2013科技英语考试+答案

一、单选题（共 15 道试题，共 15 分。）

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1. Scientists have discovered that genes may make some people more __________ to

anxiety.

A. tend

B. prone

C. likely

D. possible

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2. One cause of the current food crisis is ______ and food prices are high in part because

of the dry weather in these places.

A. flood

B. cough

C. rough

D. drought

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3. Alice trusts you.Only you can （）her to give up the foolish idea

A. suggest

B. attract

C. tempt

D. persuade

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4. The contract signed two years ago between the two companies will ______ at the end of

the year.

A. expect

B. expire

C. revise

D. explore

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5. Enough lava had __________ from the volcano to bury the entire village.

A. disrupted

B. splashed

C. erupted

D. spilt

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6. Their marriage was in danger of breaking up last year but it seems quite ______ now.

A. favourable

B. critical

C. profitable

D. stable

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7. The present wave of strikes ______ from discontent among the lower-paid.

A. stems

B. traps

C. raises

D. ranges

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8. If it_____tomorrow, we will stay indoors to have our training class.

A. rains

B. rained

C. will rain

D. is raining

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9. The longer the economic decline is allowed to go on the more difficult it will be to （）

it

A. underline

B. upset

C. resume

D. reverse

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10. International students are likely to __________ their counterparts from various

countries and areas and are exposed to diverse ideas and values.

A. counter

B. found

C. met

D. encounter

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11. The island’s population initially numbered 180, but there was a gradual

__________ until only 40 people were left.

A. declination

B. incline

C. inclination

D. decline

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12. Coal can be ______ into gas with the help of the modern technology.

A. yield

B. converted

C. overcame

D. reverted

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13. Parents should make their children realize that studying is happy but not ______

them to do what they don’t like

A. make

B. compel

C. drive

D. enable

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14. Her brother ______ to leave her in the dark room alone when she disobeyed his

order

A. declared

B. threatened

C. warned

D. exclaimed

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15. The child ______ his parents quarrelling and he was frightened.

A. overheard

B. virtualized

C. scratched

D. oversaw

二、阅读理解（共 2 道试题，共 20 分。）

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1. Psychiatrists ( 精神病专家) who work with older parents say that maturity can be

an asset in child rearing - older parents are more thoughtful, use less physical discipline and spend more time with their children. But raising kids takes money and energy. Many older parents find themselves balancing their limited financial resources, declining energy and failing health against the growing demands of an active child. Dying and leaving young children is probably the older parents' biggest, and often unspoken, fear. Having late-life children, says an economics professor, often means parents, particularly fathers, "end up retiring much later." For many, retirement becomes an unobtainable dream.

Henry Metcalf, a 54-year-old journalist, knows it takes money to raise kids. But he's also worried that his energy will give out first. Sure, he can still ride bikes with his athletic fifth grader, but he's learned that young at heart doesn't mean young. Lately he's been taking afternoon naps (午睡) to keep up his energy. "My body is aging," says Metcalf. "You can't get away from that."

Often, older parents hear the ticking of another kind of biological clock. Therapists who work with middle-aged and older parents say fears about aging are nothing to laugh at. "They worry they'll be mistaken for grandparents, or that they'll need help getting up out of those little chairs in