1、职称英语综合类C级考前冲刺模拟练习题2011年职称英语综合类C级考前冲刺模拟练习题第1部分：词汇选项（第115题，每题1分，共15分）下面共有15个句子，每个句子中均有1个词或短语有底横线，请从每个句子后面所给的4个选项中选择1个与划线部分意义最相近的词或短语。答案一律涂在答题卡相应的位置上。1The manager gave us the identical cottage each summer.A temporary B similarC same D attractive2Mary has derived a good deal of benefit from her job.A ob
2、tained B acceptedC bribed D produced3He is charming; nevertheless, I dont quite trust him.A however B thereforeC despite D afterwards4Her behaviour is extremely childish.A simple B immatureC beautiful D pretty5Even in a modernized country, manual work is still needed.A hard B mentalC simple D physic
3、al6She came up with a new idea for increasing sales.A rejected B thought ofC accepted D criticized7He talked about the feasibility of setting up an experimental school in which each child works at his or her own pace.A practicability C necessityB possibility D reliability8Its an unpleasant affair; i
4、n spite of this, we cant change it.A in effect B in additionC as a matter of fact D still9Although the arguments were rational, he was not convincedA sensitive B trueC reasonable D persuasive10 All members of the association adhere to a strict code of practice.A insist on B stick toC depend on D add
5、 to11 But ultimately he gave in.A in the end B surelyC certainly D lately12 With regard to future oil supplies, the situation is uncertain.A Judging B TalkingC Concerning D Thinking13 Mozart showed a particular aptitude for music when he was youngA talent B fondnessC affection D passion14 They will
6、cut back expenditure on unnecessary itemsA stop B continueC shorten D reduce15 There is no reason why you shouldnt tell them beforehand that you are leavingA in advance B aheadC before long D early第2部分：阅读判断（第1622题，每题1分，共7分）阅读下面这篇短文，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，请在答题卡上把A涂黑；如果该句提供的是错误信息，请在
7、答题卡上把B涂黑；如果该句的信息文章中没有提及，请在答题卡上把涂黑。The Industrial Age and EmploymentThe industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most peoples work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it brought may have to
8、 be reversed. This seems a daunting thought. But, in fact, it could offer the prospect of a better future for work. Universal employment, as its history shows, has not meant economic freedom.Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on
9、 paid work by depriving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from peoples homes. Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people commuted longer distances
10、to their places of employment until, eventually, many peoples work lost all connection with their home lives and the places in which they lived.Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. In pre-industrial times, men and women had shared the productive work of the household and village commun
11、ity. Now it became customary for the husband to go out to paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and families to his wife. Tax and benefit regulations still assume this norm today, and restrict more flexible sharing of work roles between the sexes.It was not only women whose work statu
12、s suffered. As employment became the dominant form of work, young people and old people were excluded-a problem now, as more teenagers become frustrated at school and more retired people want to live active lives.All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch some effort and
13、resources away from the idealist goal of creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage without full-time jobs.16 The established work patterns may be changed with the closing of the industrial age.ARight BWrong CNot mentioned17 Universal employment has brought
14、about economic freedom.ARight BWrong CNot mentioned18 Many people depended on the land for a living before the 17th century.ARight BWrong CNot mentioned19 Improved transport enabled people to travel longer distances to their work places.ARight BWrong CNot mentioned20 Employed women of equal qualific
15、ations are paid less than men.ARight BWrong CNot mentioned21 A large number of teenagers will quit school next year.ARight BWrong CNot mentioned22 Now is the time to handle the issue of employment in a practical manner.ARight BWrong CNot mentioned第3部分：概括大意与完成句子（第2330题，每题1分，共8分）阅读下面这篇短文，短文后有2项测试任务：（1
16、）第2326题要求从所给的6个选项中为第25段每段选择1个正确的小标题；（2）第2730题要求从所给的6个选项中选择4个正确选项，分别完成每个句子。请将答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上.Searching for Smiles1Ask most people anywhere in the world what they want out of life and the reply will probably be: to be happy. Ed Deiner, an American psychology professor, has spent his whole professional l
17、ife studying what makes people happy, comparing levels of happiness between cultures and trying to find out exactly why we enjoy ourselves.2Many people would say that this question does not need an answer. But Professor Deiner has one anyway. If youre a cheerful, happy person, your marriage is more
18、likely to last, and youre more likely to make money and be successful at your job. On average, happy people have stronger immune （免疫的） systems, and there is some evidence that they live longer.3So who are the worlds happiest people? It depends on how the word is defined. There is individual happines
19、s, the sense of joy we get when we do something we like. But there is also the feeling of satisfaction we get when we know that others respect us and approve of how we behave. According to Professor Deiner, the Western world pursues individual happiness while Asia prefers mutual satisfaction.4In the
20、 West, the individualistic （个人主义的） culture means that your mood matters much more than it does in the East. People ask themselves, what can I do thats fun or interesting? They become unhappy when they cant do any of these things. If you ask people from Japan or China if they are happy, they tend to
21、look at what has gone wrong in their lives. If not much has gone wrong, then they are satisfied.5People from Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries had the happiest culture, Professor Deiner found. The biggest cultural difference is to do with pride and shame. Hispanic （西班牙语言的） cultures report m
22、uch more pride and much less shame than others.6Income also made a big difference to peoples happiness, but only at the lowest levels. Average income earners in the US were much happier than people in poverty. But millionaires were only a little bit happier than people on average incomes. It seems t
23、hat money makes us happy when we have enough to feel secure.7But can we be too happy? You get people who are actually happy, but they think happiness is so important that they try to be even happier. This desire to be always happy is a product of individualism, where the emphasis is on you individua
24、lly, your emotions and feeling good. People can end up feeling unhappy because ordinary happiness is not good enough for them.1Paragraph 2 .2Paragraph 3 .3Paragraph 4 .4Paragraph 5 .A Happiest CultureB An Unhappy PersonC Definition of HappinessD Cultural Differences in HappinessE Reasons to Be Happy
25、F Individual and Ordinary Happiness5Professor Deiner has spent many years studying in happiness.6Professor Deiner believes that a happy person is less prone （易患） to .7Once we have got enough to feel safe, money does not make difference to our happiness.8According to Professor Deiner, some people fee
26、l unhappy because they cannot appreciate .Aa questionBordinary happinessCindividualismDcultural differencesEmuchFillnesses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，每道题后面都有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。第一篇Sleep Necessary for MemoriesBurning the midnight oil before an exam or
27、 interview does harm to the performance according to a recent research which found that sleep is necessary for memories to be taken back into the brain. A good nights sleep within 30 hours of trying to remember a new task is a required condition of having good recall in the weeks ahead, scientists h
28、ave found.The research, published in the December issue of Nature Neuroscience, showed that it was the act of sleep, rather than the simple passage of time, that was critical for long-term memory formation.We think that getting that first nights sleep starts the process of memory consolidation （巩固）,
29、 said Robert Stickgold, a sleep researcher at Harvard Medical School who conducted the latest study.It seems that memories normally wash out of the brain unless some process nails them down. My suspicion is that sleep is one of those things that does the flailing down, Professor Stickgold said.With
30、about one in five people claiming that they are so chronically short of sleep that it affects their daily activities, the latest work emphasizes the less well-understood side effect- serious memory impairment （损害）.Volunteers in an experiment found it easier to remember a memory task if they were all
31、owed to sleep that night. But for those kept awake, no amount of subsequent sleep made up for the initial loss.Professor Stickgolds team trained 24 people to identify the direction of three diagonal （斜线形的） bars flashed for a sixtieth of a second on a computer screen full of horizontal （水平的） stripes.
32、Half of the subjects were kept awake that night, while the others slept. Both groups were allowed to sleep for the second and third nights to make up for any differences in tiredness between the volunteers.Those who slept the first night were significantly and consistently better at remembering the task while the second group showed no improvement des
