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职称英语综合类A级真题2008年
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I hope that I didn't do anything absurd last night.()
A. awkward
B. strange
C. stupid
D. awful
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The meaning is still obscure.()
A. vague
B. transparent
C. alien
D. significant
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2 The scientists began to accumulate data.()
A. collect
B. handle
C. analyze
D. investigate
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5 The reason for their unusual behavior remains a puzzle.()
A. fact
B. mystery
C. statement
D. game
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第二篇
Doubtful Ways to Reduce and Increase Your Weight
You hear this: "No wonder you are fat. All you ever do is eat." You feel sad: "I skip my breakfast and Supper. I run every morning and evening. What else can I do" Basically you can do nothing. Your genes, not your life habits, determine your weight and your body constantly tries to maintain it.
Albert Stunkard of the University of Pennsylvania found from experiments that, "80 percent of the children of two obese (肥胖的) parents become obese, as compared with no more than 14 percent of the offspring of two parents of normal weight."
How can obese people become normal or even thin through dieting Well, dieting can be effective, but the health costs are tremendous. Jules Hirsch, a research physician at Rockefeller University, did a study of eight fat people. They were given a liquid formula providing 600 calories a day. After more tha
A. Your working manner
B. Your eating habit
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The Greatest Mystery of Whales
The whale is a mammal (哺乳动物) - warm-blooded, air-breathing, giving birth to its young alive, sucking them - and, like all mammals, originated on land. There are many signs of this. (1) front flippers (鳍肢), used for steering and stability, are traces of feet.
Immense strength is built into the great body of the big whales, and in fact most of a whale’s body is one gigantic muscle. The blue whale’s pulling (2) has been estimated at 400 horsepower. One specimen was reported to have (3) a whaling vessel for seven hours at the (4) of eight knots.
An enraged whale will attack a ship. A famous (5) of this was the fate of whaler Essex, which was sunk (6) the coast of South America early in the last century. More recently, steel ships have had their plates buckled (扭曲变形)in the same way. Sperm whales were known to (7) the old-time whaleboats in their jaws and cru
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6 That guy is really witty.()
A. smart
B. ugly
C. honorable
D. popular
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What Is Globalization
It was the anti-globalization movement that really put globalization on the map. As a word it has existed since the 1960s, but the protests against this allegedly new process,
which its opponents condemn as a way of ordering people’s lives, brought globalization out of the financial and academic worlds and into everyday current affairs.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the business model called the "globalized" financial market came to be seen as an entity that could have more than just an economic impact on the parts of the world it touched. Globalization came to be seen as more than simply away of doing business, or running financial markets - it became a process. From then on the word took on a life of its own.
So how does the globalized market work It is modern communications that make it po
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7 The world champion suffered a sensational defeat.()
A. reasonable
B. dramatic
C. humiliating
D. horrifying
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Shaming Punishments
Last month, James Connolly, a junior at the University of Massachusetts, stood in front of a local police station wearing a toga (长袍) as punishment.
His crime He was charged with underage drinking, illegal possession of alcohol and excessive noise while holding a party.
This shaming punishment has increased in the US in recent years, mostly imposed by local judges for less-serious crimes, such as drunk driving and theft.
They believe shame is the best petty crime deterrent (威慑). For example, in Tennessee, Judge James McKenzie has made shoplifters (商店货物扒手) stand outside Wal-Mart with signs that read, "I am a thief put here by order of Judge McKenzie".
"Alternative punishments like community service and fines don’t convey moral condemnation (谴责) of the criminal," said Dan Kahan, a University of Chicago Law School professor, in an article published o
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One theory postulates that the ancient Filipinos came from India and Persia.()
A. assumes
B. expects
C. predicts
D. considers
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8 It seems that only Mary is eligible for the job.()
A. prepared
B. trained
C. qualified
D. guided
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3 Jack eventually overtook the last truck.()
A. hit
B. passed
C. reached
D. led
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4 Sometimes it is advisable to book hotels in advance.()
A. possible
B. profitable
C. easy
D. wise
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This poem depicts the beautiful scenery of a town in the South.()
A. praises
B. writes
C. imitates
D. describes
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There should be laws that prohibit smoking around children.()
A. forbid
B. advocate
C. inherit
D. withdraw
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下面的短文有5处空白,短文后有6个句子,其中5个取自短文,请根据短文内容将其分别放回原有位置,以恢复文章原貌。
What’s Lacking in ’ Sicko ’
When it comes to economic decisions, there are always trade-offs (取舍). Gain one thing and you lose something else. (1)
The central argument of Michael Moore’s movie "Sicko" - that the cure to the nation’s health care problems is a single-payer system - is hardly novel and is certainly worth consideration, whether or not you agree with it. But in comparing the American system with single-payer plans of other countries - Britain, France, Canada and Cuba - Mr. Moore left out the trade-offs, characterizing those countries as health care paradises.
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Kurt Loder, the film critic who is best known as the anchor (主持人) of "MTV News," wrote a critique (批评) of the film for MTV’s website. "’Sicko,’" he said, "does a real service" in portraying (描绘) victims of Am -
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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 atmosphere.
Squares, plazas (广场) and arcades (拱廊) form the heart of Europe’s cities.
Venice in Italy has the Piazza San Marco - a beautiful square surrounded by shops, churches, restaurants and cafes. In Barcelona, Spain, La Bosqueria is a lively market with hundreds of stalls selling all kinds of goods. London’s 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
A. has many large squares
B. has many very magnificent sky-scrapers
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Dumped waste might contaminate water supplies.()
A. destroy
B. decrease
C. delay
D. pollute
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It is very difficult for a child to adhere to rules.()
A. remember
B. follow
C. understand
D. learn
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With immense relief, I stopped running.()
A. some
B. enormous
C. little
D. extensive
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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-CIS). 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 isn’t the only country dealing with citizenship tests that aim to get a "shared commitment" from immigrants for their adopt
A. Preparation for taking a citizenship test
B. Citizenship tests in Eursopean countries
C. Importance of promoting integration
D. Necessity to know the branches of government
E. Different views on the new citizenship test
F. Goal of the new citizenship test