2023年职称英语考试模拟真题及答案版下载综合类B级.doc

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个词或者短语划有底横线，请为每处划线部分确定1个意义最为靠近旳选项。1. A larg crowd assembled outside the American embassy.A. watchedB. shoutedC. gatheredD. walked2. Most baby can take in a wide range of food easily.A. bringB. digestC. keepD. serve3. What puzzles me is why his books are so popular.A. shocksB. influencesC. confusesD. concerns4. I think $7 a drink is a bit steep, dont you?A. tightB. lowC. cheapD. high5. Our aim was to update the health service and we succeeded.A. offerB. provideC. modernizeD. fund6. The weather was crisp and clear and you could see the mountains fifty miles away.A. freshB. hotC. heavyD. windy7. The walls are made of hollow concret blocks.A. bigB. emptyC. longD. new8. Joe came to the window as the crowd chanted”Joe,Joe,Joe”A. repeatedB. jumpedC. maintainedD. approached9. All the walls in the building had the same layout.A. sizeB. functionC. colorD. arrangment10. Her comments about men are utterly ridiculous.A. slightlyB. partlyC. faintlyD. completely11. The contempt he felt for his fellow students was obvious.A. needB. hateC. loveD. pity12. Do we have to wear these name tags?A. listsB. formsC. lablesD. codes13. He inspired many young people to take up sports.A. encouragedB. allowedC. calledD. advised14. The city center was wiped out by the bomb.A. coveredB. reducedC. destroyedD. moved15. The storm caused severe damage.A. physicalB. accidentalC. seriousD. enviromental$pager$第2部分：阅读判断(第1622题，每题l分，共7分) 下面旳短文后列出了7个句子，请根据短文旳内容对每个句子做出判断；假如该句提供旳是对旳信息，请选择A；假如该句提供旳是错误信息，请选择B；假如该句旳信息文中没有提及，请选择C。Brotherly LoveAdidas and Puma have been two of the biggest names in sports shoe manufacturing for over half a centurySince 1928 they have supplied shoes for Olympic athletes，World Cupwinning football heroes，Muhammad Ali，hip hop stars and rock musicians famous all over the worldBut the story of these two companies begins in one house in the town of Herzogenaurach，GermanyAdolph and Rudolph Dassler were the sons of a shoemakerThey loved sport but complained that they could never find comfortable shoes to play inRudolph always said，“You cannot play sports wearing shoes that youd walk around town with”So they started making their ownIn 1920 Adolph made the first pair of athletics shoes with spikes(钉)，produced on the Dasslerskitchen tableOn lst July 1924 they formed a shoe company，Dassler Brothers Ltd and they worked together for many yearsThe company became successful and it provided the shoes for Germanys athletes at the 1928 and 1932 Olympic GamesBut in 1948 the brothers arguedNo one knows exactly what happened，but family members have suggested that the argument was about money or womenThe result was that Adolph left the companyHis nickname was Adi，and using this and the first three letters of the family name，Dassler，he founded AdidasRudolph relocated across the River Aurach and founded his own company tooAt first he wanted to call it Ruda，but eventually he cailed it Puma，after the wild catThe famous Puma logo of the Jumping cat has hardly changed sinceAfter the big split of 1948 Adolph and Rudolph never spoke to each other again and their companies havc now been in competition for over sixty yearsBoth companies were for many years the market leadersthough Adidas has always been more successful than PumaA hip hop group，Run DMC，has even writtcn a song catied“My Adidas”and in 2023 Adidas bought Reebok，another big sports shoe companyThe terrible family argument should really be forgotten，but ever since it happened，over sixty years ago,the town has been split into twoEven now，some Adidas employees and Puma employees dont talk to each other16Adidas and puma began to make shoes at the end of 19th centuryARightBWrongCNot mentioned17The brothersfather was a ball makerARightBWrongCNot mentioned18The brothers make shoes at homeARightBWrongCNot mentioned19The brothers argued about the shoesARightBWrongCNot mentioned20The brothers decided to start their separate companies after argumentARightBWrongCNot mentioned21Nike makes more shoes than AdidasARightBWrongCNot mentioned22People in town have forgotten their argumentARightBWrongCNot mentioned$pager$第3部分：概括大意和完毕句子(第2330题，每题1分，共8分) 下面旳短文后有2项测试任务：(1)第2326题规定从所给旳6个选项中为指定段落每段选择1个小标题；(2)第2730题规定从所给旳6个选项中为每个句子确定一种最佳选项。How Technology Pushes Down Price1 Prices have fallen in the food business heeause of advances in food production and distribution technology.Consumers have benefited greatly from those advancesPeople who predicted that the wold would run out of food were wron9We are producing more and more food with less and less capital.Food is therefore more plentiful and cheaper than it has ever beenSpending on food compared with other goods has fallen for many years，and continues to drop2 Supermarkets have helped push down prices mainly because of their scaleLike any big businessthey can invest in IT systems that make them efficientAnd their size allows them to buv in bulkAs supermarkets get bigger，the prices get lower3 Huge retail companies such as Wal-Mart have tremendous power and they can put pressure on producers to cut their marginsAs a result，some producers have had to make cutsIn recent years.Unilever has cut its workforce by 33，000 to 245，000 and dropped lots of its minor brands as Dart of its“path to growth”strategyCadbury has shut nearly 20 percent of its 133 factories and cut 10 Dercent of its 55，000 global workforceThese cuts help keep costs down，and the price of food stays low4 Does cheap food make people unhealthy? Cheap food may encotlrage people to eat moreGood companies certainly think that giving people more food for their money makes them buy moreGiving people bigger portmns IS an easy way of making them feel they have got a better dealThat is why Dortions have got larger and largerIn America，soft drinks came in 80z(225g)cans in the past，then 120z(350g)，and now come in 200z(550g)callsIf a company can sell you an 80z portion for$7，they can sell you a 120z portion for$8The only extra cost to the company is the food，which Drobably costs 25 cents5 Now companies are under pressure to stop selling bigger portions for less moneyBut it is hard to change the trend 23Paragraph 1_24Paragraph 2_25Paragraph 3_26Paragraph 4_27Big supermarkets can offer food at lower prices because they can buy in_.28Some food producers have reduced_29Besides cutting its cost，Unilever also abandoned its_30Buyers like bigger portion because they think they have got_$pager$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Oseola McCarty Late one Sunday afternoon in September 1999，Oseola McCarty，an elderly cleaning lady passed away in the little wooden frame house where she had lived and worked most of her lifeIt mav seem like an ordinary end to a humble life，but there was something quite exceptional about this womanIn the summer of 1995，McCarty gave$1 50，000，most of the money she had saved throughout her life，to the University of Southern Mississippi in her hometownThe money was to help other African Americans through universityShe had started her savings habit as a young child when she wouldreturn from school to clean and iron for money which she would then saveShe led a simple，frugal existence，never spending on anything but her most basic needsHer bank also advised her on investing her hardearned savingsWhen she retired，she decided that she wanted to use the money to give children of limited means the opportunity to go to universityShe had wanted to become a nurse，but had to leave school to look after ill relatives and workWhen asked why she had given her life savings away，she replied，“Im giving it away so that children wont have to work so hard，like I did”After news of her donation hit the media，over 600 donations were made to the scholarship fundOne was given by media executive，Ted Turner，who reputedly gave a billion dollarsShe didnt want any fuss made over her gift，but the news got out and she was invited all over the United States to talk to peopleWherever she went，people would come up to her to say a few words or to just touch herShe met the ordinary and the famous，President Clinton includedIn the last few years of her life，before she died of cancer，McCarty was given over 300 awards：she was honoured by the United Nations and received the Presidential Citizens MedalDespite having no real education，she found herself with two honorary doctorates：one from the University of Southern Mississippi and the other from Harvard UniversityHer generosity was clearly an inspiration to many and proof that true selflessness does exist31This woman shocked and inspired the world because_Ashe had managed to save so much moneyBshe gave her money to African AmericansCshe gave her life savings to help others through universityDshe only spent money on cheap things32She managed to save so much money because_Ashe had ironed and washed clothes all her lifeBshe had worked hard，saved hard and invested carefullyCshe had opened a good bank accountDshe knew how to make money33She gave her money away because_Ashe wanted to help the universityBshe wanted others to have the chance to become nursesCshe wanted others to have the opportunity to escape a hard lifeDshe want to be remembered after her death34When her generosity was made_Apeople donated billionsBhundreds of students got scholarshipsChundreds of people put money into the fundDshe was sent to university35Marcartys generosity indicates clearly that_Ascholarship funds are popular in USBkind-hearted people deserves doctoratesCselflessness exists in human societyDpoor people can donate as much as rich peopleDpoor people can donate as much as rich people第二篇From Ponzi to Madoff The year was 1920The country was the United States of AmericaThe mans name was Charles PonziPonzi told people to stop depositing money in a savings accountInstead，they should give it to him to save for themPonzi promised to pay them more than the bankFor example，a savings account might pay you$5 a year for every$1 00 you depositPonzi，however，would pay you $40 a year for every $1 00 you gave him to holdMany people thought this was a good planThey began to give their money to PonziHow could Ponzi make so much money for people? This is what he did with the money people gave him：He used some of that money to pay other people who gave him moneyHowever，he also kept a lot of the money for himselfSoon he had $250 millionThis was a kind of theft，and it was against the lawThe people who gave him their money didnt think anything was wrongPonzi paid them every month，just like a bankPonzi continued this way of working for two yearsThen one day，he didnt have enough money to pay all the peopleThey discovered his crime，and he went to prison for froudNinety years later，people began to hear about a businessman in New York named Bernard Mad offPeople said he gave good advice about moneyThey said when they gave him their money，he paid them a lot more than the bankMad off helped hospitals，schools，and individuals earn moneyOver a period of 40 years，people gave him$1 70 billionHowever，no one investigated what he did with themoneyThe people who gave Mad off their money also didnt think anything was wrong because he paid them every monthOne day，Mad off didnt have enough money to pay all the people he needed to payThats when people discovered how Madoff worked：He was taking money from some people to pay other people， just the way Charles Ponzi didHowever，this time，instead of losing millions of dollars，people lost billionsMadoff was accused of fraud，and United States government officials arrested himHe didnt have to go on trial because he said he was guiltyIn 2023，a judge sentenced him to 150 years in prisonBernard Madoffs crime was even bigger than PonzisIt was the biggest fraud in historyThe lesson of this story is clear：When something seems too good to be true，it probably is !36For every$100 Ponzi promises to pay people_A$5 a yearB$40 a yearC$20 a yearD$100 a year37What did Ponzi do with the money people gave him?AHe spent it all on things for himselfBHe used some of it to pay other peopleCHe deposited it all in a bankDHe kept it all to save for a good plan38What was Ponzis crime?AHe kept a lot of other peoplesmoney for himself_BHe robbed the banks of millions of dollarsCHe gave people more than bank allowedDHe didnt pay people the interests39How long did Mad offs trick lasts?AFour yearsBForty yearsCNine yearsDNinety years40Why didnt Mad off have to go on trial?AHe admitted he was guiltyBThe officials couldnt find any evidence against himCHe had friends in government who helped himDHe returned all illegal money第三篇 Gross National Happiness In the last century，new technology improved the lives of many people in many countriesHowever，one country resisted these changesHigh in the Himalayan mountains of Asia，the kingdom of Bhutan remained separateIts people and Buddhist(佛教)culture had not been affected for almost a thousand yearsBhutan，however，was a poor countryPeople died at a young ageMost of its people could not read，and they did not know much about the outside worldThen，in 1972，a Dew ruier named King Jigme Singye Wangchuck decided to help Bhutan to become modern，but without losing its traditions King Wangchuck looked at other countries for ideasHe saw that most countries measured tnmrprogress by their Gross National Product(GNP)The GNP measures products and moneyWhen the number of Droducts sold increases people say the country is making progressKing Wangchuck had a different idea for BhutanHe wanted to measure his countrys progress by peoples happinessIf the peoples happiness increased，the king could say that Bhutan was making progressTo decide if people were happier，he created a measure called Gross National Happiness(GN H)GN H is based on certain principles that create happinessPeople are