2015年职称英语考试综合类练习题

单项选择题

1、Can you do the task alone, or do you want anyone to assist you?
A．aim
B．help
C．show
D．guide
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2、根据以下材料，完成题。
Home Schooling
All children in the United States have to receive an education, but the law does not say they have to be educated at school. A number of parents prefer not to send their children to school.
_________ (46) There are about 300,000 home-schoolers in the United States today. Some parents prefer teaching their children at home because they do not believe that public schools teach the correct religious values; others believe they can provide a better educational experience for their children by teaching them at home. _________ (47)
David Guterson and his wife teach their three children at home. Guterson says that his children learn very differently from children in school. _________ (48) For example, when there isheavy snowfall on a winter day, it may start a discussion or reading about climate, snow removal(去除) equipment, Alaska, polar bears (北极熊), and winter tourism. A spring evening when the family is out watching the stars is a good time to ask questions about satellites and the space program. _________ ( 49 )
Home schooling is often more interesting than regular schools, but critics say that borne schoolers are outsiders who might be uncomfortable mixing with other people in adult life.
_________ (50) However, most parents don't have the time or the desire to teach their children at home, so schools will continue to be where most children get their formal education.
请在第__(46)__处填上正确答案。
A．Interestingly, results show that home-schooled children quite often do better than average  on national tests in reading and math.
B．Critics also say that most parents are not well qualified to teach their children.
C．Learning starts with the children'st nterests and questions.
D．Children who are educated at home are known as "home-schoolers. "
E．In some countries, however, children are educated by their parents.
F．If the Brazilian rain forests are on the TV news, it could be a perfect time to talk about how rain forests influence the climate, and how deserts are formed.


3、 She was one of the leading writers in her age.
A．successful
B．maior
C．outstanding
D．musical 

4、根据以下材料，回答题。
Electronic Mail
During the past few years，scientists all over the world have suddenly found themselves productively engaged in task they once spent their lives hvoiding--writing，any kind of writing，but particularly letter writing.Encouraged by electronic mail’s surprisingly high speed，convenience and economy，people who never before touched the stuff are regularly，skillfully，even cheerfullv tapping out a great deal of correspondence.
Electronic networks，woven into the fabric of scientific communication these davs. are the route to colleagues in distant countries，shared data，bulletin boards and electronic Joumals.Anyone with a personal computer， a modern and the software to link computers over teleDhone lines can sign on•An estimated five million scientists have done SO with more joining every day，most of them communicating through a bundle of interconnected domestic and foreign routes known collectively as the Internet，or net.
E-mail is starting to edge out the fax，the telephone，overnight mail，and of course.1and mail. It shrinks time and distance between scientific collaborators，in part because it is conveniently asynchronous(异步的)(Writers can type while their colleagues acmss time zones sleep;their message will be waiting.).If it is not yet speeding discoveries，it is certainly accelerating communication.
Jeremy Bernstein，the physicist and science writer，once called E-mail the Dhysicist，s umbilical cord(脐带).Later other people，t00，have been discovering its connective virtues.Physicists are using it;college students are using it;everybody is using it;and as a sign that it has come of age，the New Yorker has celebrated its liberating presence with a cartoon—an appreciative dog seated at a keyboard，saying happily，“on the Internet，nobody knows you’re a dog.”
The reasons given below about the popularity of E—mail can be found in the passage except
A．direct and reliable
B．time—saving in delivery
C．money-saving
D．available at any time


5、I catch a cold now and then.
A．always
B．occasionally
C．constantly
D．regularly


6、The child'S abnormal behavior puzzled the doctor.
A．funnv
B．frightening
C．repeated
D．unusual


7、阅读材料，回答题。