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商务英语（专科）2018学年第1学期
:号《商务英语阅读》试题（A卷）
位座年级： 考试形式：闭卷 考试时间：90分钟
题 题 号 一 二 三 四 五 六 七 总分 答 得 ：分 阅卷人 号要学
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：请得 Part I Multiple Choices (15 points, 1 point each) 名姓分 Direction: There are 15 incomplete sentences in this part. For 内each sentence there are four Choices marked A, B, C and D. :次Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. 层 线1. The fifth generation computers, with artificial intelligence, _______ and perfected now.
封： A. developed B. have developed
业专 C. are being developed D. will have been developed
密 2. You _______ her in her office last Friday; she’s been out of town for ：two weeks.
级年 A. needn’t have seen B. must have seen C. might have seen D. can’t have seen
3. She’s always been kind to me – I can’t just turn ______on her ：now that she needs my help.
点学 A. my back B. my head C. my eye D. shoulder
教4. Careful surveys have indicated that as many as 50 percent of patients do
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not take drugs _______ directed.
A. like B. so C. which D. as
5. The _______ goal of the book is to help bridge the gap between research and teaching, particularly the gap between researchers and teachers.
A. joint B. intensive C. overall D. decisive 6. We can accept your order _______ payment is made in advance. A. in the belief that B. in order that C. on the excuse that D. on condition that
7. The medical experts warned the authorities of the danger of diseases in the _______ of the earthquake.
A. consequence B. aftermath C. results D. effect
8. Research universities have to keep up with the latest computer and scientific hardware _______ price.
A. on account of B. regardless of C. in addition to D. not to mention
9. I am surprised _______ this city is a dull place to live in.
A. that you would think B. by what you are thinking C. that you should think D. with what you were thinking 10. Don’t let the child play with scissors _______ he cuts himself. A. in case B. so that C. now that D. only if 11. They always give the vacant seats to _______ comes first. A. whoever B. whomever C. who D. whom
12. Doing your homework is a sure way to improve your test scores, and this is especially true _______ it comes to classroom tests.
A. when B. since C. before D. after
13. Personal computers are no longer something beyond the ordinary people; they are _______ available these days.
A. promptly B. instantly C. readily D. quickly
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14. Owing to _______ competition among the airlines, travel expenses have been reduced considerably.
A. fierce B. strained C. eager D. critical 15. Doctor often ______uneasiness in the people they deal with. A. smell B. sense C. hear D. tough 得 Part II Word Match (15 points, 1 point each)
分 Direction: Match the following words with their definitions within each group of five words. Write down the matched letter on the answer sheet. Group 1
1. authentic
A. having powers of learning, reasoning or
understanding 2. commitment B. twist; changing shape
3. exaggerate C. a promise or decision to do something 4. intelligent D. real; true and accurate
5. distortion E. say more than the truth about something Group 2
6. authority
A. basic; central; forming the necessary basis of
something 7. donate B. something that is considered more important than other matters 8. substantial C. the right or ability to control
9. priority D. give something for the benefit of others 10. fundamental E. large in size, value or importance
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分 Part III Sentence Completion (10 points, 1 point each)
Direction: Fill in each of the blanks with the given word in its proper form. 1. George is not only a skillful painter, but also a ______ writer. (talent) 2. The ________ John to Mary was announced in the newspapers yesterday. (engage)
3. I love the movie because the _______ is my favorite. (act)
4. _______ to say, this absent-minded professor left his umbrella in the classroom again. (need)
5. I'm afraid the girl is a little ________ for her age and height. (weight) 6. Because of his _______ words, the widow committed suicide. (responsibility)
7. Reading English novels helps _______ your vocabulary. (large)
8. His conduct ______ with his words, so now nobody believes in him. (agree)
9. I was annoyed by that __________ man. (mind, narrow)
10. Most people think that we have more natural resources than we need, but it is not ________ true. (necessary) 得 Part IV Cloze (20points, 1 point each)
分 Direction: For each blank in the following passage, choose the most suitable word from this list of words provided underneath. Each word can be used once only. Write your choice of word in the corresponding blank on the ANSWER SHEET. 《商务英语写阅读》试题（A卷） 第 4 页 共14页
密 封 线 得 a 分 being form reserves some as but how remove take :号all can no shape that 位座amount enough on should use at for other since when 题 A Thirsty World 答 The world is not only hungry, it is also thirsty for water. This may seem ：strange to you, (1) _____ nearly 75 per cent of the earth’s surface is 号要学covered with water. But about 97 per cent of this huge (2) _____ is sea water or salt water. Man can only drink and use the (3) _____ 3 per cent — 不 the fresh water (4) _____ comes from rivers, lakes, underground, and other sources. And we cannot even use (5) _____ of that, because some of it is in ：请名the (6) _____ of icebergs and glaciers. 姓 内 However, (7) _____ things stand today, this small amount of fresh water, which is constantly (8) _____ replaced by rainfall, is still enough for :次层 线us. But our need (9) _____ water is increasing rapidly — almost day by day. Only if we (10) _____ steps to deal with this problem now (11) _____ we 封avoid a severe worldwide water shortage later on. A limited water supply ：业would have (12) _____ bad effect on agriculture and industry. We all have 专 密to learn (13) _____ to stop wasting our precious water. One of the first ----------------------------------------密 steps we (14) _____ take is to develop ways of reusing it. Experiments have ：级already been done in this field, but only (15) _____ a small scale. (16) 年 _____ even if every city purified and reused its water, we still would not have (17) _____. All we’d have to do to make use of the vast (18) _____ ：of sea water in the world is (19) _____ the salt. And then we’ll be in (20) 点学_____ danger of drying up. ----------------------------------------封 教 《商务英语阅读》试题（A卷） 第 5 页 共14页 ------------------------------------
Part V Reading Comprehension (40 points,2 points each)
Directions: There are five passages in this part. Each passage is followed by five questions or unfinished statements. For each question, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. Passage 1
Every animal is a living radiator — heat formed in its cells is given off through its skin. Warm-blooded animals maintain a steady temperature by constantly replacing lost surface heat; smaller animals, which have more skin for every ounce of body weight, must produce heat faster than bigger ones. Because smaller animals burn fuel faster, scientists say they live faster. The speed at which an animal lives is determined by measuring the rate at which it uses oxygen. A chicken, for example, uses one-half cubic centimeter of oxygen every hour for each gram it weighs. The tiny shrew uses four cubic centimeters of oxygen every hour for each gram it weighs. Because it uses oxygen eight times as fast, it is said that the mouse-like shrew is living eight times as fast as the chicken. The smallest of the 班级____________________ warm-blooded creatures, the hummingbird, lives a hundred times as fast as an elephant.
There is a limit to how small a warm-blooded animal can be. A mammal or bird that weighed only two and a half grams would starve to death. It would burn up its food too rapidly and would not be able to eat fast 学号enough to supply more fuel.
____________________ 1. The passage says that every animal is a living radiator because it_____. A. produces heat in its body cells B. burns fuel to produce heat C. sends out heat from its bodies D. requires oxygen to produce heat
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---------------------- _--_--__---_--__--_--_--___线-_--__---_--_--__---_----姓名----- --__--_--_--_--__---_--__--__ _封--_--__--_---__------学号_------ _---_--_--__---__--_--_---__--___密--_-_--_--__-------班级_----------------------------2. Warm-blooded animals maintain a steady temperature by_____. A. restoring heat continually B. storing heat in their body cells
C. regulating the amount of heat produced D. regulating the amount of heat given off
3. The amount of oxygen an animal uses depends on_____. A. how much it weighs B. what food it eats C. what it is like D. how long it lives
4. An animal weighing less than 2.5 grams would starve because it would not be able to _____.
A. get enough oxygen B. maintain its body temperature C. burn its food fast enough D. eat fast enough to supply fuel 5. What is implied but not stated in the passage?
A. There is no limit as to how large a warm-blooded animal can be. B. The hummingbird lives faster than any other warm-blooded creature. C. Small animals have less skin for their body weight than large ones. D. The hummingbird is the smallest of the warm-blooded animals. Passage 2
California is a land of variety and contrast. Almost every type of physical land feature, short of arctic ice fields and tropical jungles can be found within its borders. Sharply contrasting types of land often lie very close to one another.
People living in Bakersfield, for instance, can visit the Pacific Ocean and the coastal plain, the fertile San Joaquin Valley, the arid Mojave Desert, and the high Sierra Nevada, all within a radius of about 100 miles. In other areas it is possible to go snow skiing in the morning and surfing in the evening of the same day, without having to travel long distances.
Contrast abounds in California. The highest point in the United States (outside Alaska) is in California, and so is the lowest point (including 《商务英语阅读》试题（A卷）第 7 页 共14页
Alaska). Mount Whitney, 14 494 feet above sea level, is separated from Death Valley, 282 feet below sea level, by a distance of only 100 miles. The two areas have a difference in altitude of almost three miles.
California has deep, clear mountain lakes like Lake Tahoe, the deepest in the country, but it also has shallow, salty desert lakes. It has Lake Tulainyo, 12 020 feet above sea level, and the lowest lake in the country, the Salton Sea, 236 feet below sea level. Some of its lakes, like Owens Lake in Death Valley, are not lakes at all; they are dried-up lakebeds.
In addition to mountains, lakes, valleys, deserts, and plateaus, California has its Pacific coastline, stretching longer than the coastlines of Oregon and Washington combined.
6. Which of the following is the lowest point in the United States?
A. Lake Tulainyo. B. Mojave Desert. C. Death Valley. D. The Salton Sea.
7. Where is the highest point in the United States located?
A. Lake Tahoe. B. Sierra Nevada. C. Mount Whitney. D. Alaska. 8. How far away is Death Valley from Mount Whitney?
A. About 3 miles. B. Only 100 miles. C. 282 feet. D. 14 494 feet.
9. Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage as being within a radius of about 100 miles of Bakersfield?
A. The Pacific Ocean. B. San Joaquin Valley.
C. Mojave Desert. D. Oregon and Washington.
10. Which statement best demonstrates that California is a land of variety and contrast?
A. The highest lake in California is Lake Tulainyo.
B. It is possible to go surfing and snow skiing in some parts of California without having to travel long distance.
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密 封 线 Ocean all lie within a radius of about 100 miles.
D. Owens Lake, in Death Valley, is not really a lake at all. Passage 3
:号 Children are a relatively modern invention. Until a few hundred years 位座ago they did not exist. In medieval and Renaissance painting you see pint-sized men and women, wearing grown-up clothes and grown-up 题 expressions, performing grown-up tasks. Children did not exist because the family as we know it had not evolved.
答 Children today not only exist; they have taken over, in no place more ：than in America, and at no time more than now. It is always Kids’ 号要学Country here. Our civilization is child-centered, child-obsessed. A kid’s body is our physical ideal. In Kid’s Country we do not permit middle-age. 不 Thirty is promoted over 50, but 30 knows that soon his time to be ：请overtaken will come.
名姓 We are the first society in which parents expect to learn from their 内children. Such a topsy-turvy (颠倒) situation has come about at least in part :次because, unlike the rest of the world, ours is an immigrant society, and for 层 线immigrant the only hope is in the kids. In the Old Country, that is, Europe, hope was in the farther, and how much wealth he could accumulate and 封：pass along to his children. In the growth pattern of America and its 业专ever-expanding frontier, the young man was ever advised to GO WEST; 密 the farther was ever inheriting from his son. Kids’ Country may be the ：inevitable result.
级年 Kids’ Country is not all bad. American is the greatest country in the world to grow up in because it is Kids’ Country. We not only wear kids’ clothes and eat kids’ food; we dream Kids’ dreams and make them ：come true. It was, after all, a boy’s game to go to the moon.
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boys and girls forever, jogging and doing push-ups (俯卧撑) against eternity.
11. The author uses the example of the Renaissance painting to show that _______.
A. adults showed less concern for children than we do now
B. adults were smaller and thinner at that time, but they still had a lot of work to do
C. children looked and acted like adults at that time
D. children were not permitted to appear in family paintings at that time
12. In the third paragraph, the Old Country is contrasted with America _______.
A. to show differences in family size
B. to show differences in attitudes towards family relations C. to sow two kinds of geography
D. to show two different kinds of economic relations between generations
13. Going to the moon is an example of _______. A. America’s dreams and creativity
B. America’s childish and queer behavior C. why America hasn’t grown up
D. why America is considered the greatest country in the world 14. According to the passage, which of the following is true? A. It is very difficult for the middle-aged to live in America.
B. America is Kids’ Country because the majority of its people are young and vigorous.
C. Kids’ Country was taking shape in America when immigrants poured into the country
D. America is more of Kids’ Country than any other countries in the
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