2010年职称英语考试理工类C级考题答案
（一）词汇选项 end – stop (B) convert – change (D) gave up – abandon (A) booming – successful (B) rough – difficult (C) captured – caught (D) promotion – advancement (D) propose – suggest (A) settle – solve (A) concrete – specific (A) fascinating – wonderful (B) marked – clear (C) shocked – surprised (D) identified – recognized (A) miss – avoid (C) （二）阅读判断 A great quake coming? 16. The San Francisco area is located above several active fault lines. 答案为A: true. 17. The 1906 earthquake in San Francisco is the most severe one in American history. 答案为C: Not mentioned 分析： 依据文章内容可知美国旧金山地区1906年发生的那次地震是一次很破坏性很大的地震， 但是否是美国历史上最严重的一次地震就不得而知了。 18. The highest speed of fault ruptures in the 1906 quake was more than 3.5 kilometers per second. 答案为B: Wrong 分析： 依据文章内容可知大的断层断裂的速度可能每秒钟超过3.5公里， 因为是可能， 所以题干所说的“美国旧金山地区1906年发生的那次地震的最高断层速度超过3.5公里每小时”与文章相关内容不符。 19. Earthquakes rarely happened in San Francisco before 1906. 答案为B：Wrong 分析： 文章开头第一句话说“住在海湾地区的人们都知道地震在海湾地区（指旧金山地区）是常见的事情”， 由此可知题干所陈述的意义与文章开头句意义不一致。 20. San Francisco is fully prepared for another big earthquake. 答案为B: Wrong. 分析： 文章中说“下一次地震仍然可能会造成大规模的破坏”， 因此可知旧金山地区并没有为下一次地震的到来做好准备。 21. Scientists will be able to predict the exact time of an earthquake soon. 答案为C： Not mentioned 分析： 文章中并没有涉及到“科学家们是否很快就能很快精确预测地震的发生时间”。 22. A major earthquake striking San Francisco someday is inevitable. 答案为A： （三）概括大意与完成句子 23. paragraph 1 ___. 答案为E： History of cell phones 24. Paragraph 2 ___. 答案为C: Cell phones in everyday life 25. Paragraph 3 ___. 答案为A: Cell phones and the family 26. Paragraph 4 ___. 答案为F： Problems with cell phones 27. Nowadays cell phones are equipped with ___. 答案为F： countless new facilities 28. Cell phones are common in our lives and have become ___. 答案为A：a necessity 29. We can use cell phones to communicate with others when we encounter ___. 答案为B： an emergency 30. In spite of many benefits, cell phones have brought for their owners ___. 答案为C： a number of new headaches （四）阅读理解 阅读第一篇 Arctic Melt 31. The word ”builds” in paragraph 2 could be best replaced by ___ 答案为B： expands 32. By the end of summer 2007 the ice cover in the Arctic was ___. 答案为B: 4.2 million square kilometers 33. What may be some of the reasons for the ice melt in the Arctic? A. Unusually strong winds and clearer skies 34. The Beaufort sea mentioned in paragraph 7 is an example to show___. A. How serious the problem of ice melt in the Arctic is. 35. It can be learned from the last sentence that ____. A. The ice melt in the Arctic may not stop 阅读第二篇 暂时缺失， 很抱歉！ 阅读第三篇 Walking to exercise brain 41． Walking regularly helps elderly people ___. A. concentrate better 42. After taking exercise for a few weeks, the mice were found to have ___. D. more blood flow to the brain 43. The first study on 41 elderly people found ___ A. the fitter participants did arrow tasks faster. 44. It can be good for health when one takes a walk every 2 or 3 days for at least ___. C. 10 minutes 45. It is suggested in the last paragraph that people should ___. D. not read and walk at the same time （五）补全短文 Houses of the future 46. B: what will our home be like then?
