1、职称英语考试宝典 系列软件职称英语职称外语考试试题 2010 真题下载第 1 部分：词汇选项(第 115 题，每题 1 分，共 15 分) 下面每个句子中均有 1 个词或短语划有底横线，请为每处划线部分确定 1 个意义最为接近的选项。 1I cant put up with my neighbors noise any longer，itS driving me mad Atolerate B generate Creduce Dmensure 2Regular visits from a social worker can be of immense value to old people
2、living alone Aequal B immediate Cmoderate Dgreat 3He was rather vague about the reasons why he never finished school Abright B unclear Cgeneral Dbad 4I want to provide my boys with a decent education Aspecial B private Cgeneral 职称英语考试宝典 系列软件Dgood 5Sleep stairs can present a particular hazard to olde
3、r people Apicture B danger Cevidence Dcase 6Our arrangements were thrown into complete turmoil Adoubt B relief Cfailure Dconfusion 7Patricia stared at the other girls with resentment Alove B surprise Canger Ddoubt 8Your dog needs at least 20 minutes of vigorous exercise every day Aenergetic B free C
4、physical Dregular 9I enjoyed the play-it had a clever plot and very funny dialogues Aboring B original Chumorous 职称英语考试宝典 系列软件Dlong 10 Lower taxes would spur investment and help economic growth Aattract B spend Cencourage Drequire 11 He demolished my argument in minutes Asupported B disproved Cdispu
5、ted Daccepted 12 The two banks have announced plans to merge next year Aclose B sell Cbreak Dcombine 13 Her father was a quiet man with graceful manners Apolite B usual Cbad Dsimilar 14 The project required ten years of diligent research Ahardworking B social Cbasic 职称英语考试宝典 系列软件Dscientific 15 He wa
6、s kept in appalling conditions in prison Anecessary B terrible Ccritical Dnormal 第 2 部分：阅读判断(第 1622 题，每题 1 分，共 7 分) 下面的短文后列出了 7 个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断：如果该句提供的是正确信息，请选择 A；如果该句提供的是错误信息，请选择 B；如果该句的信息文中没有提及，请选择 C。 California Gives Green Light to Space Solar Power Energy beamed down from space is one step
7、 closer to reality，now that California has given the green light to an agreement that would see the Pacific Gas and Electric Company buy 200 megawatt (兆瓦)of power beamed down from solar-power satellites beginning in 2016But some major chal lenges will have to be overcomed if the technology is to be
8、used widely A start-up company called Solaren is designing the satellites，which it says will use radio waves to beam energy down to a receiving station on Earth The attraction of collecting solar power in space is the almost uninterrupted sunshine available in eosynchronous(与地球同步的)orbit Earth-based
9、solar cells，by contrast，can only collect sun Light during daytime and when skies are clear But space-based solar power must grapple(努力克服)with the high cost per kilogram of launching things into space，says Richard Schwartz of Purdue University in West Lafayette，Indiana， “If youre talking about it bei
10、ng economically viable or power of the Earth，its a tough go“he says. Cal Boerman，Solarens director of energy services，says the company designed its satellites with a view to keeping launch costs down“We knew we had to come up with a different，revolu-tionary design，“he saysA patent the company has wo
11、n describes ways to reduce the systemSweight，including using inflatable minors to focus sunlight on solar cells，so a smaller number cancollect the same amount of energy 职称英语考试宝典 系列软件But using minors introduces other chaHenges，including keeping the solar cells from overhea-ting，says Schwartz“You have
12、 to take care of heat dissipation(散发 )because youre now concen-trating a lot of energy in one place，“he saysAccording to the companys patent，Solarens solarcells will be connected to radiators to help keep them cool Though Boerman says the company believes it can make space-based solar power work，it
13、is notexpecting to crowd out other forms of renewable energyLaws in California and other states requireincreasing use of renewable energy in coming years，he points out“To meet those needs，were go-ing to need all types of renewable energy sources，“he says 16 Solar-power satellites will use radio wave
14、s to beam energy down from space ARight B Wrong CNot mentioned 17 Solaren is going to design 200 solar-power satellites ARight B Wrong CNot mentioned 18 Space-based solar cells could collect solar power only when skies are clear ARightB Wrong CNot mentioned 19 One advantage of space-based solar powe
15、r system is that it is economical ARight B Wrong CNot mentioned 职称英语考试宝典 系列软件20 Inflatable minors are used to reduce the space-based solar power system ARight B Wrong CNot mentioned 21 Space-based solar power will rule out other forms of renewable energy sources ARight B Wrong CNot mentioned 22 Many
16、 countries will grant permission for the use of spaced-based solar power soon ARight B Wrong CNot mentioned 第 3 部分：概括大意与完成句子( 第 2330 题，每题 1 分，共 8 分) 下面的短文后有 2 项测试任务： (1)第 2326 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 2730 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。 Natural Gas 1 Natural gas is produced from rese
17、rvoirs deep beneath the earths surfaceIt is a fossil fuel (矿物质燃料) ，meaning that it is derived from organic material buried in the earth millions of yearsagoThe main component of natural gas is methane(甲烷) 2 The popularity and use of clean natural gas has increased dramatically over the past 50 years
18、 as pipeline infrastructure(基础设施)has been installed to deliver it conveniently and economically to millions of residential，commercial and industrial customers worldwideToday，natural gas serviceis available in all 50 states in the US，and is the leading 职称英语考试宝典 系列软件energy choice for fueling Americanh
19、omes and idustries。More than 65 million American homes use natural gasIn fact，natural gas isthe most economical source for home energy needs，costing one-third as much as electricityIn addi-tion to heating homes，much of the gas used in the United States is used as a raw material to manu-facture a wid
20、e variety of products，from paint，to fibers for clothing，to plastics for heahhcare，con-puting and furnishingsNatural gas is also used in a significant number of new electricity-generating power plants 3 Natural gas is one of the safest and cleanest fuels availableIt emits less pollution than oth-er f
21、ossil fuel sourcesWhen natural gas is burned，it produces mostly carbon dioxide(二氧化碳) and water vapor-the same substances emitted when humans exhaleCompared with some other fos-sil fuels，natural gas emits the least amount of carbon dioxide into the air when combusted(燃烧)， making natural gas the clean
22、est burning fossil fuel of a11 4 The United States consumes about one-third of the worldS natural gas output，making it the largest gas-consuming region in the worldThe US Department of EnergyS Energy Information Ad-ministration forecasts that natural gas demand will grow by more than 50 percent by 2
23、025 5 There are huge reserves of natural gas beneath the earths surfaceThe largest reserves of natural gas can be found in Russia，West and North Africa and the Middle EastLNG(液化天然气)has been produced domestically and imported in the United States for more than four decades Today，the leading importes
24、of LNG are Japan，Korea，France and Spain 23 Paragraph 2_ 24 Paragraph 3_ 25 Paragraph 4_. 26 Paragraph 5_ APopularity and use of natural gas B Natural gas reserves and supply CNatural gas prices DClean fuel of choice EDisadvantages of natural gas FNatural gas consumption 职称英语考试宝典 系列软件27 Natural gas i
25、s stored deep_ 28 Natural gas is recognized as the most economical energy source_ 29 When manufacturing many products，people commonly use natural gas_ 30 It is estimated that by 2025 that natural gas demand in the United States will increase_ Aover the past 50 years B beneath the earth surface Cby m
26、ore than 50 percent Dfor more than four decades Eas a raw material Ffor home energy needs 第 4 部分：阅读理解(第 3l45 题，每题 3 分，共 45 分) 下面有 3 篇短文，每篇短文后有 5 道题。请根据短文内容,为每题确定 1 个最佳选项。第一篇 How the First Stars in the Universe Came into Existence How the first stars formed from this dust and gas has been a burning q
27、uestion for years，but a state-of-the-art computer simulation now offers the most detailed picture yet of how these first stars in the universe came into existence，researchers say The composition of the early universe was quite different from that of today，and the physics that governed the early univ
28、erse were also somewhat simplerDrNaoki Yoshida and colleagues in Japan and the US incorporated these conditions of the early universe，sometimes referred to as the “cosmic dark ages，“to simulate the formation of an astronomical object that would eventually shine its light into this darkness The resul
29、t is a detailed description of the formation of a protostar-the early stage of a massive primordial star of our universe，and the researcherscomputer simulation，which has been called a “cosmic Rosetta Stone “sets the bar for further investigation into the star formation processThe question of how the
30、 first stars evolved is so important because 职称英语考试宝典 系列软件their formations and eventual explo-sions provided the seeds for subsequent stars to come into being According to their simulation，gravity acted on minute density variations in matter，gases，and the mysterious“dark matterof the universe after
31、the Big Bang in order to form this early stage of a star-a protostar with a mass of just one percent of our sunThe simulation reveals how pre-stellar gases would have actually evolved under the simpler physics of the early universe to form this protostar DrYoshidas simulation also shows that the pro
32、tostar would likely evolve into a massive star capableof synthesizing heavy elements，not just in later generations of stars，but soon after the Big Bang “This geneal picture of star formation，and the ability to compare how stellar objects form in different time periods and regions of the universe，wil
33、l eventually allow investigation into the originsof life and planets，“said Lars Hernquist，a Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and a coauthor of this latest report“The abundance of elements in the universe has increased as stars haveaccumulated，“he says，“and the formation and destruction o
34、f stars continues to spread these ele ments further across the universeSo when you think about ita11 of the elements in our bodies originally formed from nuclear reactions in the centers of stars，long ago“ Their simulation of the birth of a protostar in the early universe signifies a key step toward
35、 theambitious goal of piecing together the formation of an entire primordial star and of predicting the massand properties of these first stars of the universeMore powerful computers，more physical data，andan even larger range will be needed for further calculations and simulations，but these research
36、ers hope to eventually extend this simulation to the point of nuclear reaction initiation-when a stellar ob ject becomes a true star “DrYoshida has taken the study of primordial star formation to a new level with this simulation，but it still gets us only to the halfway point towards our final goalIt
37、 is like laying the foundation of a skyscraper，“said Volker Bromm，Assistant Professor of Astronomy at the University of Tex as，Austin and the author of a companion article“We must continue our studies in this area to un-derstand how the initially tiny protostar grows，layer by layer，to eventually for
38、m a massive starButhere ，the physics become much more complicated and even more computational resources are needed“ 31 According to the first two paragraphs，the early universe_ Awas governed by simpler physics B got fewer stars shinning in it Cstarted over 13 billion years ago 职称英语考试宝典 系列软件Dwas comp
39、osed in a way similar to that of today 32 What can the state-of-theart computer simulation tell us about? AHow the Big Bang occurred about 13 billion years ago B How“cosmic dark ages“came into existence CHow dust grains and gases were formed after the Big Bang DHow the first stars canle into being a
40、fter the Big Bang 33 What does the“astronomical object“in paragraph 2 refer to? Acosmic dark ages B dust grains and gases Ca protostarDthe early universe 34 According to paragraph 4，what is NOT true about a protostar? AIt developed into a massive star during the Big Bang B It evolved from pre-stella
41、r gases CIt was able to integrate heavy elements when evolving into a massive star DIt had a mass of one percent of the sun 35 According to the last paragraph，all of the following are goals of the simulation project EXCEPT Ato know more about the mass and properties of the first stars of the universe B to simulate the process of how the early universe began Cto apply the simulation to the study of nuclear reaction initiation Dto discover the truth about the formation of a protostar 第二篇 The Iceman
