2013年全国职称英语：理工类预测(1)(1)

2013-03-23

　　第1部分：词汇选项(第1～15题，每题1分，共15分)

　　下面每个句子中均有1个词或短语划有底横线，请为每处划线部分确定1个意义最为接近的选项。

　　1. You look smart in the new suit.

　　A. clever B. handsome C. loyal D. brave

　　2. He doesn’t have the funds to carry out his design.

　　A. make B. keep C. change D. implement

　　3. I was astonished at the news of his escape.

　　A. amused B. amounted C. amazed D. approached

　　4. It’s almost 5 o’clock; time to quit.

　　A. increase B. stop C. continue D. keep

　　5. Do you follow what I am saying?

　　A. change B. investigate C. write D. understand

　　6. The boys broke into excited cheering.

　　A. burst B. blasted C. burned D. blazed

　　7. China does a lot of trade with many countries.

　　A. a great deal of B. a great many of C. a large number of D. a great level of

　　8. An old friend called on me the day before yesterday.

　　A. telephoned B. rang C. visited D. saw

　　9. We are going to have the TV fixed.

　　A. prepared B. mended C. cleaned D. arranged

　　10. I am heartily grateful to your help.

　　A. helpful B. hateful C. delightful D. thankful

　　11. She eventually married the most persistent one of her admirers.

　　A. in a way B. in due course C. in the end D. in any case

　　12. Five minutes left, the outcome of the match was still in doubt.

　　A. result B. judgment C. decision D. event

　　13. The reporter was accused of unprofessional conduct.

　　A. movement B. words C. principle D. behavior

　　14. He made a considerable sum of money in real estate.

　　A. large B. positive C. powerful D. realistic

　　15. A crowd gathered to see what had happened.

　　A. collected B. fixed C. divided D. assist

　　第2部分：阅读判断(第16～22题，每题1分，共7分)

　　下面的短文后列出了7个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断：如果该句提供的是正确信息，请选择A;如果该句提供的是错误信息，请选择B;如果该句的信息文中没有提及，请选择C。

　　Easy Learning

　　Students should be jealous. Not only do babies get to doze their days away, but they’ve also mastered the fine art of learning in their sleep.

　　By the time babies are a year old they can recognise a lot of sounds and even simple words. Marie Cheour at the University of Turku in Finland suspected that they might progress this fast because they learn language while they sleep as well as when they are awake.

　　To test the theory, Cheour and her colleagues studied 45 newborn babies in the first few days of their lives. They exposed all the infants to an hour of Finnish vowel sounds—one that sounds like “oo”, another like “ee” and a third boundary vowel peculiar to Finnish and similar languages that sounds like something in between. EEG recordings of the infants brains before and after the session showed that the newborns could not distinguish the sounds.

　　Fifteen of the babies then went back with their mothers, while the rest were split into two sleep-study groups. One group was exposed throughout their night-time sleeping hours to the same three vowels, while the others listened to other, easier-to-distinguish vowel sounds.

　　When tested in the morning, and again in the evening, the babies who’d heard the tricky boundary vowel all night showed brainwave activity indicating that they could now recognise this new sound. They could identify the sound even when its pitch was changed, while none of the other babies could pick up the boundary vowel at all.

　　Cheour doesn’t know how babies accomplish this night-time learning, but she suspects that the special ability might indicate that unlike adults, babies don’t “turn off” their cerebral cortex while they sleep. The skill probably fades in the course of the first year of life, she adds—so forget the idea that you can pick up tricky French vowels as an adult just by slipping a language tape under your pillow. But while it may not help grown-ups, Cheour is hoping to use the sleeping hours to give remedial help to babies who are genetically at risk of language disorders.

　　16. Babies can learn language even in their sleep.