2007年职称英语考试综合类(A级)试题及答案

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第5部分：补全短文（第46~50题，每题2分，共10分）

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American Dreams

There is a common response to America among foreign writers:the US is a land of extremes where the best of things qre just as easily found as the worst.This is a cliche(陈词滥调).

In the land of black and white,people should not be too surprised to find some of the biggest gaps between the rich and the poor in the world.But the American Dream offers a way out to everyone.（46） No class system or govemment stands in the way.

Sadly,this old argument is no longer true.Over the past few decades there has been a fundamental shift in the structure of the American economy.

The gap between the rich and the poor has widened and widened.（47）

Over the past 25 years the median US family income has gone up 18 per cent.For the top 1 per cent,however,it has gone up 200 per cent.Twenty-five years ago the top fifth of Americans had an average income 6.7 times that of the bottom fifth.（48）

Inequalities have grown worse in different regions.In California,incomes for lower class families have fallen by 4 per cent since 1969.（49） This has led to an economy hugely in favor of a small group of very rich Americans.The wealthiest 1 per cent of households now control a third of the national wealth.There are now 37 million Americans living in poverty.At 12.7 per cent of the population,it is the highest percentage in the developed world.

Yet the tax burden on America’s rich is falling,not growing.（50） There was an economic theory holding that the rich spending more would benefit everyone as a whole.But clearly that theory has not worked in reality.

ANobody is poor in the US.

BThe top 0.01 per cent of households has seen its tax bite fall by a full 25 percentage points since 1980.

CFor upper class families they have risen 41 per cent.

DNow it is 9.8 times.

EAs it does so,the possibility to cross that gap gets smaller and smaller.

FAll one has to do is to work hard and climb the ladder towards the top.

第6部分：完形填空（第51~65题，每题1分，共15分）

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Sending E-mails to Professors

One student skipped class and then sent the professor an e-mail（51）for copies of her teaching notes.

Another（52）that she was late for a Monday class because she was recovering from drinking too much at a wild weekend party.

At colleges and universities in the US,e-mail has made professors more approachable(平易近人).But many say it has made them too accessible,（53）boundaries that traditionally kept students at a healthy distance.

These days,professors say,students seem to view them as available（54）the clock,sending a steady stream of informal e-mails.

“The tone that they take in e-mails is pretty astounding(令人吃惊的),”said Michael Kessler,an assistant dean at Georgetown University.“They’ll（55）you to help:‘I need to know this.’”

“There’s a fine（56）between meeting their needs and at the same time maintaining a level of legitimacy(正统性)as an （57）who is in charge.”

Christopher Dede,a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education,said（58）show that students no longer defer to(听从)their professors,perhaps because they realize that professors’ （59）could rapidly become outdated.

“The deference was driven by the （60）that professors were all-knowing sources of deep knowledge,”Dede said,and that notion has（61）.

For junior faculty members,e-mails bring new tension into their work,some say,as they struggle with how to（62）.Their job prospects,they realize,may rest in part on student evaluations of their accessibility.

College students say e-mail makes（63）easier to ask questions and helps them learn.

But they seem unaware that what they write in e-mails could have negative effects（64）them,said Alexandra Lahav,and associate professor of Law at the University of Connecticut.

She recalled an e-mail message from a student saying that he planned to miss class so he could play with his son.Professor Lahav did not respond.

“Such e-mails can have consequences,”she said.“Students don’t understand that （65）they say in e-mail can make them seem unprofessional,and could result in a bad recommendation.”

51.A.providingB.offeringC.supplyingD.asking

52.A.complainedB.arguedC.explainedD.believed

53.A.removingB.movingC.puttingD.placing

54.A.aboutB.aroundC.atD.from

55.A.controlB.shoutC.orderD.make

56.A.requirementB.contradictionC.tensionD.balance

57.A.teacherB.instructorC.lecturerD.professor

58.A.e-mailsB.passagesC.textsD.books

59.A.technologyB.expertiseC.scienceD.imagination

60.A.traditionB.senseC.notionD.meaning

61.A.strengthenedB.weakenedC.reinforcedD.consolidated

62.A.askB.questionC.respondD.request