1、职称英语（理工类） C级模拟试卷 33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 Can you do the task alone, or do you want anyone to assist you? （ A） aim （ B） help （ C） show （ D） guide 2 I was most surprised to hear Susans marriage. （ A） very （ B） really （ C） more （ D） lea
2、st 3 Our new house is on the first floor. （ A） bottom （ B） third （ C） ground （ D） top 4 Who is the head of this delegation? （ A） captain （ B） leader （ C） best （ D） capital 5 I asked Lily whether she wanted to go swimming with me and she nodded. （ A） shook （ B） disagreed （ C） agreed （ D） smiled 6 Alm
3、ost everyone at the meeting has different views. （ A） scenery （ B） sight （ C） understandings （ D） opinions 7 I will take up teaching this September. （ A） start （ B） get off （ C） capture （ D） pick up 8 Dont be afraid. I am not going to hurt you. （ A） fear （ B） astonished （ C） shocked （ D） frightened
4、9 Last winter, she bought a pair of beautiful boots. （ A） gloves （ B） shoes （ C） trousers （ D） sunglasses 10 We cannot go on quarrelling like this. （ A） choose （ B） prepare （ C） continue （ D） advise 11 As he is going to work in Holland for two years, he will be parted from his two children. （ A） sta
5、yed （ B） separated （ C） far （ D） worked 12 The game requires us to find out two simple but effective ways to solve this problem. （ A） efficient （ B） clever （ C） stupid （ D） easy 13 As he wanted to watch the tennis final of the Olympic Games, he left a pile of dishes unwashed in the kitchen. （ A） num
6、ber （ B） stack （ C） group （ D） crowd 14 If no one objects, Mr. Ben will be the next chairman. （ A） disagrees （ B） approves （ C） rejects （ D） refuses 15 It is obvious that it has been too late to take action. （ A） true （ B） certain （ C） said （ D） apparent 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
7、，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。 15 TV Games Shows One of the most fascinating things about television is the size of the audience. A novel can be on the best sellers list with a sale of fewer than 100, 000 copies, but a popular TV show might have 70 mill
8、ion TV viewers. TV can make anything or anyone well-known overnight. This is the principle behind quiz or game shows, which put ordinary people on TV to play a game for the prizes and money. A quiz show can make anyone a star, and it can give away thousands of dollars just for fun. But all of this m
9、oney can create problems. For instance, in the 1950s, quiz shows were very popular in the US and almost everyone watched them. Charles Van Doren, an English instructor, became rich and famous after winning money on several shows. He even had a career as a television personality. But one of the loser
10、s proved that Charles Van Doren was cheating. It turned out that the shows producers, who were pulling the strings, gave the answers to the most popular contestants beforehand. Why? Because if the audience didnt like the person who won the game, they turned the show off. Based on his story, a movie
11、under the title Quiz Show is on 40 years later. Charles Van Doren is no longer involved with TV. But game shows are still here, though they arent taken as seriously. In fact, some of them try to be as ridiculous as possible. There are shows that send strangers on vacation trips together, or that try
12、 to cause newly-married couples to fight on TV, or that punish losers by humiliating them. The entertainment now is to see what people will do just to be on TV. People still win money, but the real prize is to be in front of an audience of millions. 16 TV can make a beggar world-famous overnight. （
13、A） Right （ B） Wrong （ C） Not mentioned 17 The principle behind quiz or game shows is to put ordinary people on TV to play a game for prizes and money. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong （ C） Not mentioned 18 Prizes and money are usually provided by TV stars and large companies for winners. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong
14、（ C） Not mentioned 19 One of the TV personalities, Charles Van Doren was proved to be cheating by persuading the Shows producers to give him the answers beforehand. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong （ C） Not mentioned 20 The huge scandal of cheating in TV games shows was not exposed until 40 years later in the
15、movie Quiz Show. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong （ C） Not mentioned 21 Nowadays game shows are not treated as seriously as they used to be. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong （ C） Not mentioned 22 Winners of present-day TV shows no longer get money from the shows. （ A） Right （ B） Wrong （ C） Not mentioned 三、 概括大意与完成句子 (第 2
16、3-30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。 22 The Weight Experiment 1 Nicola Waiters has been taking part in experiments in Scotland to discover why humans gain and lose weight. Being locked in a small room called a“ calorimeter
17、“(热量测量室 )is one way to find out. The signs above the two rooms read simply“ Chamber One“ and“ Chamber Two“ , these are the calorimeters: 4m by 2m white-walled rooms where human volunteers are locked up in the name of science. Outside these rooms another sign reads, “Please do not enter-work in progr
18、ess“ and in front of the rooms advanced machinery registers(记录 )every move the volunteers make. Each day, meals measured to the last gram are passed through a hole in the wall of the calorimeter to the resident volunteer. 2 Nicola Waiters is one of the twenty volunteers who, over the past eight mont
19、hs, have spent varying periods inside the calorimeter. Tall and slim, Nicola does not have a weight problem, but thought the strict diet might help her with training and fitness program. A self-employed community dance worker, she was able to fit the experiment in around her work. She saw an advert(
20、广告 )for volunteers at her gym and as she is interested in the whole area of diet and exercise, she thought she would help out. 3 The experiment on Nicola involved her spending one day on a fixed diet at home and the next in the room. This sequence(次序 )was repeated four times over six weeks. She arri
21、ved at the calorimeter at 8:30 a. m. on each of the four mornings and from then on everything she ate or drank was carefully measured. Her every move was noted too, her daily exercise routine timed to the last second. At regular intervals, after eating, she filled in forms about how hungry she felt
22、and samples were taken for analysis. 4 The scientists helped volunteers impose(确立 )a kind of order on the long days they faced in the room. “The first time, I only took one video and a book. But it was OK, because I watched TV the rest of the time, “says Nicola. And twice a day she used the exercise
23、 bike. She pedaled(踩踏板 )for half an hour, watched by researchers to make sure she didnt go too fast. 5 It seems that some foods encourage you to eat more, while others satisfy you quickly. Volunteers are already showing that high-fat diets are less likely to make you feel full. Believing that they m
24、ay now know what encourages people to overeat, the researchers are about to start testing a high-protein weight-loss diet. Volunteers are required and Nicola has signed up for further sessions. A What does the calorimeter look like inside? B What program was designed for the experiments? C What is a
25、 calorimeter? D What was the first impression? E How did the volunteers kill the time? F Why did Nicola join in the experiments? 23 Paragraph 1_ 24 Paragraph 2_ 25 Paragraph 3_ 26 Paragraph 4_ 26 A the volunteers do B because she does not have a weight problem C because the life there can be very bo
26、ring D make people overeat E because she was her own boss F after passing a high-protein test 27 The machinery outside the calorimeters records everything_. 28 Nicola Walters had time for the experiments_. 29 Volunteers have to get prepared for the time in the calorimeter_. 30 The experiments show t
27、hat high-fat diets_. 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。 30 Energy Cycle Do you find getting up in the morning so difficult that its painful? This might be called laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle. D
28、uring the hours when you labor through your work you may say that youre “hot“. Thats true. The time of day when you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak. For some people the peak comes during the morning. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one ha
29、s discovered why this is so, but it leads to such familiar monologues as: “ Get up, John! Youll be late for work again!“ The possible explanation to the trouble is that John is at his temperature-and-energy peak in the evening. Much family quarrelling ends when husbands and wives realize what these
30、energy cycles mean, and which cycle each member of the family has. You cant change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit to it better. Habit can help, Dr. Kleitman believes. Maybe youre sleepy in the evening but you must stay up late anyway. Counteract your cycle to some extent
31、by habitually staying up later than you want to. If your energy is low in the morning but you have an important job to do early in the day, rise before your usual hour. This wont change your cycle, but youll get up steam and work better at your low point. Get off to a slow start which saves your ene
32、rgy. Get up with a leisurely yawn and stretch. Sit on the edge of the bed a minute before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the trouble of searching for clean clothes by laying them out the night before. Whenever possible, do routine work in the afternoon and save tasks requiring more energy or
33、concentration for your sharper hours. 31 If a person finds getting up early a problem, most probably_. （ A） he is a lazy person （ B） he refuses to follow his own cycle （ C） he is not sure when his energy is low （ D） he is at his peak in the afternoon or evening 32 Which of the following may lead to
34、family quarrels according to the passage? （ A） Unawareness of energy cycles. （ B） Familiar monologues. （ C） A change in a family members energy cycle. （ D） Attempts to work more efficiently during the cycle of other family members. 33 If one wants to work more efficiently at his low point in the mor
35、ning, he should_. （ A） change his energy cycle （ B） overcome his laziness （ C） get up earlier than usual （ D） go to bed earlier 34 You are advised to rise with a yawn and stretch because it will_. （ A） help to keep your energy for the days work （ B） help you to control your temper early in the day （
36、 C） enable you to concentrate on your routine work （ D） keep your energy cycle under control all day 35 Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE? （ A） Getting off to work with a minimum effort helps save ones energy. （ B） Dr. Kleitman explains why people reach their peak at different hours of d
37、ay. （ C） Habit helps a person adapt to his own energy cycle. （ D） Children have energy cycles, too. 35 The first navigational lights in the New World were probably lanterns hung at harbor entrances. The first lighthouse was put up by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1716 on Little Brewster Island at
38、the entrance to Boston Harbor. Paid for and maintained by “ light dues“ levied(征收 )on ships, the original beacon was blown up in 1776. Until then there were only a dozen or so true lighthouses in the colonies. Litde over a century later, there were 700 lighthouses. The first eight lighthouses erecte
39、d on the West Coast in the 1850s featured the same basic New England design: a Cape Cod dwelling with the tower rising from the center or standing close by. In New England and elsewhere, though, lighthouses reflected a variety of architectural styles. Since most stations in the Northeast were set up
40、 on rocky eminences(高处 ), enormous towers were not the rule. Some were made of stone and brick, others of wood or metal. Some stood on pilings or stilts; some were fastened to rock with iron rods. Farther south, from Maryland through the Florida Keys, the coast was low and sandy. It was often necess
41、ary to build tall towers there massive structures like the majestic lighthouse in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, which was lit in 1870. 190 feet high, it is the tallest brick lighthouse in the country. Not withstanding differences in construction appearance, most lighthouses in America shared severa
42、l features: a light, living quarters, and sometimes a bell(or, later, a foghorn). They also had something else in common: a keeper and usually the keepers family. The keepers essential task was trimming the lantern wick(灯芯 )in order to maintain a steady, bright flame. The earliest keepers came from
43、every walk of life, they were seamen, farmers, mechanics, rough mill hands and appointments were often handed out by local customs commissioners as political plums. After the administration of lighthouse was taken over in 1852 by the United States Lighthouse Board, and agency of the Treasury Departm
44、ent, the keeper corps gradually became highly professional. 36 Which is the best title for the passage? （ A） The Lighthouse on Litde Brewster Island. （ B） The Life of a Lighthouse Keeper. （ C） Early Lighthouses in the United States. （ D） The Modern Profession of Lighthouse-keeping. 37 Why does the a
45、uthor mention the Massachusetts Bay Colony? （ A） It was the headquarters of the United States Lighthouse Board. （ B） Many of the tallest lighthouses were built there. （ C） The first lantern wicks were developed there. （ D） The first lighthouse in North America was built there. 38 It can be inferred
46、from the passage that lighthouses in the Northeast did NOT need high towers because_. （ A） ships there had high masts （ B） coastal waters were safe （ C） the coast was straight and unobstructed （ D） the lighthouses were built on high places 39 According to the passage, where can the tallest brick lig
47、hthouse in the United States be found? （ A） Little Brewster Island. （ B） The Florida Keys. （ C） Cape Hatteras. （ D） Cape Cod. 40 We can know from the passage that the coast of North Carolina is_. （ A） rocky eminences （ B） high and flat （ C） low and sandy （ D） high and sandy 40 Computers in Cars Your
48、e far from home on a lonely road. Shadowy forests stretch away on both sides. A thick mist(雾 )makes it difficult to see far beyond your cars windshield(挡风玻璃 ). “Can this be route 90A?“ you wonder. If it is, you should be near a town. Yet theres no hint of one. Night is closing in. And youre low on g
49、asoline. This is a situation where an in-car computer that can navigate would be a big help. A car computer that navigates? Yes! Such computers exist. Several experimental models are being tested by General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, and several foreign car makers. These computers vary in detail. But they all contain series of maps on videodiscs or videotapes. For example, one computer system contains 13, 300 maps covering the continental US
