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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上2007年职称英语考试理工类(A级)试题及答案第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个词或短语画有底横线，请从每个句子后面所给的4个选项中选择1个与画线部分意义最相近的词或短语。请将答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。1 These are their Motives for doing it A. reasons B excuses C answers D plans2 The river widens considerably as it begins to turn westA. twists B. stretche

2、sC. broadens D. bends3 Henry cannot resist the lure of drugs A. abuse B. flavor C. temptation D. consumption4 These programmes are of immense value to old people A natural B fatal C tiny D enormous5 A great deal has been done to remedy the situation A.maintain B.improve C.assess D protect6 John is c

3、ollaborating with Mary in writing an article A cooperating B competing C combining D arguing7 He is determined to conso1idate his power A strengthen B control C abandon D exercise8 Many scientists have been probing psychological problems A solving B exploringC settling D handling9 Hearing problems m

4、ay be alleviated by changes in diet and exercise habits A removed B cured C worsened D relieved10 Allthe cars are tested for defects before leaving the factoryA functions B faultsC motions D parts11 The food is insufficient for three peopleA instant B infiniteC inexpensive D inadequate12 Thousands o

5、f people perished in the stormA died B sufferedC floated D scattered13 But in the end he approved of our proposal A undoubtedly B certainly C ultimately D necessarily14 For young children，getting dressed is a complicated business A strange B complex C personal D funny15 In Britain and many other cou

6、ntries appraisal is now a tool of management A evaluation B pruduction C efficiency D publicity第2部分：阅读判断 (第1 622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甸子做出判断。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C涂黑。Mad Scientist Stereotype Outdated Do people still imagine a phys

7、icist as a bearded man in glasses or has the image of the madscientist changed? The Institute of Physics set out to find out whether the stereotype of a physicsboffin(科学家)still exists by conducting a survey on shoppers in LondonThe people wereasked to identify the physicist from a photograph of a li

8、ne-up of possible suspects98 percent ofthose asked got it wrongThe majority of people picked a white male of around 60，wearingglasses and with a white beard While this stereotype may have been the image of all average physicist fifty years ago，thereality is now very different Since 1960 the number o

9、f young women entering physics hasdoubled and the average age of a physicist is now 31 The stereotype of the absent-minded scientist has lasted a long time because the media andHollywood help promote the image of men in white lab coats with glasses sitting by blackboardsfull of equations(等式)or worki

10、ng with fizzing(嘶嘶响)test tubesThese stereotypes are reallydamaging to societyVery good school children are put off studying science because they dontsee people like themselves on television or in magazines doing scienceThey simply dont relateto the medias image of the mad scientist This is one reaso

11、n why fewer young people are choosing to do science at universityIf wewant to encourage more young people to study science subjects，we need to change this image ofthe scientist and make science careers more attractiveBut we must also develop childrensinterest in science In an attempt to change this

12、negative image，an increasing number of science festivals arebeing organizedThousands of people from secondary schools are also encouraged to take part in the internationwide science competitions of which the most popular are the national science OlympiadsWinning national teams then get the opportuni

13、ty to take part in the International Science Olympiads which are held in a different county every yearThese events are all interesting for the young people who take part but they only involve a small proportion of students who are already interested in scienceIt seems that there is a long way to go

14、before science becomes attractive as subjects like computer studies or fashion and design16 Most people have similar ideas of what a physicist looks like A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned17 The majority of physicists in Britain today are Cambridge graduates A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned18 The media

15、and the cinema have played a role in promoting the image of the mad scientist A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned19 There will be more women scientists than men scientists in the future A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned20 More children will study science if it becomes more attractive A Right B Wrong C Not

16、 mentioned21 The image of the mad scientist is really encouraging to society A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned22 The International Science Olympiads are held once every two years A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned第3部分：概括大意与完成句子 (第2卜30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)第2326题要求从所给的6个选项中为第14段每段选择1个正确的小标题；(

17、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。Cloning(克隆)：Future Perfect?1 A clone is all exact copy of a plant or animal produced from any one cell. Since Scottishscientists reported that they had managed to clone a sheep named Dolly in 1997，research intocloning has grown rapidlyIn May 1998，

18、scientists in Massachusetts managed to create twoidentical calves(牛犊)using cloning technologyA mouse has also been cloned successfully， Butthe debate over cloning humans really started when Chicago physicist Richard Seed made asurprising announcement：“We will have managed to clone a human being with

19、in the next twoyears，”he told the world2 SeedS announcement provoked a lot of media attention，most of it negativeIn Europe，nineteen nations have already signed an agreement banning human cloning and in the US thePresident announced：”We will be introducing a law to ban all human cloning and many stat

20、es inthe US will have passed anti-cloning laws by the end of the year3 Many researchers are not so negative about cloning，They are worried that laws banninghuman cloning will threaten important researchIn March，The New England Journal of Medicinecalled any plan to ban research on cloning humans seri

21、ously mistakenMany researchers alsobelieve that in spite of attempts to ban it，human cloning will have become routine by 2010because it is impossible to stop the progress of science4 Is there reason to fear that cloning will lead to a nightmare world? The public has beenbombarded(轰炸)with newspaper a

22、rticles，television shows and films，as well as cartoonsSuchinformation is often misleading，and makes people wonder what on earth the scientists will bedoing next5 Within the next five to ten years scientists will probably have found a way of cloning humans. It could be that pretty soon we will be abl

23、e to choose the person that we want our child to look likeBut how would it feel to be a clone among hundreds，the anti-cloners askPretty cool,answer the pr-cloners(赞成克隆的人) 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，每道题后面有4个选项。请根据文章的内容从每题所给的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More Than a Ride to School Th

24、e National Education Association claims“The school bus is a mirror of the community”They further add that，unfortunately, what appears on the exterior does not always reflect thereality of a chosen communityThey are right-sometimes it reflects more! Just ask LieslDenson. Riding the school bus has bee

25、n more than a ride to school for Liesl Bruce Hardyschool bus driver for Althouse BUS Company has been Liesls bus driver sincekindergartenLast year when Liesls family moved to Parkesburg，knowing her bus went by hernew residence。she requested to ride the same bus This year Liesl is a senior and will e

26、njoy her last year riding the busShe says，”Its been a great ride so far! My bus driver is so cool and has always been a good friend and a good listenerSometimes when youre a child adults do not think that what you have to say is importantMr.Hardy always listens to what you have to say and makes you

27、feel importantHer friends Ashley Batista and Amanda Wolfe agree Bruce Hardy has been making Octorara students feel special since 1975. This year he willcelebrate 30 years working for Althouse Bus Company，Larry Althouse，president of the company,acknowledges Bruce Hardys outstanding record：“You do not

28、 come by employees like Brucethese days. He has never missed a day of work and has a perfect driving recordHe wasrecognized in 2000 by the Pennsylvania School Bus Association for driving 350,000 accidentfree milesHardys reputation is made further evident through the relationships he has made withthe

29、 students that ride his bus” Althouse further adds，Althouse Bus Company was established 70 years ago and has beenproviding quality transportation ever sinceMy grandfather started the business with one busAlthouse Bus Company is delighted to have the opportunity to bring distinctive and safe servicet

30、o our local school and community and looks forward to continuing to provide quality service formany more years to come Three generations of business is not all the company has enjoyedThanks to drivers likeBruce Hardy，they have been building relationships through generations，Liesls mother Carolalso e

31、njoys fond memories of riding Bruce Hardys bus to the Octorara School District31 The word“mirrorin the first line could be best replaced by E vehicle” F device” G “need” H “reflection”32 Bruce Hardy has been working with Althouse Bus Company A for 30 years B for 70 years C since last year D since 20

32、0033 Which of the following statements is NOT true of Bruce Hardy? A He is popular with his passengers B He has never missed a day of work C He is an impatient person D He has driven 350.000 accident free miles34 Althouse Bus Company was founded byA Larry AlthouseB Althouses grandfatherC Liesls moth

33、erD Ashley Batista35 Althouse Bus Company pays much attention toA employing young drivers B running quality schools C providing free driving lessons D building sound relationships第二篇A Phone That Knows Youre Busy Its a modern problem：youre too busy to be disturbed by incessant(连续不断的)phonecalls so you

34、 turn your cellphone off .But if you dont remember to turn it back on when youreless busyyou could miss some important calls if only the phone knew when it was wise tointerrupt you，you wouldnt have to turn it off at all. Instead，it could let calls through when youare not too busy A bunch of behavior

35、 sensors(传感器)and a clever piece of software could do just that，byanalyzing your behavior to determine if its a good time to interrupt youIf built into a phone，thesystem may decide youre too busy and ask the caller to leave a message or ring back later James Fogarty and Scott Hudson at Camegie Mellon

36、 University in Pennsylvania based theirsystem oil tiny microphones，cameras and touch sensors that reveal body language and activityFirst they had to study different behaviors to find out which ones stongly predict whether yourmind is interrupted The potential“busyness”signals they focused on include

37、d whether the office doors were leftopen or closed，the time of day，if other people were with the person in question，how close theywere to each other, and whether or not the computer was in use The sensors monitored these and many other factors while four subjects were at work . Atrandom intervals，th

38、e subjects rated how interruptible they were on a scale ranging from“highlyinterruptibleto“highly notinterruptible” . Their ratings were then correlated with the variousbehaviors . “It is a shotgun(随意的)approach：we used all the indicators we could think of andthen let statistics find out which were i

39、mportant，” says Hudson The model showed that using the keyboard，and talking on a landline or to someone else inthe office correlated most strongly with how interruptible the subjects judged themselves to be Interestingly，the computer was actually better than people at predicting when someone wastoo

40、busy to be interrupted . The computer got it right 82 per cent of the time，humans 77 per centFogarty speculates that this might be because people doing the interrupting are inevitably biasedtowards delivering their message，whereas computers dont care The first application for Hudson and Fogartys sys

41、tem is likely to be in an instant messaging system，followed by office phones and cellphones“There is no technological roadblock(障碍)to it being deployed in a couple of years，” says Hudson36 A big problem facing people today is thatA they must tolerate phone disturbances or miss important callsB they

42、must turn off their phones to keep their homes quietC they have to switch from a desktop phone to a cellphoneD they are too busy to make phone calls37 The behavior sensor and software system built in a phoneA could help store messagesB could send messages instantlyC could tell when it is wise to int

43、errupt youD could identify important phone calls38 Scientists at Carnegie Menon University tried to find out A why office doors were often 1eft open B when it was a good time to turn off the computer C what questions office workers were bothered with D which behaviors could tell whether a person was

44、 busy39 During the experiment，the subjects were asked A to control the sensors and the camera B to rate the degrees to which they could be interrupted C to compare their behaviors with others D to analyze all the indicators of interruption40 The computer performed better than people in the study bec

45、ause A the computer worked harder B the computer was not busy C people tended to be biased D people were not good at statistics第三篇The Exploding Lakes of Cameroon What comes to mind when you think of a lake? You probably imagine a pretty scene withblue water，birds，and fishFor the people in the northw

46、estern Cameroon，however, the image isvery different. For them，lakes may mean terrible disasters. In 1984，poisonous gases explodedout of Lake Monoun and came down into the nearby villages，killing thirtyseven peopleTwoyears later,Lake Nyos erupted A cloud of gases rolled down the hills and into the valleys andkilled 1,700 people Lake Nyos and Lake Monoun are crater(火山口)lakes They were formed when watercollected in the craters of old volcanoes The volcanoes under Lake Nyos and Lake Monoun arenot act