在职攻人员攻读公共管理硕士学位英语模拟练习九
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One should be wary, however, of assuming that silent reading came about simply because reading aloud is a distraction to others. Examination of factors related to the historical development of silent reading reveals that it became the usual mode of reading for most adults reading tasks mainly because the tasks themselves changed in character.
Why did silent reading become a fashion?
A. A change in the status of literate people.
B. A change in the nature of reading.
C. An increase in the number of books.
D. An increase in the average age of readers.
Let us suppose that you are in the position of a parent. Would you allow your children to read any book they wanted to without first checking its contents? Would you take your children to see any film without first finding out whether it is suitable for them? If your answer to these questions is 'yes", then you are either extremely permissive, or just plain irresponsible, you’re your answer is "no", then you are exercising your sight as a parent to protect your children from what you consider to be undesirable influences. In other words, by acting as censor yourself, you are admitting that there is a strong case for censorship.
According to this passage, a responsible parent will __
A. refuse the censorship over works of art.
B. agree to expose censorship over books.
C. prevent his/her children from reading books.
D. not allow his/her children to see films.
When discussing censorship, therefore, we should not confine our attention to great masterpieces,
but those which make up the bulk of the entertainment industry.
The word "confine" in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to __
A. restrain B. concentrate C. limit D. direct
There are serious disadvantages in the life of a television reporter. One is that lie never goes deeply into any one subject -----he may be expert at mastering a brief in a short time and "getting up”_a subject, but a week later he is on to the next subject, and a week later still lie is no to the subject after that. He seldom grapples with a full-scale investigation of any one thing. He has to be able to forget what he was working on a few weeks before, otherwise his mind would become a chaos. This suits some people every well, but it does not suit others, and it does not suit me.
The word "brief' in this paragraph is closest in meaning to __
A. shorts B. outline C. advice D. instruct
The business world has abundant examples of firms that were once successful but that failed to continue satisfying consumer demands. Competition assures that, over the long run, firms that satisfy consumer demands will be successful and those that do not will be replaced.
The word "assures" in this paragraph is the same as __
A. evidences B. proves C. promises D. guarantees
Even allowing for all these factors, However, the partners of women who were suffering from perinatal(围产期的) depression were significantly more likely to become depressed themselves, the researchers report in an American journal. Ten percent of women who were depressed had depressed partners. For the healthy women, the figure was only 2.6 percent.
Which of the following statements is Not true?
A. Ten percent of women who were depressed had depressed partners.
B. 2.6 per cent of healthy women were depressed.
C. Special attention should be paid to families in which both the father and the mother were depressed.
D. Primary schoolchildren whose parents were both depressed couldn't get along well with their
peers. [NextPage] Urban life has always involved a balancing of opportunities and rewards against dangers and stress; its motivating force is, in the broadest sense, money. Opportunities to make money mean competition and competition is stressful; it is often at its most intense in the largest cities, there opportunities are greatest. The presence of huge numbers of people inevitably involves-.more conflict, more traveling, the overloading of public services and exposure to those deviants and criminals who are drawn to the rich pickings of great cities. Crime has always flourished in the relative anonymity of urban life, but today's ease of movement makes its control more difficult than ever; there is much evidence that its extent has a direct relationship to the size of communities. City dwellers may become trapped in their homes by the fear of crime around them.
1. Why do the people living in cities cause great stress according to the author?
A. Because there are so many people who are anxious to succeed.
B. Because there are so many people who are in need of help.
C. Because city dwellers are inherently more aggressive that the countrymen.
D. Because there are more people in the cities who are likely to commit crimes.
2. The author thinks that crime is increasing in cities because __
A. people do not communicate with their neighbors.
B. criminals are difficult to trace in large populations.
C. people fell anonymous there.
D. the trappings of success are attractive to criminals.
Present-day architecture and planning have enormously worsened the human problems of urban life. Old-established neighborhoods have been ruthlessly swept away, by both pubic and private organizations, usually to be replaced huge, ugly, impersonal structures. People have been forced to leave their familiar homes, usually to be rehoused in tower blocks which are drab, inconvenient, and fail to provide any setting for human interaction or support. This destruction of established social structures is the worst possible approach to the difficulties of living in a town or city. Instead, every effort should be made to conserve the human scale of the environment, and to retain familiar landmarks.
The author's general argument is that urban life would be improved by ____
A. moving people out of tower blocks.
B. restoring old buildings
C. building community centers.
D. preserving existing social structures.
