2012年职称英语等级考试真题(理工类B级)
第1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个词或短语划有底横线，请为每处划线部分确定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
2. The storm caused( severe) damage. A. physical B. accidental C. serious
D. enviromental
3.The walls are made of( hollow)concretblocks. A. big B. empty C. long D. new
4. Our aim was to (update) the health service and we succeeded. A. offer B. provide C. modernize D. fund
5. Do we have to wear these name (tags)? A. lists B. forms C. labels D. codes
6. Joe came to the window as the crowd (chanted)”Joe,Joe,Joe” A. repeated B. jumped C. maintained D. approached
7. He (inspired) many young people to take up sports. A. encouraged B. allowed C. called D. advised
8. The city center was (wiped out) by the bomb. A. covered B. reduced C. destroyed D. moved
9. Most baby can (take in) a wide range of food easily.
A. bring B. digest C. keep D. serve
10. A large crowd（assembled）outside the American embassy. A. watched B. shouted C. gathered D. walked
11. The weather was（crisp）and clear and you could see the mountains fifty miles away.
A. fresh B. hot C. heavy D. windy
12. What（puzzles）me is why his books are so popular. A. shocks B. influences C. confuses D. concerns
13. I think $7 a drink is a bit（steep）, don’t you? A. tight B. low C. cheap D. high
14. The（contempt）he felt for his fellow students was obvious. A. need B. hate C. love D. pity
15. Her comments about men are（utterly）ridiculous. A. slightly B. partly C. faintly D. completely
第2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（量）5.6 quake, shook thousands of
fans in a college football stadium, caused cracks in a few buildings and scared 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. But the most dangerous type of natural disaster, and also the most unpredictable, is the earthquake.
Researchers at the US Geological Survey（USGS）estimate that several million earthquakes occur globally each year. That may sound scary, but people don’t feel many of them because they happen in remote and unpopulated regions. Many quakes happen under the ocean, and others have a very small magnitude.
Scientists know about small, remote quakes only because of very sensitive electronic devices called seismometers（地震仪）. These devices detect and measure the size of ground vibrations（震颤）produced by earthquakes. Altogether, USGS researchers use seismometers to identify and locate about 20000 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（构造板块）.
Thctonic plates are huge pieces of Earth’s crust（外壳）, sometimes many kilometers thick. Often, edges of these plates temporarily lock together. When plates push and scrape（擦）past each other earthquakes occur. On average, tectonic plates move very slowly--bout the same speed as your fingernails grow.
But sometimes earthquakes rumble（轰轰作响）through portions of the landscape far from a plate’s edges. Although less expected, these “mid-plate” small earthquakes can be stantial damage. Some of the biggest known examples hit the eastern half of the United States two centuries ago. Today, scientists are still puzzling over why the quakes occurred and when similar ones might occur. 16. Oklahoma is an area often experiencing natural disasters. A. Right B.Wrong C.Not mentioned
17. The earthquake is the most unpredictable natural disaster. A. Right B.Wrong C.Not mentioned
18. Few earthquakes happen without people’s awareness. A. Right B.Wrong C.Not mentioned
19. Seismometers can identify and locate most of the earthquakes in China. A. Right
B.Wrong C.Not mentioned
20. Big earthquakes of a magnitude 8 or higher seldom happen far from the edges of tectonic plates. A. Right B.Wrong C.Not mentioned
21. Whenever tectonic plates move, earthquakes happen. A. Right B.Wrong C.Not mentioned
22. The earthquake that hit the eastern half of the United States two centuries ago is the biggest”mid-plate” one in history. A. Right B.Wrong C.Not mentioned
第3部分：概括大意与完成句子(第23--30题，每题1分，共8分)
下面的短文后有2项测试任务：(1)第23～26题要求从所给的6个选项中为第2～5段每段选择1个最佳标题；(2)第27～30题要求从所给的6个选项中为每个句子确定1个最佳选项。
Learn about Noble Gases（惰性气体）
1 Have you ever ridden on a balloon? Many tourist spots offer balloon rides in order for people to see the beauty of a place from above. A balloon contains a noble gas called hellum（氦）. Formerly, balloons contained hydrogen but hydrogen is very flammable and dangerous when uncontrolled. Therefore, people shifted to helium, which is safer. Helium is safe because it has the properties of the noble gases. 2 People once belleved that noble gases couldn’t chemically react at all. For this reason, they were called inert gases（惰性气体）. They were also listed under Group 0 in the old periodic table because scientists believed that the gases have zero valence（价）electrons in their outer shell. This was later proven to be untrue when some noble gas compounds were discovered.
3 The gases are elements, which share similar properties. These properties include being monoatomic, colorless, odorless, being able to conduct electricity, and having low chemical reactivity. Noble gases include Helium, Neon, Argon, Krypton, Xenon and Radon. These are all found in Group 18, in the rightmost column of the periodic table. If you look at the periodic table, you will notice that these elements are the only ones, which do not have a charge. Helium has the lowest molecular（分子的）weight while Radon is the heaviest.
4 Remember that chemical reactions occur because atoms have valence electrons, which are electrons in their outer shell. When the outer shell is “unfilled” or the required number of electrons is not yet complete, the atom is more reactive. Noble gases have a full outer shell, meaning that they have complete electrons in their outer shell. This complete number varies. For instance, the outer shell of Helium has 2 valence electrons while the outer shell of Xenon has 8 electrons. Nowadays, there remains to be a few noble gases because of the low chemical reactivity of these said gases.
5 because of their properties, noble gases have many important applications. They are widely used in medicine and industries. For instance, liquid Helium is used for superconducting magnets（磁体）. These magnets are very important in physics and medicine. When a doctor suspects that a person’s brain has been damaged, he might request for Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI). MRI allows the doctor to “see” the brain, without operating on the patient. 23. paragraph 2________ 24. paragraph 3________ 25. paragraph 4________ 26. paragraph 5________
A. How were noble gases discovered? B. what is the periodic table?
C. what are the applications of noble gases? D. How were noble gases understood in the past?
E.What causes the low chemical reactivity of noble gases? F. What are noble gases?
27. Noble gases are not very chemically .
28. Among the elements of noble gases Helium is the .
29. The required number of electrons in noble gases’outer shell is . 30. MRI may make operating on the patient . A. complete B. reactive C.unnecessary D. flammable E. important F. lightest
第4部分：阅读理解(第31～45题，每题3分，共45分)
下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题。请根据短文内容，为每题确定1个最佳选项。
第一篇 Gross National Happiness