2014年职称英语考试 综合类A级 考前最后两套题之一 【密押卷】第1部分：词汇选项(第115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. Techniques to employ the energy of the sun are being developed.A. convertB. storeC. utilizeD. receive2. Since the Great Depression, the United States government has protected farmers from damaging drops in grain prices.A. slightB. surprisingC. suddenD. harmful3. Medicine depends on other fields for basic information, particularly some of their specialized branches.A. conventionallyB. obviouslyC. especiallyD. inevitably4. An important part of the national government is the Foreign Service, a branch of the Department of the State.A. a unityB. a divisionC. an embassyD. an invitation5. We were astonished to hear that their football team had won the champion.A. amazedB. amountedC. amusedD. approached6. There is an abundant supply of cheap labor in this country.A. a steadyB. a plentifulC. an extraD. a stable7. All living organisms, regardless of their unique identity, have certain logical, chemical, and physical characteristics in common.A. as a result ofB. consideringC. on purposeD. whatever8. The most crucial problem any economic system faces is how to use its scarce resources.A. puzzlingB. difficultC. terrifyingD. urgent9. Human facial expressions differ from those of animals in the degree to which they can be deliberately controlled and modified.A. sufficientlyB. noticeablyC. intentionallyD. absolutely10. The Constitutions, vague nature has given it the flexibility to be adapted when circumstances change.A. impreciseB. conciseC. unpolishedD. elementary11. The expedition reached the summit at 10:30 that morning.A. top of the mountainB. bottom of that morningC. starting pointD. site12. The latest census is encouraging.A. countB. statementC. agreementD. estimate13. Academic records from other institutions often become part of a universitys official file and can neither be returned to a student nor duplicated.A. borrowedB. purchasedC. copiedD. rewritten14. While serving in the Senate in the early 1970s, Barbara Jordan supported legislation to ban discrimination and to deal with environment problems.A. listB. forbidC. handleD. investigate15. Gambling is lawful in Nevada.A. legalB. irresistibleC. enjoyableD. profitable参考答案:1.C2.D3.C4.B5.A6.B7.D8.D9.C10.A11.A12.A13.C14.B15.A第2部分：阅读判断(第1622题，每题1分，共7分)下面的短文后列了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。A Dogs DilemmaFinding a babysitter while you go out to work is, for example, an inconvenience. For the African wild dog, one of the continents most endangered carnivores, its a matter of life and death. New research shows that once packs fall below a certain size, there are not enough animals to both hunt food and stay at home protecting the young.The African wild dog has declined drastically over the past century. Habitual loss, persecution and unexplained outbreaks of disease have all been blamed. Only 3, 000 to 5, 000 animals remain, and the species is expected to go extinct within decades if the trend continues.Other large carnivores such as the spotted hyena face similar pressures, yet are not declining. Now Franck Courchamp of Cambridge University has found a reason why. The dogs weakness lies in its social organisation.Within each pack of up to 20 adults and pups, only the dominant male and female breed. The remaining animals help raise the pups, cooperating to hunt prey and defend the kill from other carnivores.Because pups cant keep up on a hunt, large packs leave an adult behind to protect them from predators, which include lions and hyenas. But leaving a babysitter also carries costs. A smaller hunting party is less able to tackle large prey and to defend the kill. There is also one less stomach in which to carry food hack to the den, and one more mouth to feed when they get there.Courchamp investigated this awkward trade-off by modelling how the costs of a babysitter change with decreasing pack size. This showed that packs of more than five adults should be able to feed all the pups and still spare a babysitter. But with smaller packs, either the hunting or the babysitting suffers, or the animals have to compensate by increasing the number of hunting excursions- which itself carries a cost to the pack.Field observations in Zimbabwe supported the model. Packs of five animals or fewer left pups unguarded more frequently than larger packs did. There was also evidence that when they did leave a babysitter, they were forced to hunt more often.A pack which drops below a critical size becomes caught in a vicious circle, says Courch