2008年职称英语考试试题--综合类B级(完整版)

2008年职称英语考试试题-综合类B级(完整版) 2008年度全国职称外语等级考试试卷 综合类B级 第1部分：词汇选项（第115题，每题1分，共15分） 下面每个句子中均有1个词或短语划有底横线，请为每处划线部分确定1个意义最为接近的选项。 1. She found me very dull. A. dirty B sleepy C. lazy D. boring 2. The President made a brief visit to Beijing. A short B working C formal D secret 3. He was persuaded to give up the idea. A mention B accept C consider D drop 4. Jack consumes a pound of cheese a day. A eats B drink C buys D produces 5. Mary just told US a very fascinating story. A strange B frightening C difficult D interesting 6. Its a gorgeous day anyway. A lovely B cold C normal D rainy 7. Her life is becoming more diverse. A generous B humorous C varied D romantic 8. Foreign military aid was prolonging the war. A broadening B worsening C extending D accelerating 9. She was unwilling to go but she had no choice A unable B indecisive C ready D reluctant l0. She is slender, with delicate wrists and ankles. A .sick B weak C slim D pale 11. With immense relief, I stopped running. A .some B enormous C little D extensive 12. The scientists began to accumulate data. A . collect B handle C analyze D investigate 13. Jack eventually overtook the last truck. A. hit B passed C reached D led 14. Sometimes it is advisable to book hotels in advance. A. possible B profitable C easy D wise 15. The reason for their unusual behavior remains a puzzle. A. fact B mystery C statement D game 第3部分：概括大意与完成句子（第2330题, 每题1分, 共8分） 下面的短文后有2项测试任务：(1)第2326题要求从所给的6个选项中为第25段每段选择1个最佳标题；(2)第2730题要求从所给的6个选项中为每个句子确定1个最佳选项。 A New Citizenship Test 1 Last week, a sample of the new US citizenship（公民身份）exam was released by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services(US-cist). It will be tried out in 10 cities early next year to replace the current test in 2008. Instead of asking how many stripes the US flag has, as the current test does, the new one asks why there are 13 stripes. Instead of having to name the branches of government, an applicant is asked to explain why there are three. 2 “The goal is to make it more meaningful.” explains Emilio Gonzalez, director of the US. CIS. Immigrants who pass it are expected to have a better “understanding and respect” for US civic（公民的）values, Gonzalez says. 3 The US isnt the only country dealing with citizenship tests that aim to get a “shared commitment” from immigrants for their adopted countrys “values”. 1n recent years, in addition to the usual requirement of language/work skills and economic status, several European countries have adopted citizenship tests. Britain introduced a new citizenship test Last November. In March, a new butch law-took effect requiring all would-be immigrants to take a citizenship test. It involved watching a video showing nude（裸体的）women bathing at beaches and gay（同性恋的）men kissing in public. The aim was to ensure that newcomers will be comfortable with the countrys liberal social mores. 4 Europe has been known for welcoming immigrants for decades. But, today, the fact is that some immigrants are kept apart from Inca citizens by culture and they become hostile to each other. Promoting integration has become a major concern for European countries, after the rioting in Muslim ghettoes（少数民族聚居区）in France and the killing Of Dutch public figures by religious extremists. 5 Officials believe that a persons attachment to a country can be tested by his or her knowledge of the country. However, some critics say that the changes can do little to help people assimilate（同化）themselves. way to lessen the accusations in that fight?” says Ali Noonan, of the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition（难民辩护联盟）. 23. Paragraph 2_ A Preparation for taking a citizenship test B citizenship tests in European countries 24. Paragraph 3_ C importance of promoting integration D Necessity to know the branches of government 25. Paragraph 4_ E Different views on the new citizenship test F goal of the new citizenship test 26. Paragraph 5_ 27. The questions in the new citizenship test are more difficult 28. Would-be immigrants to the US are expected 29. In the Dutch citizenship test, all would-be immigrants are required 30. Some people fear that changes in the citizenship test will do little A to know a lot more about the country B to watch a video C to help immigrants accept the new culture D to marry American citizens E to do low-skill jobs F to answer 第4部分：阅读理解（第3145题, 每题3分, 共45分） 下面有3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。 第一篇 Political Spins Last week, US White House spokesman Tony Snow sent journalists digging for their dictionaries. He called recent criticism by the former President Bill Clinton “chutzpah”（大胆放肆）. With just one sentence, Snow managed to make headlines, a joke and a defense of President George W. Bush. Interestingly, this is how battles are fought and won in US politics-with carefully-worded one-liners（一行字幕新闻）made for TV which often lack substance and clarity（清晰度）. “The amount of information that candidates attempt to communicate to people is actually getting smaller and smaller,” said Mark Smith, a political science professor at Cedarville University. This has been accompanied by a changing media environment, Smith said. In 1 968, the average TV or radio sound bite（演讲中的句子或短语）was 48 seconds, according to Smith. In 1996, the average sound bite had shrunk to 8 seconds. Thus, politicians wanting publicity try to make their public communication as quotable as possible. Campaigning politicians also use 30-secondtheir messages. Republican presidential candidate John McCain rides to campaign stops in a bus named the “Straight-Talk Express”. Mocking hopes the name will convince voters he plans to tell people the truthwhether its in fashion or not. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, has chosen the campaign slogan “Let the conversation begin”. She hopes it will help her appear open-minded and friendly. But one-liners, TV ads and campaign slogans all have a single key ingredient: something commonly called political “spin”. Brooks Jackson, a former journalist and the current director of the non-partisan（无党派的）website Fact Check. org, calls spin “ just a polite word for deception（欺骗）. ” “I do believe that very often politicians believe their own spin.” said Jackson. “Strong partisans suffer from a universal human tendency: They ignore the evidence that would force them into the uncomfortable position of having to change their minds and admit that they were wrong.” 31. Which statement is NOT true of one-liners? A They are unclear. B. They contain a lot of information C They lack substance D They are carefully constructed. 32. What changed from 1968 to 1996? A. Publicity. B. Information. C. Communication. D. The average sound bite. 33. The campaign slogan “Straight-Talk Express” aims at convincing voters that the Presidential candidate is A. honest. B. friendly. C. open-minded. D. warm-hearted. 34. According to Brooks Jackson, all campaign slogans are A. attractive. B. impressive. C. deceptive. D. informative. 35. Which statement best describes strong partisans? A. They are very funny. B. They are very healthy. C. They are very aggressive. D. They are very stubborn（顽固的）. 第二篇 A Tale of Scottish Rural Life Lewis Grassic Gibbons Sunset Song (1932) was voted “the best Scottish novel of all time” by Scotlands reading public in 2005. Once considered shocking for its frank description of aspects of the lives of Scotlands poor rural farmers, it has been adapted for stage, film, TV and radio in recent decades. The novel is set on the fictional estate of Kin Addie, in the farming country of the Scottish northwest in the years up to and beyond World War I. At its heart is the story of Chris, who is both part of the community and a little outside it. Grassic Gibbon gives us the most detailed and intimate account of the life of his heroine（女主人公）. We watch her grow through a childhood dominated by her cruel but hard-working father; experience tragedy (her mothers suicide and murder of her twin children); and learn about her feelings as she grows into a woman. We see her marry, lose her husband, then marry again. Chris has seemed so convincing a figure to some female readers that they cannot believe that she is the creation of a man. But it would be misleading to suggest that this book is just about Chris. It is truly a novel of a place and its people. Its opening section tells of Kin Addies long history, in a language that imitates the places changing, patterns of speech and writing. The story itself is amazingly full of characters and incidents. It is told from Chris point of view but also from that of the gossiping community, a community where everybody knows everybody elses business and nothing is ever forgotten. Sunset Song has a social theme too. It is concerned with what Grassic Gibbon perceives as the destruction of traditional Scottish rural life first by modernization and then by World War I. Gibbon tried hard to show how certain characters resist the war. Despite this, the war takes the young men away, a number of them to their deaths. In particular, it takes away Chris husband, Evan Avondale. The war finally kills Evan, but not in the way his widow is told. In fact, the Germans arent responsible for his death, but his own side. He is shot because he is said to have run away from a battle. If the novel is about the end of one way of life, it also looks ahead. It is a “Sunset Song” but is concerned too with the new Kin Addie, indeed of the new European world. Grassic Gibbon went on to publish two other novels about the place that continue its story. 36. What is Sunset Song mainly about? A. The First World War. B. The beauty of the sunset. C. The new European world. D. The lives of rural Scottish farmers 37. Which statement is NOT true of Chris? A. She is the heroine of Sunset Song B. She had a miserable childhood. C. She is the creation of a man. D. She married only once. 38. What is the opening section of the novel mainly concerned with? A. The climate of Kinraddie. B. The history of Kinraddie. C. The geography of Kinraddie. D. The language spoken in Kinraddie. 39. Who killed Chris husband, Ewan? A. His own troops. B. The French army. C. The Germans. D. The Russian soldiers. 40. The word “Sunset” in the title of this novel most probably means A. the end of the heroines life. B. the end of the story. C. the end of the traditional way of life. D. the end of the day. 第三篇 Centers of the Great European Cities The centers of the great cities of Europe are meeting places by tradition. People gather there to drink coffee and chat late into the night. A mixture of locals and tourists make for an exciting, metropolitan（大都市的）atmosphere. Squares, plazas（广场）and arcades（拱廊）form the heart of Europes cities. Venice、in Italy has the Piazza San Marcoa beautiful square surrounded by shops, churches, restaurants and cafes。In Barcelona, Spain, La Becquerel is a lively market with hundreds of stalls selling all kinds of goods. Londons Covent Garden is filled with fruit and vegetable stalls by day and musicians, acrobats（杂技演员）and artists by night. The government buildings at the center of many cities often are architecturally impressive In London, they serve as a beautiful backdrop（背景）to the coffee tables that line the streets and the banks of the Thames. These vibrant（有活力的）hearts are the product of centuries of evolution, social historian Joel Garreau told US News and World Report recently. “The reason people think Venice is SO great today is you dont see all the mistakes,” said Girardeau. “Those have all been removed.” Most European cities were laid out before the invention of the car. SO bars, restaurants and cafes were near to peoples homes. Today, the focus of many Europeans life has moved away from the centers. They live in the suburbs and outskirts, driving to supermarkets to get their supplies. But on a continent where people treasure convention, there are still those who hold onto traditional ways, living and shopping locally. These people, together with tourists, provide the city centers with their reason for existence. Coffee culture plays a part in keeping these city centers flourishing. This is particularly true 百度搜索“就爱阅读”,专业资料、生活学习,尽在就爱阅读网,您的在线图书馆! 14