博大考神2012年职称英语考试理工类B级真题试卷及参考答案（一）
第一部分：词汇选项(第1~15题，每题1分，共15分)
下面每个句子中均有1个词或者短语有括号，请为每处括号部分确定1个意义最为接近的选项。
1. All the walls in the building had the same (layout). A. size B. function C. color D. arrangment 答案：D
2. The storm caused( severe) damage. A. physical B. accidental C. serious D. enviromental 答案：C
3. The walls are made of( hollow) concret blocks. A. big B. empty C. long D. new 答案：B
4. Our aim was to (update) the health service and we succeeded. A. offer
B. provide C. modernize D. fund 答案：C
5. Do we have to wear these name (tags)? A. lists B. forms C. lables D. codes 答案：C
6. Joe came to the window as the crowd (chanted) ”Joe,Joe,Joe” A. repeated B. jumped C. maintained D. approached 答案：A
7. He (inspired) many young people to take up sports. A. encouraged B. allowed C. called D. advised 答案：A
8. The city center was (wiped out) by the bomb. A. covered
B. reduced C. destroyed D. moved 答案：C
9. Most baby can (take in) a wide range of food easily. A. bring B. digest C. keep D. serve 答案：B
10. A large crowd (assembled) outside the American embassy. A. watched B. shouted C. gathered D. walked 答案：C
11. The weather was (crisp) and clear and you could see the mountains fifty miles away. A. fresh B. hot C. heavy D. windy 答案：A
12. What( puzzles) me is why his books are so popular.
A. shocks B. influences C. confuses D. concerns 答案：C
13. I think $7 a drink is a bit (steep), don’t you? A. tight B. low C. cheap D. high 答案：D
14. The (contempt) he felt for his fellow students was obvious. A. need B. hate C. love D. pity 答案：D
15. Her comments about men are (utterly) ridiculous. A. slightly B. partly C. faintly D. completely 答案：D
第二部分：阅读判断(第16~22题，每题1分，共7分)
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。
Eastern Quakes Can Trigger Big Shakes
In the first week of November 2011, people in central Oklahoma
experienced more than two dozen earthquakes. The largest, a magnitude 5.6 quake, shook thousands of fans in a college football stadium, caused cracks in a few buildings and rattled the nerves of many people who had never felt a quake before. Oklahoma is not an area of the country famous for its quakes. If you watch the news on TV, you see reports about all sorts of natural disasters —hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding and wildfires, to name a few. But the most dangerous type of natural disaster, and also the most unpredictable, is the earthquake.
Researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey estimate that several million earthquakes rattle the globe each year. That may sound scary, but people don’t feel many of the tremors because they happen in remote and unpopulated regions. Many quakes happen under the ocean, and others have a very small magnitude, or shaking intensity.
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake that struck central Virginia the afternoon of August 23, 2011, was felt from central Georgia to southeastern Canada. In many urban areas, including Washington, D.C., and New York City (Wall Street shown), people crowded the streets while engineers inspected buildings. Credit: Wikimedia/Alex Tabak
Scientists know about small, remote quakes only because of very sensitive electronic devices called seismometers. These devices detect and measure the size of ground vibrations produced by earthquakes. Altogether, USGS researchers use seismometers to identify and locate about 20,000 earthquakes each year.
Although earthquakes can happen anywhere in the world, really big quakes occur only in certain areas. The largest ones register a magnitude 8 or higher and happen, on average, only once each year. Such big ones typically occur along the edges of Earth’s tectonic plates.
Tectonic plates are huge pieces of Earth’s crust, sometimes many kilometers thick. These plates cover our planet’s surface like a jigsaw puzzle. Often, jagged edges of these plates temporarily lock together. When plates jostle and scrape past each other earthquakes occur. On average, tectonic plates move very slowly — about the same speed as your fingernails grow.