| 在职申硕英语考试易错题（2019/3/16） |
| 第1题：Food price inflation has aroused growing concern worldwide. There is rising price pressure for major grains inChina this year as a result of deficient supplies, soaring agricultural produce costs and fluctuations on the international futures markets. The extreme weather this past winter and severe drought that hit northernChina this spring, will make it harder to ensure grain supplies.As our country is mainly self-sufficient in grains, rising rice prices on the global markets will not have much impact domestically.China can keep grain prices stable amid supply shortages and rising agricultural costs thanks to our abundant grain reserves. |
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| 第2题：Valentine’sDay is a festival of romance and affection. The holiday is an interesting combination of pagan (异教徒的) andChristian influences. Some of the day’s customs probably came from an ancient Roman holiday caned Lupercalia, Which honored Juno (wife of Jupiter, the goddess of women, marriage, and childbirth) and Pan (the God of nature).During the Lupercalia festival, young women dropped poems bearing their names into a large vase.Each young man picked a name from the vase to find his sweetheart for that year. During the MiddleAges, church leaders wanted to relate this pagan holiday toChristianity, so they renamed it after aChristian saint and moved the holiday from February 15 to February 14, the feast day of St. Valentine. St. Valentine was a third-centuryChristian martyr, a young man who was imprisoned in Rome for refusing to worship pagan gods.According to legend, before Valentine was beheaded on February 14, he restored the eyesight of his jailer’s blind daughter. Then he sent her a farewell letter signed, "From your Valentine". This phrase is now a common expression of affection that appears on many of the holiday greeting cards. Perhaps another reason that February 14 was picked as a holiday for lovers was that the ancient Romans believed that birds began to mate on this date. In modern times, early in February of each year, card shops, drugstores, and department stores begin displaying a wide variety of greeting cards called valentines. Most of them are illustrated with the symbolic red heart, which stands for love. Many also show a picture ofCupid with his bow and arrow. Some valentines are very fancy--decorated with paper lace, scented satin, feathers, ribbons, or bows. Some contain affectionate verses, while others simply say, "Be my Valentine". There are special Valentines for various family members, sweet hearts, and friends. People sometimes send anonymous valentines to the persons whom they are in secret love with. On that day, children usually buy packages of small, inexpensive valentines to give to classmates and teachers. Sweet-hearts and married couples may exchange more expensive cards, along with small gifts. Men often give red roses or chocolates wrapped up beautifully in red, heart-shaped boxes to their girlfriends or wives. This holiday derived its name from ______A．Juno, the goddess ’of marriage B．Pan, the god of nature C．Lupercalia, a holiday for lovers D．aChristian martyr-priest |
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| 第3题：Scraps of food could soon be helping power your home, thanks to an ultra-cheap bacteria-driven battery. Its developers hope that instead of feeding the dog or making garden compost(混合肥料) ,organic household waste could top up your home’s electricity. Although such "microbial fuel cells" (MFCs)have been developed in the past, they have always proved extremely inefficient and expensive. NowChris Melhuish and technologists at the University of the West ofEngland(UWE、inBristol have come up with a simplified MFC、that costs as little as ￡10 to make. Right now, their fuel cell runs only on sugar cubes, since these produce almost no waste when broken down, but they aim to move on to carrot power. "It has to be able to use raw materials, rather than giving it a refined fuel," says Melhuish. Inside the Walkman-sized battery, a colony ofE、coil bacteria produce enzymes that break down carbohydrates, releasing hydrogen atoms. The cell also contains chemicals that drive a series of redox, or reduction and oxidation reactions, stripping electrons from the hydrogen atoms and delivering them steadily to the fuel cell’s anode(正极). This creates a voltage that can be used to power a circuit. To prove the MFC、works, the researchers are using it to power a small light-sensitive robot.And when a number of the cells are connected in series, they could power domestic appliances, running a 40-watt bulb for eight hours on about 50 grams of sugar. Earlier MFCs were inefficient because they relied on energy-hungry filters and pumps.By experimenting with different anode materials, the UWE、team have figured out how to make their system work: they dump the bacteria and redox chemicals directly into the cell. In its current form, the UWE、team says its organic battery can produce eight times as much power as any previous MFC、But Melhuish wants to improve this, both by scaling it up and finding a better mix of redox chemicals. Earlier MFCs were inefficient because they ______.A．produced very little electricity B、required different anode materials C．consumed much energy on filters and pumps D．could only run domestic appliances |
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| 第4题：The lectures，_____ the current hot issues， were well received.
A．that covered B．covered C．covering D．to cover |
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| 第5题：Inflation is a period of rapid rises in prices. When your money buys fewer goods so that you get (56) for the same amount of money as before, inflation is the problem. Sometimes people describe inflation as a time when "a dollar is not (57) a dollar anymore". Inflation is a problem for all consumers, especially people who live on a fixed income. Retired people, for instance, cannot (58) on an increase in income as prices rise. They face serious problems in stretching their incomes to (59) their needs in time of inflation. Many retired people must cut their spending to (60) rising prices. In many cases they must stop (61) some necessary items, such as food and clothing.Even (62) working people whose incomes are going up, inflation can also be a problem. The (63) of living goes up, and they must have even more money to maintain their standard of living. When incomes do not keep (64) with rising prices, living standard goes down. People may be earning the same amount of money, but they are not living (65) because they are not able to buy as many goods and services. Government units gather information about prices in our economy and publish it as price indexes (66) the rate of price change can be determineD、A、price index measures changes in prices using the price for a (67) year as the base. The base price is set (68) 100, and the other prices are reported as a (69) of the base price.A、price index makes (70) possible to compare current price with that in previous years. A．price B．level C．cost D．if |
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