在职攻硕英语联考阅读模拟试卷含答案及解析.doc

在职攻硕英语联考（阅读）模拟试卷30 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有： 3. Reading Comprehension

Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes, 40 points)Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each of the passages is followed by 5 questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.

In some ways the employment interview is like a persuasive speech because the applicant (interviewee) seeks to persuade the employer (interviewer) to employ him or her. Several suggestions might prove helpful to the applicant as preparation is made for the actual interview. A job applicant has the responsibility for ascertaining certain types of information prior to the interview. First, the applicant should know what kind of job he wants and how that job relates to his career objective. It is important that the applicant be able to state his reasons for wishing to work for a particular company. Second, the applicant should seek as much information as possible concerning the company. Relevant information for the applicant to locate includes such items as the location of the home and regional offices, the financial status of the company, plans for expansion, and company philosophy. Information about most major corporations is available in reference books and periodicals. After gathering information concerning the company, the applicant is ready for the interview. The interviewer’s first impression comes from the interviewee’s appearance. For most interviews, appropriate dress for man is a conservative (保守) dark colored suit with a long sleeve white or light blue shirt and conservative tie. For women a conservative, tailored suit or dress is appropriate. Both men and women should have neat, conservative length hair. Although hairstyle and dress are matters of personal taste, many personnel directors form initial impressions from these characteristics. For example, one recent college graduate, who felt himself qualified, interviewed for a public relations job. However, the personnel manager considered this young man’s long hair, sloppy dress, and overly casual manner unsuited for this particular position.

1． For whom is the passage most likely written?
A．An employee.
B．An employer.
C．An interviewee.
D．An interviewer.

正确答案：C
解析：本题问本文最可能是为何人写。利用浏览式阅读法通读全文，我们知道本文主要是介绍怎样求职面试问题。依照文章第一句，这里interviewee即指“申请工作者”。本文意在为参加面试工作申请人提供几条有用提议。第二段提议应试者先着手了解企业背景信息，第三、四段提醒应试者应从哪几方面给面试官留下一个良好第一印象。所以，本题正确答案应是C“接收面试者”。 知识模块：阅读

2． As the author suggests, what the applicant should know before the interview is______.
A．the type of work and his career expectation
B．his career objective a particular company will decide
C．the reasons a particular company has to employ him
D．all of the above

正确答案：A
解析：本题是一道详细细节题。问作者提议在面试前申请人应该知道些什么。利用查阅式阅读法，我们发觉文章第二段第二句指出，首先，申请者应确立自己所申请工作性质以及这份工作与其事业目标关系：他应该知道自己为何选择到某企业工作。所以，本题正确答案应是A“他工作类型和职业期望”。 知识模块：阅读

3． Before the interview, the applicant should obtain some information about______.
A．most major corporations
B．the company he wants to work for
C．reference books and periodicals
D．business and philosophy

正确答案：B
解析：本题是一道详细细节题。问在面试之前，申请人应该取得哪些方面信息。利用查阅式阅读法，我们能够在文章第二段中找到相关内容。这部分指出，申请人应该去尽可能多地取得企业背景信息，找到诸如总企业、地域子企业所在地和企业财务情况、发展规划以及企业宗旨。而关于多数大企业信息能够在参考书或期刊中找到。所以，本题正确答案应是B“关于他想去工作企业情况”。 知识模块：阅读

4． What the applicant wears, as the author suggests, can make him look______.
A．personal
B．persuasive
C．informative
D．conservative

正确答案：D
解析：本题是一道详细细节题。问作者暗示申请人穿什么衣服能够使他看上去怎样。利用查阅式阅读法我们发觉文章第三段指出，就大部分面试场所而言，合体男士服装是传统深色西装，长袖白色或浅蓝色衬衫另加一条传统领带；对女士来说，合体服装是传统正式女西装或礼服。第四段第一句指出，发型和着装即使是个人兴趣问题，不过，许多人事主管从这些方面来形成第一印象。可见，怎样着装是很主要，它告诉面试你人许多信息。所以，本题正确答案应是D“个人着装能够使他看上去很传统”。答案中conservative意思是“保守、稳健、传统”。 知识模块：阅读

5． What is the author trying to tell us through the example in the last paragraph?
A．The importance of personal taste.
B．The importance of public relations.
C．The importance of self confidence.
D．The importance of first impression.

正确答案：D
解析：本题是一道关于文章关键点类问题。问作者在最终一段举例子是想告诉我们什么。仔细阅读一下最终一段，作者举了一个大学毕业生申请工作而遭拒绝例子，用以说明该段第一句提到道理：即使发型和着装是个人兴趣问题，不过许多人事主管由此而形成第一印象。而第一印象对求职成败起着主要作用。所以，本题正确答案应是D“指出第一印象主要性”。 知识模块：阅读

Video recorders and photocopiers, even ticket machines on the railways, often seem unnecessarily difficult to use. Last December I bought myself a video cassette recorder (VCR) described as “simple to use”. In the first three weeks I failed repeatedly to program the machine to record from the TV, and after months of practice I still made mistakes. I am not alone. According to a survey last year by Ferguson, the British manufacturer, more than one in four VCR owners never use the timer (定时器) on their machines to record a programme: they don’t use it because they’ve found it far too hard to operate. So why do manufacturers keep on designing and producing VCRS that are awkward to use if the problems are so obvious? First, the problems we notice are not obvious to technically minded (有技术思想) designers with years of experience and trained to understand how appliances work. Secondly, designers tend to add one or two features at a time to each model, whereas you or I face all a machine’s features at once. Thirdly, although finding problems in a finished product is easy, it is too late by then to do anything about the design. Finally, if manufacturers can get away with selling products that are difficult to use, it is not worth the effort of any one of them to make improvements. Some manufacturers say they concentrate on providing a wide range of features rather than on making the machines easy to use. But that gives rise to the question, “Why can’t you have features that are easy to use?” The answer is you can. Good design practice is a mixture of specific procedures and general principles. For a start, designers should build an original model of the machine and try it out on typical members of the public—not on colleagues in the development laboratory. Simple public trials would quickly reveal many design mistakes. In an ideal world, there would be some ways of controlling quality such as that the VCR must be redesigned repeatedly until, say, 90 percent of users can work 90 percent of the features correctly 90 percent of the time.

6． The author had trouble operating his VCR because______.
A．he had neglected the importance of using the timer
B．the machine had far more technical features than necessary
C．he had set about using it without proper training
D．its operation was far more difficult than the designer intended it to be

正确答案：D
解析：本题问作者在操作他卡式录放机时有困难原因是什么。此题是道详细细节问题。利用查阅式阅读法，我们能够在文章第一段中找到相关信息。作者在文章开头以其亲身经历埋怨卡式录放机难于操作。作者说他买卡式录放机用着不顺手，这并不稀奇，连厂家调查也表明四分之一以上人从不使用一些功效，因为太难操作了。所以，本题正确答案应是D“卡式录放机操作起来远比设计人员预期要难”。 知识模块：阅读

7． According to the author, manufacturers______.
A．should add more useful features to their machines
B．often fail to make their products easy to use
C．should make their appliances as attractive as possible
D．often fail to provide proper training in the use of their products

正确答案：B
解析：本题问按照作者观点，生产厂家总是怎样。利用查阅式阅读法，依照文章第三段，生产商总是想依靠增加产品功效来提升产品魅力，结果往往造成其产品越来越难操作。所以，本题正确答案应是选择项B“通常使得他们产品难以操作”。选择项A、C为生产商热衷做法而非作者主张，选择项D与文章内容不符。 知识模块：阅读

8． It seems that manufacturers will remain reluctant to make improvements unless______.
A．they can do so at a very low cost
B．they find their machines hard to operate
C．they have difficulty selling their products
D．they receive a lot of complaints about their machines

正确答案：C
解析：本题问除非在什么条件下，生产厂家似乎是不愿意改进其产品。利用查阅式阅读法，依照文章第二段最终一句，假如生产商能够卖掉操作难产品，他们就不会做出任何努力来改进产品。由此我们能够推断出，只有在新产品积压卖不出去情况下，生产商才会努力对自己产品进行改进。所以，本题正确答案应是选择项C“除非在他们产品销售困难情况下”。 知识模块：阅读

9． According to the passage, before a VCR is sold on the market, its original model should be tried out______.
A．among ordinary consumers who are not technically minded
B．among people who are technically minded
C．among experienced technicians and potential users
D．among people who are in charge of public relations

正确答案：A
解析：本题问按照文章内容，在卡式录放机投放市场销售之前，原始模型应该怎样处理。依照文章最终一段第二句，首先，设计者应该生产一个机器原始模型，然后拿给有代表性大众去试验使用。由此我们能够推断出本题正确答案应是A“应该把机器原始模型拿给没有什么技术普通消费者来试用一下”。 知识模块：阅读

10． One of the reasons why VCRs are so difficult to use is that______.
A．the designers are often insensitive to the operational complexities of their machines
B．the range of features provided is unlimited
C．there is no ideal way of controlling quality
D．their designers often ignore the complaints of their users

正确答案：A
解析：本题问卡式录放机使用起来非常难一个原因是什么。依照文章第二段第二句话我们能够推知，设计者并不了解他们所设计产品会给用户带来困难，因为在用户看来很复杂功效在他们看来却十分轻易，而等他们发觉问题时候，产品已经定型。所以，本题正确答案应是选择项A“设计者通常对他们设计机器在操作方面复杂性并不敏感”。 知识模块：阅读

Money—what a fascinating subject! There is money in the physical sense; coins, paper money, cheques and plastic credit cards. Then there’s the whole interesting history of the monetary system. If you’re something of a philosopher, however, you may be more interested in people’s attitude to money. Consider the difference between those who always manage to live within their income , and those who—no matter how much they earn—always need to spend more. The philosophies people have about money are reflected in the way they spend it. Two families earning the same salary may use their money in different ways. One family’s consumer goods may be another’s ticket to a foreign country. In the radio series The Cost of Living, English people are heard discussing many different aspects of money. The programmers make me think of a particular Englishman—one who is not featured in the series. Francis Bacon was born in 1560, a few years before Shakespeare, and died in 1626. As a boy he displayed a remarkable intelligence, and by the age of thirteen was a student at Cambridge University. He studied law, then had a highly successful career. By 1617 he was Prime Minister of England. He had also published some important philosophical and literary works which are still read today. Why should a series of programmes about money make me think of Lord Bacon? Briefly, because it was his attitude to money which controlled, and ultimately ruined, his life. He was a man who spent much more than he could earn. To support his luxurious life-style he borrowed money from anyone who was foolish enough to lend it to him, then carefully avoided his creditors. Far worse, he abused his position of authority, accepting bribes in return for favors. For that he was eventually sent to prison. He spent the last years of his life in disgrace.

11． This selection is probably taken from______.
A．a newspaper editorial
B．a history textbook
C．an essay on money
D．a personal record

正确答案：C
解析：本题需浏览全文并深入了解才能找出正确答案。从全文内容和体裁来看，本文主要是围绕着金钱来写，是一篇夹叙夹议小品文，而非报纸社论、历史书本或个人统计。所以，本题正确答案为C。 知识模块：阅读

12． “To live within their income” means______.
A．they don’t spend more than they earn
B．they have to live from hand to mouth
C．they live mainly on their salary and bonus
D．money obtained honestly always comes slowly

正确答案：A
解析：本题是考查句子含义类问题，利用查阅式阅读法，我们能够在第二段第二句话中找到与问题相关信息。这句话使我们了解到两种人之间不一样，一个人量人为出，另一个人花总比挣多。所以本句话含义是指那些花比挣少、总有节余人。所以，正确答案是A。 知识模块：阅读

13． Francis Bacon is today remembered for______.
A．his great contribution as Prime Minister
B．his attitude to money
C．his life style
D．his important philosophical and literary works

正确答案：D
解析：本题是一道详细细节题，题干中有明确提醒词Francis Bacon，能够利用查阅式阅读法，在第四段中找到相关信息。尤其第四段最终一句指出，至今人们仍在阅读Francis Bacon发表一些主要哲学和文学作品。所以，本题正确答案是D。 知识模块：阅读

14． The expression “he abused his position of authority” means______.
A．he disliked his responsible position
B．he was rude to people
C．he took advantage of his power and put it to wrong use
D．he bought things at bargain prices and sold them at higher prices

正确答案：C
解析：本题是考查句子含义类问题，利用查阅式阅读法，我们在文章第四段和第五段中能够找到与问题句子相关提醒信息。这两段指出，Bacon曾任首相，他生活奢侈，欠了很多债，而且收受贿赂并最终被捕入狱。由此，我们能够推断出题目中句子是指他滥用职权意思。所以，本题正确答案应是C。 知识模块：阅读

15． What does the word “physical” in the first line mean in this passage?
A．Material.
B．Bodily.
C．Of physics.
D．Facial.

正确答案：A
解析：本题是一道词汇含义类问题。依照本词所在句子上下文，我们能够推断出，本题正确答案应是A“物质”。 知识模块：阅读

Florence Sephton is 77 and lives in Deganwy, North Wales. She is reading for an arts de-gree, “I’m more of a creature to polish my mind than polish my furniture. The house takes second place while I put the studying first. “ “I was very happy at school and had wonderful teaching. I passed the university entrance examination and was ready to go to university but with World War I went into banking. I was paid 1 pound a week. Manchester University kept my place open for three years but I was enjoying the money and the freedom so I turned it down. “ Mrs. Sephton is now in the second year of her Open University course and is finding it hard work. She underestimates her ability. “I’m feeling tired more frequently. I can’t do more than an hour’s work at a time. The memory’s shocking. I’m supposed to be revising and I look up notes I did earlier this year and think, ‘ Have you read this before?’ So I’m doing it very slowly—one credit a year, so it’ll take six years. “ “At the moment the greatest reward is simply the increase in knowledge—and the discipline. I had an essay failed this week. The professor said I hadn’t answered the question. I’ve been thinking about it all week. I know I haven’t got the facility for essay construction. I just let myself go and get excited. I feel more emotionally than I do mentally. I’m very ordinary really. “ Claiming to be ordinary and lazy, Mrs. Sephton is still working hard daily at her assignments. Mrs. Sephton sees her studies as keeping her fit and independent. “Because of my life I’ve been self-sufficient. It’s not a very nice characteristic. It means I don’t care enough about people. I can’t say I find comfort in what I’ll be learning, so I’ll be interested to see if there’s a life ahead. “

16． When Florence said “I’m more of a creature to polish my mind than polish my furniture” (Line 2, Para. 1) , she meant that______.
A．she was tired of learning
B．she was thirsty for knowledge
C．she was more suitable for doing housework
D．she didn’t have enough time to keep the house clean

正确答案：B
解析：本题是一道句子含义类问题。问弗洛伦斯说“I’m more of a creature to polish my mind than polish my furniture．”这句话是什么意思。依照上下文，我们知道老人77岁，家住北威尔士迪根维，她在攻读文科学位。“我这个人比较重视使智慧闪光而较轻视使家俱闪光，家居第二，学习第一。”由此我们能够推知，老人话意思是她更渴望学习知识。所以，本题正确答案应是B。 知识模块：阅读

17． Florence never took up her place at Manchester University because______.
A．she was obliged to work
B．she wasn’t interested in that university
C．she no longer wanted to study
D．she was happy with her job

正确答案：D
解析：本题是一道详细细节题。问弗洛伦斯从未去曼彻斯特大学就读原因是什么。利用查阅式阅读法，我们能够在文章第二段中找到相关信息。这段指出，“想当年我学校生活很愉快，很喜欢所学课程。我经过了大学人学考试并准备去上大学，不过却暴发了第一次世界大战，我便在银行找了份工作，每七天拿一英镑薪水。曼彻斯特大学为我保留了3年学籍，不过，我喜欢挣钱和工作自由，于是便放弃了这个机会。”所以，本题正确答案应是D“她对自己工作很满意”。 知识模块：阅读

18． How is she getting on with her studies?
A．Age makes it more difficult for her to cope with her studies.
B．She devotes only one hour a day to her s