全国专业技术人员职称英语等级考试综合类B级.doc

全国专业技术人员职称英语等级考试 综合类B级模拟题
　　第1部分：词汇选项（第1～15题，每题1分，共15分）
　　下面共有15个句子，每个句子中均有1个词或短语有底横线，请从每个句子后面所给的4个选项中选择1个与划线部分意义最相近的词或短语。答案一律涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
　　1. The old concerns lose importance and some of them vanish altogether.
　　A) develop
　　B) disappear
　　C) linger
　　D) renew
　　2. In the United States educational system, intermediate school is the transitional phase
　　between the primary grades and high school.
　　A) stage
　　B) notion
　　C) pattern
　　D) alternative
　　3. Fluoride deters tooth decay by reducing the growth of bacteria that destroy tooth enamel.
　　A) facilitates
　　B) overwhelms
　　C) inhibits
　　D) loosens
　　4. The firm of Bonnin and Morris in Philadelphia was probably the first American Company to manufacture porcelain.
　　A) silverware
　　B) crystal
　　C) china
　　D) linen
　　5. Gunpowder was used extensively in firearms prior to 1990.
　　A) in
　　B) around
　　C) from
　　D) before
　　6. We packed up the things I had accumulated over the last three years and left for good.
　　A) close
　　B) near
　　C) past
　　D) final
　　7. The chemical is lethal to rats but safe to cattle.
　　A) toxic
　　B) harmful
　　C) deadly
　　D) contagious
　　8. She is very conscientious about her work.
　　A) worried
　　B) careful
　　C) anxious
　　D) nervous
　　9. She has consolidated her power.
　　A) strengthened
　　B) won
　　C) hardened
　　D) united
　　10. The drinking water is contaminated with impurities.
　　A) blackened
　　B) polluted
　　C) darkened
　　D) mixed
　　11. Her novel depicts a futuristic America.
　　A) writes
　　B) sketches
　　C) describes
　　D) indicates
　　12. He expressed concern that the ship might be in distress.
　　A) despair
　　B) difficulties
　　C) need
　　D) danger
　　13. They are endeavoring to change society as a whole.
　　A) trying
　　B) working
　　C) doing
　　D) making
　　14. Your eternal boasting annoys everyone,
　　A) unchangeable
　　B) everlasting
　　C) boring
　　D) monotonous
　　15. The other women seemed contented and they even exhibited their bellies with pride.
　　A) demonstrated
　　B) uncovered
　　C) spread
　　D) showed
　　第2部分：阅读判断（第16～22题，每题1分，共7分）
　　阅读下面这篇短文，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，请在答题卡上把A涂黑；如果该句提供的是错误信息，请在答题卡上把B涂黑；如果该句的信息文章中没有提及，请在答题卡上把Ｃ涂黑。
　　Suppose you make your parents so happy, they decide to have another baby just like you. It might be flattering (讨人喜欢的), but how would you feel about having a little brother or sister who is also your twin?
　　A laboratory experiment conducted last fall suggests it may someday be possible. For the first time ever, scientists made exact copies, or clones (克隆), of a human embryo.
　　Although the embryos grew for only six days, cloned embryos could theoretically be implanted in a woman’s womb (子宫) and develop into normal babies. Or they could be frozen and implanted years later.
　　The scientists developed their cloning technique to make it easier for childless couples to have babies by in vitro (在体外的) fertilization. In this procedure, sperm (精子) from the man fertilizes an egg from the woman in a laboratory dish.
　　In most case, doctors must try implanting several embryos before one stays in the womb. Cloned embryos would give them many more embryos to implant.
　　But the technique could also be used for other purposes. Parents might freeze embryos cloned from their children so that they could be replaced if any of them died. The clones would also be ideal donors if the children needed organ transplants.
　　Another possibility: Childless couples could go to a bank of frozen embryos and choose a child just like one who’s already living. Some people are concerned that these couples might pick only beautiful, successful children.
　　The ethical dilemmas (困境) of cloning have not yet been discussed fully because the public assumed it was a long way off. Many people are calling for (要求，提倡) controls on cloning immediately before the practice is abused. What do you think?
　　16. In an experiment conducted last autumn, scientists made exact copies of a human embryo for the first time.
　　A. Right
　　B. Wrong
　　C. Not mentioned
　　17. The scientists developed their cloning technique to make it easier for childless couples to have babies by in vivo fertilization.
　　A. Right
　　B. Wrong
　　C. Not mentioned
　　18 After the egg is fertilized, the nucleus begins dividing.
　　A. Right
　　B. Wrong
　　C. Not mentioned
　　19. The technique is just used for providing embryos.
　　A. Right
　　B. Wrong
　　C. Not mentioned
　　20. The technique can make a dead person alive.
　　A. Right
　　B. Wrong
　　C. Not mentioned
　　21. The ethical dilemmas of cloning has prevented it from further developing.
　　A. Right
　　B. Wrong
　　C. Not mentioned
　　22. There is a delicately balanced relationship between the state of the pre-germ cell nuclei and the position in which they find themselves.
　　A. Right
　　B. Wrong
　　C. Not mentioned
　　第3部分：概括大意与完成句子（第23～30题，每题1分，共8分）
　　阅读下面这篇短文，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1个正确的小标题；（2）第27～30题要求从所给的6个选项中选择4个正确选项，分别完成每个句子。请将答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
A Silent Revolution
　　1. A silent revolution is seeping America. According to Terri Lonier, self-styled “ Lenin” of this movement, more an more people are working outside traditional corporate structures. She says,” I believe we are witnessing the biggest change in work people’s lives since the industrial revolution”. More than one sixth of America’s working -age population -- close to 27 million people --- do not woe allegiance to a single employer. According to Link Resources, a New York-based group that gathers statistics on market trends, the number will have risen to 36.5 million by the year 2001. there people work mainly from home, selling their skills in the open market place. Plumbers, electricians and house painters have been doing it for years. What is strikingly new is the sheer scale of a phenomenon that straddles the social classes and promises to redefine the nature of work in the 21st century.
　　2. Computer technology may have provided the tools for individuals to work alone, but according to Pink, the engine of the free agent revolution has been the fundamental change in relation between workers and employers. “ The loyalty / security trade-off is a thing of the past. Companies say: ‘We can’t afford to give job security to our workers.’ Consequently, workers say: ‘ We can’t afford to give loyalty.’”
　　3. Lonier has reached the same conclusion as Pink. “ What we have today is not job security but skills security,” she says. “ Beijing an individual entrepreneur, you are a lot more secure because you can diversify your income. As an employee, you have one income source. If the company decides they no longer want you, you are at ground zero. If you work independently, you have many clients, your business is more resistant to market change.”
　　4. The degree of stability will fluctuate from individual to individual , however, and the determining factor may be temperament as much as ability. Some people may find it hard to motivate themselves to start work each day at home, or be disciplined enough to produce the work needed. But for those who have the confidence to make the leap, the principal reward is a liberation of the spirit. Among the downsizing victims Pink interviewed, he found some who had come to the joyous realization that by losing their jobs they had found their lives. “ Some said this was the greatest thing that had ever happened to them, because it had freed them to do what they really wanted to do.”
　　5. Not only is work less of a grind, it is pleasingly integrated into everyday life. If you want to go to a film matinee, you can work at night. If you need Friday off, you can work Saturday. You are free of the workplace’s regulations and the peer pressure to be seen to be productive all the time.
　　A.The Conclusion made by Lonier
　　B.The difference now and then
　　C.The comparison
　　D.A revolution in the US
　　E.The motivation of the revolution
　　23. Paragraph 1 _______.
　　24. Paragraph 2 _______.
　　25. Paragraph 3 _______.
　　26. Paragraph 4 ________.
　　27. Lonier has reached the _______________.
　　28. As an employee ________________.
　　A.same conclusion as Pink
　　B.will fluctuate from individual to individual
　　C.you have one income source
　　D.selling their skills in the open marketplace
　　E.do what they want to.
　　29. At Link resources people ______________.
　　30. The degree of stability _____________.
　　第4部分：阅读理解（第31～45题，每题3分，共45分）
　　下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题，每道题后面都有4个选项。请仔细阅读短文并根据短文回答其后面的问题，从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
　　第一篇
Modern Life in America
　　We spend our leisure hours efficiently for higher production:, live by the clock even when time does not matter, modernize our homes and spend the machinery of living in order that we can go to the most places and do the most things in the shortest period of time possible. We try to eat, sleep and talk efficiently. Even on holidays and Sundays, the efficient man relaxes a timetable with one eye on the clock and other on an appointment sheet.
　　To squeeze the most out of each shining hour we have shortened the opera: quickened the pace of the movie and put culture in pocket-sized packages. We make the busy bee look like a lazy creature, the ant like a sluggard. We live sixty-miles a minute and the great efficiency smiles.
　　We wish we could return to that pleasant day when we considered time a friend instead of an enemy, when we did thing willingly and because we wanted to, rather than because on timetable called for it. But that of course would not be efficiency and we Americans must be efficient.
　　31. The phrase that best empresses the main idea of this passage is ___________.
　　A. “ the modern pale “
　　B. “ our interest in shortened operas”
　　C. “ how to make the best use of leisure time”
　　D. “ planning our time scientifically”
　　32. The passage tells us that ______.
　　A. Americans are found to be efficient against their will
　　B. Americans should do what they are willing to do.
　　C. People ought not to work so hard for efficiently
　　D. Americans are at a loss what to do.
　　33. According to the passage, which of the following is necessity?
　　A. shortened opera performances
　　B. quickened paces of movies
　　C. speeded up work efficiently
　　D. working on holidays
　　34. The “ pleasant day” to which the author refers was the period when we _________.
　　A. did not feel guilty about wasting time
　　B. were able to act of our own free will
　　C. seemed to have better weather
　　D. didn’t have so many enemies.
　　35. The word “ sluggard” means ____________.
　　A. a low-moving person
　　B. a human being
　　C. a hard worker
　　D. an enemy
　　第二篇
Career With a Uniform
　　WANT to be the next Xu Sanduo? The TV drama Soldiers' Sortie (Shibing Tuji) might have caused millions of young people to dream idly of putting on an army uniform and going off to boot camp2.
　　In fact, a large number of students graduating might consider doing just that. Last month, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) announced that there will be 120,000 job openings this year for college grads3. So, one out of every 50 grads has a chance if he or she would like to march down to the local recruiting office. Anyone enlisting will get preferential treatment in tuition compensation and in job opportunities.
　　This decision comes against a backdrop of bad employment news and a cooling economy. This year's recruitment quota outnumbers last year's 39,000 by about three-fold.
　　It's important to pull in fresh, talented people who can deal with the new equipment and a high-tech military to modernize the nation's defense," said Bai Zixing, a senior officer in the PLA General Staff Department4.
　　The age limit for college recruits has been raised to 24, and there's one more important policy change: Grads who have already volunteered to sign up can quit if they change their minds after finding another job before November, the deadline for enlistment. This gives grads an extra choice in starting a career.
　　The following is a list of preferential things that college grads qualify for if they join the army:
　　A one-time recruitment payment of up to 24,000 yuan, to cover four years of college tuition and loans (this has to be returned if the person is forced to leave the army before completing the service contract).
　　Priority in promotions and in getting admitted to military academies.
　　Anyone with a bachelor's degree or above and a good performance record can be promoted to the rank of officer directly, if they meet certain other criteria. An ordinary soldier may need a couple of years longer to get there.
　　Anyone with a junior college5 degree can go on for a bachelor's degree without having to take the entrance exams.
　　Anyone wanting to take the grad school entrance exam after completing their service can add 10 points to the exam results.
　　Anyone getting a merit citation second class can enter grad school without taking the exam after completion of the service obligation.
　　There are no restrictions on things like going abroad after the service period, unless one deals with confidential work in the army.
　　36.According to the passage, all of the following reasons make many college grads choose to join the army EXCEPT:
　　A) The Story of Xu Sanduo causes young people to dream to put on a uniform.
　　B) The grads are facing a grim employment situation.
　　C) The pay from the PLA is relatively higher than the grads can earn in other jobs.
　　D) The PLA offers a series of preferential treatments for college grads who join the army.
　　37.It can be inferred that about students graduating consider join the army.
　　A) 120,000
　　B) 6,000,000
　　C) 39,000
　　D) 2,000,000
　　38.Besides the backdrop of bad employment news and a cooling economy, which of the following causes the PLA to raise this year's recruitment quota?
　　A) The TV drama Soldiers' Sortie is high in the ratings.
　　B) The PLA wants to attract high-quality personnel to meet the need of hi-tech sector in the nation's defense.
　　C) The PLA is increasing the size of the army.
　　D) Some students who have already volunteered to sign up may change their minds.
　　39.Why does the author think that the grads are given an extra chance in starting a career?
　　A) The one-time recruitment payment offered by the PLA may ease the grads' economic burden.
　　B) The grads who join the army have more chances to further their study after completing their service.
　　C) Grads who have already volunteered to sign up can give up before the deadline for enlistment if they can find another job that is more suitable.
　　D) No restrictions are made on things like going abroad after the service period.
　　40.The word confidential in the last paragraph could bes