在职攻人员攻读公共管理硕士学位英语模拟练习七
发布时间：2010/1/20 15:23:16 来源：城市学习网 编辑：紫藤
Paragraph Three
Money spent on advertising is money spent as well as any I know of. It serves directly to assist a rapid distribution of goods at reasonable prices, thereby establishing a firm home market and so making it possible to provide for export at competitive prices. By drawing attention to new ideas it helps enormously to raise standards of living. By helping to increase demand it ensures increased need for labor, and is therefore an effective way to fight unemployment. It lowers the costs of many services: without advertisements your daily newspaper would cost four times as much, the price of your television license would need to be doubled and travel by bus or tube would cost 20 percent more.
Question
In the passage, which of the following is NOT included in the advantages of advertising?
A. securing greater fame B. providing more jobs C. enhancing living standards D. reducing newspaper cost
Paragraph Four
In Indonesia many years ago the wives of government workers or members of the armed forces were organized into women's organizations. The leadership of these women's organization was rat up according to the hierarchical positions of the members' husbands. For example, the organization of women personnel of a government ministry would automatically have as its chairperson the wife of the minister at the national level, and the chairperson of the provincial organization would be the wife of the governor, and so on to the lower administrative levels. It is amazing how a woman who may have no interest in being a leader nevertheless automatically becomes a chairperson because of the official position of her husband. When the husband is no longer minister or governor, she also automatically loses her position.
Many of these women have complained to me that they feel this is a straitjacket imposed on them, but they feel they have to accept the role for the sake of safeguarding their husbands' careers.
Question
Which of the following is true according to this Paragraph?
A. Women's organizations were set up in the government administrative levels and the armed forces.
B. The head of the women's organization of a county must be the wife of the governor.
C. All the leaders of the women's organizations enjoyed their roles.
D. The wife of a governor loses her leading position for the sake of her husband.
Deciding Author's Tone
Paragraph One
We find that bright children are rarely held back by mixed-ability teaching. On the contrary, both their knowledge and experience are enriched. We feel that there are many disadvantages in streaming pupils. It does not take into account the fact that children develop at different rates. It can have a bad effect on both the bright and the not-so-bright child. After all, it can be quite discouraging to be at the bottom of the top grade!
Besides, it is rather unreal to grade people just according to their intellectual ability. This is only one aspect of their total personality. We are concerned to develop the abilities of all our pupils to the full, not just their academic ability. We also value personal qualities and social skills, and we Find that mixed-ability teaching contributes to all these aspects of learning.
Question
In the passage the author's attitude towards mixed-ability teaching is __
A. critical B. approving C. doubtful ' D. objective
Paragraph Two
The vast majority of American manufacturers face international competition. This competition forces companies to improve quality and cut costs. By contrast, protectionism encourages onopoly, lower quality and higher prices. Americans pay an enormous price for protectionism--over $ 60 billion a year, or $1000 for a family of four. Thanks to protectionism, for example, American consumers pay twice the world price for sugar.
Question
What is the author's attitude toward protectionism as denoted from this paragraph?
A. sincere B. appreciative C. approving D. ironic
