在职攻硕英语考试

【单选题】Man: Though we didn't win the game, we were satisfied with our performance.Woman: You did a great job, you almost beat the world champions. It's a real surprise to many people.Question: What do we learn from this conversation
A．They both enjoyed watching the game.
B．The man thought the results were beyond their expectations.
C．They both felt good about the results of the game.
D．People were surprised at their wining the game.

【单选题】If a man does not have an ideal and try to ______ it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful he is.
A．come off
B．bring about
C．live up to
D．contribute to

【单选题】Speaker A.. Are you going to your family reunion this Christmas holiday Speaker B:______
A．As a matter of fact, I don't mind it at all.
B．I do. I've been excited about it for a long time.
C．However, my parents and I are going to take a trip to Hawaii.
D．You bet. All my uncles and aunts will take their children along, too.

【单选题】The goal is to make higher education available to everyone who is willing and capable ______ his financial situation.
A．with respect to
B．in terms of
C．regardless of
D．in accordance with

【单选题】What you're ______ to read may challenge your assumptions about the kind of world we live in.
A．around
B．ahead
C．above
D．about

【单选题】Man: How well are you prepared for your presentation Your turn comes next Wednesday.Woman: I spent a whole week searching on the net, but came up with nothing valuable.Question: What did the woman say about her presentation
A．It has nothing to do with the Internet.
B．She needs another week to get it ready.
C．It contains some valuable ideas.
D．It's far from being ready yet.

【单选题】The engine has more than 300 ______ , made of a number of different materials.
A．compositions
B．compounds
C．constitutions
D．components

【单选题】The United States has historically had higher rates of marriage than those of other industrialized countries. The current annual marriage (51) in the United States—about 9 new marriages for every 1,000 people—is (52) higher than it is in other industrialized countries. However, marriage is (53) as widespread as it was several decades ago. (54) ofAmerican adults who are married (55) from 72 percent in 1970 to 60 percent in 2002. This does not mean that large numbers of people will remain unmarried (56) their lives. Throughout the 20th century, about 90 percent ofAmericans married at some (57) in their lives.Experts (58) that about the same proportion of today’s young adults will eventually marry.
The timing of marriage has varied (59) over the past century. In 1995 the average age of women in the United States at the time of their first marriage was 25. The average age of men was about 27. Men and women in the United States marry for the first time at an average of five years later than people did in the 1950s. (60) , young adults of the 1950s married younger than did any previous generation in U. S. history.
A、potentiallyB、intentionally
C、randomly
D、substantially

【单选题】Our trouble lies in a simple confusion, one to which economists have been prone since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Growth and ecology operate by different rules.Economists tend to assume that every problem of scarcity can be solved by substitution, by replacing tuna with tilapia, without factoring in the long-term environmental implications of either.But whereas economies might expand, ecosystems do not. They change—pine gives way to oak, coyotes arrive in NewEngland—and they reproduce themselves, but they do not increase in extent or abundance year after year. Most economists think of scarcity as a labor problem. Imagining that only energy and technology place limits on production. To harvest more wood, build a better chain saw; to pump more oil, drill more wells; to get more food, invent pest-resistant plants.
That logic thrived on new frontiers and more intensive production, and it held off the prophets of scarcity—from Thomas Robert Malthus to PaulEhrlich—whose predictions of famine and shortage have not come to pass. TheAgricultural Revolution that began in seventeenth-centuryEngland radically increased the amount of food that could be grown on an acre of land, and the same happened in the 1960s and 1970s when fertilizer and hybridized seeds arrived in India and Mexico.But the picture looks entirely different when we change the scale. Industrial society is roughly 250 years olD、make the last ten thousand years equal to twenty-four hours, and we have been producing consumer goods andCO₂ for only the last thirty-six minutes.Do the same for the past 1 million years of human evolution, and every thing from the steam engine to the search engine fits into the past twenty-one seconds. If we are not careful, hunting and gathering will look like a far more successful strategy of survival than economic growth. The latter has changed so much about the earth and human societies in so little time that it makes more sense to be cautious than triumphant.
Although food scarcity, when it occurs, is a localized problem, other kinds of scarcity are already here. Groundwater is alarmingly low in regions all over the world, but the most immediate threat to growth is surely petroleum.
What does the passage say about the predictions made by Thomas Robert Malthus and PaulEhrlich
A、They proved to be useful.
B、They have not come true.
C、They proved to be accurate.
D、They have not drawn enough attention.

【单选题】historiAns tEnD to tEll thE sAmE jokE whEn thEy ArE DEsCriBing history EDuCAtion inAmEriC
A、it’s thE onE (51) thE tEAChEr stAnDing in thE sChoolroom Door (52) gooDByE to stuDEnts For thE summEr AnD CAlling AFtEr thEm. "By thE wAy, wE won worlD wAr ⅱ. "
thE proBlEm with thE jokE, oF CoursE, is thAt it’s not Funny. thE rECEnt survEys on (53) illitErACy ArE BEginning to numB: nEArly onE thirD oFAmEriCAn 17-yEAr-olDs CAnnot EvEn (54) whiCh CountriEs thE unitED stAtEs Fought AgAinst in thAt wAr. onE thirD hAvE no iDEA whEn thEDEClArAtion oF inDEpEnDEnCE wAs (55) . onE thirD thoughtColumBus rEAChED thE nEw worlD AFtEr 1750. two thirDs CAnnot CorrECtly (56) thECivil wAr BEtwEEn 1850 AnD 1900.EvEn whEn thEy gEt thE AnswErs right, somE ArE just guEssing.
unlikE mAth or sCiEnCE, ignorAnCE oF history CAnnot BE (57) ConnECtED to loss oF intErnAtionAl CompEtitivEnEss.But it DoEs AFFECt our FuturE (58) A DEmoCrAtiC nAtion AnD As inDiviDuAls.
thE gooD nEws is thAt thErE is growing AgrEEmEnt on whAt is wrong with thE (59) oF history AnD whAt nEEDs to BE DonE to Fix it. thE stEps ArE tEntAtivE (尝试性的) (60) yEt to BE FElt in most ClAssrooms.
A、Consulting B、CoAChingC、tEAChingD、instruCting