全国专业技术人员职称英语等级考试
综合类C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. So far no one has been able to account for the cause of the accident.
A) assess
B) explain
C) describe
D) investigate
2. All those present noticed the minute change in his look.
A) big
B) timely
C) dramatic
D) slight
3. The war was over, but the whole country was in a state of disorder.
A) confusion
B) disagreement
C) disappearance
D) disaster
4. The young man was accused of theft in the supermarket.
A) arrested for
B) charged with
C) praised for
D) described as
5. The cause of the fire is being investigated.
A) looked after
B) looked through
C) looked forward to
D) looked into
6. Numerous attempts have been made to hide the truth.
A) Many
B) Successful
C) Effective
D) Unsuccessful
7. It is obvious that there is difference in the way they view the matter.
A) natural
B) certain
C) inevitable
D) clear
8. It is odd that so little is known about the talented painter.
A) surprising
B) unreasonable
C) strange
D) unbelievable
9. Everyone in the class participated in the farewell party.
A) contributed to
B) took pleasure in
C) took part in
D) enjoyed
10. Since ancient times people have found various ways to preserve meat.
A) carve
B) cook
C) freeze
D) keep
11. To understand what we are going to talk about today, you have to rely on what you have read
previously.
A) beforehand
B) carefully
C) before
D) in advance
12. At the policeman's signal, the vehicle pulled up.
A) stopped
B) slowed down
C) sped up
D) turned up
13. Not everyone can perceive the gradual change in the writer's style.
A) appreciate
B) notice
C) describe
D) discover
14. It was said that after his father's death, he possessed nearly half of his father's wealth.
A) wasted
B) owned
C) purchased
D) sold
15. They all agreed that the changes that have taken place are substantial.
A) significant
B) superficial
C) inadequate
D) inevitable
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。
International Students House
International Students House is a unique club and accommodation center for British and overseas s students in London. It is located in the heart of London’s West End and is close to all public transport facilitates.
Accommodation
· Comfortable accommodation for up to 450 people in single, twin, 3/4 bedded and multi-bedded rooms.
· 44 self-contained flats for married students and families.
· Long and short stays welcomed.
Membership
Club membership is open to all full-time students, professional trainees and student nurses. Membership costs are kept to an absolute minimum to enable the widest possible access. You can join for as little as one month and for up to one year at a time. Membership entitles you to use the various facilities of the House. It has:
· Restaurants
· Student bars and coffee shop
· Study rooms
· Clubs and societies
· Aerobics and fitness training
· Discos, dance, jazz and cinema
· Travel and excursions and much more!
The best way to check out all we have on offer is to drop in any Tuesday evening between 7:15pm and 8:30pm for Open House in the Club Room. This is an opportunity for you to meet the staff and other club members, enjoy a free cup of coffee and find out all about what’s going on. You can take advantage of special membership offers. ( useful tip: bring along 3 passport size photographs if you wish to take out membership).
Advice Service
Thanks to the support of STA Travel and in association with LCOS, International Students House now provides the service of an International Students Adviser. This new welfare service is open to all students at London’s bona fide academic institutions. It aims to provide welfare support to help students overcome any personal or practical difficulties they may be experiencing while studying in Britain. One of the key features of the Advice Service is that the Adviser can be seen during the evenings until about 8pm, Monday to Thursday.
Christmas and New Year
Unable to get home for Christmas? How about joining in the fun at International Students House! Check out our special programme of activity taking place over the Christmas period. Even come and stay in the House will be offering reduced accommodation rated for students wishing to spend a few days in London over Christmas. We’ll also have an exciting New Year’s Eve party, so come and join us and ring in the new year in the spirit of internationalism.
16. The club has long-term dormitory accommodation.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned.
17. Membership must be renewed monthly.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned.
18. The club provides subsidized restaurant meals.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned.
19. The club is open to non members on Tuesday evenings.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned.
20. STA Travel help finance the Students Adviser.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned.
21. You must make an appointment to see the Students Adviser.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned.
22. Students wishing to spend a few days in London over Christmas will be offered free accommodation rated for their stay in the House.
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。
An Idealist and A Fool
1. Engineering students are supposed to be examples of practicality and rationality, but when it comes to my college education I am an idealist and a fool. In high school I wanted to be an electrical engineer and, of course, any sensible student with my aims would have chosen a college with a large engineering department, famous reputation and research equipment. But this is not what I did.
2. I chose to study engineering at a small liberal-arts (文科) university that doesn’t even offer a major in electrical engineering. Obviously, this was not a practical choice: I came here for more noble reasons. I wanted a broad education that would provide me with flexibility and a value system to guide me in my career. I wanted to open my eyes and expand my vision by interacting with people who weren’t studying science or engineering. My parents, teachers and other adults praised me for such a sensible choice. They told me I was wise and mature beyond my 18 years and I believed them.
3. I headed off to college sure I was going to have an advantage over those students who went to big engineering “ factories” where they didn’t care if you had values or were flexible. I was going to be a complete engineer, : technical genius and sensitive humanist (人文学者)all in one.
4. Now I’m not so sure. Somewhere along the way my noble ideals crashed into reality, as all noble ideals eventually do. After three years of struggling to balance math, physics and engineering courses with liberal-arts courses, I have learned there are reasons why few engineering students try to reconcile (协调) engineering with liberal-arts courses in college.
5. The reality that has blocked my path to become the typical successful student is that engineering and the liberal-arts simply don’t mix as easily as I assumed in high school. Individually they shape a person in very different ways, together they threaten to confuse. The struggle to reconcile the two fields of study is difficult.
A. I didn’t choose the large engineering department in college
B. I chose to study in a small liberal-arts university
C. I am going to be a complete engineer
D. I assumed in high school
E. But the fact is not so perfect.
23. Paragraph 1 _______
24. Paragraph 2 ________
25. Paragraph 3 ________
26. Paragraph 4 ________.
27. The author chose to ______.
28. A successful engineering student is ________.
29. The author’s experience shows __________.
30. By interacting with people, engineering students can _________.
A. study engineering at a small liberal-arts
B. expected to be a technical genius
C. they threatened to confuse
D. he was unrealistic
E. broaden their horizons.
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
Last Fourth of July, Pete, a 14-year-old boy, was enjoying the lit-up skies and loud booms from the fireworks being set off in his neighborhood. Suddenly, the evening took a terrible turn. A bottle rocket shot into his eye, immediately causing him terrible pain. His family rushed him to the emergency room for treatment. As a result of the injury, Pete developed glaucoma and cataracts. Today, Pete has permanent vision loss in his injured eye because of his bottle rocket injury.
June is Fireworks Eye Safety Awareness Month, and through its Eye Smart campaign the American Academy of Ophthalmology wants to remind consumers to leave fireworks to professionals. “There is nothing worse than a Fourth of July celebration ruined by someone being hit in the eye with a bottle rocket,” said Dr. John C. Hagan, clinical correspondent for the Academy and an ophthalmologist at Discover vision Centers in Kansas City. “ A safe celebration means letting trained professionals handle fireworks while you enjoy the show.”
According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, more than 9,000 fireworks related injuries happen each year. Of these, nearly half are head-related injuries, with nearly 30% of these injuries to the eye. One-fourth of fireworks eye injuries result in permanent vision loss or blindness. Children are the most common victims of firework abuse, with those fifteen years old or younger accounting for 50% of fireworks eye injuries in the US. Dr. Hagan estimates that his practice sees more than 30 injuries each year from fireworks.
Even fireworks that many people consider safe represent a threat to the eyes. For children under the age of five, apparently harmless sparklers account for one-third of all fireworks injuries. Sparklers can burn at nearly 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
31. What happened to Pete last Fourth of July?
A. He was burned in a house fire.
B. He was caught in a rain.
C. he was injured in a fight.
D. He was hit in the eye.
32. The American Academy of Ophthalmology calls on consumers to
A. celebrate the Fourth of July with fireworks
B. leave fireworks to professionals in their celebrations
C. stop celebrating the Fourth of July altogether.
D. set off fireworks together with trained professionals.
33. How many fireworks eye injuries occur in the US each year?
A. About 9,000
B. About 4,500
C. About 1,350
D. About 30
34. Fireworks eye injuries can result in each of the followings EXCEPT
A. blindness
B. permanent vision loss
C. glaucoma and cataracts
D. head-related injuries
35. Which is NOT true of sparklers?
A. They are harmless to children.
B. They are considered safe by many people.
C. They are a threat to the eyes.
D. They can burn at very high degrees.
第二篇
Outside-the-classroom Learning Makes a Big Difference
Putting a bunch of college students in charge of a $300,000 Dance Marathon, fundraiser surely sounds a bit risky. When you consider the fact that the money is supposed to be given to children in need of medical care, you might call the idea crazy.
Most student leaders don't want to spend a large amount of time on something they care little about, said 22-year-old University of Florida student Darren Heitner. He was the Dance Marathon's operations officer for two years.
Yvonne Fangmeyer, director of the student organization office at the University of Wisconsin, conducted a survey in February of students involved in campus organizations. She said the desire for friendship was the most frequently cited reason for joining.
At large universities like Fangmeyer's, which has more than 40,000 students, the students first of all want to find a way to "belong in their own comer of campus".
Katie Rowley, a Wisconsin senior, confirms the survey's findings. "I wanted to make the campus feel smaller by joining an organization where I could not only get involved on campus but also find a group of friends."
All of this talk of friendship, however, does not mean that students aren't thinking about their resumes. "I think that a lot of people do join to ‘fatten up their resume’," said Heitner. "At the beginning of my college career, I joined a few of these organizations, hoping to get a start in my leadership roles."
But without passion student leaders can have a difficult time trying to weather the storms that come. For example, in April, several student organizations at Wisconsin teamed up3 for an event designed to educate students about homelessness and poverty. Student leaders had to face the problem of solving disagreements, moving the event because of rainy weather, and dealing with the university's complicated bureaucracy.
"Outside-of the classroom learning really makes a big difference," Fangmeyer said.
36. An extracurricular activity like raising a fund of $300,000 is risky because most student leaders
A) are lazy.
B) are stupid.
C) are not rich enough.
D) will not take an interest in it.
37. American students join campus organizations mostly for
A) making a difference.
B) gaining experience.
C) building friendship.(the desire for friendship)
D) improving their resumes.
38. Who is Katie Rowley?
A) She's a senior professor.
B) She's a senior student.
C) She's a senior official.
D) She's a senior citizen
39. What do student leaders need to carry an activity through to a successful end?
A) Passion.
B) Money.
C) Power.
D) Fame.
40. The phrasal verb “fatten up” in paragraph 6 could be best replaced by
A) invent.
B) rewrite.
C) polish.
D) complete.
第三篇
The State of Marriage Today
Is there something seriously wrong with marriage today? During the past 50 years,the rate of divorce in the United States has exploded:almost 50%of marriages end in divorce now, and the evidence suggests it is going to get worse.If this trend continues.it will lead to the breakup of the family,according to a spokesperson for the National Family Association.Some futurists predict that in l 00 years.the average American will marry at least four times.And extramarital affairs will be even more common than they are now.
But what are the reasons for this,and is the picture really so gloomy? The answer to the first question is really quite simple:marriage is no longer the necessity it once was.The institution of marriage has been based for years partly on economic need.Women used to be economically dependent on their husbands as they usually didn’t have jobs outside the home.But with the rising number of women in well—paying jobs,this is no longer the case,so they don’t feel that they need to stay in a failing marriage.
In answer to the second question,the outlook may not be as pessimistic as it seems.While the rate of divorce has risen,the rate of couples marrying has never actually fallen very much,so marriage is still quite popular.In addition to this.many couples now cohabit and don’t bother to marry.These couples are effectively married,but they do not appear in either the marriage or divorce statistics.In fact.more than 50% of first marriages survive.The statistics are deceptive because there is a higher number of divorces in second and third marriages than in first marriages.
So is marriage really an outdated institution? The fact that most people still get married indicates that it isn’t.And it is also true that married couples have a healthier life than single people:they suffer less from stress and its consequences,such as heart problems,and (4)married men generally consider themselves more contented than their single counterparts.Perhaps the key is to find out what makes a successful marriage and apply it to all of our relationships!
41.Which is true about the problem of marriage in the United States today?
A) Divorce leads to the breakup of the family.
B) Half of the married couples get divorced:
C) American people marry more than four times.
D) More and more people are getting divorced.
42.What does “this is no longer the case” in paragraph two mean?
A) It is not necessary to get married any more.
B) Women do not need a husband any longer.
C) Women are not economically dependant any more.
D) Many wives do well-paying jobs outside home now.
43.Why may the outlook of marriage not be as gloomy as it appears?
A) Many people still like to get married.
B) The rate of divorce has actually decreased.
C) Over 50%of the marriages continue to exist.
D) The statistics of divorce is not quite true。
44.How do people usually feel in their marriage life?
A) They are much healthier.
B) They feel no longer single.
C) They are more satisfied.
D)They suffer a lot less.
45.Which of the following about marriage is NOT mentioned in the passage?
A) There will be more relationships outside marriage.
B) Many people try to get married again after divorce.
C) Marriage has long been partly an economical need.
D) It is a fact that most people choose to get married.
第5部分:补全短文(第46~50题,每题2分,共10分)
阅读下面的短文,文章中有5处空白,文章后面有6组文字,请根据文章的内容选择5组文字,将其分别放回文章原有位置,以恢复文章原貌。请将答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
Are some people born clever and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our environment and our experiences? Strangely enough, the answer to both these question is yes. ___46___. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and varied surroundings. Thus the limits of a person’s intelligence are fixed at birth. ___47___. This view, now held by most experts, can be supported in a number of ways.
It is easy to show that intelligence is to some extent something we are born with. ___48___. Thus if we take two unrelated people at random from the population, it is likely that their degrees of intelligence will completely different. ___49___. Relations like brothers and sisters, parents and children usually have similar intelligence. ___50___.
A. The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be intelligent.
B. If on the other hand we take two identical twins, they will very likely be as intelligent as each other.
C. To some extent, our intelligence is given us so far and no amount of special education can make a genius out of a child born with low intelligence.
D. This clearly suggests that intelligence depends on birth.
E. But whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment.
F. Intelligence depends on birth.
第6部分:完形填空(第51~65题,每题1分,共15分)
阅读下面的短文,文中有15处空白,每处空白给出了4个选项,请根据短文的内容从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案,涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
Why People Use Pseudonyms
You can't choose the name you are given at birth,but in many countries you can change it legally when you reach adulthood. Of course, most people never change their names --51-they feel unhappy about them. However, some people do --52-- this course of action—particularly artists! What makes an artist want to change their name? Sometimes it's for purely --53--reasons, such as the Nobel Prize winning poet from Chile, Neflali Reyes. He didn't want his father to --54-- he was writing poetry, so he changed his name to Pablo Neruda when he was a young man.--55-- other times the reason may appear eccentric; take the case of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, --56-- wrote under 75 different names. The reason ?” When I use a different name, I always write in a different way," he explained. In most cases,--57-- ,the reason is for social, historical, political, or cultural reasons. Here are some of most --58--
The person's real name is just --59--long and difficult to remember. Let's be honest, Madonna Louise Ciccone is not as –60--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 –61--.For example,if a name sounds too "foreign", it may be changed to something that is more recognizable in a –62-- So in the film world, Ramon Estsvez adopted the name Martin Sheen. Or maybe the artist's doesn't sound very attractive -- Chad Everett does –63—a lot better than Raymond Cramto.
Artists sometimes -64-- 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 practicality: in the past, women found it very difficult to get published.To –65-- this situation they sometimes gave themselves men's names, so the English author Mary Ann Evans became George Eliot, and she did get her books published!
51.A)as if B)as C)even if D)even
52.A)take B)make C)do D)have
53.A)private B)individual C)own D)personal
54.A)understand B)know C)recognize D)observe
55.A)At B)On C)In D)During
56.A)whom B)which C)who D)that
57.A)but B)although C)though D)however
58.A)popular B)common C)ordinary D)average
59.A)so B)too C)very D)much
60.A)easy B)short C)simple D)brief
61.A)aims B)ends C)goals D)purposes
62.A)market B)film C)country D)business
63.A)look B)sound C)appear D)seem
64.A)choose B)give C)change D)get
65.A)admit B)assure C)avoid D)affect
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