入职英语测试笔试+写作(A卷).doc

入职英语测试笔试（A卷）一 词汇1. During these ten years, many new methods have been _ in the field of foreign language teaching.A) adopted B) adapted C) alarmed D) aided2. The fifth generation computers, with _ intelligence, are being developed and perfected now.A) unreal B) man-made C) fake D) artificial3. If you want to see the CEO of this company, youd better make a(n) _ with his secretary first.A) interview B) commitment C) appointment D) visit4. The government concluded that lowering the population growth rate would enhance the _ of the nation.A) popularity B) intensity C) density D) prosperity5. After two children had been hurt, the company was forced to _ the toy from store shelves.A) lack B) withdraw C) leak D) omit6. My passport is _ for ten years.A) valid B) beneficial C) fruitful D) effective7. The movie _ her almost overnight from an unknown schoolgirl into a megastar.A) transformed B) transported C) transferred D) transmit8. Every culture has developed _ for certain kinds of food and drink, and equally strong negative attitudes toward others.A) expectations B) preferences C) fantasies D) fashions9. Being out of work, Jane can no longer _ friends to dinners and movies as she used to. A) urge B) treat C) appeal D) compel10. _ our agents, we have complete confidence in their honesty. A) Regardless of B) On regard to C) Concerning to D) With reference to11. Bettys first husband had _ her fortune.A) stolen B) robbed her of C) hijacked D) squeezed out12. The cost of these complex operations is _ but poorly known.A) considerable B) sufficient C) enormous D) numerous13. Being impatient is _ with being a good teacher. A) intrinsic B) ingenious C) incompatible D) inherent14. It is hard to tell whether we are going to have a boom in the economy or a _. A) concession B) recession C) submission D) transmission15. She was told to wear flat shoes, _ her back problem.A) on behalf of B) in the event of C) on account of D) in case of16. Womens employment opportunities are often severely _ by family commitments.A) refrained B) constrained C) restrained D) strained17. Though they think it takes no more than three days to _ the mission, I believe it takes not less than six days. A) fulfill B) cancel C) avoid D) postpone18. Eye contact is important because wrong contact may create a communication _. A) tragedy B) question C) vacuum D) barrier19. Trades between developing countries and industrialized countries are beginning to _. A) amplify B) expand C) enlarge D) expend20. The university has already _ honorary degrees on several prime minsters.A) deferred B) referred C) conferred D) inferred二、语法1. The typical career pattern was geared _ men whose wives didnt work. A) for B) to C) at D) in2. The tourist _ and checked out of the hotel. A) settled on B) settled up C) settled in D) settled down3. They insisted that everyone _ to the party. A) came B) had come C) come D) have come4. They objected to _ an unnecessary gloomy picture at first. A) being give B) be given C) being given D) be give5. Im paid by the hour, so I spin the work _ as long as I can. A) on B) off C) out D) in6. The last half of the nineteenth century _ the steady improvement in the means of travel. A) witnessed B) was witnessed C) has witnessed D) is witnessed7. Many people gathered to _ the victims of the plane tragedy. A) show farewell to B) bid farewell for C) show farewell for D) bid farewell to8. The men idled their time _ on street corners or outside the pub, cadging a drink or a smoke. A) away B) about C) down D) off9. Pollution has a negative effect on the health of everyone living in the city, _ the damage to the environment. A) not to mentioning B) not mentioning C) not to mention D) not mention10. All flights _ because of the terrible weather, they had to go there by train. A) having been cancelled B) had been cancelled C) having cancelled D) were cancelled11. So many directors _, the board meeting had to be put off. A) were absent B) been absent C) had been absent D) being absent12. _ everyone here, may I wish you a very happy retirement. A) With behalf of B) By behalf of C) On behalf of D) In behalf of13. Schools will be _ pupils and funds if they fail to satisfy parents. A) liable in losing B) liable to losing C) liable at losing D) liable to lose14. The discovery of oil acted as a _ industrial development. A) stimulus on B) stimulus towards C) stimulus to D) stimulus for15. Nuclear waste can cause serious damage to the environment if not _ properly. A) disposed at B) disposed in C) disposed down D) disposed of16. A person with higher qualifications can get a better paid job _ their career. A) at the outset of B) in the outset of C) at outset of D) in outset of17. The Supreme Court decision _ further legislation on civil rights. A) paved the way for B) paved the way in C) paved the way under D) paved the way on18. These organizations usually _ older people committed to fighting elderly issues directly. A) consist among B) consist in C) consist of D) consist about19. We view this partnership as _ achieving our goals. A) vital for B) vital by C) vital of D) vital to 20. Young males _ high pay and promotion than older people, and less concerned with security or job satisfaction. A) were keen in B) were keen with C) were keen about D) were keen on三、阅读理解Passage OneIve heard from and talked to many people who described how Mother Nature simplified their lives for them. Theyd lost their home and many or all of their possessions through fires, floods, earthquakes, or some other disaster. Losing everything you own under such circumstances can be distressing, but the people Ive heard from all saw their loss, ultimately as a blessing.“The fire saved us the agony of deciding what to keep and what to get rid of,” one woman wrote. And once all those things were no longer there, she and her husband saw how they had weighed them down and complicate their lives.“There was so much stuff we never used and that was just taking up space. We vowed when we started over, wed replace only what we needed, and this time wed do it right. Weve kept our promise: we dont have much now, but what we have is exactly what we want.”Though weve never had a catastrophic loss such as that, Gibbs and I did have a close call shortly before we decided to simplify. At that time we lived in a fire zone. One night a firestorm rages through and destroyed over six hundred homes in our community. That tragedy gave us the opportunity to look objectively at the goods wed accumulated.We saw that there was so much we could get rid of and only never miss, but be better off without. Having almost lost it all, we found it much easier to let go of the things we knew wed never use again.Obviously, theres a tremendous difference between getting rid of possessions and losing them through a natural disaster without having a say in the matter. And this is not to minimize the tragedy and pain such a loss can generate.But you might think about how you would approach the acquisition process if you had it to do all over again. Look around your home and make a list of what you would replace.Make another list of things you wouldnt acquire again no matter what, and in fact would be happy to be rid of.When youre ready to start unloading some of your stuff, that list will be a good place to start.1. What did people consider the loss of their possessions in natural disasters as?_2. How did the lives of the woman and her husband changed after a fire?_3. What do we know about the authors house from the sentence “Gibbs and did have a close call .” (Line 1-2, Para. 4)? _4. According to the author, what is different in terms of the loss of possessions?_5. What does the author suggest people do with unnecessary things? _Passage TwoGoogle is a world-famous company, with its headquarters in Mountain View, California. It was set up in a Silicon Valley garage in 1998, and inflated with the Internet bubble. Even when everything around it collapsed the company kept on inflating. Googles search engine is so widespread across the world that search became Google, and google became a verb. The world fell in love with the effective, fascinatingly fast technology.Google owes much of its success to the brilliance of S. Brin and L. Page, but also to a series of fortunate events. It was Page who, at Stanford in 1996, initiated the academic project that eventually became Googles search engine. Brin, who had met Page at a student orientation a year earlier, joined the project early on. They were both Ph.D. candidates when they devised the search engine, which was better than the rest and, without any marketing, spread by word of mouth from early adopters to, eventually, your grandmother.Their breakthrough, simply put, was that when their search engine crawled the Web, it did more than just look for word matches, it also tallied (统计) and ranked a host of other critical factors like how websites link to one another. That delivered far better results than anything else. Brin and Page meant to name their creation Googol (the mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes), but someone misspelled the word so it stuck as Google. They raised money from prescient (有先见之明的) professors and venture capitalists, and moved off campus to turn Google into business. Perhaps their biggest stroke of luck came early on when they tried to sell their technology to other search engines, but no one met their price, and they built it up on their own.The n