中石油职称英语考试大纲模拟试题四

~模拟试题四~I. VocabularySection ADirections: There are 10 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence and mark your answer on the answer sheet.I.I’m afraid taking a part time job might _ my time for study.A. cut offB. cut intoC. cut downD. cut away2.1 ____ several interesting facts about Mexico in that book.A. came toB. came intoC. came overD. came across3.You can’t see through a telescope unless it is ____ correctly to your sight.A. adaptedB. adoptedC. adjustedD. accustomed4.Our company decided to ____ the contract because a number of the conditions in it had not been met.A. destroyB. refuseC. assumeD. cancel5.The father lost his ____ just because his son failed again in the final exam.A. mindB. moodC. passionD. temper6.He has never felt himself so powerfully ____ to the scientific ideal.A. interestedB. absorbedC. confidentD. attracted7.Craing assured his boss that he would _____ a ll his energies in doing this new job.A. call forthB. call atC. call onD. call off8.Who is ____ personnel at presentA. in the charge ofB. under charge ofC. under the charge ofD. in charge of9.Safety devices ____ in preventing accidents in the workshop.A. assistB. assureC. assembleD. contribute10.Care should be taken to decrease the length of time that one is ____ loud continuous noise.A. subjected toB. filled withC. associated withD. attached toSection BDirections: There are 10 sentences in this section. Below each sentence are four other words or phrases. You are to choose the one word or phrase which would best keeping the meaning of the original sentence if it were substituted for the underlined word or phrase. Then, mark your answer on the answer sheet.11. Today’s class has already been called off.A. revisedB. canceledC. completedD. announced12. Robert was regarded as a profound thinker by his friends.A. a deepB. a lazyC. a carefulD. an original13.Diana Spencer consented to many Prince Charles in 1981.A. vowedB. agreedC. engagedD. betokened14.The Hope Diamond has a beautiful blue color, and is completely without flaws.A. mistakesB. defectsC. dotsD. trademarks15.T he ultimate goal for all mountain climbers is to scale the summit of Mr. Everest.A. greatestB. potentialC. ambitiousD. distant16.The old woman is too feeble to cross the street without her nephew’s help.A. tiredB. weakC. timidD. blind17.T here is no alternative: the President must approve the bill if Congress passes it.A. chance of agreementB. doubtC. other choiceD. mistake18.The horse finally came to a halt on the very rim of the cliff.A. topB. edgeC. sloptD. base19.His face was flushed because he had run all the way from the dormitory.A. redB. shakingC. paleD. wet20.The versatility function of a computer is limited only by human imagination.A. multipleB. artificialC. mechanicalD. automaticII ? Grammatical StructureSection ADirections: There are 10 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence and mark your answer on the answer sheet.21.It was urgent that he __ her immediately.A. callsB. calledC. callD. would call22.The medical record shows that it was the drug, not the disease, ___ killed him several years ago.A. the effects of whichB. the effects of itC. finallyD. that23. __ ，it is quite easy to drill a hole in it with a eraser.A. Hard a diamond isB. Hard as a diamond isC. As a diamond is hardD. How hard is a diamond24.In order to be a good scientist, _A. mathematics is vitalB. one must master mathematicsC. mathematics is important to understandD. one to understand mathematics25.Like the old, __ respected in our country.A. the female isB. a female isC. the female areD. female is26. __ bricks, workers press clay into blocks and bake them to the requisite hardness in a kiln.A. MadeB. To makeC. Being madeD. The making of27. __ on a clear day far from the city crowds, the mountains give him a sense of infinitepeaceA. WalkingB. When one is walkingC. If walkingD. When walking28.When you ___ the test, check your papers before you hand them in.A. will finishB. are finishingC. will have finishedD. have finished29.This candidate has far more chances of winning the election than ___ recommended by the organizer.A. thatB. the oneC. whomD. one30.If you ____ my advice， you your failure now. You __ your victory.A.took ... wouldn't cry over... would celebrateB.had taken ... wouldn't have cried over... would have celebratedC.had taken ... aren't crying over... are celebratingD.had taken ... wouldn't be crying over... would be celebratingSection BDirections: In questions 31-40 each sentence has four underlined words or phrases, marked A, B C, and D. Choose the one word or phrase which is incorrect and must be changed to make the sentence correct. Then mark your answer on the answer sheet.31.Alaska’s vast areas of untamed wilderness attracts many people who enjoy the outdoors.ABC D32.If you have just recently purchased a home or are considering to refinance your home, takeA B Cadvantage of our low rates.D33.The most popular suggestion with the office workers is that all smokers could go outsideA B Cto smoke.D34.Book where visitors sign in is kept at the front desk.A B C D'35.The director felt more positive steps should be taken before last night’s meeting to ensureA B Cjob security.D36.The idea that experience was worth more then education was not unanimously accepted.A BCD37.Mrs. Pham wanted to know when was the last staff meeting so she could plan the next one.A B CD38.Engineers and scientists have had no trouble finding high-level, high-paying positionsA B Cwho have experience.D39.We can supplement our own ideas with information and data gathering from our reading,A B Cour observation, and so forth.D40.To read Tolstoy and being introduced to the nineteenth-century Russian literature are twoA B Cexcellent reasons for taking Professor Morrel’s course.DIII. Cloze TestDirections: There are 10 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark your answer on the answer sheetShopping habits in the United States have changed greatly in the last quarter of the 20th century. 41 in the 1900s most American towns and cities had a Main Street. Main Street wasalways in the heart of a town. This street was lined on both sides with many various businesses.Here, shoppers walked into stores to look at all sorts of merchandise: clothing, furniture, hardware, groceries. .42 , some shops offered services. These shops included drugstores, restaurants, shoe repair stores, and barber or hairdressing shops. But in the 1950s, a change began to 43 . Too many automobiles had crowded into Main Street while too few parking places were 44 shoppers. Because the streets were crowded, merchants began to look with interest at the open spaces 45 the city limits. Open space is what their car driving customers needed. And open space is what they got when the first shopping centre was built. Shopping centres, or rather malls, 46 as a collection of small new stores away from crowded citycentres. 47 by hundreds of free parking space, customers were drawn away from downtownareas to outlying malls. And the growing 48 of shopping centres led in turn to the building of bigger and better stocked stores. 49 the late 1970s, many shopping malls had almostdeveloped into small cities themselves. In addition to providing the 50 of one stop shopping,malls were transformed into landscaped parks, with benches, fountains, and outdoorentertainment.41. A. As early as B. Early C. Early as D. Earlier42. A. Apart from B. However C. In addition D. As well43. A. be taking place B. take place C. be taken place D. have taken place44. A. available for B. available to C. used by D. ready for45. A. over B. from C. out of D. outside46. A. started B. founded C. set up D. organized47. A. Attracted B. Surprised C. Delighted D. Enjoyed48. A. distinction B. fame C. popularity D. liking49. A. By B. During C. In D. Towards50. A. cheapness B. readiness C. convenience D. handinessIV. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: There are 4 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by 4 questions orunfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.Questions 51 to 54 are based on the following passage:It is simple enough to say that since books have classes fiction, biography, poetry--we should separate them and take from each what it is right that each should give us. Yet few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconception when we read, that would be an admirable beginning. Do not dictate to your author; try to become him. Be his fellow worker and accomplice (同谋).If you hang back, and reserve and criticize at first, you are preventing yourself from getting the fullest possible value from what you read. But if you open your mind as widely as possible, then signs and hints of almost imperceptible finess (委婉之处), from the twist and turn of the first sentences, will bring you into the presence of a human being unlike any other. Steep yourself in this, acquaint yourself with this, and soon you will find that your author is giving you, or attempting to give you, something far more definite. The thirty two chapters of a novel--if we consider how to read a novel first--are an attempt to make something as formed and controlled as a building but words are more impalpable than bricks, reading is a longer and more complicated process than seeing. Perhaps the quickest way to understand the elements of what a novelist is doing is not to read, but to write; to make your own experiment with the dangers and difficulties of words. Recall, then, some event that has left a distinct impression on you--how at the corner of the street, perhaps, you passed two people talking. A tree shook; an electric light danced; the tone of the talk was comic, but also tragic; a whole vision, an entire conception, seemed contained inthat moment.51. What does the author mean by saying "Yet few people ask from books what books can give us"A. The author means that lots of people read few books.B. The author thinks that readers have only absorbed part of knowledge in books.C. The author holds that few people have a proper idea about what content some kind ofbooks should include.D. The author considers that readers can scarcely understand most of the books.52. According to the passage, which of the following statement is rightA. A reader should find some mistakes when he is reading.B. The more difficult a book is, the more you can get from it.C. To read something is easier than to watch something.D. One should be in the same track with the writer when he is reading.53. What is the possible meaning of "impalpable" (Paragraph 2) in the passageA. Clear.B. Elusive.C. Delicate.D. Precise.54. What's the main idea of this passageA. The importance of reading.B. The proper way to read.C. How to get most from one book.D. The characters of a good book.Questions 55 to 58 are based on the following passage:It isn't often that an entire industry is symbolized in the figure of a single human being, and such is the case with Canadian aviation and the aircraft industry. The man is the Hon. John A. D. McCurdy, and the life story of this still vigorous, distinguished Canadian is at once and at thesame time the thrilling history of aviation's progress in Canada.It all began one cold February day in 1909 at Baddeck, Nova Scotia, when John McCurdy confounded the critics by flying the Silver Dart, an aircraft designed by himself, for half a mile over the ice of Bras deor Lakes. This was the first powered flight in Canada and the first by a British subject in the Commonwealth. McCurdy gave proof of his flying ability--and of the development and the use of the aileron--by being the first man in the world to execute a figure eight in the air. He became the first to pilot a flying boat, taking off from Long Island Sound. He flew the first airplane to Mexico. In 1911 he had made the longest flight to date, and that over open sea 90 miles from Key West to Havana. He won the first cross country race in Canada 40 miles from Hamilton to Toronto--and he transmitted the first radio message from aircraft.When World War ]I came, McCurdy took on board supervisory authority for Canadian aircraft production by serving with the government in various senior positions. Following World War 11, McCurdy was honored by being made lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia where he made Canada's first historic flight. He now lives in Montreal with a summer home in Baddeck, site of his first flight.55. According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true about McCurdyA. He was a Canadian.B. He is regarded as the symbol of Canadian aviation and aircraft industry.C. He is the first man to finish a figure eight in the air.D. He now lives in Baddeck.56. The "Silver Dart" isA. the name of a weaponB. a plane bought by McCurdyC. the nickname of a famous Canadian pilotD. a plane designed by McCurdy57. McCurdy is NOT the first one to __A. fly in CanadaB. pilot a flying boatC. fly from Key West to TorontoD. fly to Mexico58. Nowadays, McCurdy __A. lives in Montreal in summerB. is the lieutenant governor of Nova ScotiaC. is still very active and energeticD. is the government's counselorQuestions 59 to 62 are based on the following passage:The U.S. birthrate began to decline in the middle 1950's, resulting in a smaller college age population starting in the middle 1970's. S4 Something else happened in the 1970's: the price of oil increased tremendously, driving up the price of almost everything and making Americans aware that their large automobiles used a lot of gasoline. At the same time, foreign car manufacturers had begun to produce small fuel efficient cars in large quantities for the export market. ~Suddenly, the large, gas guzzling American cars were no longer attractive to Americanbuyers, who began buying foreign cars by the thousands. The American automobile industry went into a recession. Thousands of automotive workers were laid off, as were thousands of people in industries indirectly connected with the auto industry. People who are laid off tend to keep what money they have for necessities, like food and housing. They do not have the extra money needed to send their children to college. Their children cannot pay their own college costs, because during a recession they cannot find jobs. High unemployment means that more state funds must be used for social service--unemployment benefits and to aid dependent children, for example--than during more prosperous times. It also means, that the states have fewer funds than usual, because people are paying fewer taxes. Institutions of higher education depend on two major sources ofincome to keep them functioning: tuition from students and funds from the states. At the present time, there are fewer students than in the past and fewer state funds available for higher education. The colleges and universities are in trouble.59. What is the main idea of this passageA. The rising of oil price drove up the price of everything.B. There were many reasons why higher education was in trouble in the 1970's.C. Birthrate began to decline in the USA in 1950's.D. High unemployment caused a lot of social problems.60. The phrase "laid off' can best be replaced by which of the followingA. Poor.B. Got rid of.C. Removed.D. Unemployed.61. American cars were not popular in their domestic markets because they wereA. smallB. gas consumingC. fuel efficientD. not attractive62. All of the following statements are true EXCEPT __A. Young people couldn't afford their own tuition in the 1970'sB. It's difficult for graduates from colleges to find a job in the 1970'sC. Fewer parents could afford to send their children to college because of the recession in1970'sD. Birthrate dropped in the 1970's because of the recessionQuestions 63 to 66 are based on the following passage:It is difficult to imagine what life would be like without memory. The meanings of thousands of everyday perceptions, the basis for the decisions we make, and the roots of our habits and skills are to be found in our past experiences, which are brought into the present by memory.Memory can be defined as the capacity to keep information available for later use. It includes not only "remembering" things like arithmetic or historical facts, but also involves any change in the way an animal typically behaves. Memory is involved when a rat gives up eating grain because he has sniffed (嗅出) something suspicious in the grain pile.Memory exists not only in humans and animals but also in some physical objects and machines. Computers, for example, contain devices for storing data for later use. It is interesting to compare the memory storage capacity of a computer with that of a human being. The instant access memory of a large computer may hold up to 100,000 "words"--string of alphabetic or numerical characters--ready for instant use. An average U.S. teenager probably recognizes the meaning of about 100,000 words of English. However, this is but a fraction of the total amount of information that the teenager has stored. Consider, for example, the number of faces and placesthat the teenager can recognize on sight.The use of words is the basis of the advanced problem-solving intelligence of human beings.A large part of a person's memory is in terms of words and combinations of words. But while language greatly expands the number and kind of things a person can remember, it also requires a huge memory capacity. It may well be this capacity that distinguishes humans, setting them apart from other animals.63. Which of the following is true about memoryA. It helps us perceive things happening around us every day.B. It is based on the decisions we made in the past.C. It is rooted in our past habits and skills.D. It connects our past experiences with the present.64. According to the passage, memory is helpful in one's life in the following aspects EXCEPT thatA. it involves a change in one's behaviorB. it keeps information for later useC. it warns people not to do things repeatedlyD. it enables one to remember events that happened in the past65. What is the major characteristic of man's memory capacity according to the authorA. It can be expanded by language.B. It can remember all the combined words.C. It may keep all the information in the past.D. It may change what has been stored in it.66. Human beings make themselves different from other animals byA. having the ability to perceive dangerB. having a far greater memory capacityC. having the ability to recognize faces and places on sightD. having the ability to draw on past experiencesSection BDirections: You should answer Questions 67-75 which are based on the following passages. Mark your answer on the answer sheet.Population movements and genetics1.Study of the origins and distribution of human populations used to be based onarchaeological and fossil evidence. A number of techniques developed since the 1950s, however, have placed the study of these subjects on a sounder and more objective footing. The best information on early population movements is now being obtained from the “archaeology of the living body”, the clues to be found in genetic material.2.Recent work on the problem of when people first entered the Americas is an example ofthe value of these new techniques. North-east Asia and Siberia have long been accepted as the launching ground for the first human colonisers of the New World. But was there one major wave of migration across the Bering Strait into the Americas, or several And when did this event, or events, take place In recent years, new clues have come from research into genetics, including the distribution of genetic markers in modem Native Americans.3.An important project, led by the biological anthropologist Robert Williams, focused onthe variants (called Gm allotypes) of one particular protein - immunoglobin G - found in the fluid portion of human blood. All proteins “drift”， or produce variants, over the generations, and members of an interbreeding human population will share a set of such variants. Thus, by comparing the Gm allotypes of two different populations (e.g.two Indian tribes), one can establish their genetic “distance”，which itself can be calibrated to give an indication of the length of time since these populations last interbred.4.Williams and his colleagues sampled the blood of over 5,000 American Indians inwestern North America during a twenty-year period. They found that their Gmallotypes could bedivided into two groups, one of which also corresponded to the genetic typing of Central and South American Indians. Other tests showed that the Inuit (or Eskimo) and Aleut formed a third group. From this evidence it was deduced that there had been three major waves of migration across the Bering Strait. The first, Paleo-Indian, wave more than 15,000 years ago was ancestral to all Central and South American Indians. The second wave, about 14,000 -12,000 years ago, brought Na-Dene hunters, ancestors of the Navajo and Apache (who only migrated south from Canada about 600 or 700 years ago). The third wave, perhaps 10,000 or 9,000 years ago, saw the migration from North-east Asia of groups ancestral to the modem Eskimo and Aleut.5.How far does other research support these conclusions Geneticist Douglas Wallace hasstudied mitochondrial DNA in blood samples from three widely separated Native American groups: Pima-Papago Indians in Arizona, Maya Indians on the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico, and Ticuna Indians in the Upper Amazon region of Brazil. As would have been predicted by Robert Williams's work, all three groups appear to be descended from the same ancestral (Paleo-Indian) population.6.There are two other kinds of research that have thrown some light on the origins of theNative American population; they involve the study of teeth and of languages. The biological anthropologist Christy Turner is an expert in the analysis of changing physical characteristics in human teeth. He argues that tooth crowns and roots have a high genetic component, minimally affected by environmental and other factors.Studies carried out by Turner of many thousands of New and Old World specimens, both ancient and modem, suggest that the majority of prehistoric Americans are linked to Northern Asian populations by crown and root traits such as incisor shoveling (a scooping out on one or both surfaces of the tooth), single-rooted upper first premolars and triple-rooted lower first molars. According to Turner, this ties in with the idea of a single Paleo-lndian migration out of North Asia, which he sets at before 14,000 years ago by calibrating rates of dental micro-evolution. Tooth analyses also suggest that there were two later migrations of Na-Denes and Eskimo-Aleut.7.The linguist Joseph Greenberg has, since the 1950s, argued that all Native Americanlanguages belong to a single “Amerind” family, except for Na-Dene and Eskimo-Aleut - a view that gives credence to the idea of three main migrations. Greenberg is in a minority among fellow linguists, most of whom favour the notion of a great many waves of migration to account for the more than 1,000 languages spoken at one time by American Indians. But there is no doubt that the new genetic and dental evidence provides strong backing for Greenberg’s view. Dates given for the migrations should nevertheless be treated with caution, except where supported by hard archaeological evidence.Questions 67-72This passage has seven sections. 1-7.Choose the correct headings for sections 1-7 from the list of headings below. Mark your answer on the answer sheet.List of HeadingsA.The results of the research into blood-variantsB.Dental evidenceC.Greenberg’s analysis of the dental and linguistic evidenceD.Developments in the methods used to study early population movementsF.Further genetic evidence relating to the three-wave theoryG.Long-standing questions about prehistoric migration to AmericaH.How analysis of blood-variants measures the closeness of the relationship betweendifferent populationsI.Conflicting views of the three-wave theory, based on non-genetic evidence67.Section 168.Section 269.Section 370.Section 471.Section 572.Section 6Example AnswerSection 7 IQuestions 73-74This passage refers to the three-wave theory of early migration to the Americas. It also suggests in which of these three waves the ancestors of various groups of modern native Americans first reached the continent.Classify the groups named in the table below as originating fromA.the first waveB.the second waveC.the third waveChoose the correct letter. A, B or C, for questions 73-74 and mark your answer on theQuestion 75Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D. and mark your answer on the answer sheet. 75. Christy Turner's research involved the examination ofA.teeth from both prehistoric and modem americans and Asians.B.thousands of people who live in either the New or the Old World.C.dental specimens from the majority of prehistoric Americans.D.the eating habits of American and Asian populations.。