在职申硕英语习题练习
| 在职申硕英语考试易错题（2019/9/17） |
| 第1题： How many people have been found dead in the two ferry disasters A．More than 130. B．Over 3,000. C．About 400. D．At least 40. |
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| 第3题：{{B}}Passage Two{{/B}} "It’s very mysterious," says Henry Kelly, director of theCenter for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University ofCaliforniA、Kelly theorizes lovers everywhere can thank two guys from the 14th century: renowned poet GeoffreyChaucer—famous for penning "TheCanterbury Tales"—and a not-so-famous saint who went by the name of Valentine. In 1381,Chaucer was busy composing a poem in honor of the arranged marriage betweenEngland’s Richard II andAnne ofBohemiA、Chaucer was looking for just the right saint to honor on May 3, the day Richard II signed the papers of engagement to hisBohemia beauty. His search ended, Kelly guesses, whenChaucer learned that a Saint Valentine of Genoa had an honorary feast day on May 3. So he wrote the poem "The Parliament of Fowls" in the couple’s honor. "The Parliament of Fowls" literally means "the meeting of birds" , says Kelly. "Chaucer dreamed up the idea that all birds chose their mates on May 3rD、When the spring brought its sunny smile back to the earth, it was easy to imagine the winged animals fluttering about and flirting with their lovers. " AfterChaucer’s death in ld00, Valentine’sDay celebrations got pushed back to February. The date may have changed because the first song birds that traditionally warble(鸟鸣) after a winter tend to debut in mid-February. But the holiday that honors lovebirds everywhere with rhymed verse and colored candy hearts has not always been so popular. The very celebration of Valentine’sDay has gone in and out of vogue. In the 16th century in Genoa you have it, but there is not much notice of it in other countries. The sweet-toothed holiday experienced renewed vigor inEngland just prior to 1800, and publishing companies came to the aid of tongue-tied lovers by distributing booklets of passages lovers could use to stir hearts. If they couldn’t find the words in their hearts, companies figured, at least these Romeos could find some coins in their pocket to make their sweethearts happy. The celebration suffered a popularity plunge in the 19th century, but by the next century,Americans had rescued Valentine’sDay from the trash heap, turning it into a commercial {{U}}bonanza{{/U}}. |
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| 第4题：One of the most widely discussed subjects these days is energy crisis.Automobile drivers cannot get gasoline; homeowners may not get enough heating oil; factories are (56) by a fuel shortage. The crisis has (57) questions about the large oil companies and windfall (58) .Critics of the oil industry charge that the major companies are getting richer because of the oil shortage. Shortage, of course, drives prices up.As oil prices rise, the critics say, the oil companies will make more money (windfall profits) without doing a thing to (59) the extra cash. "Windfall" profits are sudden unearned profits-profits made (60) luck, or some special turn of events. The word itself tells what "windfall" means-- something blown down by the wind, such as trees, or fruit (61) from trees.But the word has taken on a special meaning. This meaning (getting something unearned) was first used in medievalEnglanD、 This is (62) it started: at that time much of the land was in the hands of (63) barons. The rest of the people, commoners, lived and worked on their vast estates. They planted the seed, cared for the farm animals and harvested the crops. Not all the land, however, was used for farming.Every baron kept a large private forest for (64) deer and wild bear. When hungry, the people sometimes would kill the animals in the lord’s forest for fooD、And there were times (65) they might cut down trees for fuel. So, strong laws were passed to protect the forests, and the animals. Violations were severely (66) . But there was one way people could get wood from the forest. If they found trees blown down by the wind ("windfall") they were free to take them for use as fuel in their homes.And that is the meaning that has come down to us-something good gotten by luck or (67) . The common people of oldEngland, often hungry and cold, must often have prayed for a good strong winD、Critics today (68) that the oil industry has also been praying for something just like it -some political or military (69) that might produce a windfall-- a rise in oil prices and profits. The oil companies deny that this is so. InCongress, critics of the oil companies have proposed a (70) on such profits. The debate on rising oil price will go on for some time, and most likely we will hear more and more about windfall profits. A、limit B．plan C．minimum D．regulations |
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| 第5题： In nature, genetic diversity is created within certain {{U}} (68) {{/U}}.A、rose can be crossed with a different kind of rose, but a rose will never cross with a potato. Genetic engineering, {{U}} (69) {{/U}} usually involves taking genes from one species and inserting them into another {{U}} (70) {{/U}} to transfer a desired characteristiC、This could mean, for example, selecting a gene which leads to the production of a chemical with anti-freeze {{U}} (71) {{/U}} from an artic fish, and inserting it into a potato or strawberry to make it frost-resistant. {{U}} (72) {{/U}}, then, biotechnology allows humans to {{U}} (73) {{/U}} the genetic wails that separate species. Like the green revolution, {{U}} (74) {{/U}} some call the gene revolution contributes to the problem of genetic uniformity--some say even more so {{U}} (75) {{/U}} geneticists can employ techniques such as cloning and {{U}} (76) {{/U}} culture (培养), processes that produce perfectly {{U}} (77) {{/U}} copies.Concerns about the erosion of biodiversity, therefore, remain. Genetically altered plants, however, raise new {{U}} (78) {{/U}}, such as the effects that they may have on us and the environment. "We are flying blindly into a new {{U}} (79) {{/U}} of agricultural biotechnology with high hopes, few constraints, and little idea of the potential {{U}} (80) {{/U}} " said science writer Jeremy Rifkin. |