全国职称英语考试综合类AB级课堂笔记第12讲

第一部分：词汇选择（第1-15题，每题1分，共15分）

下面共有15句子，每个句子均有一个词或短语划有底横线，请从每个句子后面所给的四个选项中选择一个与划线部分意义最相近的词或短语。答案一律涂在答题卡相应的位置上。

 

1. I hate his adopting an air of importance when he is talked to.

   A) adapting                B)assuming

   C) effecting                D)breathing

 

2．Smoking is banned in school.

A) permitted             B)admitted

C) forbidden             D)prevented

 

3. We have made an effort to boost participation in the program.  

A) attempt                     B)prompt

C) energy                      D)source

 

4. He is said to be very prominent in the field of medicine.

A) grand                       B)outstanding
C) splendid                  D)brilliant

 

5. It is in the right for one to do what he likes which doesn’t do any harm to others’ interest.

A) sensitive                 B) comfortable

C) relative                   D) reasonable

 

6. The desk was a chaos of papers and unopened letters.

A) pile                     B) mess

C) chain                 D)mass

 

7. To tell you the truth, I did extract (B级)several passages from the speech when writing my speech.

A) take out                  B) take off

C)take on                    D)take up

 

8. He is deficient (A级)in courage, which is the main reason why he was refused in the first round of job interviews.

A) sufficient               B)plenty

C) efficient                D)lacking

 

 

9. His motive (B级)for working so hard is that he needs money.

A) impulse (A级)             B)active

C) motion                      D)nature

 

 

10. It is so precious a picture that it is kept in a sealed box.

A) beautiful                B)primary

C) attractive                  D)valuable

 

11. He often congratulates himself on owning such productive(B级)fields.

A)  impressive             B)attractive

C) fertile                      D)collective

 

12. He doesn’t like the children who are prone (B级)to telling a lie.

A) reliable                  B)liable

C) promising (B级)     D)declined

 

13. I hope you can submit you term papers before the deadline.

A) hand in                  B)hand out

C) hand on                D)hand back

 

14. The new evidence backed up my argument.

A) supported              B)reported

C) transported           D)suspected

 

15. He is always considered to be thoughtful and courteous (A级)and that is why he becomes the best candidate for the job of entertaining guests.

A) impolite                  B)polite

C) considerable                   D)sensible

第二部分：阅读判断（每题1分，共七分）

阅读下面这篇短文，短文后列出了七个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子作出判断。如果该句提供的是正确信息，请在答题卡上把A涂黑；如果该句提供的是错误信息，请在答题卡上把B涂黑；如果该句的信息文章中没有提及，请在答题卡上把C涂黑

 

B/C级

Why is the Native Language Learnt So Well

 

How does it happen that children learn their mother tongue so well? When we compare them with adults learning a foreign language, we often find this interesting fact. A little child without knowledge or experience often succeeds in a complete mastery of the language. A grown-up person with fully developed mental powers, in most case, may end up with a faulty and inexact command. What accounts for this difference?

Despite other explanations, the real answer in my opinion lies partly in the child himself, partly in the behavior of the people around him. In the first place, the time of learning the mother tongue is the most favorable of all, namely, the first years of life. A child hears it spoken from morning till night and, what is more important, always in its genuine form, with the right pronunciation, right intonation, right use of words and right structure. He drinks in all the words and expressions, which come to him in a flash, ever-bubbling spring. There is no resistance: there is perfect assimilation.

Then the child has, as it were, private lessons all the year round, while an adult language-student has each week a limited number of hours, which he generally shares with others. The child has another advantage: he hears the language in all possible situations, always accompanied by the right kind of gestures and facial expressions.  Here there is nothing unnatural, such as is often found in language lessons in schools, when one talks about ice and snow in June or scorching heat in January.   And what a child hears is generally what imme