职称英语阅读理解题
职称英语阅读理解题
在职称英语考试的六大题型中阅读理解占的分数最高达45分,将近总成绩的'一半,关系着考试的成败。下面是我整理的关于职称英语的阅读理解题以及参考答案，欢迎大家练习!
第一篇：
The Only Way Is Up
Think of a modern city and the first image that come to mind is the skyline. It is full of great buildings, pointing like fingers to heaven. It is true that some cities don’t permit buildings to go above a certain height. But these are cities concerned with the past. The first thing any city does when it wants to tell the world that it has arrived is to build skyscrapers.
When people gather together in cities, they create a demand for land. Since cities are places where money is made, that demand can be met. And the best way to make money out of city land is to put as many people as possible in a space that covers the smallest amount of ground. That means building upwards.
The technology existed to do this as early as the 19th century. But the height of buildings was limited by one important factor. They had to be small enough for people on the top floors to climb stairs. People could not be expected to climb a mountain at the end of their journey to work, or home.
Elisha Otis, a US inventor, was the man who brought us the lift or elevator，as he preferred to call it. However，most of the technology is very old. Lifts work using the same pulley system the Egyptians used to create the Pyramids. What Otis did was attach the system to a steam engine and develop the elevator brake, which stops the lift falling if the cords that hold it up are broken. It was this that did the most to gain public confidence in the new invention. In fact, he spent a number of years exhibiting lifts at fairgrounds, giving people the chance to try them out before selling the idea to architects and builders.
A lift would not be a very good theme park attraction now. Going in a lift is such an everyday thing that it would just be boring. Yet psychologists and others who study human behavior find lifts fascinating. The reason is simple. Scientists have always studied animals in zoos. The nearest they can get to that with humans is in observing them in lifts.
“It breaks all the usual conventions about the bubble of personal space we carry around with us and you just can’t choose to move away,” says workplace psychologist, Gary Fitzgibbon. Being trapped in this setting can create different types of tensions, he says.Some people are scared of them. Others use them as an opportunity to get close to the boss. Some stand close to the door. Others hide in the corners. Most people try and shrink into the background. But some behave in a way that makes others notice them. There are a few people who just stand in a corner taking notes.
Don’t worry about them. They fire probably from a university.
31. “...these are cities concerned with the past”in the first paragraph refer to cities that
A. are worried about their past.
B. have a glorious past to be proud of.
C. want to maintain their traditional image.
D. are very interested in their own history.
32. The difficulty in constructing tall buildings in the 19th century lies in
A. the shortage of money.
B. the lack of a device to carry people upward.
C. backward technology.
D. mountains taking up land space.
33. When Otis came up with the idea of a lift,
A. he sold it to the architects and builders immediately.
B. the Egyptians used it to build the Pyramids.
C. it was accepted favorably by the public.
D. most people had doubt about its safety.
34. Which of the following best describes the experience of going in a lift now?
A. Fascinating.
B. Uninteresting.
C. Frightening.
D. Exciting.
35. Psychologists find the lift a good place where they can study human behaviour because
A. here humans behave the way animals do.
B. people in a lift are all scared.
C. here some people take notes.
D. in a lift the bubble of personal space breaks.
第二篇：
Some Things We Know about Language
Many things about language are a mystery, and many will always remain so.But some things we do know.
First，we know that all human beings have a language of some sort.There is no race of men anywhere on earth so backward that it has no language，no set of speech sounds by which the people communicate with one mother.Furthermore，in historical times，there has never been a race of men without a language.
Second，there is no such thing as a primitive language.There are many people whose cultures are undeveloped，who are，as we say，uncivilized, but the languages they speak are not primitive.In all known languages we can see complexities that must have been tens of thousands of years in developing.
This has not always been well understood;indeed, the direct contrary has often been stated.Popular ideas of the language of the American Indians will illustrate.Many people have supposed that the Indians communicated in a very primitive system of noises.Study has proved this to be nonsense.There are，or were，hundreds of American Indian languages，and all of them turn out to be very complicated and very old. They are certainly different from the languages that most of us are familiar with，but they are no more primitive five than English and Greek.
A third thing we know about language is that all languages are perfectly adequate.That is, each one is a perfect means of expressing the culture of the people who speak the language.
Finally, we know that language changes.It is natural and normal for language to change; the only languages which do not change are the dead ones.This is easy to understand if we look backward in time.Change goes on in all aspects of language.Grammatical features change as do speech sounds，and changes in vocabulary are sometimes very extensive and may occur very rapidly.Vocabulary is the least stable part of any language.
36. In the second paragraph the author thinks that
A. some backward race doesn’t have a language of its own.
B. some race in history didn’t possess a language of its own.
C. any human race, whether backward or not, has a language.
D. some races on earth call communicate without language.
37. According to the author, people of undeveloped cultures can have_ __ languages.
A. complicated
B. uncivilized
C. primitive
D. well-known
38. The author has used American Indian languages as an example to show that they are
A. just as old as some well-known languages.
B. just as sophisticated as some well-known languages.
C. more developed than some well-known languages.
D. more complex than some well-known languages.
39. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?
A. A language is a means of expressing a particular culture.
B. All languages can well express their respective cultures.
C. American Indian languages are as sophisticated as English.
D. Some languages are better than other languages.
40. According to the author, language changes are most likely to occur in
A. grammar.
B. pronunciation.
C. vocabulary.
D. intonation.
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