2008年职称英语理工类B级考试试题及答案
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41. What is Sunset Song mainly about?
A． The First World War． B． The beauty of the sunset．
C． The new European world. D． The lives of rural Scottish farmers
42. Which statement is NOT true of Chris?
A. She is the heroine of Sunset Song． B. She had a miserable childhood．
C. She is the creation of man． D. She married only once.
43. What is the opening section of the novel mainly concerned with?
A .The climate of Kin Addie． B. The history of Kin Addie．
C. The geography of Kin Addie. D. The language spoken in Kin Addie．
44. Who killed Chris’husband，Evan?
A. His own troops． B. The French army
C. The Germans. D. The Russian soldiers．
45. The word “Sunset” in the title of this novel most probably means
A. the end of the heroine’S life． B. the end often story．
C. the end of the traditional way of life． D. the end of the day．
2008年职称英语真题之理工类B级补全短文:
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Rising Tuition in the US
Every Spring，US university administrators gather to discuss the next academic year’s budget．They consider faculty salaries，utility costs for dormitories，new building needs and repairs to old ones．They run the numbers and conclude—it seems，inevitably —that，yet again，the cost of tuition must go up．
According to the US’s College Board，the price of attending a four-year private university in the US rose 81 percent between 2005 and 2006，the numbers continued to rise． 1993 and 2004．________(46)In
According to university officials．college cost increases are simply the result of balancing university checkbooks．“Tuition increases at Cedarville University are determined by our revenue needs for each year,”said the university’s president，Dr Bill Brown．“Student tuition pays for 78 percent of the university’s operating costs。”Brown’s school is a private university that enrolls about 3，1 00 undergrads and is consistently．recognized by annual college ranking guides like US News and World Report’s and The Princeton Review’s．__________(47)
． Tuition at private universities is set by administration officials and then sent for approval to the school’s board of trustees (监管)all of a state’s public institutions．John Durham，assistant secretary (董事) ________ (48) This board oversees to the board of trustees at East Carolina University(ECU)，explains that state law says that public institutions must make their services available whenever possible to the people of the state for free．Durham said that North Carolina residents only pay 22 percent of the cost of their education• _____(49)State residents attending ECU pay about us$10，000 for tuition room and board before financial aid．
Amid the news about continued increases in college costs，however，there is some good news．Tuition increases have been accompanied by roughly equal increases in financial aid at almost every university．To receive financial aid，US students complete a formal application with the federal government. The federal government then decides whittler an applicant is eligible(有资格的)for grants or loans________(50)
A. The application is then sent to the student's university, where the school itself will decide whether free money will be given to the student and how much
B. At public universities, however, tuition increases must also be approved by a state education committee, sometimes called the board of governors
C. The school currently charges US$23,410 a year for tuition.
D. Many American people are simply unable to pay the growing cost of food
E. That's more than double the rate of inflation.
F. The state government covers the rest
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Paper or Plastic?
Take a walk along the Chesapeake Bay, and you are likely to see plastic bags floating in the water．They have made their_______(51)into local waterways and，from there，into the bay, where they can________(52)wildlife．Piles of them show up in landfills(垃圾填埋地)and on city streets．Plastic bags also take an environmental toll(代价)in the__________(53)of millions of barrels of oil expended every year to produce them．
Enter Annapolis and you will see plastic bags_______(54)free in department stores and supermarkets．Alderman(市议员)Sam Shoeshine has introduced a well-meaning_______(55)to ban retailers from distributing plastic shopping bags up Maryland’S capital．Instead，retailers would be required to recycled paper and to sell reusable bags．The city of Baltimore．similar measure．Opponents of the are harmful，too：They cost more to’make；they_______(58)，however_______(56)bags made of________(57)a argue that paper bags_______(59)more resources to．transport，and recycling them causes more pollution than recycling plastic．The argument for depriving Annapolis residents Everyone in this _________(60)their plastic bags is far from accepted________(61)is right about one thing：Disposable shopping bags of any type are wasteful，and the best outcome would be for customers to ________(62)bags instead．Annapolis’mayor is investigating how to hand out free，reusable shopping bags to city residents，a proposal that can proceed ________(63)of whether other bags are banned．A less-expensive alternative would be to encourage retailers to give be more________(64)to customers who bring their own reusable bags．And this policy would_________(65)if stores imitated furniture mega—retailer(超人零售商)Ikea and charged for disposable bags at the checkout counter．A broad ban on the use of plastic shopping bags is not the answer．
51. A difference B point C progress D way
52. A harm B help C keep D protect
53. A light B form C time D place
54. A dropped B packed C put D distributed
55. A proposal B service C system D change
56. A open B fill C offer D hold
57. A getting B considering C replacing D improving
58. A idea B effect C technology D behavior
59. A limit B provide C destroy D consume
60. A from B with C of D in
61. A debate B organization C project D program
62. A reform B reuse C repair D reduce
63. A instead B because C regardless D careless
64. A examples B instructions C discounts D receipts
65.A impressive B effective C formal D typical
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