| 在职攻硕英语易错题（2019/9/29） |
| 第1题： Which of the following statements is true A．A storm surge is a dramatic increase in wind velocity. B．A hurricane watch is more serious than a hurricane warning. C．Falling air pressure is an indicator that the storm is increasing in intensity. D．It is safe to go outside once the eye has arrived. |
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| 第2题： CambridgeCollege in Massachusetts is offering “ an introduction to green chemistry” course this gall and is offering the nation’s first bachelor’s and master’s __55__ in green chemistry. The program will have classes in environmental science and even environmental __56 __and policy. These subjects are not __57__ taught to chemistry major. Employers __58__ the introduction of green chemistry.Businesses are increasing seeking graduates __59__ backgrounds in the subject because it can help them make or save money in he development and manufacturing of products. “We need people who can not only understand their place __60__, but also understand the worldwide perspective,” saidAdam Peterson, a chemical division manager atDowCorningCorp. |
| 第3题： By the time she is 50 years old, she ______ an inmate of the prison for over half of ______ her life. A．would have been B．will be C．will have been D．would be |
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| 第4题：When imaginative men turn their eyes towards space and wonder whether life exists in any part of it, they may cheer themselves by remembering that life need not resemble closely the life that exists onEarth. Mars looks like the only planet where life like ours could exist, and even this is doubtful.But there may be other kinds of life based on other kinds of chemistry, and they may multiply on Venus or Jupiter.At least we cannot prove at present that they do not. Even more interesting is the possibility that life on their planets may be in a more advanced stage of evolution. Present-day man is in a peculiar and probably temporary stage. His individual units retain a strong sense of personality. They are, in fact, still capable under favorable circumstances of leading individual lives.But man s societies are already sufficiently developed to have enormously more power and effectiveness than the individuals have. It is not likely that this transitional situation will continue very long on the evolutionary time scale. Fifty thousand years from now man s societies may have become so close-knit that the individuals retain no sense of separate personality. Then little distinction will remain between the organic parts of the multiple organism and the inorganic parts (machines) that have been constructed by it. A、million years further on man and his machines may have merged as closely as the muscles of the human body and the nerve cells that set them in motion. The explorers of space should be prepared for some such situation. If they arrive on a foreign planet that has reached an advanced stage (and this is by no means impossible), they may find it being inhabited by a single large organism composed of many closely cooperating units. The units may be "secondary"—machines created millions of years ago by a previous form of life and given the will and ability to survive and reproduce. They may be built entirely of metals and other durable (耐用的) materials. If this is the case, they may be much more tolerant of their environment, multiplying under conditions that would destroy immediately any organism made of carbon compounds and dependent on the familiar carbon cycle. Such creatures might be relics of a past age, many millions of years ago, when their planet was favorable to the origin of life, or they might be immigrants from a favored planet. It seems that the writer ______. A、is interested in the imaginary life forms B、is eager to find a different form of life C、is certain of the existence of a new life form D、is critical of the imaginative people |
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| 第5题：There is no question that some "greenwashing" is going on in the corporate worlD、Bayernwerk, aBavarian utility, began selling "Aqua Power " last year when Germany began to let customers choose their electricity supplier.Bayernwerk marketsAqua Power as 100 percent green, renewable, hydroelectric energy.But any customer who signs up gets power from the same mix of sources as before, hydro, gas, coal and nuclear. Nothing changes except some accounting, and there is no net benefit to the environment. There is a benefit, though, toBayernwerk, which charges more forAqua Power and has been swamped with orders for it. Greenwashing takes many forms. "Companies often advertise themselves as environmentally friendly even though they might have some pretty hideous environment records," says Jill Johnson of the groupEarthDay 2002.California’s PG＆E, the utility that settled out of court after the realErinBrockovich accused it of polluting groundwater, runs pro-environmental ads.But PG＆E、is due in court in November on charges of polluting wells in a secondCalifornia town. "PG＆E、has a very good environmental track record," says spokesman Greg Pruett, citing recycling and waste reduction. Weyerhaeuser, the timber company, cuts old-growth trees inCanada but trumpets the 100 million tree seedlings it will plant this year. Overall, the greening of corporateAmerica is real and has not been as hard to achieve as some environmental activists imagineD、That is especially true for greenhouse gases and climate change, the focus ofEarthDay 2000. "Now there is more recognition by companies that there may be an economic advantage to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases," says Paul Portney, president of the think tank Resources for the Future. More and more companies are changing the way they heat and light their buildings and design their factories to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as their energy bills.Energy-efficiency upgrades can save a company roughly $1 per square foot of office or factory space every year.) The reductions often exceed those called for in the 1997 international agreement on greenhouse warming called Kyoto Treaty, whose goal of reducing greenhouse emissions 7 percent from their 2000 levels is deemed so threatening to the economy by many oil, coal and chemical companies that the White House does not dare to submit to the Senate for ratification. Companies like PG＆E、and Weyerhaeuser tried to promote their environmental image because they ______. A、realize its economic advantage B、would like to be environmentally friendly C、would defend themselves against charges D、know the importance of sustainable growth |
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