1、专业英语四级（阅读）模拟试卷 21（无答案）0 Congratulations! You wowed your prospective employers on your first interview and have been called back for an encore. So, how will the second interview be different from the first? This time around, expect to spend more time at the company, talk to more people, individually
2、and collectively, and have your skills and personality scrutinized more closely.The Employers Point of ViewFrom an employers perspective, the second interview is a chance to closely evaluate a candidates abilities and interpersonal skills. Your prospective employer wants to see that you can do the j
3、ob and work well with colleagues.Be aware that many employers bring in several candidates on the same day to streamline the second interview process. Your challenge is to distinguish yourself from the other candidates. To show youre a good fit with the company, focus on explaining how your abilities
4、 and experiences would enable you to do the job. Be specific. Offer concrete examples that highlight your competence and compatibility. Who Youll MeetOn your first interview, you probably met with one or two people. This time, be prepared to meet several more over the course of the day, including po
5、tential managers, coworkers and other staff members.You may meet individually with several people, who will most likely ask you similar questions. Keep your answers consistent but mix up your delivery so that your answers dont sound stale or staged. If possible, before the interview acquire a list o
6、f the people youll be meeting with and do a little research on each one. Then ask questions that show your knowledge of each person. If you meet with a panel or group, be sure to make eye contact with both the individual asking the question and the group as a whole.Steps for Follow UpIts rare to rec
7、eive an offer on the spot, but it does happen occasionally. If the feedback is consistently positive over the course of the day, you may get a job offer at the end of the interview. If that happens, dont make a hasty decision. Ask for time to think about it. If you dont get an offer, be sure to imme
8、diately send a brief thank you note to every person you spoke with. Some companies make hiring decisions in a matter of days, but many can take weeks to make their final choice.Be patient, be flexible and be ready for an offer or an invitation for yet another interview.1 The passage is mainly concer
9、ned with_.（A）the second interview（B） the first interview（C） an unexpected interview（D）the steps of interview2 Which of the following is NOT the purpose of the second interview according to the passage?（A）To discuss the salary.（B） To closely evaluate a candidates abilities.（C） To see whether you can
10、do the job and cooperate well with colleagues.（D）To evaluate your interpersonal skills.3 Which of the following is NOT recommended before and during meeting with the interviewer?（A）To try to acquire a list of the people youll be meeting with before the interview.（B） To keep your answers consistent b
11、ut mix up your delivery.（C） Not to make eye contact with the interviewers.（D）To try to do a little research on each interviewer if possible.4 Whats the right attitude towards the second interview?（A）Impatient and anxious to know the result.（B） Forget it and have another try.（C） Make a call for a cla
12、im.（D）Be patient, flexible and ready for it.4 “ Until recently, I thought that there would never again be an opportunity to be involved with an industry as socially destructive as the subprime mortgage industry, “ said Steve Eis-man, a hedge-fund manager who made a lot of money during the financial
13、crisis by shorting bank shares, to Congress in June. “ I was wrong. The for-profit education industry has proven equal to the task. “Americas for-profit colleges are under fire, and the Obama administration is preparing tough new regulations for them. Although recenl scandals suggest higher educatio
14、n needs to be better regulated, discriminating against the for-profit sector could do wider damage.The notion that profit is too dirty a motive to be allowed in a business as fine as education is pervasive. Even Britains Conservatives, determined though they are to introduce radical educational refo
15、rms, have drawn the line at allowing for-profit schools to get state funding. America has generally been more liberal; and, with the state and non-profit colleges cutting back, the for-profit sector has been doing startlingly well. In 2008-09, some 3, 000 for-profit colleges educated 3. 2m students5
16、9% more than three years earlier, and 11.7% of all students.Yet recent government reports suggest that some of these colleges have a troublingly familiar business model: selling a low-grade product to people who are paying with subsidized government loans. The Department of Education reported that m
17、ost students at many of these universities were defaulting on their loans. Similarly, an investigation by the Government Accountability Office found that even leading for-profit colleges such as Kaplan and the University of Phoenix had engaged in cunning practices to recruit students and encourage t
18、hem to borrow large sums to pay for their courses.Among the most controversial of the new rules due to be introduced on November 1 st is a “gainful employment“ requirement that would make a course eligible(合格的)for government loans only if enough current or past students are repaying their loans. The
19、 for-profit colleges maintain that they have high drop-out rates because their students are poorer than those in the state and non-profit sector, and that the gainful-employment rule will simply reduce access to higher education for poorer people. Don Graham, boss of the Washington Post Company, whi
20、ch owns Kaplan, has suggested that private colleges should be required to refund all fees if a student decides to drop out during his first term in order to “drive out all the bad actors“ from the industry.Constructive suggestions are rare in a debate that has mixed a lot of rhetorical cant with a b
21、ig principle. The cant is more obvious. The American right cites Barack Obamas proposals as another sign that he hates capitalism. Yet not only abuses plainly occurred but for-profit colleges are hardly poster children for free enterprise: they are already heavily regulated , not least because most
22、of the loans to students are provided by the government. The left, from its non-profit redoubts, claims that these are big businesses exploiting the little guy.The principle? Concentrate on the quality of the education, not the ownership. All sorts of colleges seem to have been guilty of shabby mark
23、eting. They should be treated the same. Good rulessuch as Mr. Grahams oneshould apply to non-profit and for-profit colleges alike. Singling out for-profits for special attention risks depriving students, and America at large, of the full benefits in innovation and cost-effectiveness that the profit
24、motive has generally brought to higher education. That really would be “socially destructive“.5 Whats Britains Conservatives attitude towards for-profit schools getting state funding?（A）Uncertain.（B） Positive.（C） Negative.（D）Neutral.6 The deficiency of some for-profit colleges is that_.（A）they offer
25、 inferior education to the students（B） they always fail to pay the government loans（C） they discourage their students to apply for government loans for tuition（D）they only recruit students from the well-off families7 According to the for-profit colleges, which of the following is CORRECT about the g
26、ainful-employment rule?（A）More poorer people cant get the opportunity of higher education.（B） More poorer students will get government loans easily.（C） The rule will make any course eligible for government loans.（D）The rule will reduce the high drop-out rates.8 According to the passage, the principl
27、e of education should be_.（A）the cost effectiveness of education（B） the profit of education（C） the ownership of education（D）the quality of education9 What does the word “that“ refer to in the last sentence in Paragraph 6?（A）The troubling business model of for-profit colleges.（B） Paying special atten
28、tion only to for-profit colleges.（C） Introducing the new “gainful employment“ rule.（D）The shabby marketing of all the colleges.9 Dave Walsh, web editor on board the Rainbow Warrior again this year, gave the following account of the 2004 expedition that followed the activities of seven ships as they
29、trawled seamounts for target species of orange roughly.“We watched them raising tons of fish, coralsand even rocks from the ocean floor! Dozens of species of unwanted deep sea life, snapped from habitat 1000km below us, were turfed over the side of the bottom trawlers, internal organs blown apart fr
30、om the violent change in pressure. Hundreds of albatrossa bird usually considered a loner, drifting at the mercy of the windssquabbled over the dead or dying fish.Among the huge amounts of bottom dwelling marine life including fish, sea stars, squid, sea urchins and ghost sharks that were hauled up
31、and discarded, was a delicate branch of endangered black coral, a species listed on the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species(CITES)for over 20 years. Black coral is also protected in adjacent New Zealand waters. Corals are the foundation of unique deep-sea communities and their
32、 destruction affects everything else living in or near them on the sea floor.Speaking at a press conference on board the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour to launch the current expedition, oceans campaigner Carmen Cravatt said “ Bottom trawling is the most destructive fishing practice in the world
33、. The deep sea is the largest pool of undiscovered life on Earth. Bottom trawling these unknown worlds is like blowing up Mars before we get there. “Recently, in collaboration with the Scottish Association for Marine Science(SAMS), we also concluded the exploration of a little-known coral reef compl
34、ex off the west of Scotland. Using remotely operated vehicles(small, unmanned submarines), scientists studied and documented the reef, its cold water corals and the numerous species it is thought to host. Previous surveys of the reef conducted by SAMS found that parts of the coral formation are 3 ,
35、800 years old and the base may be over 10, 000 years old. Next week, our political advisor Karen Sack will speak at a UN meeting on Oceans. Will the Rainbow Warrior once again unearth crucial evidence so the UN can see with their own eyes that a moratorium is needed? “Each day bottom trawling contin
36、ues, more deep sea life gets wiped out and the situation becomes more critical, “ said Gravatt. “ A moratorium on bottom trawling in international waters is urgently needed to protect life in the deep sea. “10 What is the best title for the passage?（A）A Moratorium on Bottom Trawling Is Urgently Need
37、ed（B） The Oncoming Exploration to the Deep Sea（C） The Disaster of Deep Sea Life（D）Rainbow Warrior Sets Out to Save Deep Sea Life11 What does the “ unwanted deep sea life“ mean in Paragraph 2 according to the passage?（A）They have no economic value.（B） They are dead before being caught.（C） They are da
38、ngerous to human beings.（D）They are the natural enemy of the deep sea fish.12 What is the foundation of the unique deep-sea communities?（A）Reef.（B） Black coral.（C） Fish.（D）Corals.13 Which of the following is NOT the reason to stop bottom trawling?（A）The deep sea is polluted.（B） The deep sea environm
39、ent is destroyed.（C） Some undiscovered life on earth is destroyed.（D）Bottom trawling will cost a lot of money.14 What can we infer from the last paragraph?（A）The exploration of a little-known coral reef must be continued.（B） Rainbow Warrior is determined to forbid bottom trawling in international wa
40、ters.（C） Rainbow Warrior will unearth crucial evidence to stop the bottom trawling.（D）The UN is determined to forbid bottom trawling in international waters.14 In recent years criticisms have been voiced concerning sexist bias in the English language . It has been argued that some of the vocabulary
41、and grammar we use reflects and reinforces a traditional view of the world as one in which men are dominant and women play a secondary role. Take the word “chairman“ , for example. While this can in fact apply to people of both sexes, it appears to some people to be male-oriented as it ends in “man“
42、. In the past people taking the role of chairman were exclusively male, and the word was obviously originally a compound of “chair“ and “man“. Many English speakers, however, have ceased to view this word as a compound and no more feel it to be composed of two units, “chair“ and “man“, than they per
43、ceive “cupboard“ as composed of “cup“ and “board“. In addition the continued use of chairman might be defended on the grounds that the final syllable is pronounced /mn/ rather than /msn/, just like the final syllable of woman. Despite such considerations other speakers take a contrary view and are s
44、ensitive to the components of which it is made up. They clearly perceive it as a title which perpetuates traditional ideas about the place of women in society. For this reason they seek to replace it with neutral terms such as “chairperson“ or “chair“ , so that it is now possible to ask questions su
45、ch as; “Who is chair of the committee?“Other changes advocated include the replacement of words such as “postman“ , “fireman“ and “policeman“ with more clearly neutral terms such as “postal worker“, “firefighter“ and “police officer“. There is, however, continuing controversy about how far such lang
46、uage changes should go. Should changes also be considered to traditional idioms such as “man in the street“ and titles such as “Peking Man“? Wrhat about those words where the male meaning of “man“ is no longer dominant, such as “manhandle“?To the extent that changes have taken place, they have done
47、so more in the written language and formal pronouncements than in everyday speech. You would be quite likely to read in the paper that “Postal workers are to receive a pay increase“. But “Has the postman been?“ would be most likely to be heard in informal conversation. Here “postman“ remains firmly
48、entrenched in popular usage.The lack of a sex-neutral third-person singular in English has also attracted attention. How, for example, do we fill in the blank in the following sentence? “A good teacher always makes sure is well prepared for the lesson. “ Traditionally, this would be filled in with “
49、he“. The male pronoun in such cases is clearly intended to refer to both sexes. It is still widely used in this way, but some people, especially women, dislike it. They may prefer to add the female pronoun to the male, as in “ A good teacher always makes sure he or she is well prepared for the lesson“. Some people, however, feel that this looks and sounds awkward. Another solution is to use the plural “they“ for the singular; “A good teacher always makes sure they are well prepared for the lesson. “ This is often heard in conversation, b
