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1、2022年考博英语-广东工业大学考前模拟强化练习题（附答案详解）1. 单选题It was during the 1920s that the friendship between the two American writers Hemingway and Fitzgerald reached（ ）highest point.问题1选项A.theirsB.theirC.hisD.its【答案】D【解析】考查形容词性物主代词。分析句子结构可知，原文句子为强调句。从句主语为the friendship，因此后文空缺处所缺形容词性物主代词应选择its。故本题正确答案为D选项。2. 单选题The De
2、partment of Transportation and Communications（DOTC. will（ ）the purchase of 48 new Light Rail Vehicles（LRV）for the Metro Rail Transit（MRT）.问题1选项A.proceed withB.proceed fromC.prevail overD.preside over【答案】A【解析】A选项proceed with表示“继续进行”；B选项proceed from表示“从出发”；C选项prevail over 表示“胜过，占优势”；D选项preside over表示“
3、主持，负责”。由原句句意可知，交通运输部（DOTC.将为地铁（MRT）（ ）_采购48辆新的轻轨车辆（LRV）。所以，只有A选项最符合原文句意。故本题正确答案为A选项。3. 单选题The Internet, E-commerce and globalization are making a new economic era possible. In the future, capitalist markets will largely be replaced by a new kind of economic system based on networked relationships, c
4、ontractual arrangements and access rights.Has the quality of our lives at work, at home and in our communities increased in direct proportion to all the new Internet and business-to-business Internet services being introduced into our lives? I have asked this question of hundreds of CEOS and corpora
5、te executives in Europe and the United States. Surprisingly, virtually everyone has said, No, quite contrary. The very people responsible for ushering in what some have called a technological renaissance say they are working longer hours, feel more stressed, are more impatient, and are even less civ
6、il in their dealings with colleagues and friendsnot to mention strangers. And whats more revealing, they place much of the blame on the very same technologies they are so aggressively championing.The techno gurus（领袖）promised us that access would make life more convenient and give us more time. Inste
7、ad, the very technological wonders that were supposed to liberate us have begun to enslave us in a web of connections from which there seems to be no easy escape.If an earlier generation was preoccupied with the quest to enclose a vast geographic frontier, the .com generation, it seems, is more caug
8、ht up in the colonization of time. Every spare moment of our time is being filled with some form of commercial connection, making time itself the most scarce of all resources. Our e-mail, voice mail and cell phones, our 24-hour Interact news and entertainment all seize for our attention.And while we
9、 have created every kind of labor-and time-saving device to service our needs, we are beginning to feel like we have less time available to us than any other humans in history. That is because the great proliferation of labor-and-time-saving services only increases the diversity, pace and flow of co
10、mmodified activity around us. For example, e-mail is a great convenience. However, we now find ourselves spending much of our day frantically responding to each others electronic messages. The cell phone is a great time-saver, except now we are always potentially in reach of someone else who wants o
11、ur attention.Social conservatives talk about the decline in civility and blame it on the loss of a moral compass and religious values. Has anyone bothered to ask whether the hyper speed culture is making all of us less patient and less willing to listen and defer, consider and reflect?Maybe we need
12、to ask what kinds of connections really count and what types of access really matter in the e-economy era. If this new technology revolution is only about hyper efficiency, then we risk losing something even precious than timeour sense of what it means to be a caring human being.1. In corporate exec
13、utives opinion, technology（ ）.2. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?3. The passage states that（ ）is the most valuable resource for the .com generation.4. It is implied in the Paragraph 6 that（ ）.5. Which of the following might be an appropriate title for the passa
14、ge?问题1选项A.should be aggressively championedB.has a profound impact on their livesC.renaissance should be pushed forwardD.actually results in a decline in their life quality问题2选项A.Technology was supposed to free people.B.New technologies occupy much of our time.C.The .com generation became slaves of
15、technology.D.It is difficult to avoid the influence of technology wonders.问题3选项A.technological wondersB.access to informationC.time saving devicesD.time问题4选项A.social conservatives blamed the loss of morality on technologyB.the .com generation was less civil than the earlier generationsC.the hyper speed culture led to the decline in civilityD.technology might make people less impatient问题5选项A.The New Internet LifeB.The Drawbacks of too Much AccessC.The Failure of Technological RenaissanceD.The Declining Quality of Life【答案】第1题:D第2题:C第3题:D
