职称英语考试《综合类》每日一练精选及答案0524135.docx

1、职称英语考试综合类每日一练精选及答案0524135职称英语考试综合类每日一练精选及答案0524-1351、If we leave now, we can miss the traffic.【单选题】A.avoidB.mixC.directD.stop正确答案:A答案解析:题干大意：如果我们现在离开，就能避开交通拥挤。句中miss的意思是“错过，避开”，和选项avoid同义。mix:混合；direct:指挥；stop:停止。2、Migrant (移民的) WorkersIn the past twenty years, there has been an increasing tendency

2、for workers to move from one country to another. While some countries have restricted most jobs to local people, others have attracted and welcomed migrant workers. This is particularly the case in the Middle East, where increased oil incomes have enabled many countries to call in outsiders to impro

3、ve local facilities. Thus the Middle East has attracted oil workers from the USA and Europe. It has brought in workers from many countries, including South Korea and Japan.In view of the difficult living and working conditions in the Middle East, it is not surprising that the pay is high to attract

4、suitable workers. Many engineers and technicians can earn at least twice as much money in the Middle East as they can in their own country, and this is a major attraction .Sometimes a disadvantage has a compensating (补偿的) advantage. For example, the _ living conditions often lead to increased friend

5、ship when workers have to depend on each other for safety and comfort. In a similar way, many migrant workers can save large sums of money partly because of the lack of entertainment facilities. The work is often complex and full of problems but this merely presents challenge to engineers who prefer

6、 to find solutions to problems rather than do routine work in their home country.One major problem which affects migrant workers in the Middle East is that their jobs are temporary ones. They are nearly always on contract, so it is not easy for them to plan ahead with great confidence. This is to be

7、 expected since no country welcomes a large number of foreign workers as permanent residents. In any case, migrant workers accept this disadvantage, along with others, because of the considerable financial benefits which they receive.【单选题】A.necessaryB.normalC.difficultD.good正确答案:C答案解析:第三段第一句是本段的主题句，

8、意思是：有时候不利条件也会产生有利的因素。接着应是具体说明。空格所在句的大概意思是：当工人们不得不彼此依赖以寻求安全和心理安慰时，大家的友谊随之增深了。这是一种得到补偿的有利的东西，那么空格应填入的最合适的词显然是difficult（困难）。necessary:必需的；normal:正常的；good:好的。将这些选项填人后，句子前半部分表达的不是不利的因素，而是有利的因素，跟主题句不能构成连贯的语段。3、Why People Use Pseudonyms (假名字)?You cant choose the name you are given at birth, but in many cou

9、ntries you can change it legally when you reach adulthood. Of course, most people never change their names even if they feel unhappy about them. However some people do take this course of actionparticularly artists! What makes an artist want to change their name? Sometimes its for purely personal re

10、asons, such as the Nobel Prize winning poet from Chile, Neftalf Reyes. He didnt want his father to know he was writing poetry, so he changed his name to Pablo Neruda when he was a young man. At other times the reason may appear strange, take the case of the Portuguese poet Femando Pessoa, who wrote

11、under 75 different names. The reason? When I use a different name, I always write in a different way, he explained. In most cases, however , people change their names for social, historical, political, or cultural reasons. Here are some of the most common: reason. The persons real name is just too l

12、ong and difficult to remember. Lets be honest, Madonna Louise Ciccone is not as _ to remember as just plain Madonna. And short names are much easier to remember: William Bradley became Brad Pitt and Edson Arantes do Nascimento became Pele.Sometimes names are changed for marketing purposes. For examp

13、le, if a name sounds too foreign, it may be changed to something that is more recognizable in a market. So in the film world, Ramon Estsvez adopted the name Martin Sheen. Or maybe the artists real name doesnt sound attractiveChad Everett does sound a lot better than Raymond Cramton.Artists sometimes

14、 choose the name of someone they admire. Robert Zimmerman changed his name to Boo Dylan because of his admiration for the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas.Another reason may be practical: in the past, women found it very difficult to get published. To avoid this situation, they sometimes gave themselves men

15、s names, so the English author Mary Ann Evans became George Eliot, and she did get her books published!【单选题】A.prettyB.simpleC.briefD.easy正确答案:D答案解析:本题有一定难度，B项的干扰很大，有不少考生选了B。文中此处最贴切的意思是指“长名字不容易记住”，下面紧接着也出现了easier，是很好的提示，答案是D。4、One-Room SchoolsOne-room schools are part of the heritage of the United St

16、ates, and the mention of them makes people feel a longing for the way things were. One - room schools are an endangered species (种类), however. For more than a hundred years, one - room schools have been systematically shut down and their students were sent away to centralized schools. As recently as

17、 1930 there were 149,000 one - room schools in the United States. By 1970 there were 1,800. Today, of the nearly 800 remaining one - room schools, more than 350 are in Nebraska. The rest are spread through a few other states that have on their road maps wide - open spaces between towns.Now that ther

18、e are hardly any left, educators are beginning to think that maybe there is something yet to be learned from one - room schools, something that served the pioneers that might serve as well today. Progressive educators have come up with new names like peer - group teaching and multi - age grouping fo

19、r educational procedures that occur naturally in the one - room schools. In a one - room school the children teach each other because the teacher is busy part of the time teaching someone else. The fourth grader can work at the fifth grade level in math and the third grade level in English without t

20、he bad name associated with being left back or the pressures of being skipped (超过) ahead. A youngster with a learning disability can find his or her own level without being separated from other pupils. A few hours in a small school that has only one classroom and it becomes clear why so many parents

21、 feel that one of the advantages of living in Nebraska is that their children have to go to a one - room school.One - room schools are in danger of disappearing because _. 【单选题】A.there has been a trend towards centralizationB.they cannot get top studentsC.they exist only in one stateD.children have

22、to teach themselves正确答案:A答案解析:本题有一定的难度，考生不太好定位，需要认真读第一段找答案。第一段第三句谈到，一百多年来，大教室学校逐渐被关闭，学生被统一分到政府的集中化学校，回来看选项，A是近义解释，是最佳答案。做本题时可以先看选项，得到信息提示。5、Gun Rights in the USImmediately after the shooting at Virginia Tech University, Americans gathered to mourn (致哀) the dead. The president and the state governer

23、both hurried there to share the _. But the majority of Americans still cling to their right to own weapons.Strictly speaking, the US is not the only country here gun violence has destroyed lives, families and communities in everyday circumstance. But the US is one of the few countries that seem unwi

24、lling and politically incapable of doing anything serious to stop it.In countries like Britain and Canada, the government adopted strict gun control soon after serious gun violence incidents. US leaders, however, are held hostage by the gun lobby (院外活动集团) and the electoral (选举) system.The powerful N

25、ational Rifle Association, the major supporter of gun rights in the US, is too strong for any party to take on. Most Republicans oppose gun control anyway. Over the years, the Democrats have found that they can either campaign for gun control or win power, not both, they prefer power.According to th

26、e US Bureau of Justice Statistics, firearm (火器) incidents accounted for nine percent of the 4.7 million violent crimes in 2005. So although opinion polls show most Americans want stricter gun laws, many people dont want to give up their arms they keep to protect themselves.Dave Hancock, a Virginia g

27、un lover, is one example. In an interview he said, If one professor in the Virginia incident had been carrying a legal weapon, they might have been able to stop all this. In his opinion, the massacre (大屠杀) is an argument for more people to carry weapons, not fewer.Americans clinging to the right to

28、bear arms is not just a fear of crime, but a mistrust of government, commented UKs Guardian newspaper.One Virginia resident, who had a permit to carry a concealed (隐藏的) firearm, told the Guardian that it was every Americans responsibility to have a gun.Each person, he said, should not rely solely on the government for protection.【单选题】A.ceremonyB.funeralC.griefD.tears正确答案:C答案解析:本题有一定难度，干扰项干扰较大，本题可以先看选项，得到信息提示。grief是“悲痛”的意思。A指“典礼”B指“葬礼”D指“眼泪”。根据文章句意，最佳答案是C。