2014年职称英语综合类B级考前押题(三)

　　第4部分：阅读理解.下面有1篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题。请根据短文内容，为每题确定1个最佳选项。

　　31. It is implied in the passage that many educators and parents today feel that one-room schools __________.

　　A. need to be shut down.

　　B. are the best in Nebraska.

　　C. are a good example of the good old days.

　　D. provide good education.

　　32. Why are one-room schools in danger of disappearing?

　　A. Because they all exist in one state.

　　B. Because they skip too many children ahead.

　　C. Because there is a trend toward centralization.

　　D. Because there is no fourth-grade level in any of them.

　　33. What is mentioned as a major characteristic of the one-room school system in the second paragraph?

　　A. Some children have to be left back.

　　B. Teachers are always busy.

　　C. Pupils have more freedom.

　　D. Learning is not limited to one grade level at a time.

　　34. Which of the following can best describe the author's attitude toward one-room schools?

　　A. Praising.

　　B. Angry.

　　C. Critical.

　　D. Humorous.

　　35. It can be inferred from the last sentence that parents living in Nebraska __________.

　　A. don't like centralized schools.

　　B. received education in one-room schools.

　　C. prefer rural life to urban one.

　　D. come from other states.

　　36、根据材料，回答36-41问题。

　　The Family

　　The structure of a family takes different forms around the world and even in the same society. The family's form changes as it adapts to changing social and economic influences. The most common form in North America was the nuclear family, consisting of a married couple with their minor children. The nuclear family is an independent unit. It must be prepared to fend tor itself. Individual family members strongly depend on one another. There is little help from outside the family in emergencies. Elderly relatives of a nuclear family are cared for only if it is they live in retirement communities and nursing homes. They live in retirement communities and nursing homes.

　　There are many parallels between the nuclear family in industrial societies, such as North America, and of families in societies such as that of the Inuits, who live in harsh environments.

　　The nuclear family structure is well adapted to a life of mobility. The harsh conditions, mobility allows the family to hunt for food. For North Americans, the hunt for jobs and improved social status also requires mobility.

　　The nuclear family was not always the North American standard. In a more agrarian time,the small nuclear family was usually part of a larger extended family. This might have included grandparents, mother and father, brothers and sisters, uncles, aunts, and cousins. In North

　　America today, there is a dramatic rise in the number of single-parent households. Twice as many, households in the United States are headed by divorced, separated, or never-married individuals as are comprised of nuclear families. The structure of the family, not just in North

　　America, but throughout the world, continues to change as it adapts to changing conditions.

　　Another good title for this passage would be__________.

　　A.What Makes a Family?

　　B.Life of Inuits.

　　C.Living with Hardship.

　　D.The Failure of the Nuclear Family.

　　37、A nuclear family is defined as__________.

　　A.a married couple with their minor children.

　　B.a single father with minor children.

　　C.parents, grandparents, and children.

　　D.parents, children, and aunts and uncles.

　　38、The information in this passage would most likely be found in__________.

　　A.an anthropology textbook.

　　B.a biology textbook.

　　C.a mathematics textbook.

　　D.geography textbook.

　　39、The information in the first paragraph is presented mainly through__________.

　　A.listing statistics.

　　B.telling a story.

　　C.pointing out similarities.

　　D.pointing out differences.

　　40、The word mobility means__________.

　　A.money.

　　B.readiness to move.

　　C.organization.

　　D.skill.

　　41、根据材料，回答41-46问题。

　　Some Things We Know about Language

　　Many things about language are a mystery, and many will always remain so. But some things we do know.

　　First, we know that all human beings have a language of some sort. There is no race of men anywhere on earth so backward that it has no language, no set of speech sounds by which the people communicate with one another. Furthermore, in historical times, there has never been a race of men without a language.

　　Second, there is no such thing as a primitive language. There are many people whose cultures are undeveloped, who are, as we say, uncivilized, but the languages they speak are not primitive. In all known languages we can see complexities that must have been tens or thousands of years in developing.

　　This has not always been well understood; indeed, the direct contrary has often been stated. Popular ideas of the language of the American Indians will illustrate. Many people have supposed that the Indians communicated in a very primitive system of noises. study has proved this to be nonsense. There are, or were, hundreds of American Indian languages, and all of them turn out to be very complicated and very old. They are" certainly different from the languages that most of us are familiar with, but they are no more primitive than English and Greek.

　　A third thing we know about language is that all languages are perfectly adequate. That is,each one is a perfect means of expressing the culture of the people who speak the language.

　　Finally, we know that language changes. It is natural and normal for language to change;the only languages which do not change are the dead ones. This is easy to understand if we look backward in time. Change goes on in all aspects of language. Grammatical features change as do speech sounds, and changes in vocabulary are sometimes very extensive and may occur very rapidly. Vocabulary is the least stable part of any languages.

　　In the second paragraph the author thinks that__________.

　　A.some backward race doesn't have a language of its own

　　B.some race in history didn't possess a language of its own

　　C.any human race, whether backward or not, has a language

　　D.some races on earth can communicate without language

　　42、According to the author, people of undeveloped cultures can have languages.__________.

　　A.complicated

　　B.uncivilized

　　C.primitive

　　D.well-known

　　43、The author has used American Indian languages as an example to show that they are__________.

　　A.just as old as some well-known languages

　　B.just as sophisticated as some well-known languages

　　C.more developed than some well-known languages

　　D.more complex than some well-known languages

　　44、Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?

　　A.A language is a means of expressing a particular culture.

　　B.All languages can well express their respective cultures.

　　C.American Indian languages are as sophisticated as English.

　　D.Some languages are better than other languages.

　　45、According to the author, language changes are most likely to occur in__________.

　　A.grammar.

　　B.pronunciation.

　　C.vocabulary.

　　D.intonation.