职称英语复习资料

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2013年职称英语（综合类B 级）阅读理解中英文背诵模板（非重点类）

第十七篇 Eiffel Is an Eyeful

（引人注目的埃菲尔铁塔）

问题

答案

1) Why does the author think the Eiffel Tower is transformed into

symbol of a world on the move?

2) What seems strange to the author?

3) Which statement is NOT true of Hugues Richard?

4) What did the builder use the Eiffel Tower for?

5) Which of the following is nearest in meaning to “(The Eiffel

Tower is like) a blank canvas for visitors to make of it what

they will ”?

1)

Tourists of all nationalities come to scribble on the cold iron of the tower.

2)

Visitors prefer wasting time scribbling to enjoying the view.

3)

He climbed 747 steps up the tower in 19 minutes and 4 seconds.

4)

Conducting research in various fields.

5)

Visitors can imagine freely what the tower represents.

①作者认为艾菲尔铁塔为什么会成为动感世界的象征？

②什么事使作者感到奇怪？

③关于乌格斯·理查德，叙述不正确的是什么？

④建筑师设计艾菲尔铁塔的目的是什么？

⑤与“埃菲尔铁塔就像可供游客自由制作的空白画布”这句话与

下列哪句话的意思最为接近？

①全世界的旅游者都来到冷冰冰的铁塔上涂鸦

②游客们宁愿浪费时间涂鸦而不愿欣赏风景

③他用了19分4秒爬上了铁塔的第747阶

④进行各个领域的研究

⑤游客可以对铁塔的象征意义自由遐想

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第十八篇 Goal of American Education

（美国教育的目标）

问题

答案

1) Which of the following best states the goal of American

education? 2) It is implied in the passage that .

3) American schools place great emphasis on the learner's 4) According to the passage, American education meets the needs of all the following EXCEPT . 5) Which of the following best states the feature of American education that makes it different from education in other countries?

1) To give every student the opportunity to fully develop his/her ability.

2) the subjects every student takes may vary. 3)

acquisition of the ability to be creative. 4) the students from foreign countries.

5)

Its underlying goal to develop every child's abilities to the fullest extent.

①下列哪项最能说明美国教育的目标？ ②在文中暗示了 。 ③美国学校非常重视学习者_________________。 ④根据文章，美国教育能满足除了 之外所有的需求。 ⑤下列哪项最能说明美国教育与其他国家教育的不同特点？ ①给学生充分发挥他们能力的机会 ②每个学生选择的专业可能有所不同 ③创造能力的培养 ④外国学生

⑤它的潜在目标是让孩子的能力发挥到极致

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第二十一篇 Spacing in Animals

（动物间的间隔距离）

问题

答案

1) Which of the following is the most appropriate definition of “Flight

Distance”?

2) If an animal’s critical distance is pene trated, it will 3) According to the passage, social distance refers to

4) Which of the following could best replace the word “band” in “We can think of it as a hidden band that contains the group” (in Paragraph 3)?

5) The example of the children holding hands when crossing the street

in the last paragraph shows that

1) Distance between an animal and its enemy

before fleeing. 2) begin to attack.

3) psychological distance.

4) Strip of land. 5) social distance is sometimes determined

by outside factors.

①下列哪项是对“逃跑距离”最好的解释？

②如果越过动物的临界距离，它就会_____________。

③根据文章，群居距离指的是_________________。

④在第三段中“我们可以将这个看作是一条包含群体的隐形带”中的

“带”的意思是？

⑤孩子们手拉手过马路的例子是为了证明 。

①逃跑之前，动物与敌人之间的距离

②开始攻击

③心理距离

④地带

⑤外界因素有时会影响社交距离

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第二十二篇 Some Things We Know about Language

（我们知道的关于语言的一些事情） 问题

答案

1) In the second paragraph the author thinks that 2) According to the author, people of undeveloped cultures can have

_____ language. 3) The author has used American Indian languages as an example to show that they are .

4) Which of the following statements is INCORRECT ? 5) According to the author, language changes are most likely to occur

in . 1) any human race, whether backward or not,

has a language. 2) complicated

3)

just as sophisticated as some well-known languages.

4) Some languages are better than other languages. 5)

vocabulary

①第二段中，作者认为__________。

②根据作者所说，不发达文化的民族也会有_________语言。 ③作者举出美洲印第安人的例子是为了证明_______。 ④下列哪项陈述是不正确的？

⑤根据作者所说，语言的变化最容易出现在__________。

①任何人种，无论落后与否，都有语言 ②复杂的

③它们与一些著名的语言一样复杂 ④语言有好坏之分 ⑤词汇方面

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第二十三篇 The Only Way Is Up

（只好向上）

问题

答案

1) "...these are cities concerned with the past" in the first

paragraph refer to cities that

2) The difficulty in constructing tall buildings in the 19th century lies in 3) When Otis came up with the idea of a lift, 4) Which of the following best describes the experience of going in a lift now? 5) Psychologists find the lift a good place where they can study

human behavior because

1)

want to maintain their traditional image. 2) the lack of a device to carry people upward. 3) most people had doubt about its safety. 4)

Uninteresting.

5) in a lift the bubble of personal space breaks.

①第1段中“不愿改变固有形象的城市”指的是______的城市。 ②在19世纪建造高层建筑的难度在于_________________。 ③当Otis 提出电梯想法时，____________________。 ④以下哪项最能描述现在乘坐电梯的经历？

⑤心理学家发现电梯是研究人们行为举止的好地方是因为 。 ①想保持传统形象。 ②缺乏将人送到高处的装置。 ③许多人怀疑它的安全性 ④无趣的

⑤在电梯里关于个人空间的幻想被打破了

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第二十四篇 Clone Farm

（克隆农场）

问题

答案

1) Which statement is the best description of the new era of

factory farming according to the first paragraph? 2) Which institution has offered $4.7 million to fund the

research? 3) In the third paragraph, by saying “Producers would like the

same me at quantity but to use reduced inputs to get there,” Mike Fitzgerald means that he wishes

4) Which of the following statements about Origen and Embrex is correct according to the fifth paragraph?

5) The technology of freezing stem cells from different strains of chicken can do all the following EXCEPT that

1) Cloned chickens are bulk-produced with the same growth rate, weight and taste.

2) The US’s National Institute of Science and Technology.

3) chickens could grow to the same weight but with less feed.

4)

Origen has joined hands with Embrex in producing cell-injecting machines.

5)

farmers can order certain strains of chicken only.

①根据第一段，对工厂化农业新时代这一解释最贴切的是哪项？

②哪个机构提供了4.7百万美金资助了这个研究？

③在第三段中，迈克·菲茨杰拉德说“养殖者想事半功倍”的

意思是什么？

④根据第五段，下列关于奥利金和俄布瑞斯两大公司的说法，

哪项是正确的？

⑤从鸡的不同菌群取出的冷冻干细胞技术除了____都能做到。

①克隆出来的小鸡在成长速度、体重和口味上一样

②美国国家科学与技术研究院

③投入减少但是产量不变

④两大公司联手生产细胞注射器

⑤农民只能订购某些品种小鸡的菌群

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第二十五篇 Income

（收入）

问题

答案

1) This passage is mainly about

2) Which of the following statements is true according to the

first paragraph?

3) It can be easily seen from this passage that the government

levies tax on

4) According to this passage, the money you get as interest

from government bonds is

5) The passage implies that

1)

the difference between national income and personal income.

2)

The money that goes for capital consumption is not regarded as income. 3)

corporation profits.

4)

the money not earned but received. 5)

people pay taxes somewhat unwillingly.

①本文主要是关于_________________。 ②根据第一段，下列哪项叙述是正确的？

③从文中可以轻易看出，政府从 中征税。 ④从文中可以看出，从政府证券中获得的利润 。 ⑤这篇文章暗示_________________。

①国民所得和个人所得的区别 ②用于资本消费的钱不算收入 ③公司利润 ④是得到的钱而不是挣到的钱

⑤人们不愿意支付税

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第二十七篇 Importance of Services

（服务业的重要性）

问题

答案

1) The first paragraph intends to tell us that 2) Between 1966 and 1986, the United States created about 3) Many economists, business and labor leaders and politicians believe that

4) The importance of services can be shown 5) What does the writer of this passage disapprove of regarding

services now? 1) services are important.

2) 32.4 million service jobs. 3)

most of the fast growth in the service sector is in low-paying jobs.

4) by money spent on business services as well as on consumer services. 5) Their prices.

①第一段想告诉我们_________________。

②1966年至1986年之间，美国提供了_________________ 。 ③许多经济学家、商人、劳动领袖以及政治家们认为___________。 ④服务业工作的重要性体现在_________________。 ⑤本文的作者对于现存服务业的什么表示不满？

①服务业很重要

②三千二百四十万的服务性职业 ③快速增长的服务业部门都是低收入工作 ④花在商业和服务业上的钱 ⑤服务业的价格

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第二十八篇 The National Park Service

（国家公园的服务机构)

问题

答案

1) Why are America’s national parks like old friends?

2) Which of the following statements is true about uniformed

rangers?

3) The National Park Service does all of the following EXCEPT

4) What is this passage about?

5) What will the paragraph following this passage most probably

discuss? 1)

Because they are always out there. 2)

They protect the National Park System. 3)

molding the Nation.

4)

It is about the National Park Service.

5)

The work that has been done by the partners.

①为什么美国国家公园像老朋友一样？

②关于穿着制服的公园工作人员，下列哪项叙述是正确的？ ③_____________不是国家公园服务体系的作用。 ④本文是关于什么的？ ⑤文章紧接着可能会讨论什么？

①因为它们一直在那里 ②它们保护这国家公园体系 ③建立国家

④关于国家公园管理局 ⑤合作者已经完成的工作

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第二十九篇 Find Yourself Packing It On? Blame Friends

（发现自己变胖了？这要怪罪朋友们） 问题

答案

1) Who had the greatest influence on people who became obese?

2) Which of the following statement about a friend's influence is false

according to the report?

3) According to Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis, what is the explanation

for friends being the greatest influence?

4) Which factor of becoming obese is not mentioned in this report?

5) In what way is obesity contagious and epidemic?

1)

Their friends.

2)

People were not likely to lose weight when they have skinny friends.

3)

Friends affected each others' feelings of fatness. 4)

Life style.

5)

Social networks let the obesity spread rapidly.

①变胖对谁的影响最大？

②根据报告，关于朋友的影响，下列哪一项叙述是错误的？

③尼古拉斯·克里斯塔基斯博士关于朋友最大影响的解释是什么？

④下列哪项变胖的因素这个报告中没有提到？

⑤肥胖通过什么方式传染流行的？

①他们的朋友

②当有很瘦的朋友的时候，本人也不可能会

变瘦

③朋友影响彼此对肥胖的感受

④生活方式

⑤社交圈使肥胖症迅速传播开来

第三十一篇 Pool Watch

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(泳池监护)

问题

答案

1) AI means the same as

2) What is required of AI software to save a life?

3) How does Poseidon save a life?

4)

Which of the following statements about Trevor Baylis is

NOT true?

5) The word “considered” in paragraph 5 could be best

replaced by 1)

artificial intelligence.

2)

It can distinguish between a swimmer and a shadow.

3)

It alerts the lifeguard. 4)

He runs. 5)

“rated”.

①AI 的意思是_________________。 ②为了挽救一条生命，人工智能软件必须具备什么条件？ ③波塞冬如何挽救生命的？

④关于特雷弗·贝里斯，下列哪项叙述是不正确的？ ⑤第五段中“consider ”的意思是_________________。

①人工智能 ②它必须能够区分游泳者与阴影

③它会提醒救生员 ④他跑步 ⑤rated （认为）

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第三十二篇 The Cherokee Nation

(柴罗基部落)

问题

答案

1) The Cherokee Nation used to live .

2) One of the ways that Sequoyah copied from the white man is the way of 3) A law was passed in 1830 to . 4) When the Cherokees began to leave their lands , . 5) Many Cherokees died on their way to their new home mainly because . 1)

in the southeastern part of the US. 2) writing down the spoken language. 3) force the Cherokees to move westward. 4) all of the above.

5)

they did not have enough food and clothes.

①切诺基部落过去住在_________________。

②塞阔亚从白人那里学到的方法是一种 。 ③1830年通过的法律的内容是_________________。 ④彻罗基人从什么时候开始离开家园的？

⑤许多彻罗基人在往西迁移的路上丧生，其主要原因是 。 ①美国东南部

②将口头语言写下来的方法 ③强迫彻罗基人向西迁移 ④All of the above （上述所有） ⑤他们没有足够的衣服和食物