2009年职称英语等级考试综合AB级模拟试题(三)

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　　第四部分：阅读理解(每题3分，共45分，　建议40分钟以内完成)
　　下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题，每道题后面有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1个最佳答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
　　难度B/C级
　　Inspecting a used car
　　The scariest part of buying a used car is not being completely sure of what condition it’s in.A car that’s been in a major accident is always a bigger risk，but sellers often try to hide this information.Andrew Bleakley, evaluator-inspector, runs a mobile vehicle inspection service in Montreal.For about$80 he will perform a full, unbiased inspection on a used vehicle.In his 10 years as a professional inspector, Bleakley has seen a lot.He warns, “Watch out for dealer demonstration vehicles which are used.not new.They may have been in a collision.”He adds mat it is not uncommon in Ontario and Quebec especially for unscrupulous sellers to roll back the odometer or to even disengage it.Bleakley has special tools to check for this.
　　Blealdey always recommends hiring an independent technician to inspect the condition of a used car before you buy it.The problem is finding someone qualified to do the inspection，which he says generally doesn’t mean just any mechanic，A thorough mechanical inspection includes checking the compression，all major systems，including the engine，electrical and charging systems，transmission and drive line，fluids，brakes，suspension，and steering.Essential，too，is all inspection of the car’s body and finally a road test.There are，however a few things everyone can do before buying a used car：
　　Do a visual check of the car.Look at the right rear door hinges.If they are very worn.Or the door doesn’t close well，the car may have been used as a taxi.Holes in the roof could mean the car was used for deliveries.
　　Check for oil 1eaks on the pavement.Note that 1eaks are not necessarily a significant
　　problem—it depends on the cause.
　　Don’t assume that new-looking brake and accelerator pedals mean the car hasn’t been
　　driven much.Resellers know people check these details and call buy new Pads for around $6.
　　Copy down the vehicle identification number(VlN), a 17-character combination of
　　numbers and letters，from the vehicle’s dashboard.In Ontario，ask the dealer or seller for the Used Vehicle Information Package.this gives details of previous owners，any outstanding liens on the car, and the fair market value of the vehicle.
　　练习：
　　1. According to the passage，in buying a second-hand vehicle it is most important to know
　　A)how long it has been used.
　　B)what color it is.http://www.hxen.net
　　C)whether it has been in a collision.
　　D)whether it leaks oil.
　　2. All of the following are mentioned as tricks which dishonest second-hand Car dealers may play upon their customers EXCEPT
　　A)To re-Paint the car
　　B)To roll back the odometer.
　　C)T0 replace the old pedal.来源：www.hxen.net
　　D)T0 disengage the odometer.
　　3. ‘‘An independent technician” in the first sentence of the second paragraph means
　　A)a technician who checks a car free of charge.
　　B)a technician who learned his trade all by himself.
　　C)a technician who works for a particular car-dealer.
　　D)a technician who runs his own inspection service.
　　4.According to Bleakley, before buying a used Car all the inspection work Can
　　A)be done by a mechanic together with the dealer.
　　B)only be done by a qualified mechanic.
　　C)be done by the buyer himself.
　　D)be done by a qualified mechanic together with the buyer.
　　5. According to the passage，from which of the following Call the buyer obtain reliable
　　information of the previous owner?
　　A)The vehicle identification number.
　　B)The unbiased inspector.
　　C)The second.hand car dealer.
　　D)The Used Vehicle Information Package.
　　标准答案： C,A,D,D,D
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　　难度B/A级和谐英语(www．hxen。com)
　　Thirsty in Karachi
　　After two weeks in Karachi，I’m not sure whether to laugh or to cry.Either way，it involves water—or rather the lack of it.
　　In Western Europe or the US，you only have to turn on the tap and you’11 see a jet of cold water, ready to drink，cook and bathe in，or wash the car.Turn on the tap in Karachi and you’ll be lucky to fill a few buckets.Until 1947，the city was part of British India，whose engineers built and maintained a modest water supply network for the city’s 500.000 inthabitants.Today, Karachi is home to around 12 million people.Half of them live in slum townships，with 1ittle or no water through the mains.Even the “rich’’ half usually have to wait days before anything tickles through their pipes.And the coloured liquid that finally emerges is usually too contaminated to drink.
　　According to the state.owned Karachi Water and Sewerage Board，the city needs more than 2.500 million litres of water each day. The board currently supplies 1，650 million 1itres of which nearly 40 per cent is lost from 1eaks—and theft.Leaks are dime a dozen to water utilities the world over, but theft?
　　Karachi’s unlikely water pirates turn out to be ordinary families struggling to get adequate supplies of one of life’s necessities.Stealing water takes many forms.The simplest is to buy a suction pump and get it attached to the water pipe that feeds your house from the mains.This should maximize your share of water every time the board switches oil the supply.When the practice started 20 years ago.the pumps would be carefully hidden or disguised as garden ornaments.These days people hardly bother.The pumps are so widespread and water board inspectors so thin on the ground that when officials do confiscate a pump its owner simply buy a replacement.
　　Insisting that people obey the law won’t work because most households have little
　　alternative but to steal.For its part, the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board says it would dearly like to make 1ire easier, but finds itself mired in debt because most residents either won’t pay water charges or can’t afford to.According to the Urban Resource Centre, a Karachi-based think tank，of the 1.2 million known consumers of water only 750，000 are billed，of whom just 163.000 actually pay for their supplies.The board makes a perpetual loss，and there is no money to improve the system or even plug the leaks.Worse, the board increasingly relies on international 1oans from institutions such as the Asian Development Bank, which only makes its debt worse.
　　The joke is that the owners of the suction pumps end up with little—if any—extra water. Your house is in a line with 20 other households all tapping into one horizontal pipeline.All you can end up doing，given you have pumps of equal strength，is redistribute each other’s entitlement and pay higher electricity bills into the bargain.
　　Back home in London.I’ll remember not to complain about the water meter, or the hosepipe ban.
　　练习：来源：和谐英语
　　1.According to the passage，people in Karachi today suffer from a short supply of water because
　　A)the water supply network built in 1947 has stopped functioning.
　　B)the city has become much larger than before.
　　C)old networks Can not meet the need of the city’s greatly-increased population.
　　D)the city is no longer a part of British India.
　　2.Now people in Karachi do not hide or disguise the suction pumps they use to steal water because
　　A)the pumps are no longer wanted as garden ornaments.
　　B)water supplyboardofficialsl30longerconfiscatethem.
　　C)it does not Cost much money to buy a new one.
　　D)many households have them and there are very few inspectors around to try to find them.
　　3.Confronted with a severe shortage of water supply, the city’s Water and Sewerage Board
　　A)tries to improve the water supply system with borrowed money.
　　B)is not making any effort to improve the situation.
　　C)urges the consumers to obey the law.
　　D)charges the consumers more for the water they use.
　　4.Which of the following is true of the owners of the suction pumps, if their neighbors have equally powerful pumps as they do?
　　A)They get some extra water.
　　B)They only pay more for electricity.
　　C)They share what they can get with their neighbors.
　　D)They replace their pumps with new ones.
　　5.Which of the following is true about the author when he is back home in London?
　　A)He misses the days he spent in Karachi.
　　B)He forgets the complaints he made in Karachi.
　　C)He is content with the water supply in London.
　　D)He complains about the water supply in London.
　　标准答案： C,D,A,B,Chttp://www.hxen.net
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　　难度B/A级
　　Air Pollution Cloud Measured on Both Sides of Pacific
　　Scientists watched closely last spring as a haze of pollution, which had been tracked by satellite as it crossed the Pacific Ocean，settled over a large swath of North America from Calgary, Canada，into Arizona.Now it appears that，for the first time, researchers on both sides of the Pacific took detailed measurements of the same plume，a cloud that contained Gobi desert dust as well as hydrocarbons from industrial pollution.
　　Heather Price，a University of Washington doctoral student in chemistry, found that the amount of light reflected by the particles in the air was more than 550 percent greater than normal for that time of year.The mass of Asian air contained elevated levels of all pollutants measured.
　　Price said，“but the only thing that came close to being alarming was the level of particulate Matter.”
　　The haze that settled across the western part of the country was widely reported by the news media，and it was measured as far inland as the ski slopes of Aspen, Colo.
　　Readings on the western side of the Pacific came from the Aerosol Characterization Experiments, a project aimed at understanding how particles in the atmosphere affect Earth’s climate. Additional measurements were taken in the same region at the same time under a project sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
　　Knowing the pollution was approaching Washington state，Price loaded sensing equipment aboard a rented Beechcraft on April 1 4 and flew to Neah Bay on the state’s Northwest coast.Taking samples at various levels from 15，000 feet to 20，000 feet in altitude，she monitored
　　quantities of dust，ozone，carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons.“From my copilot’s seat.the dust was thick enough to see with the naked eye.”Price said.
　　Now she’s trying to correlate her findings with those of the two research teams operating on the other side of the Pacific，where at one point the pollution plume was larger than Japan.The huge size of the cloud showed up clearly in satellite images that gave Price plenty of warning the haze was on its way.“You can see these two blobs coming out of the deserts of Mongolia and growing over Asia，then getting swept out over the ocean and finally setting over North America,”
　　she said. She intends to continue measuring air samples off the Washington coast and will be looking for air masses with evidence of pollution originating somewhere other than Asia. “We’d
　　like to see if we can get a signature of pollution coming from Europe because computer models suggest that European sources also can be transported across the Pacific，” she said.“However, we expect that sources in Europe will contribute less than Asian sources.”
　　练习：
　　1.The haze of pollution mentioned in the first paragraph is a cloud
　　A) of moisture over Calgary, Canada.
　　B) developing over Pacific Ocean.
　　C) of industrial pollutants.来源:和谐英语网
　　D) of desert dust and hydrocarbons.
　　2.One of the Prices’S findings (Paragraph 2)about the particles of the air is that
　　A) they contain more pollutants than normal particles.
　　B) they move much faster in high altitudes than in low altitudes.
　　C) they are finer and lighter than normal particles.
　　D) their ability to reflect light is much than stronger.
　　3.What did Price not do during her research?
　　A) She rented a Beechcraft.来源：和谐英语
　　B) She used her sensing equipment aboard the Beechcrah.
　　C) She collected samples of pollutants on the Northwest coast for further tests.
　　D) She tested quantities of chemicals in the air.
　　4.According to the last paragraph，which of the following statements about the two research teams is true?
　　A) The two research teams whose findings Price correlates hers with are based in Asia.
　　B) Price corrects some inaccurate data provided by the two teams operating in Asia.
　　C) Price is working with the two research teams in Japan.
　　D) The two teams in Asia volunteer to correlate their findings with Price’s.
　　5.Which of the statements is closest in meaning to the sentence“…，we expect that sources in
　　Europe will contribute less than Asian sources.”?
　　A) Pollution is expected to be less serious in Europe than in Asia.
　　B) Pollution is studied in more depth in Europe than in Asia.
　　C) Pollutants coming from Europe are not the main source of pollution in North America.
　　D)Pollutants coming from Europe are the main source of pollution in North America.
　　标准答案： D,D,C,A,C