2015年职称英语考试理工类练习题（十）

单项选择题
1、根据材料，回答题。 
A Ride in a Cable-car
A ride in a cable-car is one of the exciting and enjoyable experiences a child can have. In Switzerland, which is the home of the cabie-car, it is used mostly to take tourists up the slope of a mountain, to a restaurant from which one can have a bird-eye view of the surrounding country, or to a top of ski-run, from which, in winter, skiers glide down the snow covered the slope on skis. In Singapore, however, the cable-car takes one from the summit of a hill on the main island to a low hill on Sentosa, a resort island just off the southern coast.
The cable-car is really a carriage which hangs from a strong steel cable suspended in the air. It moves along the cable with other cars on pulleys, the wheels of which are turned by electric motors. The cars are painted in eye-~catching colours and spaced at regular intervals. Each car can seat up six persons. After the passengers have entered a car, they are locked in from outside by an attendant, they have no control over the movement of the car.
Before long, the passengers get a breath-taking view through the glass windows of the modern city, the bustling harbour, and the several islands off the coast. The car is suspended so high in the air that slips on the sea look like small boats, and boats like toys. On a clear day, both the sky above and the sea below look beautifully blue.
In contrast to the fast-moving traffic on the ground, the cars in the air move in a leisurely manner, allowing passengers more than enough time to take in the scenery during the brief trip to the island of Sentosa. After a few hours on Sentosa, it will be time again to take a cable-car back to Mount Faber. The return journey is no less exciting than the outward trip.
The cable-car in Singapore
A．takes visitors up to a mountain restaurant
B．takes skiers to the top of a ski-run
C．takes visitors to Sentosa
D．takes visitors to a high mountain
2、 It is obvious that it has been too late to take action.
A．true
B．certain
C．said
D．apparent
3、 Relief workers were shocked by what they saw.
A．moved
B．touched
C．surprised
D．worried
4、根据以下材料回答题：
Academic Mobility
Scholars and students have always been great travelers. "Academic mobility" is now often stated as a fundamental necessity for economic and social progress in the world, but it is certainly nothing new. Serious students were always ready to go abroad in search of the most stimulating teachers and the most famous academies; in search of the purest philosophy, the most effective medicine, the likeliest road to gold.
Mobility of this kind means also mobility of ideas, their transference across frontiers, their simultaneous impact upon many groups of people. The point of learning is to share it, whether with students or with colleagues; one presumes that only eccentrics have an interest in being credited with a startling discovery, or a new technique. It must also have been reassured to know that other people in other parts of the world were about to make the same discovery or were thinking along the same lines, and that one was not quite alone, confronted by inquisition, ridicule or neglect.
In the twentieth century, and particularly in the last twenty years, the old footpaths of the wandering scholars have become vast highways. The vehicle which has made this possible has of course been the aero plane, making contact between scholars even in most distant places immediately feasible, and providing for the very rapid transmission of knowledge. Apart from the vehicle itself, it is fairly easy to identify the main factors which have brought about the recent explosion in academic movement. Some of these are purely quantitative and require no further mention: there are far more centers of leaming, and a far greater number of scholars and students.
In addition, one must recognize the very considerable multiplication of disciplines, particularly in the sciences, which by widening the total area of advanced studies has produced an enormous number of specialists whose particular interests ale precisely defined. These people would work in some isolation if they were not able to keep in touch with similar isolated groups in other countries.

It can be concluded from the passage that "academic mobility"__________
A．means the friendship formed by scholars on the trip
B．is a program initiated by governments
C．has been put great emphasis on in the world
D．means going abroad in search of the best teacher
5、 He was persuaded to give up the idea.
A．mention
B．accept
C．consider
D．drop
6、 Enormous sums of money have been spent on space exploration.
A．Much
B．Large
C．Small
D．Fixed
7、 That guy is really witty．
A．ugly
B．smart
C．honorable
D．popular
8、 A small number of firms have stopped trading.
A．hotels
B．shops
C．restaurants
D．companies
9、 The symptoms of the disease manifested themselves ten days later.
A．appeared
B．eased
C．improved
D．relieved
10、That uniform makes the guards look absurd.
A．serious
B．beautiful
C．impressive
D．ridiculous