名师推出职称英语考试模拟试题四:::职称在线

4 According to the author, which of the following is most likely to share our biological need for companionship besides the monkey?

A. a swallow

B. a pig

C. an ape

D. a dog

5. Which of the following is the least likely cause of one’s unhappiness in advanced countries?

A. loss of friends

B. Reduction of income

C. Death of a family member

D. Divorce

1、 A B C D

2、 A B C D

3、 A B C D

4、 A B C D

5、 A B C D

你的答案：　标准答案：D,B,B,C,B

本题分数： 15.00 分，你答题的情况为错误所以你的得分为 .00 分

解　　析：1. D。分析：问题问“根据第3段的内容来看，下列哪种说法是发达国家中存在的情况？”。从语意上看A和C都太绝对，因此肯定不是答案；根据文章开头的句子（提示：文章开头的句子常常起着直接点明文章主题的作用）： If your sense of well-being fluctuates with stock market， you might be comforted to know that money can’t buy you happiness anyway.（你会意识到钱不能买来快乐），判断D很可能是答案。而实际上第3段中只有一句话： In developed countries, the correlation(A 级) between income and happiness is close to zero and sometimes negative. 该句说“在发达国家里，收入和快乐之间的关系接近零，而有时候还成为了负数”，因此否定了B（收入和快乐相关），所以答案是D。

2 B。分析：问题说“根据1993年进行的研究，下列哪种说法能最好地陈述美国的状况？”。选项中B的内容与文章主题贴近（大多数人不认为财富与快乐有很大的关系），因此推测B很可能是答案。利用问题句中的特征词1993 study作为答案线索，这样在文章中找到答案相关句：（第2段） In one American study conducted in 1993, level of income was shown to have an inverse(A) relation to happiness: the group whose income had declined was happier overall than the group whose income had increased. 该句说“1993年在美国进行的一项研究表明，收入的水平与快乐呈现出相反的关系：收入下降的人总的来说比收入增加的人更快乐。”，根据这句话的内容可以否定A， C和D，因此与文章主题内容一致的B是答案。

3 B。分析：问题句说“根据作者的观点来看，下列哪种说法不正确？”被选项中多处提到了“富人”和“穷人”，因此利用“the poor和 the rich”作为答案线索，这样在文章中找到了答案相关句：（第5段）Predictably, money has its most positive effect on the poor, but once a person achieved a minimal standard of living， level of income has almost nothing to do with happiness. 该句说“可以预言的是，钱对穷人有很大的影响” 从该句内容可以推出这样的语意： “钱对穷人和富人的影响是不同的（A）”， “钱对穷人具有的意义比对富人更大（D）”，该句还说“ 但是一旦人达到了最低生活水平，他的收入水平与快乐就几乎没有什么关系了。”该部分内容与C一致（当一个人达到了更高一些的生活水平，钱对他来说所具有的意义就更小些），因此答案是B。

（提示：这道题出题者在设置题目时出现了语法结构理解的错误（have most positive effect on the poor是“对穷人有着非常肯定的影响”，而不是“最肯定的影响”），因次出题者设置出了A和D这两个选项）

4．C．分析：问题句说“根据作者的说法，除了猴子以外，下列哪种动物最有可能具有我们对友谊的需要？”根据常识来看，因为猿猴（C）与猴子最接近，所以推测C最可能是答案。利用问题句中的特征词monkey和问题句中的新信息词companionship作为答案线索，这样找到答案相关句： Our need for companionship is partly biological生物学(上)的.该句说“我们对友谊的需要有部分原因是出于动物的天性。” （All primates (灵长目动物)respond with pleasure to demonstrations of affection and with pain to loss of companionship. （该句说“所有灵长目动物当其他动物对它表示出好感时，它会感到快乐，它对友谊的失去会感到痛苦”）） Isolated monkeys will sacrifice food just for the glimpses of another monkey. 该句说“孤独的猴子会为了让其他的伙伴多看自己一眼，可以拱手让出吃的食物。”结合段首句的内容来看，这个句子是用作具体的例子例证“我们对友谊的需要有部分原因是出于动物的天性。”，判断该句前句中提到的灵长目（猴子也属于灵长目）也应该是用来例证的，因此判断灵长目都应该具有对友谊的生理需要，因此判断C（猿猴）是答案。

5 B。分析: 问题句说“下列拿个选项是最不可能造成生活在发达国家的人感到不快乐的原因？”。利用问题句中的新信息词advanced countries作为答案线索，这样找到答案相关句： Capitalism(advanced countries) succeeded in creating material riches， but it is less successful in building companionable societies and protecting family integrity. （But developing countries still have much work to do in pursuing material wealth, where a rise in productivity still greatly increases happiness.For poor countries, the time is not yet ripe for a shift in priorities from wealth accumulation to companionship. 该句说“资本主义(制度)(借助后句中分别出现的‘发展中国家’和‘穷国’，判断Capitalism是指“发达国家”)成功地创造了物质财富，但是它在建立和谐社会和保护家庭的完整上就不太成功” ，从这个句子可以推出结论：资本主义国家的不足之处：不能很好地维持社会的和谐和家庭的完整应该是造成资本主义国家的人民不快乐的原因，选项A， C和D 都涉及到社会和家庭，因此判断B（收入的减少）是答案。

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20、 The operation of International Airlines

International airlines have rediscovered the business traveler, the man or woman who regularly jets from country to country as part of the job. This does not necessarily mean that airlines ever abandoned their business travelers. Instead, companies like Lufthansa and Swissair would right argue that they have always catered best for the executive class passengers. But many airlines could be accused of concentrating too heavily in the recent past on attracting passengers by volume, often at the expense of the regular traveler. Too often, they have seemed geared for quantity rather than quality.

Operating a major airline is essentially a matter of finding the right mix of passengers. The airlines need to fill up the back of their wide-bodied jets with low fare passengers, without forgetting that the front end should be filled with people who pay substantially more for their tickets.

It is no coincidence that the two major airline bankruptcies were among the companies specializing in cheap flights. But low fares require consistently full aircraft to make flights economically viable, and in the recent recession the volume of traffic has not grown. Equally the large number of airlines jostling for the available passengers has created a huge excess of capacity. The net result of excess capacity and cut-throat competition driving down fares had been to push some airlines into collapse and leave many others hovering on the brink.

Against this grim background, it is no surprise that airlines are turning increasingly towards the business travelers to improve their rates of return. They have invested much time and effort to establish exactly what the executive demands for sitting apart from the tourists.

High on the list of priorities is punctuality; an executive’s time is money. In-flight service is another area where the airlines are jostling for the executive’s attention. The free drinks and headsets and better food are all part of the lure.

Another development has been the accent of seating arrangements. Regular travelers have become well versed in the debate about seat pitch – the amount of room between each passenger. And first-class passengers are now offered sleeperettes, which, for long journeys, make it possible to snatch a proper night’s sleep. Sleeperettes have proved so popular that they will soon become universal in the front end of most aircraft.

The airlines are also trying to improve things on the ground. Executive lounges are commonplace and intended to make the inevitable waiting between flights a little more bearable. Luggage handling is being improved. Regrettably, there is little the airlines can do to speed up the boring immigration and customs process, which manages to upset and frustrate passengers of all classes in every continent.

Although it is the airlines’ intention to attract executive passengers from their rivals, the airlines themselves would nonetheless like to change one bad habit of this kind of traveler – the expensive habit of booking a flight and then failing to turn up. The practice is particularly widespread in Europe, where businessmen frequently book return journeys home one on several flights.

1. According to the passage, in operating airlines it is essential to ___.

A. keep in mind the need of the executives only.

B. Satisfy the need of the low fare passengers at the expense of the executives

C. Try to attract as many passengers as possible by reducing fares

D. Cater to the need of passengers sitting at both ends of jets.

2. The following are all mentioned as reasons why airlines are having a hard time except that ___.

A. the tourist industry is experiencing an all-time low

B. there is no increase in the number of passengers

C. there are more seats on the planes than needed

D. the competition between airlines is strong

3. The improvements the airlines attempt at include all the following except ___.

A. making their seats more comfortable

B. providing better food during flights

C. showing more movies during the long flights

D. offering sleeperettes to first-class passengers

4. There is not much the airlines can do when it comes to ___.

A. making sure the departure are not delayed

B. the efficient handling of luggage

C. speeding up customs procedure

D. the improvement of the condition of waiting lounges

5. Which of the following is a bad habit of the executive passengers that frustrates the airlines?

A. they do not book their seats in advance

B. they do not sit on the seats they are supposed to take

C. they do not travel on the flight they have booked