职称英语考试

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【单选题】

the Vale of White Horse District Council

It was dusk in Tubney Woods, deep in ruralOxfordshire. The birds were singing at the end of another perfect day. Thewoman living at the edge of the forest could stand it no longer. She phoned thelocal noise pollution officer.

"It's the rooks (秃鼻乌鸦)," she said. "I can't bear that awful cawing (呱呱地叫) noise. Can you do something about it?"

The call was no surprise to officials at theVale of White Horse District Council.

(46) The countryside, as every country-dwellerknows, can be a hellishly (可怕地) noisy place.

Last week David Stead, a West Yorkshire farmer,appeared in court in Wakefield accused of allowing his cocks to break noiseregulations by crowing(打鸣) at dawn, waking a neighbour.

_____(47) Six months ago Corky, a four-year-oldcock, was banned from crowing after complaints in the Devon village of Stoke.

Complaints about noise reasonable or not-are atrecord levels in country areas. Environmental health officers say this ispartly because of an increase in noisy activity. However, a significant numberof complaints come from newcomers to the countryside.

There are many sources of rural noise. (48)Mechanised grain driers, usually switched on for three weeks in September, canproduce a maddening low-frequency hum. Mike Roberts, chief environmental healthofficer at Vale of White Horse, said noise often sounded worse in thecountryside than in cities. With less background sound, unwelcome noises canseem louder and travel further.

The oddest complaints, however, are the onescouncil officials can do nothing about. Vale of White Horse officials have beenasked to silence not only nesting rooks. Pigeons and pheasants (雉鸡) have also caused concern. In Kent, council officials have beenasked to silence baby lambs. _________(49) Another insisted he could hear analien spaceship landing over the garden fence.

"We get regular complaints. They usuallycome from retired people who have just moved into the country. We send them apolite letter."

And the lady who complained about the rooks?She was politely told she would have to put up with it. " (50)" saidMr Roberts. "In the end, she accepted there was nothing much she could do- except move out." It is not recorded who won, the lady or the rooks.

A Mr Stead said they were only doing what comesnaturally.

B We asked her what we were supposed to do,shoot the birds, or chop the trees down?

C They have heard every kind of complaint.

D One man rang to say he was kept awake by thesplashing of a fountain in the garden next door.

E The council will ask the farmer to move it.

F Farm machinery is a common cause.

网考网参考答案：C、A、F、D、B
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93%的考友选择了A选项
0%的考友选择了B选项
1%的考友选择了C选项
4%的考友选择了D选项
0%的考友选择了E选项
2%的考友选择了F选项
考友解析与评论：
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 · 应该是C、A、F、D、B啊
 · 这个答案是有歧义