在职攻硕英语考试

【单选题】Man: ______ How can I possibly review all this material by next week Women: Take it easy. I'll help you with it.
A．I'm going crazy!
B．Can't wait.
C．I'm glad it's finally over.
D．What a load off

【单选题】The U.S. government helps the homeless by ______.
A．giving them homeless allowances
B．giving them food stamps
C．finding jobs for them
D．finding residences for them

【单选题】His business prospered and he became a person of means. Yet, despite his great riches, he gave no arms to the needy and no thanks to his benefactors whose savings ______ to his welfare.
A．had contributed.
B．contributed
C．were contributed
D．did contribute

【单选题】It is difficult to imagine what life would be like without memory. The meanings of thousands of everyday perceptions, the bases (51) the decisions we make, an d the roots of our habits and skills are to be (52) in our past experiences, which are brought into the present (53) memory.
Memory can be defined as the capacity to keep (54) available for later use. It includes not only "remembering" things like arithmetic or historical facts, but also any change in the way an animal typically behaves. Memory is (55) when a rat gives up eating grain because he has sniffed something suspicious in the grain pile. Memory is also involved when a six-year-old child learns to swing a baseball bat.
Memory (56) not only in humans and animals but also in some physical objects and machines.Computers, for example, contain devices for storing data for later use. It is interesting to compare the memory-storage capacity of a computer (57) that of a human being. The instant-access memory of a large computer may hold up to 100000 "words" —ready for (58) use.An averageAmerican teenager probably recognizes the meanings of about 100000 words ofEnglish. However, this is but a fraction of the total (59) of information which the teenager has storeD、Consider, for example, the number of facts and places that the teenager can recognize on sight. The use of words is the basis of the advanced problem-solving intelligence of human beings.A、large part of a person’s memory is in terms of words and (60) of words.
A、calledB、takenC、involved D、included

【单选题】Speaker A: If I were you, I'd ride a bike to work. Taking a crowded bus during rush hours is really terrible.Speaker B: ______
A．Yeah, riding a bike is a healthful activity. Don't you think
B．Yes, you're right. Buses are always very crowded during the rush hours.
C．Thank you for your advice. But my bike has got a flat tyre.
D．Certainly. I don't see Why so many people go to work by bus rather than by bike.

【单选题】Man:Can I borrow your maths textbook I lost mine on the bus.
Woman: You’ve asked the right person. I happen to have an extra copy.
Question: What does the woman mean
A、She can find the right person to help the man.
B、She can help the man out.
C、She’s also in need of a textbook.
D、She picked up the book from the bus floor.

【单选题】The first men to study the nature of electricity could not imagine that their experiments, carried on because of mere intellectual curiosity, would eventually lead to modern electrical technology, without which we can scarcely______contemporary life.
A．get hold of
B．conceive of
C．get the better of
D．take advantage of

【单选题】Speaker A: Excuse me, could you tell me where the entrance to the subway isSpeaker B: ______
A．Sorry. I'm not here to give directions.
B．Sure. You see that bank down there on the left It's just after the bank.
C．Why don't ask the policeman over there He must know its location very clearly.
D．Yes, but I wonder where you'd like to go by subway.

【单选题】The research scientists often meet with problems_____new types of instrument for their solution.
A．requiring
B．required
C．to require
D．being required

【单选题】spEAkErA、oh, DoEsn’t your DAughtEr look lovEly
spEAkErB、______
A、oh, no. shE looks just so so.
B、yEs, i’m prouD oF hEr.
C、rEAlly why Do you think so
D、wEll, your DAughtEr looks lovEly, too.