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1、2023年广东职称英语考试模拟卷（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.Where Did All the Ships Go 2.The Street Violinist 3.Micro-chip Research Center Created 4.Where Did All the Ships Go 5.Where Did All the Ships Go 6.Where Did All the Ships Go 7.Where Did All the Ships Go 8.
2、Where Did All the Ships Go 9.Where Did All the Ships Go 10.Where Did All the Ships Go 11.Where Did All the Ships Go 12.Where Did All the Ships Go 13.Where Did All the Ships Go 14. 阅读下面这篇短文，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；如果该句的信息文章中没有提及，请选择C。 B The Threat to Kiribati/
3、B The people of Kiribati are afraid that one day in the not-too-distant future, their country will disappear from the face of the earth - literally, Several times this year, the Pacific island nation has been flooded by a sudden high tide. These tides, which swept across the island and destroyed hou
4、ses, came when there was neither wind nor rain. This never happened before, say the older citizens of Kiribati. What is causing these mysterious high tides The answer may well be global warming. When fuels like oil and coal are being burned, pollutants (污染物) are released; these pollutants trap heat
5、in the earths atmosphere. Warmer temperatures cause water to expand and also create more water by melting glaciers (冰川) and polar (极地的) ice caps. If the trend continues, scientists say, many countries will suffer. Bangladesh, for example, might lose one-fifth of its land. The coral (珊瑚) island natio
6、ns of the Pacific, like Kiribati and the Marshall Islands, however, would face an even worse fate - they would be swallowed by the sea. The loss of these coral islands would be everyones loss. Coral formations are home to more species than any other place on earth. The people of these nations feel f
7、rustrated. The sea, on which their economies have always been based, is suddenly threatening their existence. They dont have the money for expensive technological solutions like seawalls. And they have no control over the pollutants, which are being released mainly by activities in large industriali
8、zed countries. All they can do is to hope that industrialized countries will take steps to reduce pollution.The people of Kiribati worry that one day their country will be taken away by a sudden high tide. AA. RightBB. WrongCC. Not mentioned 15. 阅读下面这篇短文，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
9、A；如果该句提供的是错误信息，请选择B；如果该句的信息文章中没有提及，请选择C。 B The Threat to Kiribati/B The people of Kiribati are afraid that one day in the not-too-distant future, their country will disappear from the face of the earth - literally, Several times this year, the Pacific island nation has been flooded by a sudden high
10、tide. These tides, which swept across the island and destroyed houses, came when there was neither wind nor rain. This never happened before, say the older citizens of Kiribati. What is causing these mysterious high tides The answer may well be global warming. When fuels like oil and coal are being
11、burned, pollutants (污染物) are released; these pollutants trap heat in the earths atmosphere. Warmer temperatures cause water to expand and also create more water by melting glaciers (冰川) and polar (极地的) ice caps. If the trend continues, scientists say, many countries will suffer. Bangladesh, for exam
12、ple, might lose one-fifth of its land. The coral (珊瑚) island nations of the Pacific, like Kiribati and the Marshall Islands, however, would face an even worse fate - they would be swallowed by the sea. The loss of these coral islands would be everyones loss. Coral formations are home to more species
13、 than any other place on earth. The people of these nations feel frustrated. The sea, on which their economies have always been based, is suddenly threatening their existence. They dont have the money for expensive technological solutions like seawalls. And they have no control over the pollutants,
14、which are being released mainly by activities in large industrialized countries. All they can do is to hope that industrialized countries will take steps to reduce pollution.High tides used to attack Kiribati when there was strong wind or heavy rain. AA. RightBB. WrongCC. Not mentioned 16. 阅读下面这篇短文，
15、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；如果该句的信息文章中没有提及，请选择C。 B The Threat to Kiribati/B The people of Kiribati are afraid that one day in the not-too-distant future, their country will disappear from the face of the earth - literally, Several times this year, the Pacific isl
16、and nation has been flooded by a sudden high tide. These tides, which swept across the island and destroyed houses, came when there was neither wind nor rain. This never happened before, say the older citizens of Kiribati. What is causing these mysterious high tides The answer may well be global war
17、ming. When fuels like oil and coal are being burned, pollutants (污染物) are released; these pollutants trap heat in the earths atmosphere. Warmer temperatures cause water to expand and also create more water by melting glaciers (冰川) and polar (极地的) ice caps. If the trend continues, scientists say, man
18、y countries will suffer. Bangladesh, for example, might lose one-fifth of its land. The coral (珊瑚) island nations of the Pacific, like Kiribati and the Marshall Islands, however, would face an even worse fate - they would be swallowed by the sea. The loss of these coral islands would be everyones lo
19、ss. Coral formations are home to more species than any other place on earth. The people of these nations feel frustrated. The sea, on which their economies have always been based, is suddenly threatening their existence. They dont have the money for expensive technological solutions like seawalls. A
20、nd they have no control over the pollutants, which are being released mainly by activities in large industrialized countries. All they can do is to hope that industrialized countries will take steps to reduce pollution.The heat released by burning oil and coal is the direct cause of global warming.
21、AA. RightBB. WrongCC. Not mentioned 17. 下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题，每道题后面有4个选项。请根据文章的内容，从每题所给的4个选项中选择1个最佳答案。 B第一篇/BBEta Carinae/B As possibly the galaxys (银河) most massive star, Eta Carinae is now engaging in some very unusual behaviour. Australian astronomers, being in the Southern Hemisphere (半球), are able
22、to observe it clearly. In the 19th century, Eta Carinae was for a time the third brightest star in the sky. It has now become less bright so that binoculars (双筒望远镜) are needed to see it. It seems to be brightening and becoming less bright over a period of many years, said Dr Bob Duncan from the Aust
23、ralia Telescope National Facility. While it is not unusual for stars to vary in brightness, the period is usually much shorter. Since 1992 it has become four times brighter, and then last year it began to drop dramatically, he said. The problem in observing Eta Carinae is that it has been surrounded
24、 by a cloud of gas and dust, making it hard to see the star directly. However, radio waves and infrared light (红外线) can pass through this cloud, so telescopes that receive these wavelengths can observe what is occurring. Eta Carinae is of particular interest to astronomers because it seems to be in
25、its death throes (剧痛). Being so large it will end up as a supernova (超新星). There has not been a supernova in our galaxy since the invention of the telescope. While a 1987 explosion in a nearby galaxy gave astronomers plenty of valuable data, they are hungry for an even closer look. Eta Carinae has o
26、ther unique features, and is the only star known to produce an ultraviolet (紫外线) laser that is brighter than that produced by the Sun. Lasers have been observed in other frequencies from a few stars.Eta Carinae is now engaging in Asome very common behaviour.Bsome very dull behaviour.Csome very frigh
27、tening behaviour.Dsome very strange behaviour. 18. 阅读下面的短文，文中有15处空白，每处空白给出了4个选项，请根据短文的内容从 4个选项中选择1个最佳答案。 B Singing Alarms Could Save the Blind/B If you cannot see, you may not be able to find your way out of a burning building - and that could be fatal. A company in Leeds could U (51) /U all that wi
28、th directional (定向的) sound alarms capable of guiding you to the exit. Sound Alert, a company run U (52) /U the University of Leeds, is installing the alarms in a residential home for U (53) /U people in Sommerset and a resource centre for the blind in Cumbria. The alarms produce a U (54) /U range of
29、 frequencies that enable the brain to U (55) /U where the sound is coming from. Deborah Withington of Sound Alert says that the alarms use most of the frequencies that can be U (56) /U by humans. It is a burst of white noise that people say sounds like static (静电噪音) on the radio, she says. its life-
30、saving potential is U (57) /U. She conducted an experiment in which people were filmed by thermal-imaging (热效应成像) cameras trying to find their U (58) /U out of a large smoke-filled room. It U (59) /U them nearly four minutes to find the door without a sound alarm, U (60) /U only 15 seconds with one.
31、 Withington studies how the brain U (61) /U sounds at the university. She says that the U (62) /U of a wide band of frequencies can be pinpointed (精确地确定) more easily than the source of a narrow band. Alarms U (63) /U on the same concept have already been installed on emergency vehicles. The alarms w
32、ill also include rising or falling frequencies to U (64) /U whether people should go up or down stairs. They were U (65) /U with the aid of a large grant from British Nuclear Fuels. AchangeBcureCdemandDset 19.B第二篇/BB New Foods and the New World/B In the last 500 years, nothing about people - not the
33、ir clothes, ideas, or languages - has changed as much as what they eat. The original chocolate drink was made from the seeds of the cocoa tree (可可树) by South American Indians. The Spanish introduced it to the rest of the world during the 1500s. And although it was very expensive, it quickly became f
34、ashionable. In London, shops where chocolate drinks were served became important meeting places. Some still exist today. The potato is also from the New World. Around 1600, the Spanish brought it from Peru to Europe, where it soon was widely grown. Ireland became so dependent on it that thousands of
35、 Irish people starved when the crop failed during the Potato Famine (饥荒) of 1845-1846, and thousands more were forced to leave their homeland and move to America. There are many other foods that have traveled from South America to the Old World. But some others went in the opposite direction. Brazil
36、 is now the worlds largest grower of coffee, and coffee is an important crop in Colombia and other South American countries. But it is native to Ethiopia, a country in Africa. It was first made into a drink by Arabs during the 1400%. According to an Arabic legend, coffee was discovered when a person
37、 named Kaldi noticed that his goats were attracted to the red berries on a coffee bush. He tried one and experienced the wide-awake feeling that one third of the worlds population now starts the day with.According to the passage, which of the following has changed the most in the last 500 years AFoo
38、d.BClothing.CIdeology.DLanguage. 20.B第三篇/BB Londons First Light Rail System/B The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) took just three years to build at a cost of 77 million. It is Londons first Light Rail System, but its route follows that of a number of older lines, which carried the nineteenth century r
39、ailways through the crowded districts of the East End. The section of the line from the Tower Gateway Station to Poplar follows the line of one of Londons earliest railways, the London & Blackwell (1840), a cable-drawn railway (later converted to steam) which carried passengers to steam ships at Bla
40、ckwell Pier, and provided transport for the messengers and clerks who went backwards and forwards between the docks (码头) and the city every day. From Poplar to Island Gardens, a new line crosses high above the dock waters, and then joins the old track of the Millwall Extension Railway, built to serv
41、ice the Millwall Docks (1868) and to provide transport for workers in the local factories. This line was horse-drawn for part of its mute, until the 1880s. The Poplar to Stratford section of the DLR route was first developed by the North London Railway, built in the 1850s to link the West and East I
42、ndia Docks with the manufacturing districts of the Midlands and North of England. There were. major railway works and sidings (岔线) at Bow until recently. The trains are automatically controlled from a central computer, which deals with all signaling and other safety factors, as well as adjusting spe
43、eds to keep within the timetable; on board each vehicle, Train Captains, who are also fully qualified drivers, are equipped with two-way radios to maintain contact with central control. There are passenger lifts, and self-service ticket machines, at every station.The passage tells us that Londons fi
44、rst Light Rail System _ Awas constructed in the nineteenth century.Bwill be finished in three years time.Cfollows some of the original lines.Dtook three years longer than expected to complete. 21. 下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题，每道题后面有4个选项。请根据文章的内容，从每题所给的4个选项中选择1个最佳答案。 B第一篇/BBEta Carinae/B As possibly the galaxys
45、 (银河) most massive star, Eta Carinae is now engaging in some very unusual behaviour. Australian astronomers, being in the Southern Hemisphere (半球), are able to observe it clearly. In the 19th century, Eta Carinae was for a time the third brightest star in the sky. It has now become less bright so th
46、at binoculars (双筒望远镜) are needed to see it. It seems to be brightening and becoming less bright over a period of many years, said Dr Bob Duncan from the Australia Telescope National Facility. While it is not unusual for stars to vary in brightness, the period is usually much shorter. Since 1992 it has become four times brighter, and then last year it began to drop dramatically, he said. The problem in observing Eta Carinae is that it has been surrounded by a cloud of gas and dust, makin