在职攻硕英语考试

【单选题】People with glasses are perceived to be up to ten IQ points more intelligent than ______.
A．those without
B．that without
C．these without
D．one without

【单选题】From the last paragraph, one may learn that an important reason for the high hidden costs for college students is ______.
A．the extremely high prices of daily necessities
B．the school's overcharging for campus activities
C．the too many expenses the students have to pay
D．the pressure of keeping pace with their peers

【单选题】In learning a foreign language, ______English, one should first pay attention to speaking, which is the groundwork of reading and writing.
A、says
B、say
C、to say
D、saying

【单选题】She ______ be a Canadian because she's got a British passport.
A．can't
B．isn't able to
C．mustn't
D．doesn't need to

【单选题】The original building was erected in 1710, but this structure has been largely transformed and extended, the present hotel______in 1910.
A．was completed
B．to have been completed
C．having been completed
D．completed

【单选题】______ preparations were being made for the Prime Minister's official visit to the four universities.
A．Wise
B．Elaborate
C．Optional
D．Neutral

【单选题】It was very difficult to build a power station in the deep valley, but it ______ as we had hoped.
A．came off
B．went off.
C．brought our
D．made out

【单选题】What is the most important factor that leads to the rise in living standards of average people
A．Labor unions.
B．Minimum-wage laws.
C．Rising productivity.
D．Favorable public policy.

【单选题】When the man came in, carrying the machine gun, most of us looked up in surprise, because we______anything like it before.
A．have never seen
B．never saw
C．didn't see
D．had never seen

【单选题】The Warranty Holdings Group, aEuropean leader in mechanical breakdown insurance and a researcher and commentator on trends in motoring, says that the motorists’ world 20 years from now will be marked by more cars, more choice and more technology.Built-in safety features will increase and will include night-vision and collision-avoidance system, and monitoring devices to stop drivers falling asleep at the wheel.
A、growth in tele-working and home shopping should cut the numbers of trips in a car made by most motorists and "fun" sports cars will become popular as private motoring becomes more recreational in nature.
The survey results show that despite years of research into alternative fuel sources for vehicles, no clear winner has emerged for a replacement for the conventional petrol-engined car. Gas and electricity are the best possibilities, with Toyota’s design division in Japan claiming it already has an electric car that will drive up to 250km on a single charge.
However, while electric and "hybrid" powered vehicles will be far more in evidence in the future, it will take a major technological breakthrough to steer the car industry away from its current path of gradual improvements to the petrol-driven internal combustion engine.
Professor Garel Rhys, of theCardiffBusiness School in Wales, says engine fuel injection systems of the future will be far more frugal than anything that exists at the moment. "It will be like putting a pipette of petrol into the cylinders, rather than just throwing it in by the bucket load, which is almost what we do at the moment when you compare it with what could be possible. "
Some environmentalists point to the Twingo, the small car developed by France’s Renault company, to show that what could be achieved by the world’s car industry if it moved away from a trend towards bigger and more powerful cars and radically cut the fuel consumption of its products. Public opinion polls in many countries show motorists wanting access to this kind of environmentally-aware car.
A、prototype environmental car, the SmILE、(smaller, intelligent, lighten. efficient) has been put together by the environmental group Greenpeace. The group hopes the concept will catch on. It depends heavily on supercharging or forcing fuel mixture into the cylinders at higher than normal pressure. Some experts say this is a good way to extract high performance and high fuel efficiency from small engines.
Cutting the fuel consumption has had no negative effect on the handling or performance of the car, according to the designers. Top speed, flexibility and acceleration from the engine is as good or better than the original Twingo. They say the technology used to create the Twingo SmILE、could just as easily be used on other brands of car.
What remains to be seen is whether the enthusiasm of environmental designers catches on with the dollar-driven international car industry, and whether motorists back up with their chequebooks their desire for "greener" cars.
Which of the following is true about the motorists’ world 20 years from now
A、The number of cars will reduce as more people work and shop at home.
B、People will only use cars for recreational purposes.
C、Cars will be better equipped to enhance bigger safety.
D、"Fun" sports cars will be the mainstream of car industry.