职称英语（理工类）模拟试题(3)

The Process of Growing

　　There are two basic ways to see growth: one as a product, the other as a process. People have generally viewed personal growth as an external result or product that can easily be identified and measured. The worker who gets a promotion, the student whose grades improve, the foreigner who learns a new language－all these are examples of people who have measurable results to show for their efforts.

　　By contrast, the process of personal growth is much more difficult to determine, since by definition it is a journey and not the specific signposts or landmarks along the day. The process is not the road itself, but rather the attitudes and feelings people have, their caution or courage, as they encounter new experiences and unexpected obstacles. In this process, the journey never really ends; there are always new ways to experience the world, new ideas to try, new challenges to accept.

　　In order to grow, to travel new roads, people need to have a willingness to take risks, to confront the unknown, and to accept the possibility that they may "fail" at first. How we see ourselves as we try a new way of being is essential to our ability to grow.

　　Do we perceive ourselves as quick and curious? If so, then we tend to take more chances and to be more open to unfamiliar experiences. Do we think were shy and indecisive? Then our sense of timidity can cause us to hesitate, to move slowly, and not to take a step until we know the ground is safe. Do we think were slow to adapt to change or that were not smart enough to cope with a new challenge? Then we are likely to take a more passive role or not try at all.

　　These feeling of insecurity and self-doubt are both unavoidable and necessary if we are to change and grow. If we do not confront and overcome these internal fears and doubts, if we protect ourselves too much, then we cease to grow. We become trapped inside a shell of our own making.

　　Notes：

　　1. indecisive adj. 非决定性的，犹豫不决的

　　2. timidity n. 胆怯

　　36. A person is generally believed to achieve personal growth when _________.

　　A. he has given up his smoking habit

　　B. he has made great efforts in his work

　　C. he is keen on learning anything new

　　D. he has tried to determine where he is on his journey

　　37. In the authors eyes, one who views personal growth as a process would _________.

　　A. succeed in climbing up the social ladder

　　B. judge his ability to grow from his own achievements

　　C. face difficulties and take up challenges

　　D. aim high and reach his goal each time

　　38. When the author says "a new way of being" （Para. 3., he is referring to _________.

　　A. a new approach to experiencing the world

　　B. a new way of taking risks

　　C. a new method of perceiving ourselves

　　D. a new system of adapting change

　　39. "These feelings" （Para. 5. dont include _________.

　　A. whether we see ourselves as smart

　　B. whether we see ourselves as timid

　　C. whether we see ourselves as aggressive

　　D. whether we see ourselves as ready

　　40. For personal growth, the author advocates all of the following except _________.

　　A. curiosity about more chances

　　B. promptness in self-adaptation

　　C. open-mindedness to new experiences

　　D. voidance of internal fears and doubts

　　5.阅读理解 第三篇

The Importance of Imagination

　　It is pleasant to lie on the glass on a spring day and gaze up at the clouds, seeing in them first a face, then an animal, then another object and another. In these reveries we are doing one of the famous experiments carried on in the psychological laboratory. There the person taking the test must look not at clouds but at ink blots （污渍） like those pictured here and write down, within a given time, as many as possible of the things he sees. It is imagination that enables one to see things not actually in the inkblot or the cloud.

　　Thinking, when it concerns objects or events outside our personal experience, is imagination. Sometimes imagination is defined as the making of new combinations of old experiences. Even the writer of the most fantastic tales puts elements of past experience into his characters. Though he may write about one-eyed monsters, three-legged men or Lilliputians, his characters throughout are made of elements that we all know. Eyes, legs, smallness are not new. It is only the combination that is new.

　　Imagination plays an important part in the kind of thinking which solves a practical problem. The fancies, which enable an Edison to give the world an electric light, represent imagination brought into control and made to work to a useful end.

　　In almost any line of endeavor, imagination of the kind which gets results is necessary. It is made up of two factors. First is the ability to think of new combinations of experiences. Second is the ability to select those combinations that are best. The person who has only the first of these is a flounder and a failure. The person who can criticize but cannot strike out new ideas is equally handicapped. Modern scientific method added the third requisite－experiment or test to answer the question "will it work"? All progress man achieves depends on how he applies and profits from the use of these processes.

　　41. In a psychological laboratory, a person can _________.

　　A. gaze up at clouds

　　B. see a face and an animal

　　C. write down many things

　　D. lie on the grass

　　42. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true? _________.

　　A. Thinking sometimes can mean imagination.

　　B. Thinking is imagination.

　　C. Imagination enables a person to see things actually.

　　D. Imagination enables a writer to have old experiences.

　　43. According to the author, a writers success depends on his _________.

　　A. characters

　　B. personal experience

　　C. thinking

　　D. imagination

　　44. A flounder refers to a person who is _________.

　　A. unable to think of new combinations of experiences, but able to select the best combinations

　　B. able to think of new combinations of experiences but unable to select the best combinations

　　C. unable to select the best combinations

　　D. able to select the best combinations

　　45. It can be inferred from the passage that _________.

　　A. experiments about imagination cannot be made in a psychological laboratory

　　B. application of experiments plays an important part in mans progress

　　C. the two factors of imagination can be separated from each other

　　D. it is necessary for a scientist to solve a practical problem

　　6.补全短文

Advertisement

　　1. Many adults in the United States can remember crying the nursery rhyme in the street "Hot cross buns!" （46） ______

　　2. Written advertisements probably began with hieroglyphics more than three thousand years ago but only a few people could read these symbols. So merchants made signs with pictures of their tools over their doors to identify their businesses.

　　3. In the time of the Roman Empire, wall paintings were a popular form of advertisement. （47） ______ People often advertised a house for rent or a freshwater bath in this way, too.

　　4. Today, large wall signs are still used for outdoor advertising. But outdoor advertising is only a small fraction of the total advertising. About forty per cent of all ads are printed in daily newspapers. （48） ______ Some people think they are the best form of advertising because radio broadcasts reach almost everyone in a nation.

　　5. （49） ______ However, usually only large companies can advertise on a national network, because TV commercials shown across the country can cost many thousands of dollars.

　　6. Then there are ads that are almost part of daily living. （50） ______ Ads are painted on the trucks that deliver products people are buying or selling.

　　A. Advertisements in magazines and on television reach many people, too.

　　B. An ad for a play, or some other performance was painted on part of a building or on a wall around a city.

　　C. But only a few people realize this was an early form of advertising.

　　D. If you use public transportation, you will see large printed ads, called car cards, on buses and taxis and in train.

　　E. Advertisements can be seen everywhere.

　　F. Radio commercials also provide this kind of information.

　　7.完形填空

Chemical Plution

　　Where do pesticides （杀虫剂） fit into the picture of environmental disease? We have seen that they now （51） ______ soil, water, and food, that they have the （52） ______ to make our streams fishless and our gardens and wood-lands silent and birdless. Man, （53） ______ much he may like to pretend the contrary, is part of nature. Can he escape a pollution that is now so thoroughly distributed throughout our world?

　　We know that even single exposures to these chemicals, if the amount is large enough, can cause extremely severe poisoning. But this is not the （54） ______ problem. The （55） ______ illness or death of farmers, farm workers, and others exposed to sufficient quantities of pesticides are very sad and should not occur. For the population as a whole, we must be more concerned （56） ______ the delayed effects of absorbing small amounts of the pesticides that invisibly pollute our world.

　　Responsible public health officials have （57） ______ that the biological effects of chemicals are cumulative over （58） ______ periods of time, and that the danger （59） ______ the individual may depend on the sum of the exposures received throughout his lifetime. For these very reasons the danger is easily （60） ______. It is human nature to shake off what may seem to us a （61） ______ of future disease. "Men are naturally most （62） ______ by diseases which have （63） ______ signs," says a wise physician, Dr. Rene Dubos, "（64） ______ some of their worst enemies （65） ______ approach them unnoticed."