年全国职称英语等级考试综合类(b级)试题及答案
2014年职称英语考试综合类B级试题及参考答案
第1部分：词汇选项(第1～15题，每题1分，共15分)下面每个句子中均有1个词或者短语划有底横线，请为每处划线部分确定1个意义最为接近的选项。
1. There was an inclination to treat geography as a less important subject.
A. point
B. tendency
C. result d. finding
2. New secretaries came and went
with monotonous regularity.
a. amazing
b. depressing
c. predictable
d. dull
3. The committee was asked to render a report on the housing situation.
a. furnish
b. copy
c. publish
d. summarize
4. The group does not advocate the use of violence.
a. limit
b. regulate
c. oppose
d. support
5. The original experiment cannot be exactly duplicate.
a. reproduced
b. invented
c. designed
d. reported
6. The department deferred the decision for six months.
a. put off
b. arrived at
c. abided by
d. protested against
7. The symptoms of the disease manifested themselves ten days later.
a. eased
b. appeared
c. improved
d. relieved
8. The uniform makes the guards look absurd.
a. serious
b. ridiculous
c. beautiful
d. impressive
9. Some of the larger birds can remain stationary in the air for several minutes.
a. silent
b. motionless
c. seated
d. true
10. The country was torn apart by strife.
a. poverty
b. war
c. conflict
d. economy
11. She felt that she had done her good deed for the day.
a. act
b. homework
c. justice
d. model
12. A person’s wealth is often in inverse proportion to their happiness.
a. equal
b. certain
c. large
d. opposite
13. His professional career spanned 16 days.
a. started
b. changed
c. moved
d. lasted
14. His stomach felt hollow with fear.
a. sincere
b. respectful
c. terrible
d. empty
15. This was disaster on a cosmic scale.
a. modest
b. huge
c. commercial
d. national
参考答案：bdada abbbc adddb
第2部分：阅读判断(第16～22题，每题1分，共7分)
下面的短文后列出了7个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断;如果该句提供的是正确信息，请选择A;如果该句提供的是错误信息，请选择B;如果该句的信息文中没有提及，请选择C。
"Wanna buy a body?" That was the opening line of more than a few phone calls I got from self-employed photographers when I was a photo editor at U.S. News. Like many in the mainstream press, I wanted to separate the world of photographers into "them", who trade in pictures of bodies or run after famous people like Princess Diana, and "us", the serious news people. But after 16 years in that role, I came to wonder whether the two worlds were easily distinguishable.
Working in the reputable world of journalism, I told photographers to cover other people's difficult life situations. I justified marching into moments of sadness, under the appearance of the reader's right to know. I worked with professionals talking their way into situations or shooting from behind police lines. And I wasn't alone.
In any American town, after a car crash or some other horrible incident when ordinary people are hurt or killed, you rarely see photographers pushing past rescue workers to take photos of the blood and injuries. But you are likely to see local newspaper and television photographers on the scene –and fast…
How can we justify doing this? Journalists are taught to separate, doing the job from worrying about the consequences of publishing what they record. Repeatedly, they are reminded of a news-business saying: Leave your conscience in the office, A victim may lie bleeding, unconscious, or dead. Your job is to record the image (图象). You're a photographer, not an emergency medical worker. You put away your feelings and document the scene.
But catastrophic events often bring out the worst in photographers and photo editors. In the first minutes and hours after a disaster occurs, photo agencies buy pictures. They rush to obtain the rights to be the only one to own these shocking images and death is usually the subject. Often, an agency buys a picture from a local newspaper or an amateur photographer and puts it up for bid by major magazines. The most sought-after