2013年职称英语考前预测（综合类C级）(1)

2013-03-23

　　第1部分：词汇选项 (第1～15题，每题1分，共15分)

　　下面共有15个句子，每个句子中均有1个词或短语划有底横线，请从每个句子后面所给的4个选项中选择1个与划线部分意义最相近的词或短语。答案一律涂在答题卡相应的位置上。

　　1　The nursery is bright and cheerful.

　　A pleasant B clean

　　C peaceful D large

　　2 This kind of material was seldom used in building houses during the Middle Ages.

　　A never B rarely

　　C often D only

　　3 People from many places were drawn to the city by its growing economy.

　　A fetched B carried

　　C attractedD pushed

　　4 The soldier displayed remarkable courage in the battle.

　　A placedB showed

　　C pointed D decided

　　5　How do you account for your absence from the class last Thursday?

　　A explain B examine

　　C chooseD expand

　　6　About one quarter of the workers in the country are employed in factories

　　A third B fourth

　　C tenth D fifteenth

　　7 She was grateful to him for being so good to her.

　　A careful B hateful

　　C beautifulD thankful

　　8 There are only five minutes left, but the outcome of the match is still in doubt.

　　A resultB judgement

　　C estimation D event

　　9 He is certain that the dictionary is just what I want.

　　A sure B angry

　　C doubtful D worried

　　10 The last few weeks have been enjoyable.

　　A close B near

　　C past D several

　　11 What were the consequences of the decision she had made?

　　A reasonsB results

　　C causes D bases

　　12 They didn't realize how serious the problem was

　　A knowB forget

　　C doubt D remember

　　13 We shall keep the money in a secure place

　　A clean B secret

　　C distant D safe

　　14 The great changes of the city astonished every visitor to that city.

　　A attacked B surprised

　　C attractedD interested

　　15 The city has decided to do away with all the old buildings in its centre

　　A get rid of B set up

　　C repair D paint

　　第2部分：阅读判断(第16～22题，每题1分，共7分)

　　阅读下面这篇短文，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，请在答题卡上把A涂黑;如果该句提供的是错误信息，请在答题卡上把B涂黑;如果该句的信息文章中没有提及，请在答题卡上把C涂黑。

　　The Industrial Age and Employment

　　The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most people's work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it brought may have to be reversed. This seems a daunting thought. But, in fact, it could offer the prospect of a better future for work. Universal employment, as its history shows, has not meant economic freedom.

　　Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by depriving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from people's homes. Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people commuted longer distances to their places of employment until, eventually, many people's work lost all connection with their home lives and the places in which they lived.

　　Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. In pre-industrial times, men and women had shared the productive work of the household and village community. Now it became customary for the husband to go out to paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and families to his wife. Tax and benefit regulations still assume this norm today, and restrict more flexible sharing of work roles between the sexes.

　　It was not only women whose work status suffered. As employment became the dominant form of work, young people and old people were excluded-a problem now, as more teenagers become frustrated at school and more retired people want to live active lives.

　　All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch some effort and resources away from the idealist goal of creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage without full-time jobs.

　　16 The established work patterns may be changed with the closing of the industrial age.