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1、职称英语综合类 B级-23 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、B第 1部分：词汇选项/B(总题数：15，分数：15.00)1.He had an increasingly uneasy feeling about his answer to the question.（分数：1.00）A.difficultB.worriedC.anxiousD.unhappy2.He resented being called a foreigner.（分数：1.00）A.hatedB.enjoyedC.annoyedD.shocked3.Since the Great Depress

2、ion, the United States government has protected farmers from damaging drops in grain prices.（分数：1.00）A.slightB.surprisingC.suddenD.harmful4.Dogs are not permitted into the office.（分数：1.00）A.probablyB.possibleC.admittedD.allowed5.His motive in coming was to find out the truth.（分数：1.00）A.reasonsB.argu

3、mentsC.targetsD.stimuli6.Soldiers are trained to obey their officers orders without question.（分数：1.00）A.reply toB.apply forC.agree withD.comply with7.An exhaustive investigation of the facts proves the contrary.（分数：1.00）A.exhaustedB.tiredC.thoroughD.careful8.The interview took place around the kitch

4、en table and was very causal.（分数：1.00）A.formalB.informalC.regularD.irregular9.I didnt ask because I was afraid of looking stupid.（分数：1.00）A.foolishB.boringC.childishD.exciting10.Are you positive that theres been no mistake?（分数：1.00）A.rationalB.reasonableC.certainD.bound11.Techniques to employ the en

5、ergy of the sun are being developed.（分数：1.00）A.convertB.storeC.utilizeD.receive12.He invested a considerable amount of money in the project.（分数：1.00）A.immenseB.positiveC.powerfulD.realistic13.Medicine depends on other fields for basic information, particularly some of their specialized branches.（分数：

6、1.00）A.inevitablyB.obviouslyC.especiallyD.conventionally14.She was the one in the whole class who was eligible to apply for the scholarship.（分数：1.00）A.competitiveB.diligentC.qualifiedD.competent15.Both main parties are backing these proposals.（分数：1.00）A.supportingB.discussingC.suggestingD.making二、B第

7、 2部分：阅读判断/B(总题数：1，分数：7.00)下面的短文后列出了 7个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断：如果该句提供的是正确信息，请选择 A；如果该句提供的是错误信息，请选择 B；如果该句的信息文中没有提及，请选择 C。TV Games ShowsOne of the most fascinating things about television is the size of the audience. A novel can be on the best sellers list with a sale of fewer than 100,000 copies, but a

8、popular TV show might have 70 million TV viewers. TV can make anything or anyone well known overnight.This is the principle behind quiz or game shows, which put ordinary people on TV to play a game for the prize and money. A quiz show can make anyone a star, and it can give away thousands of dollars

9、 just for fun. But all of this money can create problems. For instance, in the 1950s, quiz shows were very popular in the U.S. and almost everyone watched them. Charles Van Doren, an English instructor, became rich and famous after winning money on several shows. He even had a career as a television

10、 personality. But one of the losers proved that Charles Van Doren was cheating. It turned out that the shows producers, who were pulling the strings, gave the answers to the most popular contestants beforehand. Why? Because if the audience didnt like the person who won the game, they would turn the

11、show off. Based on his story, a movie under the title Quiz Show is on 40 years later.Charles Van Doren is no longer involved with TV. But game shows are still here, though they arent taken as seriously. In fact, some of them try to be as ridiculous as possible. There are shows that send strangers on

12、 vacation trips together, or that try to cause newly-married couples to fight on TV, or that punish losers by humiliating them. The entertainment now is to see what people will do just to be on TV. People still win money, but the real prize is to be in front of an audience of millions.（分数：7.00）(1).T

13、V can make a beggar world-famous overnight.（分数：1.00）A.A. Right B.B. Wrong C.C. Not mentioned(2).The principle behind quiz or game shows is to put ordinary people on TV to play a game for prizes and money.（分数：1.00）A.A. Right B.B. Wrong C.C. Not mentioned(3).Prizes and money are usually provided by TV

14、 stars and large companies for winners.（分数：1.00）A.A. Right B.B. Wrong C.C. Not mentioned(4).One of the TV personalities, Charles Van Doren was proved to be cheating by persuading the Shows producers to give him the answers beforehand.（分数：1.00）A.A. Right B.B. Wrong C.C. Not mentioned(5).The huge scan

15、dal of cheating in TV games shows was not exposed until 40 years later in the movie Quiz Show.（分数：1.00）A.A. Right B.B. Wrong C.C. Not mentioned(6).Nowadays game shows are not treated as seriously as they used to be.（分数：1.00）A.A. Right B.B. Wrong C.C. Not mentioned(7).Winners of present-day TV shows

16、no longer get money from the shows.（分数：1.00）A.A. Right B.B. Wrong C.C. Not mentioned三、B第 3部分：概括大意与完成句子(总题数：2，分数：8.00)阅读下面这篇短文，短文后有 2项测试任务：(1) 第 23-26题要求从所给的 6个选项中为第 2-5段每段选择 1个最佳标题；(2) 第 27-30题要求从所给的 6个选项中选择 4个正确的选项，分别完成每个句子。Messages from the Media1 The weather forecast, a story about the candidates

17、 in an election, and movie reviews are examples of messages from the media. A communication medium, of which the plural (复数的) form is media, is a means of communicating a message. Examples of media are television, radio, newspapers and books and the telephone. The media that can reach many people at

18、 once are called mass media.2 It is not difficult to think of other messages we receive through the mass media. Every day we get hundreds of them. Think about advertisements, for example. We see and hear these messages almost everywhere we go. Advertisements are important messages, even though they

19、are sometimes annoying. They help us compare and evaluate products.3 Most of us get more information from the media than from the classroom. Think for a moment, about how you learn about local news and events. Do you depend on other people or the media? What about international news? What is the mos

20、t important source of information for you? People who are asked this question usually answer, “Television“.4 Think of all the messages you received today. Perhaps you read a newspaper during breakfast, or maybe you read advertisements on billboards (露天广告牌) on your way to school. Did you listen to a

21、weather forecast or the sports news on the radio this morning? Right now you are getting information through a very important medium of mass communication-a book.5 We use the information we get from radio, television, newspapers, and other media to make decisions and form opinions. That is why the m

22、ass media are so important. Editorials and articles in newspapers help us decide how to vote, consumer reports on television help us decide how to spend our money, and international news on the radio makes us think and form opinions about questions of war and peace.A. Importance of Classroom Learnin

23、gB. Television-A Rich Source of informationC. Advertisements as important Messages from the Mass MediaD. Various Messages One May Receive Each DayE. Media-Means to Communicate MessagesF. Importance of the Mass Media（分数：4.00）(1).Paragraph 2 _.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).Paragraph 3 _.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).Para

24、graph 4 _.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).Paragraph 5 _.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_A. sports newsB. our decisions and opinionsC. mass communicationD. our messagesE. source of informationF. the mass media（分数：4.00）(1).Each day we get a lot of messages from _.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(2).Television, radio and books are all important

25、media of _.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(3).For most people television is the most important _.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_(4).The mass media are important to us because they shape _.（分数：1.00）填空项 1:_四、B第 4部分：阅读理解/B(总题数：3，分数：45.00)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。B第一篇/BElectronic MailDuri

26、ng the past few years, scientists all over the world have suddenly found themselves productively engaged in task they once spent their lives avoidingwriting, any kind of writing, but particularly letter writing. Encouraged by electronic mails surprisingly high speed, convenience and economy, people

27、who never before touched the stuff are regularly, skillfully, even cheerfully tapping out a great deal of correspondence.Electronic networks, woven into the fabric of scientific communication these days, are the route to colleagues in distant countries, shared data, bulletin boards and electronic jo

28、urnals. Anyone with a personal computer, a modem and the software to link computers over telephone lines can sign on. An estimated five million scientists have done so with more joining every day, most of them Communicating through a bundle of interconnected domestic and foreign routes known collect

29、ively as the Internet, or net.E-mail is starting to edge out the fax, the telephone, overnight mail, and of course, land mail. It shrinks time and distance between scientific collaborators, in part because it is conveniently asynchronous (异步的). (Writer can type while their colleagues across time zon

30、es sleep; their message will be waiting). If it is not yet speeding discoveries, it is certainly accelerating communication.Jeremy Bernstein, the physicist and science writer, once called E-mail the physicists umbilical cord (脐带). Later other people, too, have been discovering its connective virtues

31、. Physicists are using it; college students are using it; everybody is using it; and as a sign that it has come of age, the New Yorker has celebrated its liberating presence with a cartoonan appreciative dog seated at a keyboard, saying happily, “On the Internet, nobody knows youre a dog. “（分数：15.00

32、）(1).The reasons given below about the popularity of E-mail can be found in the passage EXCEPT _.（分数：3.00）A.direct and reliableB.time-saving in deliveryC.money-savingD.available at any time(2).How is internet or net explained in the passage?（分数：3.00）A.Electronic routes used to read home and internat

33、ional journalsB.Electronic routes used to fax or correspond overnightC.Electronic routes waiting for correspondence while one is sleepingD.Electronic routes connected among millions of users, home and abroad(3).What does the sentence “If it is not yet speeding discoveries, it is certainly accelerati

34、ng communication“ most probably mean?（分数：3.00）A.The quick speed of discoveries may have ill effects on discoveriesB.Although it dose not speed up correspondence, it helps to make discoveriesC.It quickens mutual communication even if it does not accelerate discoveriesD.It shrinks time for communicati

35、on and accelerates discoveries(4).Why is a dog sitting before a computer keyboard in a cartoon published by New Yorkers?（分数：3.00）A.Even dogs are interested in the computerB.E-mail has become very popularC.Dogs are liberated from their usual dutiesD.E-mail deprives dogs of their owners love(5).What w

36、ill happen to fax, land mail, overnight mail, etc. according to the writer?（分数：3.00）A.Their functions cannot be replaced by E-mailB.They will co-exist with E-mail for a long timeC.Less and less people will use themD.They will play a supplementary function to E-mailB第二篇/BThe American IndustryA histor

37、y of long and effortless success can be a dreadful handicap, but, if properly handled, it may become a driving force. When the United States entered just such a glowing period after the end of the Second World War, it had a market eight times larger than any competitor, giving its industries unparal

38、leled economies of scale. Its scientists were the worlds best, its workers the most skilled. America and Americans were prosperous beyond the dreams of the Europeans and Asians whose economies the war had destroyed.It was inevitable that this primacy should have narrowed as other countries grew rich

39、er. Just as inevitably, the retreat from predominance proved painful. By the mid-1980s Americans had found themselves at a loss over their fading industrial competitiveness. Some huge American industries, such as consumer electronics, had shrunk or vanished in the face of foreign competition. By 198

40、7 there was only one American television maker left, Zenith. (Now there is none: Zenith was bought by South Koreas LG Electronics in July. ) Foreign-made cars and textiles were sweeping into the domestic market Americas machine-tool industry was on the ropes. For a while it looked as though the maki

41、ng of semiconductors, which America had which sat at the heart of the new computer age, was going to be the next casualty.All of this caused a crisis of confidence. Americans stopped taking prosperity for granted. They began to believe that their way of doing business was failing, and that their inc

42、omes would therefore shortly begin to fall as well. The mid-1980s brought one inquiry after another into the causes of Americas industrial decline. Their sometimes sensational findings were filled with warnings about the growing competition from overseas.How things have changed ! In 1995 the United

43、States can look back on five years of solid growth while Japan has been struggling. Few Americans attribute this solely to such obvious causes as a devalued dollar or the turning of the business cycle. Self-doubt has yielded to blind pride. “American industry has changed its structure, has gone on a

44、 diet, has learnt to be more quick-witted,“ according to Richard Cavanagh, executive dean of Harvards Kennedy School of Government, “It makes me proud to be an American just to see how our businesses are improving their productivity,“ says Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute, a think-tank in Washing

45、ton, DC. And William Sahlman of the Harvard Business School believes that people will look back on this period as “a golden age of business management in the United States. “（分数：15.00）(1).The U.S. achieved its predominance after World War because _.（分数：3.00）A.it had made painstaking efforts towards

46、this goalB.its domestic market was eight times larger than beforeC.the war had destroyed the economies of most potential competitorsD.the unparalleled size of its workforce had given an impetus to its economy(2).The loss of U. S. predominance in the world economy in the 1980s is manifested in the fa

47、ct that the American _.（分数：3.00）A.TV industry had withdrawn to its domestic marketB.semiconductor industry had been taken over by foreign enterprisesC.machine-tool industry had collapsed after suicidal actionsD.auto industry had lost part of its domestic market(3).What can be inferred from the passa

48、ge?（分数：3.00）A.It is human nature to shift between self-doubt and blind pride.B.Intense competition may contribute to economic progress.C.The revival of the economy depends on international cooperation.D.A long history of success may pave the way for further development.(4).The author seems to believ

49、e the revival of the U.S. economy in the 1990s can be attributed to the _.（分数：3.00）A.turning of the business cycleB.restructuring of industryC.improved business managementD.success in education(5).What does “the American industry has gone on a diet“ mean?（分数：3.00）A.Employees in the American industry are on a diet.B.The American industry