专业英语四级分类模拟358
(总分38,考试时间90分钟)
PART Ⅰ LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE
1. Our reporter has just called to say that rescue teams will ______ to bring out the trapped miners.
A. effect B. affect
C. conceive D. endeavor
2. Rejecting 大学生勤工俭学
the urging of his physician father to study medicine, Hawking cho to ______ on math and theoretical physics.
A. impo B. center
C. overwork D. concentrate
3. Her younger brother is ______ the run from the police.
A. in B. off
C. on D. after
4. Through her persistent study and practice, Jennifer has made ______ improvement in both Italian and French.
A. contagious &两字网名简单气质
nbsp; B. considerate
C. competitive D. considerable
5. Man"s never-ceasing ______ for knowledge continues to broaden our understanding of the earth"s atmosphere.
A. request B. quest
C. investigation D. rearch
6. The patterns of spoken language are ______ from tho of writing.
A. distinct B. distinctive
C. distinguished D. distinguishing
7. ______ to school life was less difficult than the pupil had expected.
A. Adhering B. Adopting
C. Adjusting D. Acquainting
8. If you"re ______ of public speaking, try to take deep breaths before stepping onto the stage.
A. horrified B. horrible
C. terrified D. testified
9. Although she wrote a lot of short stories and poems when she was very young, ______
she was twenty five.
A. her first real success did **e until
B. her real first success came until not
C. since her first real success did **e until
D. not until her first real success
10. You can go on if you like, but in my opinion it"s not worth your industriousness. This underlined part means ______.
A. effort B. attention
C. practice D. experiment
11. He delivered ______ orders for a Chine restaurant for the whole summer vacation so as to earn enough money for his tuition.
A. take-off B. take-over
C. take-up D. take-out
12. Which of the following ntences contains an adverbial clau of concession?
A. I unwrapped the parcel while he stood behind me.
B. They would choo a sunny day so that the wood for the fire would not be wet.
C. Seeing that it"s raining, we"d better stay in the hotel.
D. Young as he was, he knew what was the right thing to do.
PART Ⅱ READING COMPREHENSION
SECTION A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
In this ction there are four passages followed by ten multiple choice questions. For each multiple choice question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D.
Choo the one that you think is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
(PASSAGE ONE)
To live in the United States today is to gain an appreciation for Dahrendorf"s asrtion that social change exists everywhere. Technology, the application of knowledge for practical ends, is a major source of social change.
Yet we would do well to remind ourlves that technology is human creation; it does not exist naturally. A spear or a robot is as much a cultural as a physical object. Until humans u a spear to hunt game or a robot to produce machine parts, neither is much more than a solid mass of matter. For a bird looking for an object on which to rest, a spear or robot rves the purpo equally well. The explosion of the Challenger space shuttle and the Russian nuclear accident at Chernobyl drive homethe human quality of technology; they provide cas in which well-planned systems suddenly went haywire and there was no ready hand to t them right. Since technology is a human creation, we are responsible f
or what is done with it. Pessimists worry that we will u our technology eventually to blow our world and ourlves to pieces. But they have been saying this for decades, and so far we have managed to survive and even flourish. Whether we will continue to do so in the years ahead remains uncertain. Clearly, the impact of technology on our lives derves a clor examination.
Few technological developments have had a greater impact on our lives than **puter revolution. Scientists and engineers have designed specialized machines that can do the tasks that once only people could do. There are tho who asrt that the switch to an information-bad economy is in the same camp as other great histo有线桥接
rical milestones, particularly the Industrial Revolution. Yet when we ask why the Industrial Revolution was a revolution, we find that it was not the machines. The primary reason why it was revolutionary is that it led to great social change. It gave ri to mass production and, through mass production, to a society in which wealth was not confined to the few.
In somewhat similar fashion, computers promi to revolutionize the structure of America
n life particularly as they free the human mind and open new possibilities in knowledge **munication. The Industrial Revolution supplemented and replaced the muscles of humans and animals by mechanical methods. **puter extends this development to supplement and replace some aspects of the mind of human beings by electronic methods. It is the capacity of **puter for solving problems and making decisions that reprents its greatest potential and that pos the greatest difficulties in predicting the impact on society.
