2020年补全短文职称英语综合类考试练习(2)

2020年职称英语考试真题及答案：理工A补全短文第四部分补全短文Researchers Discover Why Humans Began Walking UprightMost of us walk and carry items in our hands every day. These are seemingly simple activities that the majority of us don’t question. But an international team of researchers, including Dr. Richmond from GW's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences，have discovered that human walking upright, may have originated millions of years ago as an adaptation to carrying scarce, high- quality resources. The team of researchers from the U. S., England, Japan and Portugal investigated the behavior of modern-day chimpanzees as they competed for food resources，in an effort to understand what ecological settings would lead a large ape — one that resembles the 6 million-year old ancestor we shared in common with living chimpanzees — to walk on two legs.“These chimpanzee s provide a model of the ecological conditions under which our earliest ancestors might have begun walking on two legs, "，said Dr. Richmond.The research findings suggest that chimpanzees switch to moving on two limbs instead of four in situations where they need to monopolize a resource. Standing on two legs allows them to carry much more at one time because it frees up their hands. Over time，intense bursts of bipedal activity may have led to anatomical changes that in turn became the subject of natural selection where competition for food or other resources was strong.Two studies were conducted by the team in Guinea. Thefirst study was conducted by the team in Kyoto University’s “ outdoor laboratory ” in a natural clearing in Bossou Forest. Researchers allowed the wild chimpanzees access to different combinations of two different types of nut — theoil palm nut，which is naturally widely available, and the coula nut, which is not. The chimpanzees’ behavior was monitored in three situations：(a) when only oil palm nuts were available,(b)when a small number of coula nuts were available，and(c) when coula nuts were the majority available resource.When the rare coula nuts were available only in small numbers, the chimpanzees transported more at one time. Similarly, when coula nuts were the majority resource, the chimpanzees ignored the oil palm nuts altogether. The chimpanzees regarded the coula nuts as a more highly-prized resource and competed for them more intensely.In such high-competition settings，the frequency of cases in which the chimpanzees started moving on two legs increased by a factor of four. Not only was it obvious that bipedal movement allowed them to carry more of this precious resource, but also that they were actively trying to move as much asthey could in one go by using everything available 一 eventheir mouths.The second study, by Kimberley Hockings of Oxford Brookes University, was a 14-month study of Bossou chimpanzees crop-raiding, a situation in which they have to compete for rare and unpredictable Resources. Here, 35 percent of the chimpanzees activity involved some sort of bipedal movement,and once again, this behavior appeared to be linked to a clear attempt to carry as much as possible at one time.参考答案： BAEFC。

2020职称英语模拟试题：理工类补全短文2020职称英语模拟试题：理工类补全短文小编推荐：Some Unusual CelebrationsSome holidays are well-known all around the world. Among them are New Year’s Eve celebrations. Also common are daysin honor of love and friendship, like Valentine’s Day. Each country has its own special holidays, too, often to mark important events in its schools, banks, and governments offices all close on days like these, ____(46). A few of them are really very strange.Of course, they are not strange to the people who celebrate them. Perhaps that is because the celebrations have long traditions. Con sider April Fool’s Day, for example. No one knows when or why it began. Today it is celebrated in many countries—France, England and Australia, among others. On this day, people play practical jokes ____(47). The ones who laugh are the ones playing the jokes. The people they got angry. Does celebrating this day make sense to you?Day in Poland seems strange, too. On this day, it is traditional for boys to over the heads of girls. Here is the strangest part. They do it to girls they like. unusual celebrations take place in a single city or town. A holiday called La is celebrated in Bunol, Spain. Every year, in late August, big trucks carry more pounds of tomatoes into this little town. _____(48). For two hours, streets throw tomatoes at each other. Everyone ends up red from head to marks thestart of the Puck Fair, an Irish festival with a very unusual from the town of Killorglin go up into the mountains andcatch a wild ____(49).Also some celebrations that are really strange. In the United States, person gets an idea for a new holiday andtries to get others to accept it. Public Sleeping Day? That one is on February 28. It may seem strange, fun than the one on February 9. ____(50) of inventing a new holiday? If you do, then you will want to mark. That is Make Up Your Own Holiday Day.A. Some people have fun imaging new holidays.B. That is supposed to be Toothache Day.C. Then begins the world’s biggest food fight.D. They bring him back to town, put a crown on his head and make days.E. Jokes are supposed to be funny, but these jokes do not make everythingF. Some of the days people celebrate, however, are less serious.答案：FECDB。

2020年职称英语考试模拟试题理工类9：补全短文So WhatA man was coming home late one night—about threeo’clock in the morning—when he saw a guy standing in front of a house with a horse. The man with the horse stopped him and said，“ 46 ”“Well, what would you like me to do?” asked the passer-by.“I want you to help me get this horse upstairs. ”“Why?”“ 47 I haven’t got time to explain. Would you just help me, please?”Together they pushed the horse up the steps and into the hallway, then up three flights of stairs and into the man餾flat. When they got inside, the man with the horse said，“ 48 ”Fearful that he might be dealing with a mad man, the passer-by helped the man liftone foreleg(前腿)，then the second foreleg, then one hind(后面的)leg, then the second hind leg, and there stood the horse in the bathtub.“Now, ” said the passer-by, “would you mind telling me what this is all about?”“Well, ” said the man with the horse，“I’ll tell you. I’ve got a brother瞚n-law who lives here with me. 49 I can’t tell him anything. No matter what I tell him, he says,‘So what!’No matter what information I give him, he says,‘So what!’ He’s out late tonight. 50 I want him to come upstairs, open the door, take off his clothes, put on his pajamas, go into the bathroom, then come running out yelling，‘Sol!Sol!There’s a horse it the bathtub!’ and I’ll say,‘So what!’”A Well, I can’t tell you at the moment.B He is a very smart fellow.C The man with the horse got in side.D Brother, could you give me a hand here?E He’ll be home about four o’clock.F Now will you help me get the horse with his feet in the bathtub?答案：46 D47 A 48 F 49 B 50 E。

2020年职称英语《理工类》补全短文模拟试题(2)One of the most important developments in newspaper organization during the first part of the twentieth century ______(1)_______, which are known as wire services. Wire-service companies employed reporters, who covered stories all over the world. Their news reports were sent to papers throughout the country by telegraph. The papers paid an annual fee for this service. Wire services continue_______(2)________. Today the major wire services are the Associated Press (AP) and United Press International (UPI). You will frequently find AP or UPI at the beginning of a news story.Newspaper chains and mergers began to appear in the early 1900s. A chain consists of two or more newspapers_______(3)______. A merger involves combining two or more papers into one. During the nineteenth century many cities had more than one competitive independent paper. Today in most cities there are only one or two newspapers, and_______(4)______. Often newspapers in several cities belong to one chain. Papers have combined ________(5)_______. Chains and mergers have cut down production costs and brought the advantages of big-business methods to the newspaper industry.A. to play an important role in newspaper operationsB. was the growth of telegraph servicesC. and they usually enjoy great prestigeD. they are usually operated by a single ownerE. in order to survive under the pressure of rising costsF. owned by a single person or organization 答案： BAFDE。