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2024职称英语考试真题理工A级阅读理解第一篇
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1、How to Be a Successful BusinesspersonHave you ever wondered why some people are successful in business ａｎｄ others are not? Here\s a story about one successful businessperson. He started out washing dishes ａｎｄ today he owns 168 restaurants.Zubair Kazi was born in Bhatkal, a small town in southwest India. His dream was to be an airplane pilot, ａｎｄ when he was 16 years old, he learned to fly a small plane.At the age of 23 ａｎｄ with just a little money in his pocket, Mr. Kazi moved to the United States. He hoped to get a job in the airplane industry in California. Instead, he ended up working fｏｒa company that rented cars.While Mr. Kazi was working at the car rental(租赁的) company, he frequently ate at a nearby KFC restaurant. To save money on food, he decided to get a job with KFC. Fｏｒtwo months, he worked as a cook\s assistant. His job was to clean the kitchen ａｎｄ help the cook. "I didn\t like it," Mr. Kazi says, "but I always did the best I could."One day, Mr. Kazi\s two co - workers failed to come to work. That day, Mr. Kazi did the work of all three people in the kitchen. This really impressed the owners of the restaurant.A few months later, the owners needed a manager fｏｒa new restaurant. They gave the job to Mr. Kazi. He worked hard as the manager ａｎｄ soon the restaurant was making a profit.A few years later, Mr. Kazi heard about a restaurant that was losing money. The restaurant was dirty inside ａｎｄ the food was terrible. Mr. Kazi borrowed money from a bank ａｎｄ bought the restaurant. Fｏｒthe first six months, Mr. Kazi worked in the restaurant from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m. , seven days a week. He ａｎｄ his wife cleaned up the restaurant, remodeled the front of the building, ａｎｄ improved the cooking. They also tried hard to please the customers. If someone had to wait more than ten minutes fｏｒtheir food, Mrs. Kazi gave them a free soda. Before long the restaurant was making a profit.A year later, Mr. Kazi sold his restaurant fｏｒa profit. With the money he earned, he bought three more restaurants that were losing money. Again, he cleaned them up, improved the food, ａｎｄ retrained the employees. Before long these restaurants were making a profit, too.Today Mr. Kazi owns 168 restaurants, but he isn\t planning to stop there. He\s looking fｏｒmore poorly managed restaurants to buy. "I love it when I go to buy a restaurant ａｎｄ find it\s a mess," Mr. Kazi says. "The only way it can go is up. "Mr. Kazi decided to work with KFC to ______.【单选题】
A.learn how to cook
B.save money fｏｒa car
C.save money on food
D.learn how to run a restaurant
正确答案:C
答案解析:本题难度不大，也是送分题，答案依据是这一句：To save money on food，he decided to get a job with KFC.
2、Dairy Price-fixing ScandalTesco is preparing a legal battle to clear its name of involvement in the dairy price-fixing scandal that has cost consumers ￡270 million. Failure to prove that it had no part in collusion with other supermarkets ａｎｄ dairy processors may lａｎｄ it with a fine of at least ￡80 million. The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) said yesterday that Asda, Sainsbury\s ａｎｄ the former Safeway, plus the dairy companies Wiseman, Dairy Crest ａｎｄ Cheese Company, had admitted being in a cartel to fix prices fｏｒmilk, butter ａｎｄ cheese. They were fined a total of just over ￡116 million as part of a leniency deal offered by the watchdog to companies that owned up quickly to anti-competitive behaviour.Officials at the OFT admitted privately that they did not think they would ever discover which company ｏｒindividual had initiated the pricing formula. But the watchdog recognises that at the time supermarkets were under pressure from politicians ａｎｄ farmers to raise the cost of milk to save dairy farming, though it is not certain that money found its way to farmers. The OFT claimed in September that it had found evidence that the retail chains had passed future milk prices to dairy companies, which then reached a fixed price among themselves.The average cost to each household is thought to be ￡11.25 over 2002 ａｎｄ 2003, Prices went up an extra 3p on a pint of milk, 15p on a quarter of a pound of butter ａｎｄ 15p on a half pound of cheese. There is no direct recompense fｏｒconsumers, however, ａｎｄ the money will go to the Treasury. The National Consumer Council gave warning that the admissions would dent consumer confidence in leading high street names ａｎｄ that people would become sceptical of their claims. Farmers fｏｒAction, theｇｒｏｕｐof farmers that has led protests over low milk prices since 2000, is seeking legal advice on whether it can now bring a claim fｏｒcompensation.The OFT investigation is continuing, however, in relation to Tesco, Morrisons ａｎｄ the dairyｇｒｏｕｐLactalis McLelland, ａｎｄ any legal action is expected to be delayed until that is completed. Tesco was defiant ａｎｄ said that it was preparing a robust defence of its actions. Lucy Neville-Rolfe, its executive director, said: "As we have always said, we acted independently ａｎｄ we did not collude with anyone. Our position is different from our competitors ａｎｄ we are defending our own case vigorously. Our philosophy is to give a good deal to customers."Morrisons has supported the OFT in inquiries into the former safeway business that it took over, but in a statement said that it was still making "strong representations" in its defence. A spokeswoman fｏｒLactalis McLellａｎｄ said that the company was "co-operating" with the OFT. Industry insiders suggested that the three companies were deliberately stalling the OFT investigation.Sainsbury\s admitted yesterday that it had agreed to pay ￡26 million in fines, but denied that it had sought to profiteer. Justin King, the chief executive, said he was disappointed that the company had been penalised fｏｒactions meant to help farmers but recognised the benefit of a speedy settlement. Asda declined to say how much it would pay in fines ａｎｄ also said that its intention had been to help farmers under severe financial pressure.From the first paragraph, we may infer that ______.【单选题】
A.Tesco has cost consumers ￡270 million
B.Tesco has colluded with Asda, Wiseman, Dairy Crest ａｎｄ Cheese Company in fixing the dairy price
C.Tesco will be offered a leniency deal of 80 million
D.Tesco is trying its best to prove its innocence of the scandal
正确答案:D
答案解析:推理题。第一段主要讲述了Tesco公司已被卷入和其他公司联手划定牛奶价格的丑闻中，目前正在通过法律手段证明自己与此无关。因此选项D，Tesco正在竭力证明自己和丑闻无关，符合题意，故正确答案为D。
3、Arctic MeltEarth\s North ａｎｄ South Poles are famous fｏｒbeing cold ａｎｄ icy. Last year, however, the amount of ice in the Arctic Ocean (北冰群) fell to a record low.Normally, ice builds in Arctic waters around the North Pole each winter ａｎｄ shrinks(缩小) during the summer. But fｏｒmany years, the amount of ice left by the end of summer has been declining.Since 1979, each decade has seen an 11.4 percent ｄｒｅｐin end of summer ice cover. Between 1981 ａｎｄ 2000, ice in the Arctic lost 22 percent of its thickness, becoming 1.13 meters thinner.Last summer, Arctic sea ice reached its thinnest levels. By the end of summer 2007, the ice had shrunk to cover just 4.2 million square kilometers. That\s 38 percent less area than the average cover at that time of year. ａｎｄ it\s a very large 23 percent below the previous record low, which was ｓｅｔjust 2 years ago. This continuing trend has made scientists concerned to.There may be several reasons fｏｒthe ice melt, says Jinlun Zhang, an oceanographer (海洋学家)at the University of Washington in Seattle. Unusually strong winds blew through the Arctic last summer. The winds pushed much of the ice out of the central Arctic, leaving a large area of thin ice ａｎｄ open water.Scientists also suspect that fewer clouds cover the Arctic now than in the past. Clearer skies allow more sunlight to reach the ocean. The extra heat warms both the water ａｎｄ the atmosphere. In parts of the Arctic Ocean last year, surface temperatures were 3.57 Celsius warmer than the average ａｎｄ 1.5c warmer than the previous record.With both air ａｎｄ water getting warmer, the ice is melting from both above ａｎｄ below. In some parts of the Beaufort Sea, north of Alaska ａｎｄ western Canada, ice that measured 3.3 meters thick at the beginning of the summer was measured just 50 cm by season\s endThe new measurements suggest that melting is far more severe than the thinking of scientists. Some scientists fear that the Arctic is stuck in a warming trend.The Beaufort Sea mentioned in paragraph 7 is an example to show ______.【单选题】
A.how accurate the new measurements are
B.how thick the ice is in it
C.how serious the problem of the ice melt in the Arctic is
D.how dangerous it is to travel to it
正确答案:C
答案解析:本题难度不大，答案依据比较明显，文章第七段和第八段谈到，夏天冰层以超出科学家预料的速度迅速融化，答案是C。
4、The carCars are an important part of life in the United States. Without a car most people feel that they are poor. ａｎｄ even if a person is poｏｒhe doesn\t feel really poｏｒwhen he has a car. Henry Ford was the man who first started making cars in large numbers. He probably didn\t know how much the car was going to affect American culture. The car made the United Stated a nation on wheels. ａｎｄ it helped make the United States what it is today. There are three main reasons why the car becomes so popular in the United States. First of all, the country is a huge one ａｎｄ Americans like to move around in it. The car provides the most comfortable ａｎｄ cheapest form of transportation. With a car people can go anylace without spending a lot of money. The second reason cars are popular is the fact that the United States never really developed an efficient ａｎｄ inexpensive form of public transportation. Long-distance trains have never been as common in the country as they are in other parts of the world. Nowadays there is a good system of air-service provided by planes. But it is too expensive to be used frequently. The third reason is the most important one, though. The American spirit of independence is what really made cars popular. Americans don\t like to wait fｏｒa bus, ｏｒa train ｏｒeven a plane. They don\t like to have to follow an exact schedule. A car gives them the freedom to schedule their own time. ａｎｄ this is the freedom that Americans want most to have. The gas shortage has caused a big problem fｏｒAmericans. But the answer will not be a bigger system of public transportation. The real solution will have to be a new kind of car, one that does not use so much gas. The real solution to the gas shortage problem is【单选题】
A.to make less cars
B.to develop a public transportation system
C.to make gas-saving cars
D.to develop train service
正确答案:C
答案解析:文章最后一句“The real solution will have to be a new kind ofcar, one that does not use so much gas”，不使用很多汽油的车，当然就是gas-saving cars（节能汽车）了。
5、WaterThe second most important constituent (构成成份) of the biosphere (生物圈) is liquid water. This can only exist in a very narrow range of temperatures, since water freezes at 0℃ ａｎｄ boils at 100℃. Life as we know it would only be possible on the surface of a planet which had temperatures somewhere within this narrow range.The earth\s supply of water probably remains fairly constant in quantity. The total quantity of water is not known very accurately, but it is about enough to cover the surface of the globe to a depth of about two ａｎｄ three - quarter kilometers. Most of it is in the form of the salt water of the oceans about 97 percent. The rest is fresh, but three -quarters of this is in the form of ice at the Poles ａｎｄ on mountains, ａｎｄ cannot be used by living systems until melted. Of the remaining fraction, which is somewhat less than one percent of the whole, there is 10 -20 times as much stored underground water as there is actually on the surface. There is also a tiny, but extremely important fraction of the water supply which is present as water vapour in the atmosphere.Water vapour in the atmosphere is the channel through which the whole water circulation (循环) of the biosphere has to pass. Water evaporated (蒸发) from the surface of the oceans, from lakes ａｎｄ rivers ａｎｄ from moist (潮湿的) earth is added to it. From it the water comes out again as rain ｏｒsnow, falling on either the sea ｏｒthe land. There is, as might be expected, a more intensive evaporation per unit area over the sea ａｎｄ oceans than over the land, but there is more rainfall over the lａｎｄ than over the oceans ａｎｄ the balance is restored by the runoff from the lａｎｄ in the form of rivers.There is more rainfall ______.【单选题】
A.over the mountains than over the rivers
B.over the rivers than over the mountains
C.over the oceans than over the land
D.over the lａｎｄ than over the oceans
正确答案:D
答案解析:本题难度不大，答案依据比较明显，在文章第三段第四句，谈到陆地降雨量大于海洋上的降雨量，河流又从陆地流向海洋，恢复了水量平衡，回来看选项，D项是其近义解释，所以正确，答案是D。
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