2014年度全国职称英语等级考试试卷综合类A级
**部分:词汇选项(第1—15题,每题1分,共15分)
下面共有15个句子,每个句子中均有1个词或短语有底横线,请从每个句子后面所给的4个选项中选择1个与画线部分意义*相近的词或短语。答案一律涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
1.There was an inclination to treat geography as a less important subject.
A. pointB. tendency
C. resultD. finding
2.New secretaries came and went with monotonous regularity.
A. amazingB. depressing
C. predictableD. dull
3.The committee was asked to render a report on the housing situation
A. furnishB. copy
C. publishD. summarize
4.The group does not advocate the use of violence.
A. limitB. regulate
C. opposeD. support
5.The original experiment cannot be exactly duplicated.
A. reproducedB. invented
C. designedD. reported
6.The department deferred the decision for six months.
A. put offB. arrived at
C. abode byD. protested against
7.The symptoms of the disease manifested themselves ten days later.
A. easedB. appeared
C. improvedD. relieved
8.That uniform makes the guards look absurd.
A. seriousB. ridiculous
C. beautifulD. impressive
9.Some of the larger birds can remain stationary in the air for several minutes.
A. silentB. motionless
C. seatedD. true
10. The country was torn apart by strife.
A. povertyB. war
C. conflictD. economy
11. She felt that she had done her good deed for the day.
A. actB. homework
C. justiceD. model
12. A persons wealth is often in inverse proportion to their happiness.
A. equalB. certain
C. largeD. opposite
13. His professional career spanned 16 years.
A. startedB. changed
C. movedD. lasted
14. His stomach felt hollow with fear.
A. sincereB. respectful
C. terribleD. empty
15. This was disaster on a cosmic scale.
A. modestB. huge
C. commercialD. national
第二部分:阅读判断(第16—22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。
When Our Words Collide
“Wanna buy a body?” That was the opening line of more than a few phone calls I got from freelance(自由职业)photographers when I was a photo editor at U.S. News. Like many in the mainstream press, I wanted to separate the world of photographers into “them”, who trade in picture of bodies or chase celebrities, and “us”, the serious news people. But after 16 years in that role, I came to wonder whether the two worlds were easily distinguishable.
Working in the reputable world of journalism, I assigned photographers to cover other peoples nightmares. I justified invading moments of grief, under the guise(借口) of the readers right to know. I didnt ask photographers to trespass(冒犯) or to stalk(跟踪), but I didnt have to: I worked with pros(同行) who did what others did: talking their way into situations or shooting from behind police lines to get pictures I was after. And I wasnt alone.
In the aftermath of a car crash or some other hideous incident when ordinary people are hurt or killed, you rarely see photographers pushing past rescue workers to capture the blood and gore(血雨腥风). But you are likely to see the local newspaper and television photographers on the scene-and fast.
How can we justify our behavior? Journalists are taught to separate doing the job from worrying about the consequence of publishing what they record. Repeatedly, they are reminded of a news-business dictum(格言): leave your conscience in the office. You get the picture of the footage: the decision whether to print or air it comes later. A victim may lie bleeding, unconscious, or dead: your job is to record the image. You put away your emotions and document the scene.
We act this way partly because we know that the pictures can have important meaning. Photographs can change deplorable(凄惨的) situations by mobilizing public outrage or increase public understanding.
However, disastrous events often bring out the worst in photographers and photo editors. In the first minutes and hours after a disaster occurs, photo agencies buy pictures. Often an agency buys a picture from a local newspaper or an amateur photographer and put it up for bid by major magazines. The most keenly sought “exclusives” command tens of thousands of dollars through bidding contests.
Many people believe that journalists need to change the way they do things, and its our pictures that annoy people the most. Readers may not believe, as we do that there is a distinction between sober-minded “us” and sleazy(低级庸俗的) “them”. In too many cases, by our choices of images as well as how we get them, we prove our readers right.
16. The writer never got an offer for a photograph of a dead person.
A. RightB. WrongC. Not Mentioned
17. The writer was a photographer sixteen years ago.
A. RightB. WrongC. Not Mentioned
18. The writer believes that shooting peoples nightmares is justifiable.
A. RightB. WrongC. Not Mentioned
19. News photographers are usually a problem for rescue workers at an accident.
A. RightB. WrongC. Not Mentioned
20. Journalists arent supposed to think about whether they are doing the right thing.
A. RightB. WrongC. Not Mentioned
21. Editors sometimes have to pay a lot of money for exclusive pictures.
A. RightB. WrongC. Not Mentioned
〖=2〗
22. Many people say that they are annoyed by the U.S. News pictures.
A. RightB. WrongC. Not Mentioned
第三部分:概括大意与完成句子(第23—30题,每题1分,共8分)
阅读下面这篇短文,短文后有2项测试,任务:(1)第23—26题要求从所给的4个选项中为每段选择1个正确的小标题;(2)第27—30题要求从所给的5个选项中选择4个正确选项,分别完成每个句子。
The Storyteller
1. Steven Spielberg has always had one goal: to tell as many great stories to as many people as will listen. And thats what he has always been about. The son of a computer scientist and a pianist, Spielberg spent his early childhood in New Jersey and, later, Arizona. From the very beginning, his fertile imagination filled his young mind with images that would later inspire his filmmaking.
2. Even decades later, Spielberg says he has clear memories of his earliest years, which are the origins of some of his biggest hits. He believes that E.T. is the result of the difficult years leading up to his parents 1966 divorce, “It is really about a young boy who was in search of some stability in his life.” “He was scared of just about everything,” recalls his mother, Leah Adler. “When trees brushed against the house, he would head into my bed. And thats just the kind of scary stuff he would put in films like Poltergeist.”
3. Spielberg was 11 when he first got his hands on his dads movie camera and began shooting short flicks about flying saucers and World War ΙΙ battles. Spielbergs talent for scary storytelling enabled him to make friends. On Boy Scout camping trips, when night fell, Spielberg became the center of attention. “Steven would start telling his ghost stories,” says Richard Y.Hoffman Jr., leader of Troop 294, “and everyone would suddenly get quiet so that they could all hear it.”
4. Spielberg moved to California with his father and went to high school there, but his grades were so bad that he barely graduated. Both UCLA and USC film schools rejected him, so he entered California State University at Long Beach because it was close to Hollywood. Spielberg was determined to make movies, and he managed to get an unpaid, non-credit internship(实习)in Hollywood. Soon he was given a contract, and he dropped out of college. He never looked back.
5. Now, many years later, Spielberg is still telling stories with as much passion as the kid in the tent. Ask him where he gets his ideas, Spielberg shrugs. “The process for me is mostly intuitive (凭直觉的),” he says. “There are films that I feel I need to make, for a variety of reasons, for personal reasons, for reasons that I want to have fun, that the subject matter is cool, that I think my kids will like it. And sometimes I just think that it will make a lot of money, like the sequel(续集) to Jurassic Park.”
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