考博易错题（2019/5/22）

第1题：The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most people’s work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it brought may have to be reverseD、This seems a discouraging thought.But, in fact, it could offer the prospect of a better future for work. Universal employment, as its history shows has not meant economic freedom.

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第2题：TheChristmas tree was decorated with shining ______ such as colored lights and glass balls. A．ornaments B．luxuries C．exhibits D．complements

【单选题】： A     B     C     D

第3题：Placing a human being behind the wheel of an automobile often has the same curious effect as cutting certain fibers in the brain. The result in either case is more primitive behavior. Hostile feelings are apt to be expressed in an aggressive way. The same man who will step aside for a stranger at a doorway will, when behind the wheel, risk an accident trying to beat another motorist through an intersection. The importance of emotional factors in automobile accidents is gaining recognition.Doctors and other scientists have concluded that the highway death toll resembles a disease epidemic and should be investigated as such. Dr. RossA、Mcfarland,Associate Professor of Industrial Hygiene at the Harvard University School of Public Health, said that accidents "now constitute a greater threat to the safety of large segments of the population than diseases do." Accidents are the leading cause of death between the ages of 1 and 35.About one third of all accidental deaths and one seventh of all accidental injuries are caused by motor vehicles. Based on the present rate of vehicle registration, unless the accident rate is cut in half, one of every 10 persons in the country will be killed or injured in a traffic accident in the next 15 years. Research to find the underlying causes of accidents and to develop ways to detect drivers who are apt to cause them is being conducted at universities and medical centers. Here are some of their findings so far: A、man drives as he lives. If he is often in trouble with collection agencies, the courts, and police, chances are he will have repeated automobile accidents.Accident repeaters usually are egocentric, exhibitionistic, resentful of authority, impulsive, and lacking in social responsibility.As a group, they can be classified as borderline psychopathic personalities, according toDr. McFarlanD、 The suspicion, however, that accident repeaters could be detected in advance by screening out persons with more hostile impulses is false.A、study at the University ofColorado showed that there were just as many overly hostile persons among those who had no accidents as among those with repeated accidents. Which of the following statements is true, according to the articleA．Motor vehicle registration will cause an increase in accidents in the future. B．Unless the accident rate is decreased, ten per cent of theAmerican population will be killed or injured in motor accidents in the next 15 years. C．There is no hope that the accident rate will decrease during the next 15 years. D．Unless the accident rate decreases during the next 15 years, fifty per cent of the population will be kille

【单选题】： A     B     C     D

第4题：In old days, when a glimpse of stocking was looked upon as something far too shocking to distract the serious work of an office, secretaries were men. Then came the First World War and the male secretaries were replaced by women.A、man’s secretary became his personal servant, charged with remembering his wife’s birthday and buying her presents; taking his suits to the dry cleaners; telling lies on the telephone to keep people he did not wish to speak to at by; and, of course, typing and filing and taking shorthanD、 Now all this may be changing again. The microchip and high technology is sweeping theBritish office, taking with it much of the routine clerical work that secretaries diD、 "Once office technology takes over generally, the status of the job will rise again because it will involve only the high-powered work--and then men will want to do it again. " That was said by one of the executives (male) of one of the biggest secretarial agencies in this country. What he has predicted is already under way in the US. One girl described to me a recent temporary job placing men in secretarial jobs in San Francisco. She noted that all the men she dealt with appeared to be gay so possibly that is just new twist to the old story. Over here, though, there are men coming onto the job market as secretaries.Classically, girls have learned shorthand and typing and gone into a company to seek their fortune from the bottom--and that’s what happened to JohnBowman.Although he joined a national grocery chain as secretary to its first woman senior manager, he has since been promoted to an administration joB、 "I filled in the application form and said I could do audio/typing, and in fact I was the only applicant. The girls were reluctant to work for this young, glamorous new woman with all this power in the firm." "I did typing at school, and then a commercial course. I just thought it would be useful finding a joB、I never got any funny treatment from the girls, though I admit I’ve never met another male secretary.But then I joined the Post Office as a clerk and carelessly played with the typewriter, and wrote letters, and thought that after all secretaries were getting a good￡1, 000 a year more than clerks like me. There was a shortage at that time, you see." "It was simpler working for a woman than for a man. I found she made decisions, she told everybody what she thought, and there was none of that male bitchiness, or that stuff ’ring this number for me dear, ’ which men go in for." "Don’t forget, we were a team-that’s how I feel about in--not boss and servant but two people doing different things for the same purpose." Once high technology has made the job of secretary less routine, will there be made takeover Men should beware of thinking that they can walk right into the better jobs. There are a lot of women secretaries who will do the job as well as they because they are as efficient and well trained to cope with word processors and computers, as men. JohnBowman was given his first job as a secretary because ______.A．he was lucky B．no one else applied C．he had the best qualifications D．he wanted to work for a woman

【单选题】： A     B     C     D

第5题：The oil price is also a big risk, mainly because theBush administration appears determined to attack Iraq. The probability of war could easily push the oil price back into the $ 35 ～ $ 40 a barrel range for at least a few months. In effect, that would impose a big new tax on consumer spending and corporate profits. The prospect of monetary tightening and a sharp increase in the oil price suggests that late 2002 and early 2003 could be a period of great volatility for the US economy.

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