在职攻人员攻读公共管理硕士学位英语模拟练习十一
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Practice Test (I)
The most important role of the library of Congress is to serve as the research and reference arm of Congress. The library _1_ legislators with the information they need. The library staff_2_ more than 450,000 queries a year. _3_from very simple requests to extremely complex issues, _4_, people on the library staff will prepare summaries of major legislation and bills to help Congress members stay abreast of daily legislation. The library staff _5_ people of all background, from civil engineers and oceanographers to experts _6_ labor relations. Their most important function is to provide objective, unbiased information to Congress. They _7_ all sides of issues, aIIowing the legislators to make up their own minds _8_ the effects of the issue involved. There is an _9_ department for foreign law. The law library answers congressional request _10_ analysis of foreign legislature and legal issues. The law library's legal specialties are proficient in fifty different languages.
中心词：role of the library(function)国会图书馆功能
1. A. affords B, provides C. loads D. protects
2. A. answers 13. agrees C. approves D. admits
3. A. varying B. changing C, shifting D. ranging
4. A. On tbe other hand B. In nature C. In return D. In addition
5. A. contains B. remains C. includes D. concludes
6. A. with B. in C. to D, on
7. A. present B. show off C. increase D. take up
8. A. as to B. for C. within D by
9. A. essential B. additional C. critical D. exceptional
10. A. with B. besides C for D. on
Practice (2)
In the past, permanence was the ideal. __1__ engaged in handcrafting a pair of boot or in construction a cathedral, all man's creative and productive energies went _2_ maximizing the _3_ of the product. Man built to last. He had to _4_ the society around him was relatively unchanging, each object had clearly defined functions, and economic logic _5_ the policy of permanence, Even if they had to be repaired now _6_, The boots that cost fifty dollars and lasted ten years were less expensive than those that cost ten dollars and lasted only a year. As the general rate of change in society _7_, however, the economics of permanence are ----and must be -----replaced by the economics of_8_. Firs, advanceing technology _9_. to lower the costs of manufacture much more rapidly than the costs repair work This means that it often becomes cheaper to replace than to repair. It is economically sensible to build cheap, unrepairable, throw-away objects, _10_ they may not last as repairable objects.
中心词：permanence (相关词：last, durability, defined) dange (相关词:replace, transience, accelerate)
1. A. Those B. If C. Once D. Whether
2. A. about B. after C on D. towards
3. A. facility It. efficiency C. durability D. stability
4. A. Although B. Unless C. Even if D. As long as
5. A. indicated B. dictated C. prescribed I). implied
6. A. or later B. or never C. and then D. and later
7. A. accelerates I3. amplifies C. alternates D. anticipates
8. A. transience B. dominance C. prominence D. endurance
9. A. tempts B. tends C. turns D. tunes
10. A. as if B,. and yet C. but then D. even though
