职称英语考试真题及答案综合类A级.docx

1、职称英语考试真题及答案综合类A级2016年职称英语考试真题及答案(综合类A级)词汇选项1.Only people over 18 are eligible to vote.A.honestB.qualifiedC.enabledD.clever2.The latest car model embodies the new research development.A.listsB.includesC.borrowsD.broadens3.The coastal area has very mild winter, but the central plains remain extremeA.s

2、evereB.hardC.warmD.dry4.She is an artist whose work will undoubtedly withstand the test of time.A.gradeB.attractC.bearD.suffer5.He wore a shabby thin overcoat in the cold winter so that he fell ill.A.oldB.bigC.newD.small6.The weather was so gorgeous that many people went outing.A.uncontrollableB.ple

3、asantC.cloudyD.unbearable7.Competitors must abide by the judges decisionA.keepB.readC.understandD.obey8.The umbrella was ingeniously devised to fold up into the pocket.A.seriouslyB.cleverlyC.attentivelyD.carefully9.Some newspapers in the west are notably biased.A.especiallyB.whollyC.totallyD.fairly1

4、0.His answers were obscure and confusing.A.unclearB.obviousC.clearD.direct11.The way she looked after her young sister was really touching【选项】A.disturbingB.connectingC.movingD.waving12.We are worried about this fluid situation full with uncertainty.A.stableB.suitableC.changeableD.adaptable13.They ha

5、ve built canals to irrigate the desert.A.decorateB.changeC.visitD.water14.The details of the costume were totally authentic.A.outstandingB.realC.creativeD.false15.The new garment fits her perfectly.A.clothesB.haircutC.purseD.necklace阅读判断Income tax【个人所得税】For many young Americans, graduating from coll

6、ege means finding a job, moving out of the dorm room and beginning to register ones annual earnings with the US government.That last item is the law, though sometimes its a hassle(难事)to obey.Independent tax advisor Bob Gilbert calls the US income tax system amazingly complicated. But he adds that ve

7、ry little of the complicated tax law applies to young people who are just beginning their careers. According to Gilbert, 80 to 90 percent of Americans are not really burdened by the systems complications.Still, all the numbers and forms can be a little confusing to those who are just starting their

8、careers. Some pull out their calculators and try to do the math alone. Some use income tax software. Others just hand the whole responsibility over to tax firms like Gilberts. According to income tax law expert Linda Beale, young people will often follow their parents lead when filling their income

9、forms.Young people who grow up in wealthy households typically use professional tax services because their parents have always done so, said Beale, a professor at Wayne State University in Michigan State.On the other hand, most poorer young people probably try to do their own taxes, unless they want

10、 a quick refund with the help of a tax advisor.In fact, obeying the law has its benefits. For one, many young people can expect a tax refund. This means that, over the course of the year, they have paid too much in monthly federal or state taxes and are entitled to the difference.Bob Thalman, a 20-y

11、ear-old university student, expects he will get a refund of about 100, which will probably go in the bank, or perhaps be used to pay for car insurance or credit card bills.Thalman called the whole process a hassle, but added that he didnt wat to test the law by not filling his income tax papers.Im w

12、orried about what would happen if I failed to file, he said. I know one individual who did not report his income tax for many years, and hes now in federal prison. I certainly dont want that.16.A college student with a part-time job is not required to file an income tax form.A.RightB.WrongC.Not ment

13、ioned17.The US income tax system does not wholly apply to a college graduate who is just beginning his or her career.A.RightB.WrongC.Not mentioned18.Its pretty easy for a beginner to report his or her income tax.A.RightB.WrongC.Not mentioned19.When young people file their income tax form, they will

14、often follow in their parents footsteps.A.RightB.WrongC.Not mentioned20.Young people from poorer families neednt file their income tax forms.A.RightB.WrongC.Not mentioned21.If one has failed to report his or her income tax for quite a few years, he or she may be put in prison.A.RightB.WrongC.Not men

15、tioned22.The US income tax system will be simplified in the next few years.A.RightB.WrongC.Not mentioned概括大意与完成句子Tunguska Event1 A hundred years ago this week, a giganticexplosion ripped (撕裂) open the day y above a forest in western Siberia, leaving ascientific riddle that endures to this day.2 A da

16、zzling light pierced the heavens,followed by a shock wave as strong as 1,000 atomic bombs. The explosionflattened 80 million trees across an area of 2,000 square kilometers. Thefireball was so great that, a day later, Londoners could read their newspapersunder the night sky. What caused the so-calle

17、d Tunguska Event, named after thenearby Podkamennaya Tunguska river, still remains a mystery.3 Experts suspect it was a rock that, aftertraveling in space for millions of years, was destined to crash to Earth atexactly 7:17 a.m. on June 30, 1908. This possibility worries scientists.“Imagine an unspo

18、tted asteroid (小行星) hitting a significant chunk(块) of land . and imagine if that area, unlike Tunguska, werepopulated,” the British science journal Nature commented recently.4 But no fragments of the “rock” have everbeen found. Finding such evidence would be important, for it would increase ourknowl

19、edge about the risk posed by dangerous Near Earth Objects (NEOs), sayItalian researchers Luca Gasperini, Enrico Bonatti and Giuseppe Longo. When thenext Tunguska NEO approaches, scientists will have to decide whether to try todeflect (使偏转) it or blowit up in space.5 However, several rival theories f

20、or theTunguska Event exist. Wolfgang Kundt, a professor at Germanys Bonn University,believes the Tunguska Event was caused by a massive escape of 10 million tonsof methane(甲烷)-rich gasfrom deep within earths crust. Some people hold that the explosion was causedby an alien spaceship crash, or a black

21、 hole in the universe.23. Paragraph 224. Paragraph 325. Paragraph 426. Paragraph 5A. Competing ExplanationsB. Unknown AttacksC. Mysterious ExplosionD. Star WarE. Importance of Finding EvidenceF. Explanation that Worries Scientists27. The giganticexplosion that occurred a hundred years ago28. The sho

22、ck wavewhich followed the dazzling light29. The hypothesisthat the explosion was caused by a rock colliding with the Earth30. Wolfgang Kundt,who has developed an alternative theoryA. has remained a puzzleB. lacks sufficient evidenceC. is a university professorD. was generated by the explosionE. will

23、 kill many animalsF. are attacked by aliens阅读理解Dont count on dungConservationists (自然保护主义者) may be miscalculating the numbers of the threatened animals such as elephants, say African and American researchers. The erroroccurs because of a flaw in the way they estimate animal numbers from the piles of

24、 dung (粪) the creatures leave behind.The mistake could lead researchers to think that there are twice as many elephants as there really are in some regions, according to Andrew Plumptre of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in New York.Biologist Katy Payne of Cornell University in Ithaca, New Y

25、ork, agrees. We really need to know elephant numbers and the evidence that we have is quite indirect, says Payne, who electronically tracks elephants.Counting elephants from planes is impossible in the vast rainforests of Central Africa. So researchers often estimate elephant numbers by counting dun

26、g piles in a given area. They also need to know the rate at which dung decays: Because its extremely difficult to determine these rates, however, researchers counting elephants in one region tend to rely on standard decay rates established elsewhere.But researchers at the WCS have found that this de

27、cay rate varies from region to region depending on the climate and environment. Using the wrong values can lead the census astray (离开正道), says Plumptre.He and his colleague Anthony Chifu Nchanji studied decaying elephant dung in the forests of Cameroon. They found that the dung decayed between 55 an

28、d 65 per centmore slowly than the dung in the rainforests of neighbouring Gabon. If researchers use decay rates from Gabon to count elephants in Cameroon, they would probably find more elephants than are actually around.This could mean estimates in Cameroon are at least twice as high as those derive

29、d from decay rates calculated locally, says Plumptre. However accurate your dung density estimate might be, the decay rate can severely affect the result.Plumptre also says that the dung-pile census should be carried out over a region similar in size to an elephants natural range. The usual techniqu

30、e of monitoring only small, protected areas distorts numbers because elephants move in and out of these regions, he says. If the elephant population increases within the protected area, you can not determine whether it is a real increase or whether it is due to elephants moving in because they are b

31、eing poached (入侵偷猎) outside.Plumptre says that similar problems may also affect other animal census studies that rely on indirect evidence such as nests, tracks or burrows (地洞).1The word threatened in the first sentence of the first paragraph could be best replaced byA endangered.B frightened.C killed.D angered.