2014年职称英语考试理工类B级模拟冲刺题二

　　17、It is fun to identify the fault for the A 365 earthquake and tsunami.

　　A.Right

　　B.Wrong

　　C.Not mentioned

　　18、Radiocarbon ting techniques can be used to identify the age of the earth.

　　A.Right

　　B.Wrong

　　C.Not mentioned

　　19、Scientists predict that the nt powerful earthquake in the eastern Mediterranean may take place sometime before 2100.

　　A.Right

　　B.Wrong

　　C.Not mentioned

　　20、Ms. Shaw has her colleagues help her in the study of earthquake prediction.

　　A.Right

　　B.Wrong

　　C.Not mentioned

　　21、Ms. Shaw measured the movement of ,either side of the fault to identify the magnitude of the earthquake taking place in A 365.

　　A.Right

　　B.Wrong

　　C.Not mentioned

　　22、The earthquake prediction devices developed by Ms. Shaw are being widely used in the world.

　　A.Right

　　B.Wrong

　　C.Not mentioned

　　第3部分：概括大意与完成句子(第23～30题，每题1分，共8分) 下面的短文后有2项测试任务：(1)第23～26题要求从所给的6个选项中为第2-5段每段选择1个最佳标题;(2)第27～30题要求从所给的6个选项中为每个句子确定1个最佳选项。

　　Adult Education

　　1. Voluntary learning in organized courses by mature men and women is called adult education.

　　Such education is offered to make people able to enlarge and interpret their experience as adults. Adults may want to study something which they missed in earlier schooling, get new skills or job training, find out about new technological developments, seek better self understanding, or develop new talents and skills.

　　2. This kind of education may be in the form of self-study with proper guidance through the use of libraries, correspondence courses, or broadcasting. It may also be acquired collectively in schools and colleges, study groups, workshops, clubs and professional associations.

　　3. Modem adult education for large numbers of people started in the 18th and 19th centuries with the rise of the Industrial Revolution. Great economic and social changes were taking

　　place: people were moving from rural areas to cities; new types of work were being created in an expanding factory system. These and other factors produced a need for further education and re-education of adults.

　　4. The earliest programs of organized adult education arose in Great Britain in the 1790s, with the founding of an adult school in Nottingham and a mechanics' institution in Glasgow.

　　Benjamin Franklin and some friends found the earliest adult education institution in the U. S. in Philadelphia in 1727.

　　5. People recognize that continued/earning is necessary for most forms of employment today.

　　For example, parts of the adult population in many countries find it necessary to take part in retraining programs at work or even to learn completely new jobs. Adult education programs are springing up constantly to meet these and other need.