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工程硕士(GCT)英语-25
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[单项选择]The fire was finally brought under control, but not () extensive damage had been caused.
A. after
B. before
C. since
D. as
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[单项选择]Scarcely () those words when suddenly the monster was transformed into a very handsome youth.
A. had he uttered
B. did he utter
C. he had uttered
D. he did utter
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[单项选择]Professor First of all, allow me to introduce Professor John Brown from Cambridge.
Student:().
A. Hello, Mr. Brown. Are you a doctor
B. Moming, Prof. Brown. May I have a question
C. Hi, Prof. John Brown. Can I ask what your specialty is
D. Hello, Mr. John Brown. W-hat brings you here
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Passage Three
Hunting for a job late last year, lawyer Cant Redmon stumbled across CareerBuilder, a job database on the Internet. He searched it with no success but was attracted by the site’s "personal search agent". It’s an interactive feature that lets visitors key in job criteria such as location, title, and salary, then E-mails them when a matching position is posted in the database. Redmon chose the keywords legal, intellectual property, and Washington, D. C. Three weeks later, he got his first notification of an opening. "I struck gold," says Redmon, who E-mailed his resume to the employer and won a position as in-house counsel for a company.
With thousands of career-related sites on the Internet, finding promising openings can be time-consuming and inefficient. Search agents reduce the need for repeated visits to the databases. But although a search agent worked for Redmon, career experts see drawbacks. Narrowing your
A. By searching openings in a job database
B. By posting a matching position in a database.
C. By using a special service of a database.
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[单项选择]Karen: Hello. Could I speak to Justin, please Justin,().
A. Yes, you could.
B. Speaking.
C. Who are you
D. Speak, please.
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[单项选择]A:I have a last favor to ask of you. Could you drive my daughter to the airport B:().
A. Shall i get the ticket for her
B. Yeah. I like that.
C. You bet I will.
D. Sure it’d be a pleasure.
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[单项选择]Samuel: Hey,() Diana: I wish I could. But I really have to stay in and finish my paper tonight. Samuel: Oh, maybe some other time, then.
A. can I come to visit you tonight
B. shall we have a barbecue some day this week
C. Would you like to go to cinema with me tonight
D. John will leave Chicago tonight. Shall we go to see him off
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Directions:
In this part there are 4 passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers. Choose the one you think is the best answer. Mark your choice on the Answer Sheet by drawing with a pencil a short bar across the corresponding letter in the
Passage One
Why are mobiles so popular Because people love to talk to each other. And it is easier with a mobile phone. In countries like Russia and China, people use tile mobile phone in places where there is no ordinary telephone. Business people, use mobiles when they’re traveling. In some countries, like Japan, many people use their mobile phones to send email message and access the Internet. They use a new kind of mobile phone called "i mode". You can even use a mobile phone to listen to music.
Mobile phones are very fashionable with teenagers. Parents buy mobile phones for their children. They can call borne if they are in trouble a
A. they think mobiles are fun
B. they believe mobiles are safe
C. they love to listen to music
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[单项选择]Many a delegate was in favor of his proposal that a special committee () to investigate the incident.
A. were set up
B. was set up
C. be set up
D. set up
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[单项选择]A baby might show fear of an unfamihar adult, he is likely to smile and reach out to another in- fant.()
A. if
B. whenever
C. so that
D. whereas
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Passage Four
Andrea had never seen an old lady hitchhiking(搭车) before. However, the weather and the coming dark ness made her feel sorry for the lady. The old lady had some difficulty climbing in through the car door, and pushed her big brown canvas shopping bag down onto the floor under her feet. She said to Andrea, in a voice that was almost a whisper. "Thank you dearie—I’m just going to Brockbourne."
Something in the way the lady spoke, and the way she never turned her head made Andrea uneasy about this strange hitchhiker. She didn’t know why, but she felt instinctively that there was something wrong, some thing odd, something.., dangerous. But how could an old lady be dangerous It was absurd.
Careful not to turn her head, Andrea looked sideways at her passenger. She studied the hat, the dirty collar of the dress, the shapeless body, the arms with the thick black hairs... Thick black hairs Hairy arms Andrea% blood froz
A. the hitchhiker was an old woman
B. she was curious about the old lady
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[单项选择]Mum: Let’s go and see grandma some time during the break.Daughter: Great. What timeMum:()
A. You name it.
B. Are you ready.
C. During the break.
D. Take your time.
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[单项选择]By the time he arrives in Beijing, we () here for two days.
A. have been staying
B. have stayed
C. shall stay
D. will have stayed
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[单项选择]Steel is an alloy composed () of iron and carbon.
A. primarily
B. traditionally
C. carefully
D. partially
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Directions:
For each blank in the following passage, choose the best answer from the choices given below. Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet by drawing with a pencil a short bar across the corresponding letter in the brackets.
German zoologist Randolf Menzel says bees aren’t as busy as people believe they are. "Bees are not par ticularly (31) . Instead they sleep a lot and are lazy. They spend (32) 80 per cent of the night sleeping. Even during the day they often fly to the nest (33) they rest their wings," said Menzel, a zoologist at the Free University in Berlin, who has studied bees for four decades. But to (34) for their apparent laziness, they are actually very intelligent. They are (35) learners and able to recognize various smells.
Menzel said bees’ learning, like (36) of many animals, was based on a reward system. "If a bee is re warded once for something, it remembers it
A. working hard
B. hardworking
C. hardworking
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[单项选择]On the local market,() fruits and vegetables are now commonly sold.
A. exotic
B. enough
C. limited
D. famous
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[单项选择]Jack: Hey, how are you, Susie Gee, we haven’t seen each other in... It must be close to three years! Susie:() Jack: OK.
A. How do you do
B. Nice to meet you.
C. Fancy meeting you here.
D. Well, how have you been
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[单项选择]Speaker A:().
Speaker B: I’m running a temperature, and feel sick.
A. What can I do for you
B. What seems to be the trouble
C. What are you doing these days
D. How long has this been going on
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[单项选择]Robert: Mary, I’d like you to meet my new neighbor, Tom.
Mary: Hello, Tom. It% nice to meet you.
Tom:().
A. How is the baby
B. Hello, Mary! I haven’t seen you for ages.
C. Hi, Mary! I’ve heard so much about you.
D. Hi, Mary! Welcome to China.
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[单项选择]Passer-by:() Local resident: Yes, there% one near the end of the street. It’s behind the church.
A. Hello. sir. Where’s the bus station
B. Excuse me. Is there a parking lot anywhere around here
C. Excuse me, sir. How can I find the way to the police station
D. Which building is the Department of Immigration, please
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Passage Two
One thing almost everyone is agreed on, including Americans, is that they place a very high valuation up on success. Success does not necessarily mean material rewards, but recognition of some sort-preferably measurable. If a boy turn out to be a preacher(传真者) instead of a businessman, that’s all right. But the bigger his church is, the more successful he is judged to be.
A good many things contributed to this accent on success. There was the Puritan(清教徒) belief in the virtue of work, both for its own sake and because the rewards it brought were regarded as signs of God’s love. There was the richness of opportunity in a land waiting to be settleD. There was the lack of a settled society with fixed ranks and classes, so that a man was certain to rise through achievement. Here was the de- termination of an immigrant to gain in the new world what bad been denied to him in the old, and on the part of his children an urge to throw off the
A. success is highly valued in American society
B. success surely brings material rewards
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[单项选择]Speaker A, Well, it’s getting late. Maybe we could get together sometime.
Speaker B:().
A. Sounds good. I’ll give you a call
B. Take it easy
C. Nice to see you back
D. Yes, Pre enjoyed it
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[单项选择]() that saw the trade between the two countries reach its highest point.
A. During the 1990's
B. That it was in the 1990's
C. It was in the 1990's
D. It was the 1990's
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[单项选择]I really appreciate () to help me, but I am sure that I can manage it myself.
A. you to come
B. hat you come
C. your coming
D. how you come
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[单项选择]If the work () by the end of this month is delayed, the construction company will be heavily fined.
A. is completed
B. to be completed
C. will have been completed
D. will be completed