[职称英语真题]2012年考试理工类c级考试真题及参考答案详解

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第1部分：词汇选项(第1～15题，每题1分，共15分)。

下面每个句子中均有1个词或者短语划有底横线，请为每处划线部分确定1个意义最为接近的选项。

1、The storm caused severe damage.

A．physical

B．accidental

C．serious

D．environmental

答案为:A

本题解析:A? severe有“严厉的、严重的”多种意义。severe damage是严重破坏，故可用serious代替。又如：severe criticism严厉批评、severe situation严峻的形势、severe winter严冬、severe loss严重损失、severe teacher严厉的老师

2、Many forms of cancer can be cured if detected early

A．selected

B．operated

C．developed

D．discovered

答案为:C

本题解析:C? detect这个词的意思是“发现”，如：They detected rich oil deposit in that area。（他们在那个地区发现了丰富的石油。）四个选项中只有discover具有同样的词义

3、The story was published with the sole purpose of selling newspapers

A．real

B．main

C．only

D．practical

答案为:A

本题解析:A? sole意为“唯一的”，sole purpose唯一的目的，和作形容词用的only同义

4、A large crowd assembled outside the American embassy

A．gathered

B．watched

C．shouted

D．walked

答案为:D

本题解析:D? assemble是“集结”的意思，gather是具有这一词义的最普通的一个词

5、He kept in constant contact with his family while he was in Australia

A．gradual

B．regular

C．direst

D．occasional

答案为:C

本题解析:C? constant的意思是“经常的、不间断的”。原句的意思是：他在澳大利亚时和家人一直都保持联系。regular的原意是“有规律的、有规则的”。keep in regular contact就是隔段时问就联系一次这种有规律的方式，也就是没有中断联系。occasional是间或、偶尔的意思，如果说keep in occasional contact，那么和原句的意思就有出入了

6、On the table was a vase filled with artificial flowers

A．wild

B．fresh

C．lovely

D．false

答案为:B

本题解析:B? artificial意为“人造的，即不是真的”，如：artificial leather人造革，artificial rainfall人造雨。false的意思是“虚假的、不是真的”，故在这里可以替代artificial

7、We had trouble finding a pure water supply

A．typical

B．complete

C．clean

D．clear

答案为:D

本题解析：D? pure意为“纯净的”，如：pure gold纯金，pure wool纯羊毛。Pure water即纯净水，故可用clean来替代。clear是“清楚、清澈”的意思，并非是“清洁的”。

8、“What do you mean by that”Paul asked sharply

A．critically

B．helplessy

C．politely

D．quickly

答案为:D

本题解析:D? sharp这个词用于不同的语境中有不同的意义，如：sharp knife锋利的刀、sharp angle锐角、sharp criticism尖锐的批评、sharp eye敏锐的眼光、be sharp at figures善于计算、be sharp with sb．对某人严厉等。在该句中，由sharp衍生的副词sharply用于修饰动词asked，问题本身What do mean by that?的语气咄咄逼人，所以应用critically来替代。critically在这里同样具有“严厉地、尖锐地”意思

9、She only needs a minute amount of money

A．certain

B．fair

C．full

D．small

答案为:A

本题解析:A? 这里的minute是个形容词，意思是“细微的、很小的”，和表示“分钟”的名词minute是同形异音词，即拼法相同，但发音不同

10、Keep your passport in a secure place

A．special

B．good

C．safe

D．different

答案为:A

本题解析:A? 四个选项这里都可以放到place前面，句子都是通顺的，但语义各不相同，和secure（安全的）同义的只有safe一词

答案】：CDCAB，DCADC，ABBDD

11、He inspired many young people to take up the sport

A．encouraged

B．allowed

C．called

D．advised

答案为:B

本题解析:B? inspire sb. to do sth．是“鼓励、激励某人做某事”的意思，这里inspire和encourage的词义和用法一样，故可以用encourage来代替

12、Did she accept his research proposal?

A．invitation

B．plan

C．offer

D．view

答案为:B

本题解析:B? proposal常见的意义是“建议”，和suggestion是同义词。但用在和科研相关的情景中它就具有“计划”的意思。research proposal就等同于research plan

13、The city centre was wiped out by the bomb

A．covered

B．destroyed

C．reduced

D．moved

答案为:C

本题解析:C? wipe out是个短语，意思是“消灭、摧毁”，和动词destroy同义。又如：The whole town was wiped out by the landslide．滑坡摧毁了整个城镇

14、I’d like to withdraw 500 from my current account

A．leave

B．pay

C．put

D．draw

答案为:D

本题解析:D? 从银行取款可以用withdraw或draw，这两个词在这个情景下是通用的

15、The contempt he felt for his fellow students was obvious

A．hate

B．need

C．love

D．pity

答案为:C

本题解析:C? 在四个选项中和contempt（蔑视）意义最接近的是hate, pity的意思是“怜悯”

第二部分：阅读判断（第16~22题，每题1分，共7分）

下面的短文后列出了7个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断；如果该句提供的是正确信息，请选择A；如果该句提供的是错误信息，请选择B；如果该句的信息文中没有提及，请选择C。

Eastern Quakes Can Trigger Big Shakes

In the first week of November 2011, people in central Oklahoma experienced more than two dozen earthquakes. The largest, a magnitude 5.6 quake, shook thousands of fans in a college football stadium, caused cracks in a few buildings and rattled the nerves of many people who had never felt a quake before. Oklahoma is not an area of the country famous for its quakes. If you watch the news on TV, you see reports about all sorts of natural disasters —hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding and wildfires, to name a few. But the most dangerous type of natural disaster, and also the most unpredictable, is the earthquake.

Researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey estimate that several million earthquakes rattle the globe each year. That may sound scary, but people don’t feel many of the tremors because they happen in remote and unpopulated regions. Many quakes happen under the ocean, and others have a very small magnitude, or shaking intensity.

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake that struck central Virginia the afternoon of August 23, 2011, was felt from central Georgia to southeastern Canada. In many urban areas, including Washington, D.C., and New York City (Wall Street shown), people crowded the streets while engineers inspected buildings. Credit: Wikimedia/Alex Tabak

Scientists know about small, remote quakes only because of very sensitive electronic devices called seismometers. These devices detect and measure the size of ground vibrations produced by earthquakes. Altogether, USGS researchers use seismometers to identify and locate about 20,000 earthquakes each year.

Although earthquakes can happen anywhere in the world, really big quakes occur only in certain areas. The largest ones register a magnitude 8 or higher and happen, on average, only once each year. Such big ones typically occur along the edges of Earth’s tectonic plates.

Tectonic plates are huge pieces of Earth’s crust, sometimes many kilometers thick. These plates cover our planet’s surface like a jigsaw puzzle. Often, jagged edges of these plates temporarily lock together. When plates jostle and scrape past each other earthquakes occur. On average, tectonic plates move very slowly — about the same speed as your fingernails grow.

But sometimes earthquakes rumble through portions of the landscape far from a plate’s edges. Although less expected, these “mid-plate” tremors can do substantial damage. Some of the biggest known examples rattled the eastern half of the United States two centuries ago. Today, scientists are still puzzling over why the quakes occurred and when similar ones might occur.

16. Oklahoma is an area often experiencing natural disasters.