2014年职称英语考试《理工类C级》模拟题三
2013-12-18来源:和谐英语
第4部分：阅读理解(第31—45题，每题3分，共45分)下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题，每道题后面都有4个选项。请仔细阅读短文并根据短文回答其后面的问题，从4个选项中选择l个最佳答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
31、回答31-36题
Entertaining in Britain
Britons are increasingly entertaining guests at home with dinner, film and karaoke nights,inspired by television shows on cookery and home entertainment, according to a survey.
More than half (53 percent ) of the respondents to a poll of 1,000 Britons across thecounhry said they now prefer to spend quality time with family and friends by inviting them overto their homes rather than meeting in bars and restaurants, the survey by mobile phone operatorT-Mobile showed.
Popular television shows such as "Come Dine With Me," where amateur chefs attempt toshow each other with their cooking skills, "Master Chef" where ordinary people compete tocook to Michelin standards and a number of celebrity cookery shows have inspired Britons toentertain at home.
The poll showed that nearly a third of respondents had splashed out cash for homeentertainment improvements such as sofas, dining tables, games consoles and bigger televisionsto impress the guests.
"Over the last couple of years, my clients have increasingly asked for home parties ratherthan ones at independent venues," party planning expert Liz Brewer said in a statementaccompanying the poll's results.
"This is not only due to the recession but because many have become increasingly house-proud and keen to show off their cooking skills, in addition to their latest home entertainmentpurchases. "
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver was the top choice for dream host of respondents, while PrimeMinister Gordon Brown was one of the least favored, alongside his rival Conservative leaderDavid Cameron.
What does the word "entertain" mean?
A．host
B．enjoy
C．enroll
D．recruit
32、What does the phrase "quality time" mean?
A．precious time
B．much time
C．good time
D．limited time
33、Which is the following is not true?
A．Many respondents involved in the poll prefer inviting guests to meeting in bars and restaurants.
B．Half of the respondents in a poll said they now like to spend quality time with family and friends.
C．"Come Dine with Me," involved cooking skills.
D．"Master Chef" inspired Britons to welcome gusts at home.
34、What does the "splash out" most probably mean?
A．crush
B．waste money
C．ash
D．blush
35、Over the last couple of years, why do clients have increasingly asked for home parties rather than ones at independent venues?
A．recession and their willingness to show their cooking skills
B．it is more healthy to eat at home
C．it is cleaner to eat at home
D．it can create harmonious atmosphere
36、回答36-41题
Telling Tales about People
One of the most common types of nonfiction, and one that many people enjoy reading, isstories about people's lives. These stories fall into three general categories: autobiography,memoir, and biography.
An autobiography is the story of a person's life written by himself or herself. Often itbegins with the person's earliest recollections and~ends in the present. Autobiography writersmay not been entirely objective in the way they present themselves. However, they offer thereader a good look at the way they are and what makes them that way. People as diverse asBenjamin Franklin and Helen Keller have written autobiographies. Other writers, such as JamesJoyce, have written thinly fictionalized accounts of their lives. These are not autobiographies,but they are very close to it.
Memoirs, strictly speaking, are autobiographical accounts that focus as much on the eventsof the times as on the life of the author. Memoir writers typically use these events as backdropsfor their lives. They describe them in detail and discuss their importance. Recently, though, theterm memoir seems to be becoming interchangeable with autobiography. A memoir nowadaysmay or may not deal with the outside world.
Biographies are factual accounts of someone else's life. In many senses, these may be thehardest of the three types to write. Autobiography writers know the events they write aboutbecause they lived them. But biography writers have to gather information from as manydifferent sources as possible. Then they have to decide which facts to include. Their goal is topresent a balanced picture of a person, not one that is overly positive or too critical. A fair,well-presented biography may take years to research and write.
This passage is mostly about______.
A．the characteristics of autobiographies, memoirs, and biographies
B．famous autobiographies
C．why biography can be difficult to write
D．differences between autobiographies and memoirs
37、Helen Keller wrote
A．a memoir
B．an autobiography
C．a work of fiction
D．a biography
38、Autobiography writers are not always objective because they
A．feel they have to make up details to make their books sell
B．constantly compete with biography writers
C．want to present themselves in a good light
D．have trouble remembering the good times
39、The writer introduces each category in the passage by
A．defining it
B．giving an example
C．explaining why it is hard to write
D．telling when people first began writing it
40、Diverse means
A．able to swim in deep water
B．similar or alike
C．varied or different
D．enjoying poetry
41、回答41-46题
The Sahara
The name Sahara derives from the Arabic word for "desert" or "steppe". At 3. 5 millionsquare miles, an area roughly the size of the United States, the Sahara Desert in northern Africais the largest desert in the world. It spans the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea.Daytime temperatures can reach as high as 130 F. The humidity sometimes gets into the teens.But can also be as low as 2.5 percent, the lowest in the world. Most of the Sahara receives lessthan five inches of rain per year, while large areas sometimes have no rainfall at all for years.The heart of the Sahara is the landlocked north African country of Niger. Here the sand dunescan be 100 feet tall and several miles long. Here sand plains stretch over an area larger thanGermany where there is neither water nor towns. Yet sitting in the midst of the surroundingdesert is the town of Bilma. Suddenly there are pools of clear water. Surprisingly, there are groves of date palms. Underground water resources, or oases, sufficient to support irrigatedagriculture are founding dry stream beds and depressions. Irrigation ditches run off a creek towater fields. Corn, cassava, tea, peanuts, hot peppers, and orange, lime, and grapefruit treesgrow in these fields. Donkeys and goats graze on green grass.
The Sahara of Niger is still a region where you can see a camel caravan of 500 camels tiedtogether in loose lines as long as a mile, traveling toward such oasis towns. There a caravan willcollect life-sustaining salt, which is mined from watery basins, and transport it up to 400 milesback to settlements on the edges of the desert. The round trip across the vast sands takes onemonth.
This passage is mostly about
A．life in the Sahara
B．the deserts of Africa
C．Bilma
D．how camels travel in the desert
42、Rainfall in most of the Sahara is
A．less than five inches per year
B．less than ten inches per year
C．less than twenty inches per year
D．zero
43、The Sahara can be described as
A．a place of contrasts
B．a place where no one lives
C．an area where the winters are cold
D．an area that oppeals to many tourists
44、The phrase "an area roughly the size of the United States" gives an indication of the size of
A．northern Africa
B．Niger
C．the Sahara
D．all of Africa
45、In this passage caravan means
A．traveling circus
B．group traveling together through difficult country
C．railroad train
D．a small, fast sailing ship
31、回答31-36题
Entertaining in Britain
Britons are increasingly entertaining guests at home with dinner, film and karaoke nights,inspired by television shows on cookery and home entertainment, according to a survey.
More than half (53 percent ) of the respondents to a poll of 1,000 Britons across thecounhry said they now prefer to spend quality time with family and friends by inviting them overto their homes rather than meeting in bars and restaurants, the survey by mobile phone operatorT-Mobile showed.
Popular television shows such as "Come Dine With Me," where amateur chefs attempt toshow each other with their cooking skills, "Master Chef" where ordinary people compete tocook to Michelin standards and a number of celebrity cookery shows have inspired Britons toentertain at home.
The poll showed that nearly a third of respondents had splashed out cash for homeentertainment improvements such as sofas, dining tables, games consoles and bigger televisionsto impress the guests.
"Over the last couple of years, my clients have increasingly asked for home parties ratherthan ones at independent venues," party planning expert Liz Brewer said in a statementaccompanying the poll's results.
"This is not only due to the recession but because many have become increasingly house-proud and keen to show off their cooking skills, in addition to their latest home entertainmentpurchases. "
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver was the top choice for dream host of respondents, while PrimeMinister Gordon Brown was one of the least favored, alongside his rival Conservative leaderDavid Cameron.
What does the word "entertain" mean?
A．host
B．enjoy
C．enroll
D．recruit
32、What does the phrase "quality time" mean?
A．precious time
B．much time
C．good time
D．limited time
33、Which is the following is not true?
A．Many respondents involved in the poll prefer inviting guests to meeting in bars and restaurants.
B．Half of the respondents in a poll said they now like to spend quality time with family and friends.
C．"Come Dine with Me," involved cooking skills.
D．"Master Chef" inspired Britons to welcome gusts at home.
34、What does the "splash out" most probably mean?
A．crush
B．waste money
C．ash
D．blush
35、Over the last couple of years, why do clients have increasingly asked for home parties rather than ones at independent venues?
A．recession and their willingness to show their cooking skills
B．it is more healthy to eat at home
C．it is cleaner to eat at home
D．it can create harmonious atmosphere
36、回答36-41题
Telling Tales about People
One of the most common types of nonfiction, and one that many people enjoy reading, isstories about people's lives. These stories fall into three general categories: autobiography,memoir, and biography.
An autobiography is the story of a person's life written by himself or herself. Often itbegins with the person's earliest recollections and~ends in the present. Autobiography writersmay not been entirely objective in the way they present themselves. However, they offer thereader a good look at the way they are and what makes them that way. People as diverse asBenjamin Franklin and Helen Keller have written autobiographies. Other writers, such as JamesJoyce, have written thinly fictionalized accounts of their lives. These are not autobiographies,but they are very close to it.
Memoirs, strictly speaking, are autobiographical accounts that focus as much on the eventsof the times as on the life of the author. Memoir writers typically use these events as backdropsfor their lives. They describe them in detail and discuss their importance. Recently, though, theterm memoir seems to be becoming interchangeable with autobiography. A memoir nowadaysmay or may not deal with the outside world.
Biographies are factual accounts of someone else's life. In many senses, these may be thehardest of the three types to write. Autobiography writers know the events they write aboutbecause they lived them. But biography writers have to gather information from as manydifferent sources as possible. Then they have to decide which facts to include. Their goal is topresent a balanced picture of a person, not one that is overly positive or too critical. A fair,well-presented biography may take years to research and write.
This passage is mostly about______.
A．the characteristics of autobiographies, memoirs, and biographies
B．famous autobiographies
C．why biography can be difficult to write
D．differences between autobiographies and memoirs
37、Helen Keller wrote
A．a memoir
B．an autobiography
C．a work of fiction
D．a biography
38、Autobiography writers are not always objective because they
A．feel they have to make up details to make their books sell
B．constantly compete with biography writers
C．want to present themselves in a good light
D．have trouble remembering the good times
39、The writer introduces each category in the passage by
A．defining it
B．giving an example
C．explaining why it is hard to write
D．telling when people first began writing it
40、Diverse means
A．able to swim in deep water
B．similar or alike
C．varied or different
D．enjoying poetry
41、回答41-46题
The Sahara
The name Sahara derives from the Arabic word for "desert" or "steppe". At 3. 5 millionsquare miles, an area roughly the size of the United States, the Sahara Desert in northern Africais the largest desert in the world. It spans the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea.Daytime temperatures can reach as high as 130 F. The humidity sometimes gets into the teens.But can also be as low as 2.5 percent, the lowest in the world. Most of the Sahara receives lessthan five inches of rain per year, while large areas sometimes have no rainfall at all for years.The heart of the Sahara is the landlocked north African country of Niger. Here the sand dunescan be 100 feet tall and several miles long. Here sand plains stretch over an area larger thanGermany where there is neither water nor towns. Yet sitting in the midst of the surroundingdesert is the town of Bilma. Suddenly there are pools of clear water. Surprisingly, there are groves of date palms. Underground water resources, or oases, sufficient to support irrigatedagriculture are founding dry stream beds and depressions. Irrigation ditches run off a creek towater fields. Corn, cassava, tea, peanuts, hot peppers, and orange, lime, and grapefruit treesgrow in these fields. Donkeys and goats graze on green grass.
The Sahara of Niger is still a region where you can see a camel caravan of 500 camels tiedtogether in loose lines as long as a mile, traveling toward such oasis towns. There a caravan willcollect life-sustaining salt, which is mined from watery basins, and transport it up to 400 milesback to settlements on the edges of the desert. The round trip across the vast sands takes onemonth.
This passage is mostly about
A．life in the Sahara
B．the deserts of Africa
C．Bilma
D．how camels travel in the desert
42、Rainfall in most of the Sahara is
A．less than five inches per year
B．less than ten inches per year
C．less than twenty inches per year
D．zero
43、The Sahara can be described as
A．a place of contrasts
B．a place where no one lives
C．an area where the winters are cold
D．an area that oppeals to many tourists
44、The phrase "an area roughly the size of the United States" gives an indication of the size of
A．northern Africa
B．Niger
C．the Sahara
D．all of Africa
45、In this passage caravan means
A．traveling circus
B．group traveling together through difficult country
C．railroad train
D．a small, fast sailing ship
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