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1、2021青海职称英语考试考前冲刺卷（7）本卷共分为1大题50小题，作答时间为180分钟，总分100分，60分及格。一、单项选择题（共50题，每题2分。每题的备选项中，只有一个最符合题意） 1.B第二篇/BLong Bus Ride Long bus rides are like television shows. They have a beginning, a middle, and an end-with commercials thrown in every three or four minutes. The commercials are unavoidable. They happ
2、en whether you want them or not. Every couple of minutes a billboard glides by outside the bus window. Buy Super Clean Toothpaste. Drink Goodn Wet Root Beer. Fill up with Pacific Gas. Only if you sleep, which is equal to turning the television set off, are you spared the unending cry of You Need It!
3、 Buy It Now! The beginning of the ride is comfortable and somewhat exciting, even if youve traveled that way before. Usually some things have changed-new houses, new buildings, sometimes even a new road. The bus driver has a style of driving and its fun to try to figure it out the first hour or so.
4、If the driver is particularly reckless or daring, the ride can be as thrilling as a suspense story. Will the driver pass the truck in time Will the driver move into the right or the left-hand lane After a while, of course, the excitement dies down. Sleeping for a while helps pass the middle hours of
5、 the ride. Food always makes bus rides more interesting. But youve got to be careful of what kind of food you eat. Too much salty food can make you very thirsty between stops. The end of the ride is somewhat like the beginning. You know it will soon be over and theres a kind of expectation and excit
6、ement in that. The seat, of course, has become harder as the hours have passed. By now youve sat with you legs crossed, with your hands crossed behind your head. The end comes just at the right time. There are just no more ways to sit. The writer of this passage would probably favor _. Abus drivers
7、who werent recklessBdriving aloneCa television set on the busDno billboards along the road 2.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。Easy Learning Students should be jealous. Not only do babies get to doze their days away, but theyve also mastered the
8、fine art of learning in their sleep. By the time babies are a year old they can recognize a lot of sounds and even simple words. Marie Cheour at the University of Turku in Finland suspected that they might progress this fast be cause they learn language while they sleep as well as when they are awak
9、e. To test the theory, Cheour and their colleagues studied 45 newborn babies in the first days of their lives. They exposed all the infants to an hour of Finnish vowel soundsone that sounds like oo, another like ee and a third boundary vowel peculiar to Finnish and similar languages that sounds like
10、 something in between. EEG recording of the infants brains before and after the session showed that the newborns could not distinguish the sounds. Fifteen of the babies then went back with their mothers, while the rest were split into two sleep study groups. One group was exposed throughout their ni
11、ght-time sleeping hours to the same three vowels, while the others listened to the other, easier-to-distinguish vowel sounds. When tested in the morning, and again in the evening, the babies whod heard the tricky boundary vowels all night showed brainwave activity indicating that they could now reco
12、gnize this sound. They could identify the sound even when its pitch was changed, while none of the other babies could pick up the boundary vowel at all. Cheour doesnt know how babies accomplish this nighttime learning, but she suspects that the special ability might indicate that unlike adults, babi
13、es dont turn off their cerebral cortex while they sleep. The skill probably fades in the course of the first years of life, she adds-so forget the idea that you can pick up the tricky French vowels as an adult just by slipping a language tape under your pillow. But while it may not help grown-ups, C
14、heour is hoping to use the sleeping hours to give re medial help to babies who are genetically at risk of language disorders. Finish vowels are easy to distinguish. AA. RightBB. WrongCC. Not mentioned 3.下面的短文有15外空白，请根据短文的内容为每处空白处确定一个最佳选项。Men Too May Suffer from Domestic Violence Nearly three in 10 m
15、en have experienced violence at the hands of an intimate(亲密的) partner their lifetimes, according to one of the few studies to look U (51) /U domestic violence and health among men. Many men actually do experience domestic violence, although we dont hear about itU (52) /U , Dr. Robert J. Reid of the
16、University of Washington in Seattle, one of the authors, told Reuters Health. They often dont tell U (53) /U we dont ask. We want to message out(传达这样一个信息) to men who U (54) /U experience domestic violence that they are not alone and there are resources available to U (55) /U. The researchers asked s
17、tudy participants about physical abuse (伤害) and non-physical U (56) /U such as threats that made them U (57) /U for their safety, controlling behavior (for example, being told who they could associate with and where they could go), and constant name-calling(辱骂). Among men 18 to 54 years old, 14.2 pe
18、rcent said they had experienced intimate partner U (58) /U in the past five years, while 6.1 percent reported domestic violence in the previous year. Rates were lower for men 55 and U (59) /U, with 5.3 percent reporting violence in the past five years and 2.4 percent having experienced it in the pas
19、t 12 months. Overall, 30.5 percent of men younger than 55 and 26.5 percent of older men said they had been victims of U (60) /U. violence at some point in their lives. About half of the violet men U (61) /U was physical. However, the physical violence men reported wasnt as harsh as U (62) /U stuff,
20、women in a previous study; 20 percent to 40 percent of the men rated it as severe, compare to 61 percent of U (63) /U. Men who reported experiencing domestic violence had more emotional and mental problems U (64) /U those who had not, especially older men, the U (65) /U found. AandBbutCyetDunless 4.
21、B第三篇/BReading Poem No poem should ever be discussed or analyzed, until it has been read aloud by someone,teacher or student. Better still, perhaps, is the practice of reading it twice, once at the beginning of the discussion and once at the end, so the sound of the poem is the last thing one hears o
22、f it. All discussions of poetry are, in fact, preparations for reading it aloud, and the reading of the poem is, finally, the most telling interpretation of it, suggesting tone, rhythm, and meaning all at once. Hearing a poet read the work in his or her own voice, on records or on film, is obviously
23、 a special reward. But even those aids to teaching can not replace the student and teacher reading it or, best of all, reciting it. I have come to think, in fact, that time spent reading a poem aloud is much more important than analyzing it, if there isnt time for both. I think one of our goals as t
24、eachers of English is to have students love poetry. Poetry is a criticism of life, a heightening of life, enjoyment with others. It is an approach to the truth of feeling, and it can save your life. It also deserves a place in the teaching of languages and literature more central than it presently o
25、ccupies. I am not saying that every English teacher must teach poetry. Those who dont like it should not be forced to put that dislike on anyone else, But those who do teach poetry must keep in mind a few things about its essential nature, about its sound as well as its sense, and they must make roo
26、m in the classroom for hearing poetry as well as thinking about it. The phrase make room in the last paragraph can be best replaced by _. Abuild a boothBprovide equipmentCleave a certain amount of timeDset aside enough space 5.下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题。请根据短文回答其后面的问题，为每题确定一个最佳答案。B第一篇/BU.S. to Start $ 3.2 Bil
27、lion Child Health Study in January A study that will cost $ 3.2 billion and last more than two decades to track the health of 100,000 U. S. children from before birth to age 21 will be launched in January, U. S. health officials said on Friday. Officials from the U. S. governments National Institute
28、s of Health said they hope the study, to be conducted at 105 locations throughout the United States, can help identify early-life influences that affect later development, with the goal of learning new ways to treat or prevent illness. The study will examine hereditary(遗传的) and environmental factors
29、 such as exposure to certain chemicals that affect health. Researchers will collect genetic and biological samples from people in the study as well as samples from the homes of the women and their babies including air, water, dust and materials used to construct their residences, the NIH said. Offic
30、ials said more than $ 200 million has been spent already and the study is projected .to cost $ 3.2 billion. We anticipate that in the long term(从长远说来), what we learn from the study will result in a significant savings in the nations health care costs. Dr. Duane Alexander, who heads the NIHs Eunice K
31、ennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, told reporters. The study will begin in January when the University of North Carolina and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York start signing up(使报名从事) pregnant women whose babies will then be followed to age 21. Some
32、of the early findings will be about factors behind pre-term birth (早产), which has become more common in recent years, according to Dr. Peter Scheidt of the NIH, who heads the study. The people taking part will be from rural, urban and suburban areas, from all income and educational levels and from a
33、ll racial groups, the NIH said. Which is NOT true of the people in the study ATheyll be from various areas.BTheyll be from all income levels.CTheyll be from all educational levels.DTheyll be from all age groups. 6.B第二篇/BLong Bus Ride Long bus rides are like television shows. They have a beginning, a
34、 middle, and an end-with commercials thrown in every three or four minutes. The commercials are unavoidable. They happen whether you want them or not. Every couple of minutes a billboard glides by outside the bus window. Buy Super Clean Toothpaste. Drink Goodn Wet Root Beer. Fill up with Pacific Gas
35、. Only if you sleep, which is equal to turning the television set off, are you spared the unending cry of You Need It! Buy It Now! The beginning of the ride is comfortable and somewhat exciting, even if youve traveled that way before. Usually some things have changed-new houses, new buildings, somet
36、imes even a new road. The bus driver has a style of driving and its fun to try to figure it out the first hour or so. If the driver is particularly reckless or daring, the ride can be as thrilling as a suspense story. Will the driver pass the truck in time Will the driver move into the right or the
37、left-hand lane After a while, of course, the excitement dies down. Sleeping for a while helps pass the middle hours of the ride. Food always makes bus rides more interesting. But youve got to be careful of what kind of food you eat. Too much salty food can make you very thirsty between stops. The en
38、d of the ride is somewhat like the beginning. You know it will soon be over and theres a kind of expectation and excitement in that. The seat, of course, has become harder as the hours have passed. By now youve sat with you legs crossed, with your hands crossed behind your head. The end comes just a
39、t the right time. There are just no more ways to sit. The writer feels long bus rides are like TV shows because _. Athe commercials both on TV shows and on billboards along the road are funBthey both have a beginning, a middle, and an end, with commercials in betweenCthe drivers are always reckless
40、on TV shows just as they are on busesDboth traveling and watching TV are not exciting 7.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。Easy Learning Students should be jealous. Not only do babies get to doze their days away, but theyve also mastered the fine
41、art of learning in their sleep. By the time babies are a year old they can recognize a lot of sounds and even simple words. Marie Cheour at the University of Turku in Finland suspected that they might progress this fast be cause they learn language while they sleep as well as when they are awake. To
42、 test the theory, Cheour and their colleagues studied 45 newborn babies in the first days of their lives. They exposed all the infants to an hour of Finnish vowel soundsone that sounds like oo, another like ee and a third boundary vowel peculiar to Finnish and similar languages that sounds like some
43、thing in between. EEG recording of the infants brains before and after the session showed that the newborns could not distinguish the sounds. Fifteen of the babies then went back with their mothers, while the rest were split into two sleep study groups. One group was exposed throughout their night-t
44、ime sleeping hours to the same three vowels, while the others listened to the other, easier-to-distinguish vowel sounds. When tested in the morning, and again in the evening, the babies whod heard the tricky boundary vowels all night showed brainwave activity indicating that they could now recognize
45、 this sound. They could identify the sound even when its pitch was changed, while none of the other babies could pick up the boundary vowel at all. Cheour doesnt know how babies accomplish this nighttime learning, but she suspects that the special ability might indicate that unlike adults, babies do
46、nt turn off their cerebral cortex while they sleep. The skill probably fades in the course of the first years of life, she adds-so forget the idea that you can pick up the tricky French vowels as an adult just by slipping a language tape under your pillow. But while it may not help grown-ups, Cheour
47、 is hoping to use the sleeping hours to give re medial help to babies who are genetically at risk of language disorders. The three vowels mentioned in this article are all Finnish sounds. AA. RightBB. WrongCC. Not mentioned 8.下面的短文有15外空白，请根据短文的内容为每处空白处确定一个最佳选项。Men Too May Suffer from Domestic Violence Nearly three in 10 men have experienced violence at the hands of an intimate(亲密的) partner their lifetimes, according to one of the few studi