2018英语考试真题 文职

I. Structure and vocabulary

There are 20 multiple-choice questions in this section. Please choose the best answer to each question and mark your answer on your ANSWER SHEET. (10 points. 0.5 point each)

1. My idea of a holiday is to book myself into a five-star hotel and just____in the luxury for a week. D

A. bellow B. burrow C. fallow D. wallow 2. The_____in Janet’s character has hindered her from advancement in her career. A

A. deficiency B. demerit C. defect D. shortcoming 3. We hadn’t realized that there would be a power cut so we were astonished when

the house was _____into darkness. C

A. dropped B. dived C. drowned D. plunged 4. Citizens who refuse to evade_____in times of war are to be sentenced to two years of fixed-term imprisonment if the situation is serious. A

A. tax B. confiscation C. working D. conscription 5. He worked as a builder in Chicago and______half his monthly wage to his family in the Philippines. B

A. refunded B. remitted C. reposed D. rebuffed 6. The scene is so beautiful that it______my power of description. C A. transports B. transfers C. transcends D. transforms 7. My grandfather, a retired worker, often_____the past with a feeling of longing and respect. A

A. contemplates B. contrives

C. considers D. contacts 8. Their happiness was very_____. B

A. crisp B. brittle C. delicate D. fragile 9. Despite his wealth and position, he has an______personality. A

A. unassuming B. unprecedented C. undermining D. uncouth 10. Although the disease threatens the lives of several thousand people every year, the______of supplies and equipment has hampered the progress of medicine research for a cue. B

A. rarity B. scarcity C. infrequency D. poverty 11. Reports say that earlier this year, the suspect was taken to a hospital for medical treatment, but remained in police______. B

A. curfew B. custody C. detainment D. bail

12. As my exams are coming next week, I’ll take advantage of the weekend to_____on some reading. A A. catch up B. clear up C. make up D. pick up 13. To save gas, people should be encouraged to join the car_______instead of fining them when found in such activities. A

A. pool B. club

C. group D. service 14. Rain is welcome, but a (an)_____large amount of rain fall will cause flood. B A. extensively B. extremely C. specially D. constantly 15. Apart from philosophical and legal reasons for respecting patient’s wishes, there are several practical reasons why doctors should______to involve patients in their own medical care decisions. C

A. enhance B. enforce C. endeavor D. struggle 16. ______with the size of the country, the number of population does not seem large at all. A

A. Compared B. Be compared C. Compare D. Comparing 17. Stephen Hawking has made another wonderful discovery, ______of great importance to science. D

A. which I think it is B. I think which is C. of which I think D. which I think is 18. We went to the nightclub last night, and we asked the waiter for____and______. C

A. two cups of tea, four coffee B. two teas, four coffee C. two teas, four coffees D. two cup of tea, four cup of coffee 19. The committee can’t come to a decision, because______at odds. A A. they are B. it is C. it has D. they have 20. Engines are to machines______hearts to anmials. C A. like B. as C. what D. when

II. General knowledge There are 10 multiple-choice questions in this section. Please choose the best answer to each question and mark your answer on your ANSWER SHEET. (10 points. 1 point each)

21. Which of the following is a state in the southwest of America? C A. Maine B. Colorado

C. Arizona D. both A and B 22. During the reign of______, the church in England asserted its independence from the Roman Catholic Church. D

A. Edward VI B. King John

C. King James I D. Henry VIII 23. _____is the highest judiciary officer in Britain. A

A. The Lord Chancellor B. The Home Secretary

C. The Attorney General D. The Prime Minister 24. The economists is the most important_____in Britain. A

A. weekly reviews B. quarterly reviews

C. daily newspapers D. Sunday newspapers 25. Transcendentalism is a movement started in the US by ______. B

A. Washington Irving B. Ralph Waldo Emerson C. Henry David Thoreau D. Nathaniel Hawthorne 26. In cross-culture communication, ______mistakes may not be so obvious as

grammatical ones but are even more disastrous. A

A. semantic B. pragmatic C. phonetic D. stylistic 27. ______is sometimes called “the world’s biggest farm”. B

A. Australia B. New Zealand

C. 看不到 D. the united states 28. 看不到

29. In the history of English literature, the second half of the 18th century is sometimes called “the age of _____”? 不会

A. Pope B. Dryden

C. 看不清 D.Defoe 30. which of the following is not one of “the Lake Poets”? D

A. William Wordsworth B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge C. Robert Southey D. Walter Scott