职称英语考试《综合类》模拟试题及答案0507-45

职称英语考试《综合类》模拟试题及答案
0507-45
1、Britain's Solo Sailor
Ellen 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 famous 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 determination have always been a big part of Ellen's 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 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 cooker, She also has to be very fit, and because of the dangers of sleeping for long periods of time she's 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 four o'clock in the morning, with 100 kph winds blowing around her. It took her many hours to make the repairs, Ellen says: "I was exhausted when came down. It's hard to describe how it feels to be up there. It's like trying to hold onto a big pole, which for me is just too big to get my arms around, with someone kicking you all the time and trying to shake you off".
But in her diary, Ellen also describes moments which is worthwhile (值得的) :"A beautiful sunrise started the day, with black clouds slowly lit by the bright yellow sun. I have a very strong feeling of pleasure, being out here on the ocean and having the chance to live this. I just feel lucky to be here."
In the Vendee Globe race, Ellen won ____.【单选题】
A.the second place
B.a gold medal
C.the "Young Sailor of the Year" award
D.the "Best Woman Sailor" award
正确答案:A
答案解析:本题有一定难度，针对第二段出题，但是只要定好位，不难找到答案。

根据题干提示词汇迅速到文章定位。

找到文章第二段，第二段谈到，Ellen在24个竞争对手中赢得了第二名，回来看选项，A是同义解释，答案是A。

2、Operatunity
1. Operatunity is a TV talent show for amateur opera singers, The winners get the chance to sing with the English National Opera. When two housewives, Denise Leigh and Jane Gilchrist won in
2002, their lives changed forever, As they sang Verdi's Rigoletto at the Coliseum (音乐厅) in Rome, they were transformed from working mothers into opera celebrities (名人).
2. "I live in the village I was born in," says Denise, who is blind. "Lots of my neighbours are family, and my life is all about my three children. Jane, who worked as a cleaner and a shop assistant, was in a similar situation." She says. All I had to look forward to was seeing my four children grow up, and I love them, but ... you know there must be more things than life. Winning Operatunity has opened up avenues I never knew existed."
3. "Last year was amazing," Denise continues, "Last month was Paris, before that we were recording at Abbey Road, in London, and recently we had our album launch at the Royal Opera House" "We've been treated like princesses," laughs Jane, "... champagne, chocolates, five - star hotels ..."
4. But it wasn't all so easy. For Denise, the worst part was waiting at the beginning. "After I'd sent in my application form I worried for a month, Then I had to wait ten days after my first audition (试唱). That was awful." Even when they won the competition they were allowed to tell their close family but they weren't allowed to tell anyone else until later. Denise and Jane also found the travelling is difficult. They couldn’t take their ch ildren with them while they were away singing, so they had to organise
childcare. However, there's been no problem with the physical side of singing: "We didn't have to worry about that as we've had lots of help and wonderful voice training." says Jane. They also had to learn to deal with the media." The kids loved the fact that they could stay up and watch us on TV, but I just couldn't understand why some newspapers were more interested in the fact I divorced at 21, rather than the fact I had just sung at the Coliseum, says Denise.
Paragraph 1 ____
【单选题】
A.Advice
B.Living the new life
C.The competition
D.Becoming famous
E.Their lives before
F.The difficult parts
正确答案:D
答案解析:本题有一定的难度，考生需要较强的归纳能力。

通读文章第一段可以发现，本段的主旨在最后一句：they were transformed from working mothers into opera celebrities（名人），由普通的上班妈妈变成了名人，所以第一段的最佳小标题就是“成名”，答案是D。

3、She was sent a box of chocolates along with a letter saying she was fired.【单选题】
A.killed
B.shot
C.dismissed
D.murdered
正确答案:C
答案解析:题干大意：有人送她一盒巧克力，附带一封告诉她被解雇的信。

画线词fired（解雇）与选项dismissed（解雇）同义。

kill：杀死；shot：射击；murder：谋杀。

故答案为C。

4、We explored the possibility of expansion at the conference.【单选题】
A.offered
B.investigated
C.included
D.accepted.
正确答案:B
答案解析:会上我们探讨了扩张的可能性。

本题难度不大，干扰项干扰不大，要确定好单词的引申意义。

explore的引申意义有“探讨”考生要注意，investigate的本义是“调查”，引申意义是“研究”，是explore的近义解释，是答案。

5、Practically all animals communicate either through sounds or through soundless codes.【单选题】
A.Certainly
B.Probably
C.Almost
D.Absolutely
答案解析:差不多所有动物都能或通过声音或通过无声的方式进行交流。

本题有一定难度，虽然选项都是常用副词，但干扰项干扰较大。

practically和almost都有“几乎，差不多”的意思，是近义词。

A项指“肯定地”，B项指“可能”，D项指“绝对地”，最佳答案是C。

6、The company has the right to end his employment at any time.【单选题】
A.offer
B.stop
C.provide
D.continue
答案解析:题干大意：公司有权在任何时候解雇他。

stop（停止）与end意义相近。

offer:提供，提议；provide：提供，准备；continue：继续。

7、The herb medicine eventually cured her disease.【单选题】
A.nicely
B.apparently
C.finally
D.naturally
正确答案:A
答案解析:eventually:最终，等于finally; nicely:漂亮地；
apparently:显然地；naturally：自然地。

8、Britain's Solo Sailor
Ellen 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 famous 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 determination have always been a big part of Ellen's 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 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 cooker, She also has to be very fit, and because of the dangers of sleeping for long periods of time she's 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 four o'clock in the morning, with 100 kph winds blowing around her. It took her many hours to make the repairs, Ellen says: "I was exhausted when came down. It's hard to describe how it feels to be up there. It's like trying to hold onto a big pole, which for me is just too big to get my arms around, with someone kicking you all the time and trying to shake you off".
But in her diary, Ellen also describes moments which is worthwhile (值得的) :"A beautiful sunrise started the day, with black clouds slowly lit by the bright yellow sun. I have a very strong feeling of pleasure, being out here on the ocean and having the chance to live this. I just feel lucky to be here."
How does Ellen feel about the Vendee Globe race? ____【单选题】
A.It is enjoyable.
B.It is surprising.
C.It is dangerous.
D.It is relaxing.
正确答案:A
答案解析:本题有一定难度，首先要定好位，答案依据在最后一段，选项D有一定的干扰，认真阅读原文后可排除。

文章最后一段谈到了worthwhile，值得的，最后一句还提到I just feel lucky to be here，“感到自己非常幸运”，所以最佳答案是A。

9、Why People Use Pseudonyms (假名字)?
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 even if they feel unhappy about them. However some people do take this course of action－particularly artists! What makes an artist want
to change their name? Sometimes it's for purely personal reasons, such as the Nobel Prize winning poet from Chile, Neftalf Reyes. He didn't 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 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 person's real name is just too long and difficult to remember. Let's be honest, Madonna Louise Ciccone is not as easy 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 example, 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 artist's real name doesn't sound attractive－Chad Everett does sound a lot better than Raymond Cramton.
Artists sometimes 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 ____ 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!
【单选题】
A.admit
B.avoid
C.assure
D.affect
正确答案:B
答案解析:本题难度不大，根据文中句意，此处要选择“避免”的意思，所以最佳答案是B。

10、Intelligent Machines
1. Medical scientists are already putting computer chips (芯片) directly into the brain to help people who have Parkinson's disease, but in what other ways might computer technology be able to help us? Ray Kurzweil is author of the successful book The Age of Intelligent Machines and is one of the world's best computer research scientists. He is researching the possibilities.
2. Kurzweil gets computers to recognize voices. An example of this is Ramona; the virtual (虚拟的) hostess of Kurzweil's homepage, who is programmed to understand what you say. Visitors to the site can have their conversations with her, and Ramona also dances and sings.
3. Kurzweil uses this technology to help people with physical disabilities. One of his ideas is a "seeing machine". This will be "like a friend that could describe what is going on in the visible world", he explains. Blind people will use a visual sensor (探测器) which will probably be built into a pair of sunglasses. This sensor will describe to the person everything it sees.
4. Another idea, which is likely to help deaf people, is the "listening machine". This invention will recognize millions of words and understand any speaker. The listening machine will
also be able to trans late into other languages, so even people without hearing problems are likely to be interested in using it.
5. But it is not just about helping people with disabilities. Looking further into the future, Kurzweil sees a time when we will be able to download our entire consciousness onto a computer. This technology probably won't be ready for at least 50 years, but when it arrives, it means our minds will be able to live forever. Paragraph 3 ____
【单选题】
A.A new pair of eyes
puters that can communicate
C.Everlasting consciousness on a computer
D.Time to break off a friendship
E.An author and researcher
F.A new pair of ears
正确答案:A
答案解析:本题难度不大，考生只要认真阅读第三段，不难抓住本段的中心。

这一段主要是说如何帮助盲人，这种“看得见的机器”能够使盲人描述他所看到的一切。

A项A new pair of eyes，“一双新的眼睛”，可以概括本段内容，答案是A。