2011年在职GCT英语真题

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外语运用能力测试

Part One Vocabulary and Structure
Directions:
There are ten incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.
1. Every plant, animal, and human being needs water to ____ alive.
A. stay B. make
C. run D. glow

2. It ____ commonplace to think of sport as a “leisure industry” now.
A. became B. will become
C. is becoming D. had become

3. Changes in climate ____ slowly through the years.
A. make progress B. take place
C. keep pace D. set sail

4. Scientists can predict regions ____ new species are most likely to be found.
A. where B. when
C. why D. how

5. You should use _____and natural language when you write a personal letter.
A. formal B. political
C. magic D. plain

6. Radios today seldom need _____ or the attention of a technician.
A. to repair B. repaired
C. repairing D. to have repaired

7. It is a great pity for ____ to be any quarrel in the school board meeting.
A. where B. here
C. there D. why

8. Magicians ___ use techniques from science and the arts to deceive the mind and eye.
A. generously B. genetically
C. cleverly D. subsequently

9. To get the best view of Sydney Harbour, take a Sydney Seaplane flight ____ the Harbour and Bondi Beach.
A. above B. under
C. over D. across

10. Chocolate manufacturers blend many types of beans to yield ____ and color desired in the final product.
A. the shape B. the flavor
C. the function D. the brand

Part Two Reading Comprehension
Directions:
In this part there are three passages and one announcement, each followed by five questions or unfinished statements. For each of them, there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the best one and mark your answeron the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.
Questions 11-15 are based on the following passage:

Jessica Bucknam shouts “tiao!” (tee-ow) and her fourth-grade students jump.

“Dun!” (doo-wen) she commands, and they crouch (蹲). They giggle (吃吃地笑) as the commands keep coming in Mandarin Chinese.

Half of the 340 students at the K-5 school are enrolled in the program. They can continue studying Chinese in middle and high schools. The goal: to speak like natives.

About 24,000 American students are currently learning Chinese. Most are in high schoos. But the number of younger students is growing in response to China’s emergence as a global superpower.

“China has become a strong partner of the United States,” says Mary Patterson, Woodstock’s principa. “Children who learn Chinese at a young age will have more oppoutunities for jobs in the future.”

Isabel Weiss, 9, isn’t thinking about the future. She thinks learning Chinese is fun. “when you her people speaking in Chinese, you know what they’re saying,” she says. “And they don’t know that you know.”

11. What do the fourth-grade students seem to be doing in the first paragraph?
A. They are learning how to jump. B.They are learning how to crouch.
C. They are learning how to giggle. D. They are learning Chinese.

12. The purpose of the program for Jessica’s students is to ____.
A. enable them to learn how to command
B. get them enrolled in the language program
C. help them to speak how to command
D. continue enrolling more students to learn Chinese

13. In response to the fact that ____, more American students are learning Chinese.
A. the United States is the only superpower in the world
B. international trading is becoming globalized
C. partnership is encouraging business and trade
D. China is emerging as a new superpower in the world

14. Why do more and more young students personally choose to learn Chinese in the United States?
A. They will have more job opportunities in the future.
B. They are more interested in the international trade.
C. They will visit China for further education.
D. They are curious about the corporate partnership.

15. Isabel Weiss has also chosen to learn Chinese because ____.
A. she wants a brighter future
B. she finds it fun to learn the language
C. she likes to do business in China
D. she watches people speak the language

Questions 16-20 are based on the following passage:

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced plans to return people to the moon by 2018. “And this time,” according to a NASA press release, “we’re going to stay.”

NASA wants to make a new spaceship for the missions using parts from the Apollo program, which first took people to the moon in 1969, and the space shuttle. NASA says the new Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) will be “affordable, reliable, and sage.”

The CEV will be able to hold four astronauts. The plan is to have the CEV dock (对接) in space with the lunar lander---the vehicle astronauts will use to land on the moon---which will be launched separately into space. The CEV will then travel to the moon and all four astronauts will walk on the moon.

The first moon missions are expected to last up to seven days. Exploration and construction of a moon base will be the astronauts’ top priorities (最优先考虑的事). NASA hopes to have a minimum of two moon missions a year stating in 2018. This will allow for quick moon base construction, constant scientific study, and training for future missions to Mars.

16. What is new in NASA’s plan to return to the moon by 2018?
A. People will land and remain on the moon.
B. Equipment will be carried and installed there.
C. More CEVs will be made regularly.
D. A special device will be used in landing.

17. How will NASA make its new spaceship?
A. It will baseits design on that of the Apollo program.
B. It will use parts only from the Apollo program.
C. It will make use of the Apollo program and the space shuttle.
D. It will develop new designs and make new components.

18. How will CEV and the moon lander be launched?
A. They will be launched separately.
B. CEV will dock with the moon lander.
C. They will be launched together.
D. The moon lander will hold four astronauts.

19. What will be the astronauts’ top priorities?
A. Entering the orbit and landing on the moon.
B. Landing and walking on the moon surface.
C. Exploration and researches into the moon composition.
D. Exploration and construction of a moon base.

20. The reason why NASA hopes to carry out at least two moon missions a year stating in 2018 is to ____.
A. ensure the moon traveling and the moon base construction
B. speed up the moon base construction and other activities
C. guarantee the quality of the researchers’ scientific study
D. set up new training laboratories for future missions to Mars