环球时代模拟题（十五）
I. Multiple Choice: (30 points)
Each of the following ntences demands one word for its completion. Your task is to pick from the four choices a word that you think may fit in the blank in the ntences. Write the letter that corresponds to your choice in the answer booklet.
1.By putting billions of dollars into the ailing automaker, the Obama administration has placed a huge bet on the effort to revive and the company through the elimination of brands,
第一个不平等条约dealerships and factories.
A. streamline B. stray C. strike D. strife
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2., the United States has invested $ 20 billion to keep GM in business and would contribute about $ 30 billion as part of a bankruptcy restructuring.
A. so as to B. in so far as C. so far D. so be it
3.Tho filings also assume the GM market share will slump slightly between now and 2012, to画天安门
18.4 percent from 19.5 percent, presumably becau the company will offer brands.
A. fewer B. a few C. less D. a little
4.The United Auto Workers contract changes yesterday that will help General motors cut
more than $ 1 billion in labor costs.
A. verified B. ratified C certify D. confirm
5.We'll smooth any difficulties when we reach them.
A. away B. over C. down D. out
6 Nature is material,, the world is made up of matter.
A. that is to say B. at that C. that's that D. with that
7.Under the deal, the union's cost-of-living increas, performance bonus and some holiday pay
will be to offt health-care costs.
A. sustain B. suture C. swab D. suspended
8.GM would 35 percent of the company, unions would get lOpercent and Magna would get
a controlling stake, the source added.
9.The stark reality is that our education system people, but industry does not find them
uful.
A. turns out B. produces out C. churns out D. bring out
10.Only 6 percent of the workforce has a professional certification a degree, a figure the
Labor Ministry says it hopes to boost to 12percent within five years.
储备资产A. more than B. rather than C. less than D. other than
11.More than a million French workers staged a general strike and marched in massive protests
around the country Thursday to their anger over the global economic crisis and
denounce President Nicolas Sarkozy's business-friendly approach to containing the damage.
A. vent B. veneer C. ventilate D. verge
12.Rather than using public money to bankrupty in banks and promote investment, they
have said, the best respon would be allocations to stimulate consumption and government restrictions on layoffs by business owner.
A. e off B. move off C. stave off D. take off
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13.Aerobic exercis create a oxygen in the body without riously disrupting normal
body functions.
A. demand B. demanding C. demanding of D. demand for
14.America's auto titans are dismantling their global empires. But across the Pacific, it's as if the
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global economic forces that have Detrotic never struck.
A. pummeled B. pulverize C. punch D. pulsate
15.Buying up iconic brand such as Hummer or Saturn could supply Chine automakers with the
technological experti to help them past long-established competitors, said Kelly Sims
Gallagher, who wrote a book on Chine automakers.
A. leapfrog B. lean C. leak D. lea
16.What they still lack is technological know-how, systems integration, being able to design new
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vehicles from and get them to a manufacturing line.
A. scrape B. scrap C. scram D. scratch
祛斑面膜配方17.China still suffers from its reputation of being a copycat manufacturer. An acquisition could
lend to some of the nations's 100 car companies that are largely unknown outside
their home country.
A. clove B. clout C. clover D. cloying
18.The beaver chews down trees to get food and material its home.
A. builds B. it can build C. that it builds D. with which to build
19.The result for the local economic engines has been tight budgets, staff cuts,and the delay of certain construction projects.
A. funnies B. fungicide C. funicular D. furloughs
20.At the United Nations ,the Security Council's five major powers, along with Japan and South
Korea, began negotiations on a draft resolution that would condemn North Korea's latest underground nuclear test as " a violation" of U.N. resolutions prohibiting the
communist state from developing nuclear weapons.
A. flagrant B. elixir C. infidel D. nought
21.Inflation has surged in recent months due to double-digit in nsitive food prices
