职称英语全真模拟试题综合类C级一(1)

  

　　第二篇

　　Stone Hill Mall

　　Stone Hill Mall has fewer large department stores than most malls but, instead, features more than 100 small specialty shops, while the few that are not used yet will be filled as soon as the mall's owners find proprietors （业主） who fit the mall's image.

　　One thing that makes Stone Hill Mall popular was that all of the stores remain open from 9 a.m. until 10 p. m., Monday through Friday. This favourable start has certainly been advantageous thanks to such features as its being the only shopping centre in the area to provide free baby-sitting for children from two to eight yeas old and its offering restaurants to suit every pocket, with the possible exception of the highly budget-conscious. Furthermore, as far as movie entertainment is concerned, Stone Hill Mall tops Westgate Mall, which looked very impressive when it opened last year, with three separate cinemas.

　　Besides, the air-conditioning system makes sure a comfortable inside temperature of 25 degrees centigrade no matter what the weather is like outside, and in addition to its three beautiful fountains, the mall has a quiet garden area with comfortable benches and chairs for shoppers who have become tired.

　　One complaint about Stone Hill Mall is that it is located outside the city, but there is a regular bus service between the mall and the city centre. A further complaint might he that, although the mall is surrounded by trees to ma  it with the scenery, it will be some years before these can effectively make the  main buildings and the vast parking lot a part of the area around.

　　36 Stone Hill Mall is different from other malls because it has

　　A more large department stores.

　　B more empty space to rent.

　　C many shops selling special goods.

　　D shops selling expensive goods.

　　37 Stone Hill Mall is popular with shoppers mainly because of its

　　A long business hours.

　　B attractive restaurants.

　　C children's stores.

　　D entertainment facilities

　　38 What makes Stone Hill Mail a more favourable shopping place is

　　A the prices in the shops.

　　B the weather in the area.

　　C the childcare facilities.

　　D the conditions inside the mall.

　　39 It is implied in the passage that the writer takes a（n）　　　　attitude towards the mall.

　　A critical

　　B indifferent

　　C fair

　　D one-sided

　　40 The rnain purpose of the passage is to

　　A compare Stone Hill Mall with other shopping centres

　　B  introduce the unique features of the mall.

　　C discuss its strengths and weaknesses,

　　D draw attention to the inadequacies of shopping centres.

　　第三篇

　　Weight on and off the Ears

　　We are so used to our life on the surface of the earth that it can be quite an effort for our mind to break free of all the ideas that we take for granted. Because we can feel that things are heavy, we think of "weight" as being a fixed quality in an object, but it is not really fixed at all. If you could take a one-pound packet of butter 4, 000 miles out from the earth, it would weigh only a quarter of a pound.

　　Why would things weigh only a quarter as much as they do at the surface of the earth if we took them 4,000 miles out into space? The reason is this: All objects have a natural attraction for all other objects; this is called gravitational attraction. But this power of attraction between two objects gets weaker as they get farther apart. When the butter was at the surface of the earth, it was 4,000 miles from the center. When we took the butter 4,000 miles out, it was 8,000 from the center, which is twice the distance. If you double the distance between two objects, their gravitational attraction decreases two times two'. If you treble the distance, it gets nine times weaker （three times three） and so on.

　　So this is one of the first things we need to remember: that the weight of an object in space is not the same as its weight on the surface of the earth.       What about the weight of our pound of butter on the surface of the moon? At the distance the pull of the earth is about 4,000 times smaller than it is here on the surface, so we can forget all about the earth-pull on our butter.

　　On the other hand, on the moon there will be an attraction between the butter and the moon: but the butter will weigh only about one-sixth as much as it does on the earth. This is because the moon is so much smaller than the earth. The amount of gravitational pull Hat a body produces depends on the amount of material in it .A packet of butter has a gravitational pull of its own; but this is very small in relation to the pull of something as large as the moon, or the earth, or the sun.