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1、 2022年职称英语考试综合类阅读理解预测试题及答案(4)下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题，每题后面有4个选项。请认真阅读短文并依据短文答复其后面的问题，从4个选项中选择1个答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。 第一篇Taxi Riding In a moment of personal crisis, how much help can you expect from a New York taxi driver? I began studying this question after watching the “Taxicab Confessions,“ a series of documen
2、taries in which hidden cameras record the secrets of unsuspecting taxi riders. I found the results varied.One morning I got into three different taxis and announced: “Well, it”s my first day back in New York in seven years. I”ve been in prison.“ Not a single driver replied, so I tried again. “Yeah,
3、I shot a man in Reno,“ I explained, hoping the driver would ask me why, so I could say casually, “Just to watch him die.“ But nobody asked. The only response came from a Ghanaian driver: “Reno? That is in Nevada?“Taxi drivers were uniformly sympathetic when I said I”d just been fired. “This is Ameri
4、ca,“ a Haitian driver said. “One door is closed. Another is open.“ He argued against my plan to burn down my bosss house: “If you do something silly and they put you away, you cannot look for another job.“ A Pakistani driver even turned down a chance to profit from my loss of hope: he refused to tak
5、e me to the middle of the George Washington Bridge, a $20 trip. “Why you want to go there? Go home and relax. Don”t worry. Take a new job.“One very hot weekday in July, while wearing a red ski mask and holding a stuffed pillowcase with the work “BANK“ on it, I tried hailing a taxi five times outside
6、 different banks. The driver picked me up every time. My ride with Guy-Caaude Thevenain, a Haitian driver, was typical of the superb assistance I received.“Is anyone following us?“No,“ said the driver, looking in his rearview mirror at traffic and me.“Lets go across the park,“ I said. “I just robbed
7、 the bank there. I got $25,000.“$25,000?“ he asked.“Yeah, you think it was wrong to take it?“No, man, I work 8 hours and I don”t make almost $70. If I can do that, I do it too.“As we approached 86th and Lexington, I pointed to the Chemical Bank.“Hey, there”s another bank,“ I said, “could you wait he
8、re a minute while I go inside?“No, I can”t wait. Pay me now.“ His reluctance may have had something to do with money taxi drivers think the rate for waiting time is too low but I think he wanted me to learn that even a bank robber can”t expect unconditional support.1. From the Ghanaian drivers respo
9、nse, we can infer that _ .A) he was indifferent to the killingB) he was afraid of the authorC) he looked down upon the authorD) he thought the author was crazy2. Why did the Pakistani driver refuse to take the author to the middle of the George Washington Bridge?A) Because he didn”t want to help the
10、 author get over his career crisis.B) Because he wanted to go home and relax.C) Because it was far away from his home.D) Because he suspected that the author was going to commit suicide.3. What is author”s interpretation of the drivers reluctance “to wait outside the Chemical bank“?A) The driver tho
11、ught that the rate for waiting time was too low.B) The driver thought it wrong to support a taxi rider unconditionally.C) The driver was frightened and wanted to leave him as soon as possible.D) The driver wanted to go home and relax.4. Which of the following statements is true about New York taxi d
12、rivers?A) They are ready to help you do whatever you want to.B) They refuse to pick up those who would kill themselves.C) They are sympathetic with those who are out of work.D) They work only for money.5. What does the passage mainly discuss?A) How to make taxi riders comfortable.B) How to deal with
13、 taxi riders.C) The attitudes of taxi drivers towards the taxi riders having personal crises.D) The attitudes of taxi drivers towards violent criminals正确答案1. A 2. D 3. B 4. C 5. C 其次篇Forty May Be the New 30 as Scientists Redefine Age Is 40 really the new 30? In many ways people today act younger tha
14、n their parents did at the same age.Scientists have defined a new age concept and believe it could explain why populations are aging, but at the same time seem to be getting younger.Instead of measuring aging by how long people have lived, the scientists have factored in how many more years people c
15、an probably still look forward to.“Using that measure, the average person can get younger in the sense that he or she can have even more years to lives as time goes on,” said Warren Sanderson of the University of New York in Stony Brook.He and Sergei Scherbov of the Vienna Institute of Demography (人口统计学)at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, have used their method to estimate how the proportion of elderly people in Germany, Japan and the United States will change in the future.The average German was 39.9 years o
