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1、2012 年度全国职称英语等级考试理工类(B 级)试题第 1 部分：词汇选项(第 1-15 题，每题 1 分，共 15 分) 下面每个句子中均有 1 个词或短语画有底横线。请为每处画线部分确定 1 个意义最为接近的选项。 1 The city centre was wiped out by the bomb A covered B reduced C destroyed D moved 2 The contempt he felt for his fellow students WaS obvious A need B Iove C hate D Pity 3 A iarge crowd as
2、sembled outside the American embassy A watched B shouted C walked D gathered 4 He inspired many young people to take up the sport。 A allowed B encouraged C called D advised 5 The storm caused severe damage A serious B physical C accidental D environmental 6 I think 7 for a drink is a bit steep, dont
3、 you? A tight B low C cheap D high 7 DO we have to wear these name tags? A Iists B forms C labels D codes 8 Most babies can take in a wide range of food easily. A bring B keep C serve D digest 9 Joe came to the window as the crowd chanted,“Joe，Joe ，Joe!” A repeated B jumped C maintained D approached
4、 10 What puzzles me is why his books are so popular.A shocks B influences C confuses D concerns 11 A the flats in the building had the same layout.A color B arrangement C size D function 12 The weather was crisp and clear and you could see the mountains fifty miles away A fresh B hot C heavy D windy
5、 1 3 The walls are made of hollow concrete blocks。 A big B long C new D empty 14 Our aim was to update the health service。and we succeeded A modernize B offer C provide D fund 15 Her comments about men are utterly ridiculous.A slightly B partly C completely D faintly 第 2 部分：阅读判断 (第 1622 题，每题 l 分，共 7
6、 分) 下面的短文后列出了 7 个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子作出判断：如果该旬提供的是正确信息，请选择 A；如果该句提供的是错误信息，请选择 B；如果该旬的信息文中没有提及，请选择C。 Eastern Quakes Can Trigger Big Shakes In the first week of November 2011, people in central Oklahoma experienced more than two dozen earthquakes. The largest, a magnitude 5.6 quake, shook thousands of fan
7、s in a college football stadium, caused cracks in a few buildings and rattled the nerves of many people who had never felt a quake before. Oklahoma is not an area of the country famous for its quakes. If you watch the news on TV, you see reports about all sorts of natural disasters hurricanes, torna
8、does, flooding and wildfires, to name a few. But the most dangerous type of natural disaster, and also the most unpredictable, is the earthquake. Researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey estimate that several million earthquakes rattle the globe each year. That may sound scary, but people dont feel
9、 many of the tremors because they happen in remote and unpopulated regions. Many quakes happen under the ocean, and others have a very small magnitude, or shaking intensity. A magnitude 5.8 earthquake that struck central Virginia the afternoon of August 23, 2011, was felt from central Georgia to sou
10、theastern Canada. In many urban areas, including Washington, D.C., and New York City (Wall Street shown), people crowded the streets while engineers inspected buildings. Credit: Wikimedia/Alex Tabak Scientists know about small, remote quakes only because of very sensitive electronic devices called s
11、eismometers. These devices detect and measure the size of ground vibrations produced by earthquakes. Altogether, USGS researchers use seismometers to identify and locate about 20,000 earthquakes each year. Although earthquakes can happen anywhere in the world, really big quakes occur only in certain
12、 areas. The largest ones register a magnitude 8 or higher and happen, on average, only once each year. Such big ones typically occur along the edges of Earths tectonic plates. Tectonic plates are huge pieces of Earths crust, sometimes many kilometers thick. These plates cover our planets surface lik
13、e a jigsaw puzzle. Often, jagged edges of these plates temporarily lock together. When plates jostle and scrape past each other earthquakes occur. On average, tectonic plates move very slowly about the same speed as your fingernails grow. But sometimes earthquakes rumble through portions of the land
14、scape far from a plates edges. Although less expected, these “mid-plate” tremors can do substantial damage. Some of the biggest known examples rattled the eastern half of the United States two centuries ago. Today, scientists are still puzzling over why the quakes occurred and when similar ones migh
15、t occur. 16. Oklahoma is an area often experiencing natural disasters. A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned 17. The earthquake is the most unpredictable natural disaster. A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned 18. Few earthquakes happen without peoples awareness. A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned 19. Sei
16、smometers can identify and locate most of the earthquakes in China. A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned 20. Big earthquakes of a magnitude 8 or higher seldom happen far from the edges of tectonic plates. A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned 21. Whenever tectonic plates move, earthquakes happen. A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned 22. The earthquake that hit the eastern half of the United States two centuries ago is th
