职称英语考试2003年理工类C级考试试题

The potato is also from the New World. Around 1600, the Spanish brought it from Peru to Europe, where it soon was widely grown. Ireland became so dependent on it that thousands of Irish people starved when the crop failed during the "Potato Famine(饥荒)" of 1845-1846, and thousands more were forced to leave their homeland and move to America.
There are many other foods that have traveled from South America to the Old World. But some others went in the opposite direction. Brazil is now the world’s largest grower of coffee, and coffee is an important crop in Colombia and other South American countries. But it is native to Ethiopia, a country in Africa. It was first made into a drink by Arab during the 1400’s.
According to an Arabic legend, coffee was discovered when a person name Kaldi noticed that his goats were attracted to the red berries on a coffee bush. He tried one and experienced the "wide-awake" feeling that one-third of the world’s population now starts the day with.

36. According to the passage, which of the following has changed the most in the last 500 years?
A. Food B. Clothing C. Ideology. D. Language.

37. "Some" in the last sentence of the first paragraph refers to
A. some cocoa trees.
B. some chocolate drinks.
C. some shops.
D. some south american indians.

38. Thousands of Irish people starved during the "Potato Famine" because
A. they were so dependent on potatoes that they refused to eat anything else.
B. they were forced to leave their homeland and move to america.
C. the weather conditions in ireland were not suitable for growing potatoes.
D. the potato harvest was bad.

39. Which country is the largest coffee producer?
A. Brazil.
B. Colombia.
C. Ethiopia.
D. Egypt.

40. Which of the following statements is NOT true, according to the passage?
A. One third of the world’s population drinks coffee.
B. Coffee is native to Colombia.
C. Coffee can keep one awake.
D. Coffee drinks were first made by Arabs.

第三篇 London’s First Light Rail System
The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) took just three years to build at a cost of ￡77 million. It is London’s first Light Rail System, but its route follows that of a number of older lines, which carried the nineteenth century railways through the crowed districts of the East End.
The section of the line from the Tower Gateway Station to Poplar follows the line of one of London’s earliest railways, the London & Blackwell (1840), a cable-drawn railway (later converted to steam) which carried passengers to steam ships at Blackwell Pier, and provided transport for the messengers and clerks who went backwards and forwards between the docks (码头) and the city every day.
From Poplar to Island Gardens, a new line crosses high above the dock waters, and then joins the old track of the Millwall Extension Railway, built to service the Millwall Docks (1868) and to provide transport for workers in the local factories. This line was horse-drawn for part of its route, until the 1880s.
The Polar to Stratford section of the DLR route was first developed by the North London Railway, built in the 1850s to link the West and East India Docks with the manufacturing districts of the Midlands and North of England. There were major railway works and sidings (岔线)at Bow until recently.
The trains are automatically controlled from a central computer, which deals with all signaling and other safety factors, as well as adjusting speeds to keep within the timetable; on board each vehicle, Train Captains, who are also fully qualified drivers, are equipped with two-way radios to maintain contact with central control. There are passenger lifts, and self-service ticket machines, at every station.

41. The passage tells us that London’s first Light Rail System.
A. was constructed in the nineteenth century.
B. will be finished in three years’ time.
C. follows some of the original lines.
D. took three years longer than expected to complete.

42. We learn from the passage that the London & Blackwell railway
A. now carries passengers to and from the docks.
B. was a busy line a few years ago.
C. used to employ many messengers and clerks.
D. was not originally a steam railway.

43. "This line" in Paragraph 3 refers to
A. the line from the Tower Gateway Station to Poplar.
B. the line from Poplar to Island Gardens.
C. the Millwall Extension Railway.
D. the line from Poplar to Stratford.

44. It appears that the Poplar to Stratford section of the DLR route was originally developed to
A. promote travel in the Midlands.
B. encourage trade with the North of England.
C. create employment.
D. make the transport of goods easier.

45. The trains on the DLR are controlled by
A. an on-board central computer.
B. a computer engineer on board.
C. two-way radios operated by the drivers.
D. a computer center based somewhere along the line.

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Success Stories

One of the most successful fashion companies in the world is Benetton. The Benetton family opened their first shop in Italy in 1968. _________ (46) Benetton followed four marketing principles in order to achieve their success.
The first principle in Consumer Concept. To build a successful business, you have to develop products around things people value, especially quality. ___________ (47) He created clothes to match people’s wants: the style is casual; the colors and patterns are bold; and the quality is excellent.
The System Link in another feature of good marketing. For Benetton, this means waiting to get information about what customers like and what they dislike before making the clothes. _________ (48).
The Information Link means making sure the company responds quickly to people’s demands. _____________ (49) This information is then sent to the main office in Italy. Benetton can use this information to identify popular products and to continue making them; it can also identify less popular products and stop making them.
A final important marketing principle is the Retail Link. There are Benetton stores in countries around the world. All the stores have the same clothing, the same window display, and the same approach to sales. ______________ (50)
The things people like about Benetton stores are that the quality is always high and the prices are generally low. And that spells success.

A The founder of Benetton began by asking people what they wanted.
B There used to be a good reason for this.
C When something is sold at a Benetton store, the store records information about the type, size, and color of the item.
D Today, there are Benetton shops in major cities all over the world.
E This means that customers can go into any Benetton store in the world and be sure of what they are buying.
F In other words, Benetton’s clothes are made to order.

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Singing Alarms Could Save the Blind

If you cannot see, you may not be able to find your way out of a burning building - and that could be fatal. A company in Leeds could ____________ (51) all that with directional (定向的) sound alarms capable of guiding you to the exit.
Sound Alert, a company run __________ (52) the University of Leeds, is installing the alarms in a residential home for ______________ (53) people in Sommerset and a resource center for the blind in Cambria. The alarms produce a _____ (54) range of frequencies that enable the brain to ________ (55) where the sound is coming from.
Deborah Withington of Sound Alert says that the alarms use most of the frequencies that can be __________ (56) by humans. "It is a burst of white noise that people say sounds like static (静电噪音) on the radio," she says. "Its life-saving potential is ______ (57)."
She conducted an experiment in which people were filmed by thermal-imaging (热效应成像)cameras trying to find their _________ (58) out of a large smoke-filled room. It ________ (59) them nearly four minutes to find the door without a sound alarm, ________ (60) only 15 seconds with one.
Withington studies how the brain ______ (61) sounds at the university. She says that the _________ (62) of a wide band of frequencies can be pinpointed (精确地确定) more easily than the source of a narrow band. Alarms ___________ (63) on the same concept have already been installed on emergency vehicles.
The alarms will also include rising or falling frequencies to _________ (64) whether people should go up or down stairs. They were ______________ (65) with the aid of a large grant from British Nuclear Fuels.

51 A change B cure C demand D set
52 A to B along C by D with
53 A slow B deaf C blind D lame
54 A close B wide C small D high
55 A form B affect C create D determine
56 A watched B made C learnt D heard
57 A unlikely B uncertain C great D little
58 A life B way C method D skill
59 A took B spent C used D had
60 A but B even C so D if
61 A processes B produces C takes D refuses
62 A feature B quality C diagram D source
63 A accepted B based C kept D focused
64 A describe B demand C consider D indicate
65 A developed B bought C discovered D sent

2003年职称英语等级考试理工类(C级) 答案
1. B 2. A 3. A 4. C 5. B
6. D 7. C 8. C 9. C 10. C
11. B 12. D 13. A 14. A 15. B
16. A 17. A 18. B 19. B 20. C
21. A 22. C &nbs, p; 23. B 24. E 25. C
26. D 27. B 28. C 29. A 30. E
31. D 32. A 33. B 34. A 35. C
36. A 37. C 38. D 39. A 40. B
41. C 42. D 43. C 44. D 45. A
46. D 47. A 48. F 49. C 50. E
51. A 52. C 53. C 54. B 55. D
56. D 57. C 58. B 59. A 60. A
61. A 62. D 63. B 64. D 65. D