1、职称英语理工类 A 类-补全短文及答案解析(总分：24.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、补全短文(总题数：12，分数：24.00)1.By the fourth week of July conditions in the tropics lay balanced between life and total death. Then quite suddenly rain clouds appeared over the whole globe. The temperature declined a little, due no doubt to the clouds reflecting m
2、ore of the Suns radiation back into space. 1 Warm rain fell everywhere, even as far north as Iceland. The insect population increased enormously, since the burning hot atmosphere was as favorable to them as it was unfavorable to Man many other animals. A. All human movement ceased. B. More than seve
3、n hundred million persons are known to have lost their lives. C. A mysterious “black cloud“ approaches the earth-our planets weather is severely affected. D. Occasionally air-conditioning units failed and it was then that fatalities occurred. E. There was nothing to be done but to lie breathing quic
4、kly as a dog does in hot weather. F. But conditions could not be said to have improve（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_2.There are signs that psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and specialists on the family are becoming more aware of the part men play and that they have decided that women should not receiv
5、e all the credit(信任)-not all the blame. We have almost given up saying that a womans place is the home. 1 Nor is that place irrelevant to the healthy development of the child. A. We are beginning, however, to analyze mens place in the home and to insist that he does have a place in it. B. The family
6、 is a cooperative enterprise for which it is difficult to lay down rules, because each family needs to work out its own ways for solving its own problems. C. Excessive authoritarianism has unhappy consequences. D. It is time to reassess the role of the man in the American family. E. The ideal of equ
7、al rights and equal responsibilities is connected not only with a healthy democracy, but also with a healthy family. F. In such a home, the growing boy and girl learn to accept that equality more easily than did their parents and to prepare more fully for participation in a world characterized by co
8、operation rather than by the “battle of the sexes“.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_3.Dreams are a product of the sleepers mind. They include events and feelings that he has experienced. Most dreams are related to events of the day before the dream and strong wishes of the dreamer. Many minor incidents of the hours
9、before sleep appear in dreams. Few events more than two days old turn up. 1 Events in the sleepers surrounding-a loud noise, for example, may become part of a dream, but they do not cause dreams. A. Psychiatrists (精神病医生) often use material from a patients dreams to help the person understand himself
10、 better. B. Deep wishes or fears-especially those held since childhood-often appear in dreams, and many dreams fulfill such wishes. C. Most dreams occur in color but persons who have been blind since birth do not see at all in dreams. D. Dreaming may help maintain good learning ability, memory, and
11、emotional adjustment. E. In most dreams, the dreamer cannot control what happens to him. F. Dream events are imaginary, but they are related to real experiences and needs in the dreamers lif（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_4.Hurricane clouds move in a circle around a point called the eye, which is the center of the
12、storm. To be called a hurricane, a storm must have wind speeds of at least 74 miles per hour. When a hurricane comes ashore, there are heavy rains, large waves and strong winds that cause damage to buildings, cars and trees. 1 Storm surges are the main reason people are told to leave beach towns and
13、 move inland when a hurricane approaches. Hurricanes move very slowly though, so people have a chance to get out of the way. A. Hurricanes gather heat and energy from the warm ocean water. B. The first hurricane name starts with the letter A, like Ashley, and the names move through the alphabet as m
14、ore hurricanes form. C. Meteorologists, scientists who study the weather, watch these storms very carefully. D. During the official hurricane season, these large storms sometimes hit coastal areas of the United States. E. This year, the United States has been hit by more damaging hurricanes than in
15、anyother year. F. Also, flooding can occur when large waves called storm surges hit the beaches.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_5.To most, common sense means the ability to present sound, practical judgments on everyday affairs. To do this, one has to sweep aside extra ideas and get right to the core of what matter
16、s. 1 In conduction of meeting and dealing with industry reducing a complex problem to the simplest term is highly important. A. And 61 percent say that common sense was very important in contributing to their success. B. Besides common sense, there are many other factors that influence success: know
17、ing your field, self-reliance, intelligence, the ability to get things done, leadership, creativity, relationships with others, and of course, luck. C. At the Gallop Organization we recently focused in depth on success, probing the attitudes of 1,500 prominent people selected at random from whos who
18、 in America. D. A Texas oil and gas businessman puts it this way: “ The key ability for success is simplifying. “ E. If you develop these qualities, youll succeed. F. Another way to increase your store of common sense is to observe it in others, learning from their-and your own-mistakes.（分数：2.00）填空项
19、 1:_6.Today, Extreme Free Diving sinks to depths approaching 400 feet, sing weights to help them descend vertically into the big blue depths of cold and darkness that surround the earth. 1 Extreme Free Diving is truly a breathtaking sport. One day adding the word“ Deeper“ to the Olympic motto of“ Sw
20、ifter, Higher, Stronger“ looks like a sure bet. The legendary Yorgos Haggi Statti would wipe water from his eyes, smile, and nod in approval. A. Free divers like Italian Umberto Pelizzari and Cuban Pipin Ferreras frequently break world records by diving without the use of wet suits, fins, or oxygen
21、tanks. B. Extreme Free Diving has become very competitive and is exploding in popularity with “extreme“ divers wherever athletes live near a sea. C. If accepted into the Olympics, EFD could make the Olympics organizers think about adding a new Latin term into the motto that we could translate as “De
22、eper,“ D. Most of us think of deep water diving as the use of snorkels (通气管), masks, and fins to help us dive down beneath the surface of the water. E. Scuba (水中呼吸器) divers wear wet suits made out of material to protect against the cold; they need oxygen and other equipment that enable them to safel
23、y breathe while traveling deep beneath the surface of the sea. F. But is it the ultimate underwater extreme sport for those who like to live on the edge?（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_7.These countries aim to exploit two contradictory facts: information can now be stored anywhere, but energy is most efficiently co
24、nsumed close to the source. _ Internet Villages International has joined up with Atlantis Resources, an engineer of ocean turbines, to develop technology that could power local data centers with energy from Scotlands rugged seas. Another company, Lockerbie Data Centres, is planning a green home and
25、business community centered on a clean-energy data facility that runs on wind farms and a biomass plant. A. Thus several Scottish IT developers arc now planning nearly $3 billion in green data centers that tap into Scotlands clean-electricity grid, 20 percent of which comes from renewables like wind
26、. B. Google disputes this number, but theres little doubt the IT industry is becoming one of the biggest contributors to global warming. C. Iceland, struggling to recover from the financial crisis, may be even better poised to become a green data hub. D. In the U. S. , data centers now account for 1
27、.5 percent of total electricity use, and thats expected to double by 2011. E. And a handful of cold northern nations are now looking to attract a piece of the $110 billion global industry. F. Giant Internet companies are usually secretive about the size of their data centers and the energy they use,
28、 but Google says nine of its largest centers use at least 45 megawatts total, eight times the size of Verne Globals metri（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_8.That can be a good thing, with the Web serving as a kind of buffer zone (缓冲地带) for uncomfortable interaction. Its easier to face rejection, there arent lulls in
29、conversation or geographic boundaries-and social networking is like a window into the lives of potential mates. Say two people meet on Facebook, though a mutual friend, Immediately, they know whether the other person is single-without having to ask. 1 Its all the details a person might encounter on
30、a first or second date, without ever having to go on one. As David Yams, a recent graduate of Babson College, outside Boston, trots it: “Facebook has taken the potentially awkward first stages of flirting and getting to know someone into the comfort of your own home.“ A. its easier to approach each
31、other, to talk casually, to get to know one another and feel out romantic potential without ever having to truly put themselves out there. B. “And you dont even have to be on the computer to engage in it.“ C. They can see where that person grew up, their political interests, whether theyre “looking
32、for a relationship“ or only interested in “hooking up.“ D. As the thinking went, if you had to go to the Web to find a mate, or break up with one, it must have meant you werent capable of attracting anyone in the real world. E. Now a relationship may still begin by locking eyes across a crowded bar,
33、 but instead of asking for a phone number, the next step almost surely involves a Facebook friendship offer. F. David Hein zinger, a 24-year-old new-media specialist in New York, recently asked a girl he met at a happy hour to dinner,（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_9.It wasnt so long ago that the idea of a college
34、romance playing out online-for better or for worse-would have been deemed weird, nerdy, or just plain pathetic. 1 But then MySpace came along, and Facebook took over-and today, courtship has become a flurry of status messages, e-mail flirtation, and, not so uneommonly; breakups that play out publicl
35、y for all 400 of your not-so-closest friends. And while a Facebook split is clearly not the ideal, Katie Vojtko has been on the other side of it, too: she ended a recent romance through an e-mail-to which she never heard back. “Its not something Im proud of,“ says the 22-year-old, who graduated in A
36、pril. “But technology just makes dating so much easier.“ A. Its easier to approach each other, to talk casually, to get to know one another and feel out romantic potential without ever having to truly put themselves out there. B. “And you dont even have to be on the computer to engage in it.“ C. The
37、y can see where that person grew up, their political interests, whether theyre “looking for a relationship“ or only interested in“ hooking up.“ D. As the thinking went, if you had to go to the Web to find a, mate, or break up with one, it must have meant you werent capable of attracting anyone in th
38、e real world. E. Now a relationship may still begin by locking eyes across a crowded bar, but instead of asking for a phone number, the next step almost surely involves a Facebook friendship offer. F. David Hein zinger, a 24-year-old new-media specialist in New York, recently asked a girl hemet at a
39、 happy hour to dinner.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_10.In his great Victorian novel A Tale of Two Cites, Charles Dickens begins his story with these well-known lines:It was the best of times; it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness., it was the season of Light, it was th
40、e season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going the other way._ In fact he was just stating some facts about the way people view time and events differently. A.
41、 The English language is loaded with phrases that express the value of time. B. It is a good idea to take a close look at the fascinating concept of time, and examine how it is treated differently in America by various cultures and in different situations. C. Regions, groups, organizations, and indi
42、viduals all have their own concepts of how to view time. D. No matter how we want to look at “time,“ it will always be a factor in how we view the world and how the world views us. E. Although we might think that in America we are all in agreement to how we view time, we are not. F. Some might wonde
43、r what he was talking about.（分数：2.00）填空项 1:_11.Representatives of Callahan Media Associates (CMA) announced today that the news agency would attempt to buy the National Broadcasting System (NBS), the second largest television and radio network in the United States. Ronald Callahan, son of Jessica Ca
44、llahan, who started CMA, told reporters that he expects his companys offering price to be high enough to win out over other offers. 1 A. Her success in raising the news reporting standards as well as making the Herald into a profitable business gained Callahan the attention and respect of the Britis
45、h news establishment. B. Philip agreed that Callahan and CMA had done a lot to help American newspapers become more financially secttre, but he expressed fears that the new management was going to make news coverage on NBS irresponsible. C. He indicated that NBS executives had already discussed reor
46、ganization plans that might result from a CMA takeover. D. Callahan had never visited the United States before she came to Miami and became the publisher of the Miami Journal almost eight years ago, but she had been reading the newspaper for several years, and she said that she liked the papers styl
47、e. E. A native of the United Kingdom, Jessica Callahan began to buy newspapers, magazines, and radio stations in the United States eight years ago. F. But by the time she was 35, she had become a publisher and started CMA, which is now one of the largest media organizations in the worl（分数：2.00）填空项 1
48、:_12.Leslies 10-year-old sister Aubyn asked how many foster children there were in the area and found out that there were 300. Most of those children had to carry their things from place to place in plastic or paper bags. Leslies concern and the thought of those 300 children inspired young Aubyn to
49、take action. Aubyn decided to ask people to donate their old suitcases to these foster children. 1 But after a few weeks, she had not received any donations. A. Charles and Isaac Meadows, ages 14 and 11, and Well and Burnside, Aubyns 8-year-old brother, got involved with the project in its early stag
