2007年职称英语考试综合类模拟试题(2)

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第1篇
Goal of American Education
Education is all enormous and expensive part of American life. Its size is matched by its variety.
Differences in American schools compared with those found in the majority of other countries lie in the fact that education here has long been intended for everyone — not just for a privileged elite. Schools ale expected to meet the needs of every child, regardless of ability, and also the needs of society itself. This means that public schools offer more than academic subjects. It surprises many people when they come here to find high schools offering such courses as typing, sewing, radio repair, computer programming or driver training, along with traditional academic subjects such as mathematics, history, and languages. Students choose their curricula depending on their interests, future goals, and level of ability. The underlying goal of American education is to develop every child to the utmost of his or her own possibilities, and to give each one a sense of civic and community consciousness.
Schools have traditionally played an important role in creating national unity and“Americanizing”the millions of immigrants who have poured into this country from many different backgrounds and origins. Schools still play a large role in the community, especially in the small towns.
The approach to teaching may seem unfamiliar to many, not only because it is informal, but also because there is not much emphasis on learning facts. Instead, Americans try to teach their children to think for themselves and to develop their own intellectual and creative abilities. Students spend much time learning how to use resource materials libraries, statistics and computers. Americans believe that if children are taught to reason well and to research well, they will be able to find whatever facts they need throughout the rest of their lives. Knowing how to solve problems is considered more important than the accumulation of facts.
This is America's answer to the searching question that thoughtful parents all over the world are asking themselves in the fast-moving time:“How Can one prepare today's child for a tomorrow that one can neither predict nor understand?”
词汇：
privileged adj．享有特权的
elite n．精英，精华
curricula n．课程
underlying adj．潜在的
reason v．推理
1．Which of the following best states the goal of American education?
A）To teach every learner some practical skills.
B）To provide every learner with rich knowledge.
C）To give every student the opportunity to fully develop his／her ability.
D）To train every student to be a responsible citizen.
2．It is implied in the passage that _____ .
A）all high-school students take the same courses
B）every high school student must take some practical ability training courses
C）every public school offers the same academic subjects
D）the subjects every student takes may vary
3．American schools place great emphasis on the learner's _____ .
A）enrichment of knowledge
B）accumulation of facts
C）acquisition of the ability to be creative
D）acquisition of the ability to work with his hands
4．According to the passage，American education meets the needs of all the following EXCEPT _____ .
A）the brightest students
B）the slow students
C）the students from foreign countries
D）the immigrants
5. Which of the following best states the feature of American education that makes it different from education in other countries?
A）The large number of its schools.
B）The variety of the courses offered in its schools.
C）Its special consideration given to immigrants.
D）Its underlying goal to develop every child's abilities to the fullest extent.

4.阅读理解

第2篇

Common Problems, Common Solutions
The chances are that you made up your mind about smoking a long time ago — and decided it's not for you.
The chances are equally good that you know a lot of smokers — there are, after all about 60 million of them, work with them, and get along with them very well.
And finally it's a pretty safe bet that you're open-minded and interested in all the various issues about smokers and nonsmokers — or you wouldn't be reading this.
And those three things make you incredibly important today.
Because they mean that yours is the voice — not the smoker's and not the anti-smoker's — that will determine how much of society's efforts should go into building walls that separate us and how much into the search for solutions that bring us together.
For one tragic result of the emphasis on building walls is the diversion of millions of dollars from scientific research on the causes and cures of diseases which, when all is said and done, still strike the nonsmoker as well as the smoker. One prominent health organization, to cite but a single instance, now spends 28 cents of every publicly contributed dollar on "education" （much of it in anti-smoking propaganda） and only 2 cents on research.
There will always be some who want to build walls, who want to separate people from people, and up to a point, even these may serve society. The anti-smoking wall-builders have, to give them their due, helped to make us all more keenly aware of choice.
But our guess, and certainly our hope, is that you are among the far greatest number who know that walls are only temporary at best, and that over the long run, we can serve society's interest better by working together in mutual accommodation.
Whatever virtue walls may have, they can never move our society toward fundamental solutions. People who work together on common problems, common solutions, can.
1. What does the word "wall" used in the passage mean?
A） Anti-smoking propaganda.
B） Diseases striking nonsmokers as well as smokers.
C） Rules and regulations that prohibit smoking.
D） Separation of smokers from nonsmokers.
2. In paragraph 4, "you" refers to _____ .
A） smokers
B） nonsmokers
C） anti-smokers
D） smokers who have quitted smoking
3. It is evident that the author is not in favor of _____ .
A） building a wall between smokers and nonsmokers
B） doing scientific research at the expense of one's health
C） bringing smokers and nonsmokers together
D） proving accommodation for smokers
4. As is suggested, the common solution to the common problem is _____ .
A） to separate people from people
B） to work together in mutual accommodation
C） to make us more keenly aware of choice
D） to serve society's interests better
5. According to the passage, the writer looks upon the anti-smoking wall-builders actions _____ .
A） optimistically
B） pessimistically
C） unconcernedly
D） skeptically