全国专业技术人员职称英语等级考试【综合类A级模拟题】
第1部分：词汇选项（第1～15题，每题1分，共15分）
下面共有15个句子，每个句子中均有1个词或短语有底横线，请从每个句子后面所给的4个选项中选择1个与划线部分意义最相近的词或短语。答案一律涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
1. It was hard to say why the man deserved such shabby treatment.
A) unforgettable
B) unbelievable
C) unfair
D) unthinkable
2. The curious look from the strangers around her made her feel uneasy.
A) difficult
B) worried
C) anxious
D) unhappy
3. It is said that the houses along this street will soon be demolished.
A) pulled down
B) rebuilt
C) renovated
D) whitewashed
4. The advertising company was surprised by the adverse public reaction to the poster.
A) delayed
B) quick
C) positive
D) unfavorable
5. He began his talk by giving a concise definition of post-modernism.
A) long and detailed
B) short and clear
C) comprehensive
D) professional
6. The staff of the company are always courteous and helpful.
A) efficient
B) respectable
C) well-informed
D) respectful
7. The new job will provide you with invaluable experience.
A) simply useless
B) really practical
C) very little
D) extremely useful
8. The whole idea to build a deluxe hotel here sounds insane to me.
A) reasonable
B) sensible
C) crazy
D) unbelievable
9. In his two-hour-long lecture he made an exhaustive analysis of the issue.
A) extremely thorough
B) long and boring
C) superficial
D) unconvincing
10. We all think that the new device he has proposed is ingenious.
A) effective
B) clever
C) implausible
D) original
11. Reading the job ad, he wondered whether he was eligible to apply for it.
A) competitive
B) diligent
C) qualified
D) competent
12 He impressed all his colleagues as a vigorous man in the prime of his career.
A) hot-tempered
B) healthy
C) friendly
D) patient
13. Not all member States abided by the principle they had agreed on previously.
A) adhered to
B) abandoned
C) applied
D) adopted
14. Examination papers of the class were marked without bias.
A) immediately
B) correctly
C) fairly
D) carefully
15. The construction of the railway is said to have been terminated.
A) resumed
B) put an end to
C) suspended
D) re-scheduled
第2部分：阅读判断（第16～22题，每题1分，共7分）
阅读下面这篇短文，短文后列出了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，请在答题卡上把A涂黑；如果该句提供的是错误信息，请在答题卡上把B涂黑；如果该句的信息文章中没有提及，请在答题卡上把Ｃ涂黑。
Mothers and matchmakers (媒人) have always known that not being married is a definite health hazard. But when a team of researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, reported a few weeks ago that middle-aged men without wives were actually twice as likely to die during a 10-year span (全长) as men with wives, the espoused and the spouseless alike stooped to take notice. It was the kind of news that swept through offices and watering holes and it made people feel smug ( 自鸣得意)or anxious, depending on their circumstances. Now the researchers who conducted the study are trying to find out what accounted for （说明，解释） the dramatic differences in survival rates.
The investigators, headed by UCSF associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics (生物统计学) Maradee A. Davis, had set out to examine the effect of various living arrangements on mortality. Because of the buffering social support marriage is known to provide, Davis and her colleagues fully expected to find that men and women dwelling alone fared (生活，进展) worst in survival rates. It came as some surprise, however, that in their study population, subjects who shared living quarters with people other than a spouse had the same lower survival rates as those who lived by themselves. “ The critical factor,” Davis says, “ seems to be the presence of a spouse.”