英语证书考试美国经企管理研究生入学考试(GMT)模拟题2020年(11)
(总分100,考试时间75分钟)
单项选择题
1. 1.While the total enrollment of public elementary and condary schools in Sondland is one percent higher this academic year than last academic year, the number of teachers there incread by three percent. Thus, the Sondland Education Commission's prediction of a teacher shortage as early as next academic year is unfounded.
上饶是几线城市Which of the following, if true, most riously weakens the claim that the prediction of a teacher shortage as early as next academic year is unfounded?
A. Funding for public elementary schools in Sondland is expected to increa over the next ten years.
象棋棋谱B. Average salaries for Sondland's teachers incread at the rate of inflation from last academic year to this academic year.
C. A new law has mandated that there be 10 percent more teachers per pupil in Sondland's public schools next academic year than there were this academic year.
D. In the past, increas in enrollments in public elementary and condary schools in Sondland have generally been smaller than increas in the number of teachers.
E. Becau of reductions in funding, the number of students enrolling in teacher-training programs in Sondland is expected to decline beginning in the next academic year.
2. 2.Art restorers who have been studying the factors that cau Renaissance oil paintings to deteriorate physically when subject to climatic changes have found that the oil paint ud in the paintings actually adjusts to the changes well. The restorers therefore hypothesize that it is a layer of material called gesso, which is under the paint, that caus the deterioration.
Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the restorers' hypothesis?
A. Renaissance oil paintings with a thin layer of gesso are less likely to show deterioratio
n in respon to climatic changes than tho with a thicker layer.
B. Renaissance oil paintings are often painted on wooden panels, which swell when humidity increas and contract when it declines.
C. Oil paint expands and contracts readily in respon to changes in temperature, but it absorbs little water and so is little affected by changes in humidity.
D. An especially hard and nonabsorbent type of gesso was the raw material for moldings on the frames of Renaissance oil paintings.
E. Gesso layers applied by Renaissance painters typically consisted of a coar ba layer onto which veral increasingly fine-grained layers were applied.炭的成语
3. 3.A newly discovered painting ems to be the work of one of two 17th-century artists, either the northern German Johannes Drechen or the Frenchman Louis Birelle, who sometimes painted in the same style as Drechen. Analysis of the carved picture frame, which has been identified as the painting's original 17th-century frame, showed that it is
南华大学录取分数线made of wood found widely in northern Germany at the time, but rare in the part of France where Birelle lived. This shows that the painting is most likely the work of Drechen.
Which of the following is an assumption that the argument requires?
A. The frame was made from wood local to the region where the picture was painted.
B. Drechen is unlikely to have ever visited the home region of Birelle in France.
C. Sometimes a painting so cloly rembles others of its era that no expert is able to confidently decide who painted it.
D. The painter of the picture cho the frame for the picture.softice
E. The carving style of the picture frame is not typical of any specific region of Europe.
4. 4.Archaeologists working in the Andes Mountains recently excavated a buried 4,000-year-old temple containing structures that align with a stone carving on a distant hill to ind
朱德故里icate the direction of the rising sun at the summer solstice. Alignments in the temple were also found to point toward the position, at the summer solstice, of a constellation known in Andean culture as the Fox. Since the local mythology reprents the fox as teaching people how to cultivate and irrigate plants, the ancient Andeans may have built the temple as a religious reprentation of the fox.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument is bad?
A. The constellation known as the Fox has the same position at the summer solstice as it did 4,000 years ago.
B. In the region around the temple, the summer solstice marks the time for planting.
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C. The temple was protected from looters by dirt and debris built up over thousands of years.
少林寺拳法D. Other structural alignments at the temple point to further constellations with agricultural significance.
E. The site containing the temple was occupied for a significant amount of time before abandonment.
5. 5.Meat from chickens contaminated with salmonella bacteria can cau rious food poisoning. Capsaicin, the chemical that gives chili peppers their hot flavor, has antibacterial properties. Chickens do not have taste receptors for capsaicin and will readily eat feed laced with capsaicin. When chickens were fed such feed and then expod to salmonella bacteria, relatively few of them became contaminated with salmonella.
