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08年全国职称英语等级考试理工类A级真题及答案(4)

2008-11-11 
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  第5部分:补全短文(第46~50题,每题2分,共10分)

  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.t comes to economic decisions,there are always trade offs(取舍)•Gain 0ne thing and you lose something else._________(46)
  The central argument of Michael Moore’s movie“Sicko”一that the cure t0 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. ___________(47) Kurt Loder, the film critic who is best known as the anchor(主持人)of“MTV News,”wrole a critique(批评)of the film for MTV’s website."Sicko,"he said, "does a real service”in portraying(描绘)victims of American insurance companies’-like the people,who died because their only treatment options were considered“experimental" and therefore not covered._______(48)
  When" governments attempt to regulate the balance between a limited supply of health care and an unlimited demand for it,they’re inevitably forced to ration treatment’
  Mr. Loder asserted.________(49)Mr. Loder cited the short film“Dead Meat,”which presents anecdotes(轶事)of failure In the Canadian single-payer system in its one—sidedness,“Dead Meat',might have made for a nice double feature with "Sicko," and left movie-goers with a more complete understanding Of the complications of deciding on a health care system _____________(50)
  This all makes an otherwise “emotionally compelling film not necessarily an intellectually satisfying one,”wrote Darren Barefoot,a Canadian blogger. (博客作者).
  A This is particularly true in health care,a market in which scarce(稀罕的)goods are ridiculously expensive,but needed by everybody
  B Mr. Moore also decided to ignore problems in other countries,like France’S high taxes and Britain’ S cash—short hospitals
  C But the film as a whole,he concluded,is“breathtakingly meretricious(似是而非的),”in large part because of its characterizations of other countries’health care systems.
  D The problems have been noticed—and criticism is coming not just from Mr. Moore’S detractors(诋毁者).
  E He ticked off a number of negative statistics to counter the positive ones offered by Mr. Moore
  F Health care is the prevention,treatment,and management of illness  

  第6部分:完型填空(第51~65题,每题1分,共15分)

  下面的短文有15处空白,请根据短文内容为每处空白确定1个最佳选项。

  Debate over the Use of Renewable Energy

  Amusable of Rockefeller University in New York,US says the key renewable(可再生的) energy sources,including sun,wind and bibfuls, would all require vast amounts of land developed up to large scale production—unlike nuclear power.That land would be far better________(51)alone,he says.Renewable look_______ (52) when they are quite small.But if we start producing renewable energy on a large________(53), the fallout(结果)is going to be horrible.
  Amusable draws his conclusions by analyzing the amount of energy that renewable natural gas and nuclei(原子核)can________(54)in terms of power per square meter of land used.Moreover,he claims that_________(55)renewable energy use increases this measure of efficiency wail decrease as the best land for wind,bibfuls,and solar power gets used up.
  Solar power is much more__________ (56) than bibful in used but it would still ________(57)1 50 square kilometers terms of the area of land of photovoltaic(光电的) cells to match the energy production of the 1 000 MW nuclear plant.in another example, he says__________ (58)the 2005 US electricity demand via wind need 780,000 square kilometers,an area the__________(59)of Texas power alone would However,several experts are highly critical of Amusable’ s________(60).John Turner of the US government’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory says that even if the US got all of its_______ (61) from solar energy, it would still need less than half the amount of land that has been _________(62) highways.Further,it need not ________(63)up additional land. The US could get a quarter of its energy just from covering rooftops of existing buildings,he says According to Turner,the same“dual use”also_________(64) to wind power. footprint for wind is only 5%of the land that it ___________(65) . Farmers can still farm the land that the turbines are on.Turner says looking solely at land use is an 0versimDlificatiOn of the issue.

  51. A.left B.owned C.held D.bought
  52. A.fresh B.costly C.attractive D.dirty
  53. A.number B.scale C.part D.extent
  54. A.reduce B.increase C.consume D.produce
  55. A.since B.as C.because D.until
  56. A.effective B.important C.special D.efficient
  57. A.require B.show C.collect D.discover
  58. A.making B.Keeping C.meeting D.creating
  59. A.form B.size C.region D.scope
  60. A.conclusions B.decisions C.solutions D.modifications
  61. A.force B.volume C.control D.power
  62. A.to B.in C.for D.on

  63. A.give B.take C.set D.turn

  64. A.applies B.adapts C.relates D.appeals
  65. A.touches B.faces C.covers D.holds

2008年理工类A级考题出题特点:
  
1. 来自教材“送分题”共40分:其中词汇选项题部分直接送分(属于教材原题)6分,间接送分题(属于教材中原有词汇题的“改头换面”)(4分);阅读理解有一篇直接来自理工类教材(Why humans walk on two legs); 完型填空来自教材(Debate over the use of renewable energy);
   2. 整套考题送分比例, 考题中的语言难度,问题设置难度, 考点设置情况基本与07年理工A考题难度相当, 但是补全短文考题语言难度同07年考题相比难度有所增加。

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