2010年职称英语考试理工B模拟试题(4)

　　四、阅读理解

　　第一篇

　　Immigration and Problems

　　Hundreds of thousands of people supporting immigration rights in the US filled streets all over America in early 2006. Many held signs and American flags and asked to be treated as citizens - not criminals. Many of these supported legislation from Senator John McCain that would open a path to citizenship to immigrants who were already in the country illegally. Proposed legislation from other politicians called for stricter measures - including rounding up undocumented immigrants and sending them back to their home countries.

　　Canadian officials say that immigration applications continue to rise. Some want to keep the doors open. They need the labor. About 400,000 immigrants were allowed into the country in 2005, according to the Canadian Government statistics. However, all this growth means that cities need to adapt. Newcomers don’t always make a smooth transition into jobs for which they are skilled. So industries are using mentoring programs to help new immigrants find proper jobs.

　　With the large numbers of undocumented African immigrants arriving in the Canary Islands and showing no sign of abating, the Spanish Government has decided to get tough. There will be no more mass amnesties for illegals, and anyone coming to Spain without permission will be sent back, the government has announced. About 23,000 migrants landed on the islands in 2006, and riots have erupted in some crowded reception centers. This has promoted local authorities to appeal to the United Nations for help.

　　France’s new immigration and integration law gives the government new powers to encourage high-skilled migration. It takes effect in 2007. The new law authorizes the government to identify particular professions where France has a talent shortage. Then the government will help these identified employers find immigrant workers with needed skills or qualifications. The selected foreign employees will be granted "skills and talents" visas, valid for three years. But some concern that itll cause brain drain in developing countries.

　　31 Many immigrants swarmed into streets in the US in early 2006, demanding that they should be treated as

　　A animals

　　B citizens转自环 球 网校edu24ol.com转自环 球 网校edu24ol.com转自环 球 网校edu24ol.com

　　C civilians

　　D criminals

　　32 Some Canadian officials want to keep the door open because

　　A Canada is in desperate need of talented people.

　　B Canada can feed a much larger population.

　　C Canada is suffering from labor shortage.

　　D Canada is a multicultural country.

　　33 What has the Spanish Government decided to do?

　　A Help immigrants find proper jobs.

　　B Let immigrants freely enter the country.

　　C Integrate immigrants into the Spanish culture.转自环 球 网校edu24ol.com转自环 球 网校edu24ol.com转自环 球 网校edu24ol.com

　　D Take tough measures against illegal immigration.

　　34 After France’s new immigration and integration law takes effect, it will

　　A lure overseas students back home

　　B undermine the unity of the country

　　C drain developing countries of talent

　　D induce resentment among the French workers

　　35 The phrasal verb rounding up in paragraph 1 could be best replaced by

　　A capturing

　　B encircling

　　C separating

　　D frightening

　　第二篇

　　Mind-reading Machine

　　A team of researchers in California has developed a way to predict what kinds of objects people are looking at by scanning what’s happening in their brains.转自环 球 网校edu24ol.com转自环 球 网校edu24ol.com转自环 球 网校edu24ol.com

　　When you look at something, your eyes send a signal about that object to your brain. Different regions of the brain process the information your eyes send. Cells in your brain called neurons are responsible for this processing.

　　The fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) brain scans could generally match electrical activity in the brain to the basic shape of a picture that someone was looking at.

　　Like cells anywhere else in your body, active neurons use oxygen. Blood brings oxygen to the neurons, and the more active a neuron is, the more oxygen it will consume. The more active a region of the brain, the more active its neurons, and in turn, the more blood will travel to that region. And by using fMRI, scientists can visualize which parts of the brain receive more oxygen-rich blood--and therefore, which parts are working to process information.

　　An fMRI machine is a device that scans the brain and measures changes in blood flow to the brain. The technology shows researchers how brain activity changes when a person thinks, looks at something, or carries out an activity like speaking or reading. By highlighting the areas of the brain at work when a person looks at different images, fMRI may help scientists determine specific patterns of brain activity associated with different kinds of images.

　　The California researchers tested brain activity by having two volunteers view hundreds of pictures of everyday objects, like people, animals, and fruits. The scientists used an fMRI machine to record the volunteer’s brain activity with each photograph they looked at. Different objects caused different regions of the volunteers’ brains to light up on the scan, indicating activity. The scientists used this information to build a model to predict how the brain might respond to any image the eyes see.

　　In a second test, the scientists asked the volunteers to look at 120 new pictures. Like before, their brains were scanned every time they looked at a new image. This time, the scientists used their model to match the fMRI scans to the image. For example, if a scan in the second test showed the same pattern of brain activity that was strongly related to pictures of apples in the first test, their model would have predicted the volunteers were looking at apples.

　　36 What is responsible for processing the information sent by your eyes?

　　A A small region of the brain.转自环 球 网校edu24ol.com转自环 球 网校edu24ol.com转自环 球 网校edu24ol.com

　　B The central part of the brain.

　　C Neurons in the brain.

　　D Oxygen-rich blood.

　　37 Which of the following statements is NOT meant by the writer?

　　A Cells in your brain are called neurons.

　　B The more oxygen a neuron consumes, the more blood it needs.

　　C fMRI helps scientists to discover which parts of the brain process information.

　　D fMRI helps scientists to discover how the brain develops intelligently.

　　38 "Highlighting the areas of the brain at work" means

　　A "marking the parts of the brain that are processing information"

　　B "giving light to the parts of the brain that are processing information"

　　C "putting the parts of the brain to work"转自环 球 网校edu24ol.com转自环 球 网校edu24ol.com转自环 球 网校edu24ol.com

　　D "stopping the parts of the brain from working"

　　39 What did the researchers experiment on?

　　A Animals, objects, and fruits.

　　B Two volunteers.

　　C fMRI machines.转自环 球 网校edu24ol.com转自环 球 网校edu24ol.com转自环 球 网校edu24ol.com

　　D Thousands of pictures.

　　40 Which of the following can be the best replacement of the title?

　　A The Recent Development in Science and Technology.

　　B Your Thoughts Can Be Scanned.

　　C A Technological Dream.

　　D A Device that can Help You Calculate.

　　第三篇

　　How to Interview People转自环 球 网校edu24ol.com转自环 球 网校edu24ol.com转自环 球 网校edu24ol.com

　　Interviewing (采访) is one of those skills that you can only get better at. You will never again feel so ill at ease as when you try it for the first time, and you’ll probably never feel entirely comfortable trying to get from another person answers that he or she may be too shy to reveal. But at least half of the skill is mechanical. The rest is instinct, which can all be learned with experience.

　　The basic tool for an interview are paper and two or three well-sharpened pencils. But keep your notebook or paper out of sight until you need it. There’s nothing less likely to relax A person than the arrival of someone with A note-taking pad. Both sort of person you’re dealing with, getting him or her to trust you.

　　Never go into an interview without doing whatever homework you can. If you are interviewing A town official, know his voting record. If it’s an actor, know what plays he has been in. You will not be liked if you inquire about facts that you could have learned in advance.

　　Many beginning interviewers are afraid that they are forcing the other person to answer questions and have no right to inquire about his personal secrets. This fear is almost 100 percent unnecessary. Unless the person really hates being interviewed, he is delighted that somebody wants to interview him. Most men and women lead lives that are uninteresting, and they grasp any chance to talk to an outsider who seems eager to listen.

　　This doesn’t necessarily mean that it will go well. In general you will be talking to people who have never been interviewed before, and they will get used to the process awkwardly, perhaps not giving you anything that you can use. Come back another day; it will go better. You will both even begin to enjoy it–proof that you aren’t forcing your victim to do something he doesn’t really want to.

　　41 The word “reveal” (paragraph 1) could best be replaced by

　　A “ask”

　　B “question”

　　C “give”

　　D “seek”

　　42 According to the passage, during an interview notebooks or paper should

　　A never be used

　　B be used only when necessary

　　C be kept at home

　　D be given to the interviewee

　　43 The writer of the passage suggests that before interviewing A person, you should

　　A have A good rest

　　B visit A town official

　　C meet an actor

　　D make preparations

　　44 It can be inferred from paragraph 4 that most men and women

　　A are afraid to meet interviewers

　　B hate being interviewed

　　C like being interviewed

　　D fear to speak to outsiders

　　45 According to the passage, if A person being interviewed is too uneasy to give you anything useful, what should you do?

　　A Arrange another interview

　　B Give him or her A bad score

　　C Wait until he or she calms down

　　D Try to make him or her trust you

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