,
17、 the worlds first automatic conveyor belt could turn out a car every 93 minutes. The same year Henry Ford shocked the world with the $ 5 a day minimum wage scheme, the greatest contribution he had ever made. The average wage in the auto industry then was $ 2.34 for a 9-hour shift. Ford not only doub
18、led that, he also took an hour off the workday. In those years it was unthinkable that a man could be paid that much for doing something that didnt involve all awful lot of training or education. The Wall Street Journal called the plan “an economic crime“, and critics everywhere laughed at Ford. But
19、 as the wage increased later to daily $10, it proved a critical component of Fords dream to make the automobile accessible (可及的 ) to all. The critics were too stupid to understand that because Ford had lowered his costs per car, the higher wages didnt matter except for making it possible for more pe
20、ople to buy Cars. 23 A. Fords Opponents B. The Assembly Line C. Fords Great Dream D. The Establishment of the Company E. Fords Biggest Contribution F. Fords Great Talent 23 Paragraph 1 _. 24 Paragraph 2 _. 25 Paragraph 3 _. 26 Paragraph 4 _. 27 A. criticized by the media B. the low wage in the auto
21、industry C. their lower prices D. produce cars in large numbers E. the 8-hour shift F. combined technology and 27 The assembly line made it possible to _. 28 Ford was the first to adopt _. 29 Fords cars became available to ordinary people thanks to _. 30 Fords higher-wage and lower-cost strategy was
22、 strongly _. 四、 阅读理解 (第 31-45题，每题 3分，共 45分 ) 下面有 3篇短文后有 5道题。请根据短文内容，为每题选 1个最佳选项。 31 Eta Carinae As possibly the galaxys (银河 ) most massive star, Eta Carinae is now engaging in some very unusual behaviour. Australian astronomers, being in the Southern Hemisphere (半球 ), are able to observe it clearly.
23、 In the 19th century, Eta Carinae was for a time the third brightest star in the sky. It has now become less bright so that binoculars ( 双筒望远镜 ) are needed to see it. “It seems to be brightening and becoming less bright over a period of many years“, said Dr Bob Duncan from the Australia Telescope Na
24、tional Facility. While it is not unusual for stars to vary in brightness, the period is usually much shorter. “Since 1992 it has become four times brighter, and then last year it began to drop dramatically,“ he said. The problem in observing Eta Carinae is that it has been surrounded by a cloud of g
25、as and dust, making it hard to see the star directly. However, radio waves and infrared light, (红外线 ) can pass through this cloud, so telescopes that receive these wavelengths can observe what is occurring. Eta Carinae is of particular interest to astronomers because it seems to be in its death thro
26、es (剧痛 ). Being so large it will end up as a supernova (超新星 ). There has not been a supernova in our galaxy since the invention of the telescope. While a 1987 explosion in a nearby galaxy gave astronomers plenty of valuable data, they are hungry for an even closer look. Eta Carinae has other unique
27、features, and is the only star known to produce an ultraviolet (紫外线 ) laser that is brighter than that produced by the Sun. Lasers have been observed in other frequencies from a few stars. 31 Eta Carinae is now engaging in （ A） some very common behaviour. （ B） some very dull behaviour. （ C） some ver
28、y frightening behaviour, （ D） some very strange behaviour. 32 The word “period“ in Paragraph 3 means the length of time （ A） over which stars vary in brightness. （ B） for which Eta Carinaes brightening lasts. （ C） Eta Carinae takes to become a supernova. （ D） it takes the laser from Eta Carinae to t
29、ravel to the earth. 33 Eta Carinae is hard to observe because （ A） it is too far away. （ B） there is too much dust and gas around it. （ C） the binoculars are not powerful enough. （ D） it does not send out infrared light. 34 Astronomers are particularly interested in Eta Carinae because （ A） it is in
30、 its final stage. （ B） it is a supernova. （ C） it exploded in 1987. （ D） it is brighter than the Sun. 35 Which of the following statements about Eta Carinae is NOT true? （ A） It will end up as a supernova. （ B） It can be seen only through binoculars. （ C） It is the only star that sends out an ultrav
31、iolet laser. （ D） Its ultraviolet laser is brighter than that of the Sun. 36 New Foods and the New World In the last 500 years, nothing about people not their clothes, ideas, or languages has changed as much as what they eat. The original chocolate drink was made from the seeds of the cocoa tree (可可
32、树 ) by South American Indians. The Spanish introduced it to the rest of the world during the 1500s. And although it was very expensive, it quickly became fashionable. In London, shops where chocolate drinks were served became important meeting places. Some still exist today. The potato is also from
33、the New World. Around 1600, the Spanish brought it from Peru to Europe, where it soon was widely grown. Ireland became so dependent on it that thousands of Irish people starved when the crop failed during the “Potato Famine (饥荒 )“ of 1845-1846, and thousands more were forced to leave their homeland
34、and move to America. There are many other foods that have traveled from South America to the Old World. But some others went in the opposite direction. Brazil is now the worlds largest grower of coffee, and coffee is an important crop in Colombia and other South American countries. But it is native
35、to Ethiopia, a country in Africa. It was first made into a drink by Arabs during the 1400s. According to an Arabic legend, coffee was discovered when a person named Kaldi noticed that his goats were attracted to the red berries on a coffee bush. He tried one and experienced the “wide-awake“ feeling
36、that one-third of the worlds population now starts the day with. 36 According to the passage, which of the following has changed the most in the last 500 years? （ A） Food. （ B） Clothing. （ C） Ideology. （ D） Language. 37 “Some“ in the last sentence of the first paragraph refers to （ A） some cocoa tre
37、es. （ B） some chocolate drinks. （ C） some shops. （ D） some South American Indians. 38 Thousands of Irish people starved during the “Potato Famine“ because （ A） they were so dependent on potatoes that they refused to eat anything else. （ B） they were forced to leave their homeland and move to America
38、. （ C） the weather conditions in Ireland were not suitable for growing potatoes. （ D） the potato harvest was bad. 39 Which country is the largest coffee producer? （ A） Brazil. （ B） Colombia. （ C） Ethiopia. （ D） Egypt. 40 Which of the following statements is NOT true, according to the passage? （ A） O
39、ne third of the worlds population drinks coffee. （ B） Coffee is native to Colombia. （ C） Coffee can keep one awake. （ D） Coffee drinks were first made by Arabs. 41 Londons First Light Rail System The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) took just three years to build at a cost of 77 million. It is Londons
40、first Light Rail System, but its route follows that of a number of older lines, which carried the nineteenth century railways through the crowded districts of the East End. The section of the line from the Tower Gateway Station to Poplar follows the line of one of Londons earliest railways, the Lond
41、on Blackwell (1840), a cable-drawn railway (later converted to steam) which carried passengers to steam ships at Blackwell Pier, and provided transport for the messengers and clerks who went backwards and forwards between the docks (码头 ) and the city every day. From Poplar to Island Gardens, a new l
42、ine crosses high above the dock waters, and then joins the old track of the Millwall Extension Railway, built to service the Milwall Docks (1868) and to provide transport for workers in the local factories. This line was horse-drawn for part of its route, until the 1880s. The Poplar to Stratford sec
43、tion of the DLR route was first developed by the North London Railway, built in the 1850s to link the West and East India Docks with the manufacturing districts of the Midlands and North of England. There were major railway works and sidings (岔线 ) at Bow until recently. The trains are automatically
44、controlled from a central computer, which deals with all signaling and other safety factors, as well as adjusting speeds to keep within the timetable; on board each vehicle, Train Captains, who are also fully qualified drivers, are equipped with two-way radios to maintain contact with central contro
45、l. There are passenger lifts, and self-service ticket machines, at every station. 41 The passage tells us that Londons first Light Rail System （ A） was constructed in the nineteenth century. （ B） will be finished in three years time. （ C） follows some of the original lines. （ D） took three years lon
46、ger than expected to complete. 42 We learn from the passage that the London & Blackwell railway （ A） now carries passengers to and from the docks, （ B） was a busy line a few years ago. （ C） used to employ many messengers and clerks. （ D） was not originally a steam railway. 43 “This line“ in Paragrap
47、h 3 refers to （ A） the line from the Tower Gateway Station to Poplar. （ B） the line from Poplar to Island Gardens. （ C） the Millwall Extension Railway. （ D） the line from, Poplar to Stratford. 44 It appears that the Poplar to Stratford section of the DLR route was originally developed to （ A） promot
48、e travel in the Midlands. （ B） encourage trade with the North of England. （ C） create employment. （ D） make the transport of goods easier. 45 The trains on the DLR are controlled by （ A） an on-board central computer. （ B） a computer engineer on board. （ C） two-way radios operated by the drivers. （ D
49、） a computer center based somewhere along the line. 五、 补全短文 (第 46-50，每题 2分，共 10分 ) 下面的短文有 5处空白，短文后有 6个句子，其中 5个取自短文，请根据短文内容将其分别放回原有位置，以恢复文章原貌。 46 The Role of Pressure Groups in Britain General Elections in Britain are usually held only once every five years. Governments can seem to be remote from the people they represent. The process of protesting about government actions is very slow, even though everyone is permitte
