职称英语综合类B级补全短文专项试题二.docx

1、职称英语综合类B级补全短文专项试题二职称英语综合类B级补全短文专项试题(二)、一（共补全短文小题,40共分）80.0第1题 Looking to the FutureWhen a magazine for high-school students asked its readers what life would be like in twenty years, they said: Machines would be run by solar power. Buildings would rotate so they could follow the sun to take maximum

2、advantage of its light and heat. Walls would radiate light and change color with the push of a button. Food would be replaced by pills. (1) . Cars would have radar. Does this sound like the year 2000? (2) .The future is much too important to simply guess about, the way the high school students did,

3、so experts are regularly asked to predict accurately. (3) . But can they? One expert on cities wrote: cities of the future would not be crowded, but would have space for farms and fields. People would travel to work in airbuses,. large all-weather helicopters carrying up to 200 passengers. When a pe

4、rson left the airbus station he could drive a coin-operated car equipped with radar. The radar equipment of cars would make traffic accidents almost unheard of. Does that sound familiar? If the expert had been accurate it would, because he was writing in 1957. His subject was The City of 1982.If the

5、 professionals sometimes sound like high-school students, its probably because future study is still a new field. But economic forecasting, or predicting what the economy will do, has been around for a long time. It should be accurate, and generally it is. But there have been some big mistakes in th

6、is field, too. (4) . In October of that year, the stock market had its worst losses ever, mining thousands of investors who had put their faith in financial foreseers.(5) In 1957, H. $. Rand of the Rand Corporation was asked about the year 2000, Only one thing is certain, he answered. Children will

7、have reached the age of 43.A. By carefully studying the present, skilled businessmen scientists, and politicians are supposedly able to figure out in advance what will happen.B. School would be taught by electrical impulse while we sleep.C. One forecaster knew that predictions about the future would

8、 always be subject to significant errors.D. In early 1929, most forecasters saw an excellent future for the stock market.E. Everyone may look to the future for it is always promising.E Actually, the article was written in 1958 and the question was, what will life be like in 19787【正确答案】：答案:B本题分数： 2.0

9、 分 【答案解析】解析 空格前后句都在举例，而且时态结构都是“would +u”，因此B最合适：在内容上举例，而且时态上呼应。第2题 【正确答案】：答案:F本题分数： 2.0 分 【答案解析】解析 空格前句出现疑问句，因此接下来在空格处出现另一个问题，或对前面的问题进行回答的可能性较大，而且F中的“the article”与前文内容呼应“当一本面向中学生的杂志问它的读者”。第3题 【正确答案】：答案:A本题分数： 2.0 分 【答案解析】解析 空格前句提到“专家”，空格后句说到“他们”指代专家的可能性较大，因此猜测空格处可能出现涉及到“专家”的内容描述，A中出现的“对经商之道熟悉的商人、科学家

10、、政治家”正足“专家”，所以A正确。第4题 【正确答案】：答案:D本题分数： 2.0 分 【答案解析】解析 空格后句中提到了“股票市场”。第5题 【正确答案】：答案:C本题分数： 2.0 分 【答案解析】解析 空格后句是在进行具体列举了一个预测家所做的预测，因此空格处出现观点性、概括性的句子的可能性较大，C在用词上(one forecaster)恰好与空格后句中的具体人名(HJRand)呼应，而且C(一位预测家知道预测未来总是容易发生大的错误)也正好是概括总结句，而且在句意上很好地解释了为什么HJRand说“只有一件事情是确定的，那就是现在出生的孩子在2000年时将是43岁。”第6题 The

11、problem over apyright protectionThe US Supreme Court has just stepped into a public debate about the relationship between property and creativity in the information age. The Courts decision to hear an obscure copyright case looks certain to fuel a debate that could have lasting implications for the

12、publishing and entertainment industries and for individuals ranging from artists to scientists. (1) . The case in question tests the constitutionality of what opponents call the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, the 1998 copyright extension law that saved Disneys cartoon character from imminent death, in

13、 copyright terms. (2) .Beyond the semantics lies a much more important public debate about the nature of property on the internet. In a world where the theft of copyrighted property has been rendered effortless by technology, how can creators be rewarded without stifling the flow of ideas necessary

14、to feed future creation? (3) .The issue was forced to the justices attention by a group of academics campaigning to defend the public domain. James Boyle, an intellectual property theorist and Duke University professor, paints this domain as a kind of creative common land where we all graze of intel

15、lectuals and scientists (and computer geeks) at Duke, hoping to launch a movement to protect domain. (4 ) .The case now before the court is art of the anti-enclosure campaign. (5 ) .A. It was the brainchild of Lawrence Lessig, legal theorist of the internet, who argues that the essence of the intern

16、et is the freedom to innovate.B. How can society balance private and public rights in ideas?C. He argues that the inexorable advance of intellectual property law in recent years constitutes a second enclosure movement to parallel the 18th century enclosure of English common lands.D. Its examination of the limits of intellectual property w