职称英语考试《综合类》模拟试题及答案050731Word文件下载.docx

1、答案解析:我正和一个伦敦人一起工作。本题难度不大，干扰项干扰不强。guy和man都可指“人”，其他项和答案意义差异较大，最佳答案是D。2、I was shocked when I saw the size of the telephone bill.【单选题】A.excitedB.angryC.lostD.surprised当看到电话账单的长度时我很震惊。本题难度不大，shocking指“震惊的”，和surprised“吃惊的”是同义词，B项“生气的”有一定的干扰性，其他干扰不大，最佳答案是D。3、Preparations for InterviewThe first thing you ha

2、ve to prepare for a job interview is to write your resume. Most of all, the resume should emphasize all the related experience you have had. The resume should be clear and you should keep in mind that the person reading it will probably be reading many other resumes. The best thing you can do is to

3、. make it obvious why you can do the job better than anybody else. Your resume should be neat and if possible , typed, the biggest advantage of a typed resume is that it is easy to read.Once you have organized your resume, check your closet. Special attention should be _ to what you will wear for th

4、e interview. You dont want to be dressed up as if you were going to a party, but you also dont want to be over-dressed. You should consider setting your hair trimmed before the interview. Remember that neatness counts. You should be neat in your appearance as well as in resume.Finally, you must keep

5、 in mind that employers do not like people to smoke or chew gum during an interview. The basic reason for this may be that you appear too relaxed. Remember you are not visiting a friend; you are trying to get a job. If you follow all of the above advice, you have a good chance of getting the job you

6、 desire.【单选题】A.drawnB.spendC.allowedD.paidpay attention to此处以被动语态形式出现。4、An Early Form of Jazz MusicMusic comes in many forms; most countries have a style of their own. At the turn of the last century, when jazz was born, America had no prominent music 0f its own. No one knows exactly when was invent

7、ed or by whom. But it began to be heard in the early 1890s. Jazz is Americas contribution to popular music. In contrast to classical music, which follows formal European traditions, jazz is spontaneous and free in form. It bubbles with energy, _ the moods, interests, and emotions of the people. In t

8、he 1920s jazz sounded like America. And so it does today. The origins 0f the music are as interesting as the music itself. American Negroes, or blacks, as they are called today, were the jazz pioneers. They were brought to the Southern states as slaves. They were sold to plantation owners and forced

9、 to work long hours. When a Negro died, his friends and relatives formed a procession to carry to body to the cemetery. In New Orleans, a band often accompanied the body . On the way to the cemetery the band played slow, solemn music, suited to the occasion. Furthermore 0n the way home the mood chan

10、ged. Spirits lifted. Death had removed one of their numbers, but the living were glad to be alive . The band played happy music, improvising on both the harmony and the melody of the tunes played at the funeral. This music made everyone want to dance. It was an early form ofjazz. A.disclosingB.expla

11、iningC.expressingD.exposingC从跟后面这几个词（moods，interests，emotions）的搭配考虑，只能选expressing。5、Stop Eating Too muchClean your plate!and Be a member of the clean-plate club! Just about every kid in the US has heard this from a parent or grandparent. Often, its accompanied by an appeal: Just think about those st

12、arving orphans （孤儿） in Africa! Sure, we should be grateful for every bite of food. Unfortunately, many people in the US take too many bites. Instead of saying clean the plate, perhaps we should save some food for tomorrow.According to news reports, US restaurants are partly to blame for the growing

13、bellies（肚子）. A waiter puts a plate of food in front of each customer, with two to four times the amount recommended by the government, according to a USA Today story. Americans traditionally associate quantity with value and most restaurants try to give them that. They prefer to have customers compl

14、ain about too much food rather than too little.Barbara Rolls, a nutrition （营养） professor at Pennsylvania State University, told USA Today that restaurant portion sizes began to grow in the 1970s, the same time that the American waistline（腰围） began to expand.Health experts have tried to get many rest

15、aurants to serve smaller portions. Now, apparently, some customers are calling for this too. The restaurant industry trade magazine QSR reported last month that 57 percent of more than 4,000 people surveyed believed restaurants served portions that were too large; 23 percent had no opinion; 20 perce

16、nt disagreed. But a closer look at the survey indicates that many Americans who cant afford fine dining still prefer large portions. Seventy percent of those earn at least $ 150,000 per year prefer smaller portions; but only 45 percent of those earning less than $25, 000 want smaller.Its not that wo

17、rking class Americans dont want to eat healthy. Its just that, after long hours at low-paying jobs, getting less on their plate hardly seems like a good deal. They live from paycheck （薪金支票） to paycheck, happy to save a little money for next years Christmas presents.（2008年）What does the survey indica

18、te?A.Twenty percent of Americans want smaller portions.B.Many low-income Amercing want large portions.C.Fifty-seven percent of Americans want large portions.D.Forty-five percent of Americans want smaller portions.B题干问“调查报告说明了什么”。参见文章第四段，许多吃不起精美正餐的美国人仍然希望饭菜的量大一些。而选项B与此相符合，故正确答案为B。6、Youd better put th

19、ese documents in a safe place.【单选题】A.darkB.secureC.guardedD.banned你最好把这些文件放在一个安全的地。本题有一定难度，干扰项有一定的干扰性。safe和secure都可指“安全的”，C项指“谨慎的，防护的”，D项指“禁止的”，最佳答案是B。7、LanguageWhen one looks back upon the fifteen hundred years that are the life span of the English language, he should be able to notice a number of

20、significant truths. The history of language is a history of constant change-at times a slow, almost imperceptible change, at other times a violent collision between two languages. Language a living growing organism, it has never been static. Another significant truth that emerges from such a study i

21、s that language at all times has been the possession not of one class or group but of many. At one extreme it has been the property of the common, ignorant folk, who have used it in the daily business of their living, much as they have used their animals or the kitchen pots and pans. At the other ex

22、treme it has been the treasure of those who have respected it as an instrument and a sign of civilization, and who have struggled by writing it down to give it some permanence, order, dignity, and if possible, a little beauty.As we consider our changing language, we should note here two developments

23、 that are of special and immediate importance to us. One is that since the time of the Anglo-Saxons there has been an almost complete reversal of the different relationship of words in a sentence. Anglo-Saxon（old English） was a language of many inflections. Modern English has few inflections. We mus

24、t now depend largely on word order and function words to convey the meanings that the older language did by means of changes in the forms of words. Function words, you should understand, are words such as prepositions, conjunctions, and a few others that are used primarily to show relationships amon

25、g other words. A few inflections, however, have survived. And when some word inflections come into conflict with word order,. there may be trouble for the users of the language, as we shall see later when we turn our attention to such maters as WHO or WHOM and ME or l. The second fact we must consid

26、er is that as language itself changes, our attitudes toward language forms change also. The eighteenth century, for example, produced from various sources a tendency to fix the language into patterns not always set in and grew, until at the present time there is a strong tendency to restudy and re-e

27、valuate language practices in terms of the ways in which people speak and write.The author of these paragraphs is probably a （an） _.【单选题】A.historianB.philosopherC.anthropologistD.linguist此题考查考生的推测能力和词汇量，文章的具体细节，最适当的答案应该是D。作者很可能是一位语言学家。A选项（历史学家）和C选项（人类学家）也可以有点迷惑性。 B选项（哲学家）是最不符合的。8、Britains Solo Sailo

28、rEllen MacArthur started sailing when she was eight, going out on sailing trips with her aunt. She loved it so much that she saved her money for three years to buy her first small sailing boat. When she was 18, she sailed alone around Britain and won the Young Sailor of the Year award.Ellen became f

29、amous in 2001. Aged only 24, she was one of the only two women who entered the Vendee Globe round the world solo race, which lasts 100 days. Despite of many problems, she came the second in the race out of 24 competitors and she was given a very warm welcome when she returned.Ambition and determinat

30、ion have always been a big part of Ellens personality. When she was younger, she lived in a kind of hut （棚屋） for three years while she was trying to get sponsorship to compete in a transatlantic race. Then she took a one - way ticket to France, bought a tiny seven meter Class Mini yacht （游艇）, slept

31、under it while she was repairing it, and then she raced it 4,000 kilometres across the Atlantic in 1997, alone for 33 days.Ellen has to learn many things, because sailing single - handed means that she has to be her own captain, electrician, sailmaker, engineer, doctor, journalist, cameraman and coo

32、ker, She also has to be very fit, and because of the dangers of sleeping for long periods of time shes in the middle of the ocean, she has trained herself to sleep for about 20 minutes at a time.And she needs courage. Once, in the middle of the ocean, she had to climb the mast （桅杆） of a boat to repair the sails at f