在职攻硕英语考试

【单选题】Adeputydirectorwillbe（）thewholefactorynextweekwhenthedirectorisawayforamonth.
A.infavorof
B.inchargeof
C.inplaceof
D.onbehalfof

【单选题】A: Doctor Smith is engaged on Wednesday. Would you like to come on ThursdayB: ______.
A．Thursday would be fine.
B．See you then.
C．Thank you very much. Good-bye.
D．It's very kind of you.

【单选题】The phrase “soak up” in the last Para. probably means____.
A．absorb
B．warm up
C．enjoy
D．use up

【单选题】Speaker A: Hi. Excuse me, ...um ... do you need any helpSpeaker B: ______
A．Yes, but are you sure you can help me
B．Oh, yes. Do you have tennis shoes
C．Well, I'd like one chicken burger and a cup of coke, please.
D．Oh, yes, I do. I've been walking around in circles. I can't seem to find the train station.

【单选题】______the traffic jam, we would have caught our train.
A．But for
B．Because of
C．By means of
D．Due to

【单选题】Woman: I don't imagine you have any interest in attending that lecture on drawing, do youMan: Oh, yes, I do. Now that you reminded me of it.Question: What do we learn about the man from the conversation
A．He'll give a lecture on drawing.
B．He doesn't mind if the woman goes to the lecture.
C．He'd rather not go to the lecture.
D．He's going to attend the lecture.

【单选题】We hadn't realized that there would be a power cut so we were astonished when the whole house was ______ into darkness.
A．dropped
B．dived
C．drowned
D．plunged

【单选题】You can arrive in Beijing earlier for the meeting ______ you don't mind taking the night train.
A．if
B．unless
C．though
D．until

【单选题】Remember global warmingBack inDecember, the threat of climate change was thundering, and the rich countries agreed to cut their carbon-dioxide and other green-house-related emissions. Since then, interest has cooled markedly, and manyEuropean countries are already running away from the promises they made so loudly a few months ago.But there has been much talk, and a bit of action, to encourage renewable (可更新的) energies such as wind, hydro, solar and all living organisms. These emit no greenhouse gases, but tend to cost more than coal, oil or gas.
The better, simpler idea is to remember that the easiest way to reduce something is to tax it—in this case, by taxing the carbon content of power. The dirtier the power, the more tax it would pay. So dirty coal would be more expensive than clean coal, which would see its price rise in relation to oil, which would be even more expensive compared to gas, which would lose some of its price advantage over renewables.
Unless a carbon tax was so huge as to be economically crippling, it would not remove the price differential (差别) between all renewables and fossil fuels.But it would narrow that gap, by fixing the differing environmental costs into the price—a useful principle in itself. It would also give renewable producers a strong incentive to cut costs, and fossil-fuel suppliers an motivation to clean their products.
Precedents suggest strongly that a carbon tax would be effective.But the disadvantage to carbon taxes is political.After almost a decade of trying, theEuropean Union gave up an attempt at aEuropean carbon tax last year. Germany’s ruling coalition is fighting against a proposed energy tax. InAmerica, politicians believe that even mentioning the notion is certain death.But many of the political objections could be met if a carbon tax were made up for the loss elsewhere, for example by lowering payroll or sales taxes. There is always suspicion when governments come up with clever new ways to tax, and rightly so. The response to that suspicion should be to win the argument, not to abandon it.
The word "crippling" (Line 1, ParA、3) most probably means ______.
A、greatly increasing B、seriously weakening
C、sharply declining D、abruptly halting

【单选题】It was during the morning rush hour ______the bomb exploded.
A．that
B．when
C．while
D．before