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1、1999年年全真试题Part Cloze TestDirections：For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil. (10 points)Industrial safety does not ju
2、st happen. Companies 1 low accident rates plan their safety programs, work hard to organize them, and continue working to keep them 2 and active. When the work is well done, a 3 of accidentfree operations is established 4 time lost due to injuries is kept at a minimum.Successful safety programs may
3、5 greatly in the emphasis placed on certain aspects of the program. Some place great emphasis on mechanical guarding. Others stress safe work practices by 6 rules or regulations. 7 others depend on an emotional appeal to the worker. But, there are certain basic ideas that must be used in every progr
4、am if maximum results are to be obtained.There can be no question about the value of a safety program. From a financial standpoint alone, safety 8 . The fewer the injury 9 , the better the workmans insurance rate. This may mean the difference between operating at 10 or at a loss. 1.A atB inC onD wit
5、h2.A aliveB vividC mobileD diverse3.A regulationB climateC circumstanceD requirement4.A whereB howC whatD unless5.A alterB differC shiftD distinguish6.A constitutingB aggravatingC observingD justifying7.A SomeB ManyC EvenD Still8.A comes offB turns upC pays offD holds up9.A claimsB reportsC declarat
6、ionsD proclamations10.A an advantageB a benefitC an interestD a profitPart Reading ComprehensionDirections:Each of the passages below is followed by some questions. For each question there are four answers marked A, B, C and D. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each of the qu
7、estions. Then mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil. (40 points)Passage 1Its a rough world out there. Step outside and you could break a leg slipping on your doormat. Light up the stove and you could burn down the house. Luckily, if t
8、he doormat or stove failed to warn of coming disaster, a successful lawsuit might compensate you for your troubles. Or so the thinking has gone since the early 1980s, when juries began holding more companies liable for their customers misfortunes. Feeling threatened, companies responded by writing e
9、verlonger warning labels, trying to anticipate every possible accident. Today, stepladders carry labels several inches long that warn, among other things, that you mightsurprise!fall off. The label on a childs Batman cape cautions that the toy “does not enable user to fly”.While warnings are often a
10、ppropriate and necessarythe dangers of drug interactions, for exampleand many are required by state or federal regulations, it isnt clear that they actually protect the manufacturers and sellers from liability if a customer is injured. About 50 percent of the companies lose when injured customers ta
11、ke them to court.Now the tide appears to be turning. As personal injury claims continue as before, some courts are beginning to side with defendants, especially in cases where a warning label probably wouldnt have changed anything. In May, Julie Nimmons, president of Schutt Sports in Illinois, succe
12、ssfully fought a lawsuit involving a football player who was paralyzed in a game while wearing a Schutt helmet. “Were really sorry he has become paralyzed, but helmets arent designed to prevent those kinds of injuries, ” says Nimmons. The jury agreed that the nature of the game, not the helmet, was
13、the reason for the athletes injury. At the same time, the American Law Institutea group of judges, lawyers, and academics whose recommendations carry substantial weightissued new guidelines for tort law stating that companies need not warn customers of obvious dangers or bombard them with a lengthy
14、list of possible ones. “Important information can get buried in a sea of trivialities, ” says a law professor at Cornell Law School who helped draft the new guidelines. If the moderate end of the legal community has its way, the information on products might actually be provided for the benefit of c
15、ustomers and not as protection against legal liability.11. What were things like in 1980s when accidents happened?A Customers might be relieved of their disasters through lawsuits.B Injured customers could expect protection from the legal system. C Companies would avoid being sued by providing new warnings.D Juries tended to find fault with the compensations companies promised.12. Manufacturers as mentioned in the passage tend to. A satisfy customers by writing long warnings on productsB become honest in descr
