职称英语综合试题每日一练

2015年职称英语考试综合类每日一练(1)

单项选择题

1、The little girl graspedher mother's arm as she crossed the street.
A．understood 
B．had a hold over 
C．took hold of 
D．left hold of
2、根据以下材料，回答题。
Scotland:A Land of Wisdom
In the 1740s ，the famous French philosopher Voltaire said "We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilization. "That's not a bad advertisement for any country when it comes to attracting people to search for a first-class education.
According to the American author Arthur Herman, the Scots invented the modern world itself. He argues that Scottish thinkers and intellectuals worked out many of the most important ideas on which modern life depends--everything from the. scientific method to market economics. Their ideas did not just spread among intellectuals, but to those people in business, government and the sciences who actually shaped the Western world.
It all started during the period that historians call the Scottish Enlightenment(启蒙运动),which is usually seen as taking place between the years 1740 and 1800. Before that, philosophy was mainly concerned with religion. For the thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment, the proper study of humanity was mankind itself.
Their reasoning was practical. For the philosopher David Hume, humanity was the fight subject for philosophy because we can examine human behavior and so find real evidence of how peopie think and feel. And from that we can make judgments about the societies we live in and make concrete suggestions about how they can be improved for universal benefit.
Hume's enquiry into the nature of knowledge laid the foundations for the scientific method--the pursuit of truth through experiment. His friend and fellow resident of Edinburgh, Adam Smith,famously applied the study of mankind to the ways in which mankind does business. Trade, he argued, was a form of information. In pursuing our own interests through trading in markets, we all come to benefit each other.
Smith's idea has dominated modern views of economics. It also has wide applications. He was one of the philosophers to point out that nations can become rich, free and powerful through peace, trade and invention.
Although the Scottish Enlightenment ended a long time ago, the ideas which evolved at that time still underpin ( 构成....的基础) our theories of human exchange and enquiry. It also exists in Scotland itself in an educational tradition that combines academic excellence with orientation（方向）。
Scotland is the right place to receive a first-class education.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
3、 John has made up his mind not to go to the meeting.
A．wanted
B．promised
C．decided
D．agreed
4、 The best olive oil is obtained from olives that are harvested just after they ripen.
A．preserved
B．squeezed
C．sorted
D．gathered
5、  This poem depicts the beautiful scenery of a town in the South.
A．praises
B．writes
C．imitates
D．describes
6、The walls are made of hollow concrete blocks。 
A．big
B．long
C．new
D．empty 
7、Safety officials have earnestly, questioned whether the increased use of synthetic materials heightens the risk of fire.
A．cautiously
B．severely
C．accurately
D．seriously
8、阅读材料，回答题。

Why Would They Falsely Confess?

 Why on earth would an innocent person falsely confess to committing a crime? To most people, it justdoesn't seem logical. But it is logical, say experts, if you understand what could happen in a police interrogation(审讯) room. Under the right conditions, people's minds are susceptible ( 易受影响的 ) to influence, and the pressure put on suspects during police grilling ( 盘问 ) is enormous.
46"The pressure is important to understand because otherwise it's impossible to understand why someone would say he did something he didn't do. The answer is to put an end to an uncomfortable situation that will continue until he does confess." Developmental psychologist Allison Redlich recently conducted a laboratory determine how likely people are to confess to things they didn't do.47The researchers then intentionally crashed the computers and accused the participants of hitting the "alt" key to see if they would sign a statement falsely taking responsibility.
 Redlich's findings clearly demonstrate how easy it can be to get people to falsely confess: 59 percent of the young adults in the experiment immediately confessed.48Of the 15 to 16-year-olds, 72 percent signed confessions, as did 78 percent of the 12 to 13-year-olds.
 "There's no question that young people are more at risk, " says Saul Kassin, Professor at Williams College, who has done similar studies with similar results.49A psychology Both Kassin and Redlich note that the entire "interrogation" in their experiments consisted of a simple accusation-not hours of aggressive questioning-and still, most participants falsely confessed.
 Because of the stress of a police interrogation, they conclude, suspects can become convinced that falsely confessing is the easiest way out of a bad situation.50
请在第__(46)__处填上正确答案。
A．In her experiment participants were seated at computers and told not to hit the "Alt" key, because doing so would crash the systems.
B．"In some ways," says Kassin, " false confession becomes a rational decision."
C．"It's a little like somebody's working on them with a dental ( 牙齿的 ) drill, " says Franklin Zimring, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
D．"But adults are highly vulnerable too."
E．How could an innocent person admit to doing something he didn't do?
F．Redlich also found that the younger the participant, the more likely a false confession.
9、The police tried in vain to break up the protest crowds in front of the government building.
A．unskillfully
B．violently
C．ineffectively
D．eventually
10、 When he finally emerged from the cave after thirty days, John was shockingly pale.
A．enormously
B．startlingly
C．uniquely
D．dramatically