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) aided
2. The fifth generation computers, with ________ intelligence, are being developed and perfected now.
A) unreal B) man-made C) fake D) artificial
3. If you want to see the CEO of this company, you’d better make a(n) _______
with his secretary first.
A) interview B) commitment C) appointment D) visit
4. The government concluded that lowering the population growth rate would enhance the _______ of the nation.
A) popularity B) intensity C) density D) prosperity
5. After two children had been hurt, the company was forced to ________ the
toy from store shelves.
A) lack B) withdraw C) leak D) omit
6. My passport is ______ for ten years.
A) valid B) beneficial C) fruitful D) effective
7. The movie ________ her almost overnight from an unknown schoolgirl into a megastar.
A) transformed B) transported C) transferred D) transmit
8. 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) fashions
9. Being out of work, Jane can no longer ________ friends to dinners and movies as she used to.
A) urge B) treat C) appeal D) compel
10. ________ our agents, we have complete confidence in their honesty.
A) Regardless of B) On regard to C) Concerning to D) With reference to
11. Betty’s first husband had ________ her fortune.
A) stolen B) robbed her of C) hijacked D) squeezed out
12. The cost of these complex operations is _______ but poorly known.
A) considerable B) sufficient C) enormous D) numerous
13. Being impatient is _______ with being a good teacher.
A) intrinsic B) ingenious C) incompatible D) inherent
14. 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) transmission
15. 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 of
16. Women’s employment opportunities are often severely ________ by family commitments.
A) refrained B) constrained C) restrained D) strained
17. 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) postpone
18. Eye contact is important because wrong contact may create a communication ________.
A) tragedy B) question C) vacuum D) barrier
19. Trades between developing countries and industrialized countries are beginning to _______.
A) amplify B) expand C) enlarge D) expend
20. 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 didn’t work.
A) for B) to C) at D) in
2. The tourist _______ and checked out of the hotel.
A) settled on B) settled up C) settled in D) settled down
3. They insisted that everyone _______ to the party.
A) came B) had come C) come D) have come
4. They objected to _______ an unnecessary gloomy picture at first.
A) being give B) be given C) being given D) be give
5. I’m paid by the hour, so I spin the work _______ as long as I can.
A) on B) off C) out D) in
6. 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 witnessed
7. 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 to
8. 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) off
9. 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 mention
10. 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 cancelled
11. So many directors _______, the board meeting had to be put off.
A) were absent B) been absent C) had been absent D) being absent
12. ________ 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 of
13. 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 lose
14. The discovery of oil acted as a ______ industrial development.
A) stimulus on B) stimulus towards C) stimulus to D) stimulus for
15. Nuclear waste can cause serious damage to the environment if not _______
properly.
A) disposed at B) disposed in C) disposed down D) disposed of
16. 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 of
17. 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 on
18. These organizations usually _______ older people committed to fighting elderly
issues directly.
A) consist among B) consist in C) consist of D) consist about
19. 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 One
I’ve heard from and talked to many people who described how Mother Nature simplified their lives for them. They’d 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 I’ve 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, we’d replace only what we needed, and this time we’d do it right. We’ve kept our promise: we don’t have much now, but what we have is exactly what we want.”
Though we’ve 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 we’d 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 we’d never use again.
Obviously, there’s 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 wouldn’t acquire again no matter what, and in fact would be happy to be rid of.
When you’re 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 author’s 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 Two
Google 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. Google’s 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 Google’s 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 next breakthrough came in 2000, when Google figured out how to make money with its invention. It had lots of users, but almost no one was paying. The solution turned out to be advertising, and it’s not an exaggeration to say that Google is now essentially an advertising company, given that that’s the source of nearly all its revenue. Today it is a giant advertising company, worth $100 billion.
6. Apart from a series of fortunate events, what is it that has made Google so
successful?
______________________________________________________________________________
7. What did Google’s search engine originate from?
______________________________________________________________________________
8. How did Google’s search engine spread all over the world?
______________________________________________________________________________
9. Why did Brin and Page decided to set up their own business?
______________________________________________________________________________
10. How did Google Company increase their revenue?
______________________________________________________________________________
四、写作
You are the manager of a training center. You have received a letter of complaint from a participant. Write a letter of apology referring to the following two points in the letter.
1. The logistic support was not very good.
2. As to your claim about “excellent instructor”, I must tell you that I did have a boring day with the instructor.
因篇幅问题不能全部显示，请点此查看更多更全内容