2011年中石油职称英语考试真题及答案

I. Vocabulary

Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there　　are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes

the sentence and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.

1. We go out for dinner a couple of times a month. Sometimes we __ a movie.(28)

A. take in B. keep down C. take over D. take after

2. The modern 7-inch long pencil can draw a line 35 miles in__(44)

A. gap B. interval C. length D. distance

3. A university is an educational institution which awards degrees and __ research.

A. carries out B. carries off C. carries about D. carries for

4. The captain of the ship __ the passengers that there was no danger.

A. confined B. insisted C. ensured D. assured

5. The speaker is the person who __ a speech transaction.(9)

A. initial B. initiates C. initiatives D. initiation

6. Never one to __ second best, John tried his best to solve the problem.

A. admit B. accept C. convince D. receive

7. The Atlantic hydrographic chart is being __ continuously; even as we speak submarines are charting the Arctic basin under the ice.(55)

A. rehearsed B. revised C. renewed D. retiled

8. The suppliers undoubtedly will get rich at the ___ of the customers.(45)

A. expanse B. spend C. warrant D. expense

9. When all the present oilfields are__ , its is possible that the North Pole may become the scene of oil activity.(46)

A. exhibited B. exhausted C. exploited D. exposed

10. The man __ that most poets and scientists are male.

A. deal with B. point out C. hold up D. hand on

11.Whereas outside the USA, Coke tends to be a young person's drink, inside the USA anybody of any age can drink it on any__ without embarrassment.(17)

A. choice B. occasion C. occupation D. occurrence

12. The waiters will refill your coffee cup several times for no extra__(17)

A. expand B. offer C. price D. charge

13. A professional degree will __ an average annual income of about twice that of college graduates.

A. feel like B. result in C. hold on D. keep to

14. That caves of Altamira, which were __ in northern Spain, contain interesting paintings by early cave dwellers.

A. found B. invented C. discovered D. created

15. A green building is __ to have reduced its environmental impact by 60% compared with an equivalent conventional building.(60)

A. established B. estimated C. computed D. counter

16. If you do not know the subject, you will not understand what is said or written, even if English is your mother __

A. speaking B. language C. saying D. tongue

17. You will find the figure of a conqueror or a general on all the highest __ in the great cities of the world.(29)

A. pillows B. pillars C. columns D. plugs

18. Personal worth and self-esteem is the basis of a good __ health.(33)

A. physical B. mental C. practical D. natural

19. If you suspect that the illness might be serious you should not __ going to the doctor.

A. put off B. hold back C. put aside D. hold up

20. You'll have to buy some new shoes as these are __

A. used up B. wasted away C. broken down D. worn out

I. Grammatical Structure

Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there　are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes

the sentence and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.

21. I could see from his face that he__ bad news.

A. had received B. receives C. received D. has received

22. The peasants __ their land.

A. deprived B. were deprived

C. deprived of D. were deprived of

23. He failed his exam, __ proved that he wasn't working hard enough.

A. what B. which C. this D. of which

24. So frightened __ in darkness that she did not dare to move an inch.

A. was the girl B. the girl was

C. such a girl was D. that the girl was

25. An Olympic Marathon is 26 miles and 385 yards, approximately__ from Marathon to Athens.

A. the distance B. distance

C. the distance is D. is the distance

26. All flights __ because of the heavy storm, we decided to take the train.

A. having canceled B. being canceled

C. having been canceled D. canceled

27. He preferred not to__ with that group.

A. identifying B. identify himself

C. identify D. being identified himself

28. He speaks English, but not __ his sister does.

A. as good as B. as well like C. so well as D. like well as

29. My grandma noticed that the girl __ a short-sleeved dress, so she gave the girl a new sweater.

A. was worn B. was wearing C. wears D. wearing

30. Though in New York, Peter had always preferred to record the plain facts of small town life.

A. raised B. was raised C. raising D. raises

31. She walked softly __ make any noise.

A. as to B. not to C. not so as to D. so as not to

32. It's no use__ me. I don't know more than you do.

A. in asking B. asking C. for me to ask D. you ask

33. We've bought a new house. We'll move in soon and we need to buy __ furniture.

A. some other B. another C. other D. others

34. Please have your doctor __ that prescription.

A. signed B. to sign C. signing D. sign

35. A biologist does not merely describe organisms, but tries to learn __ act as they do.

A. what to cause them B. what cause to them

C. what causes them to D. causes them to what

36. "Has he come back? .... Yes, he __ back for three days.

A. has come B. had come C. is D. has been

37. Ecology, __ the relationships between organisms and their environments, is also important in petroleum geology.

A. the study of B. it study C. that study D. studying

38. If all the continents and mountains were bulldozed flat, the earth __ covered by water.

A. would be B. would have been

C. would had been D. would been

39. Those __ have six or more close friends are likely to describe themselves as "very happy".

A. who B. whose C. which D. they

40. Some habits of__ are incompatible with good health.

A. my husband B. my husbands'

C. my husband's D. my husbands

III. Reading Comprehension

Section A

Directions: There are 5 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by4 questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.

Questions 41 to 44 are based on the following passage:

The Antarctica treaty applies to all areas (the high seas excepted) below latitude 60 degrees south. This line, running around the globe some 2,000 miles from the South Pole itself, just misses the lower tip of South America, and is well below the Cape of Good Hope and New Zealand. There are a number of small islands between this line and the Antarctic continent, but the waters here are known to mariners as "the screaming Sixties" because there is so little obstruction to the world-circling winds.

In contrast, in the northern hemisphere, the lands lying above the sixtieth parallel of latitude include much of Scandinavia, Siberia and Alaska, all of Greenland and Iceland, with a total population of several million. Great mountains help subdue the winds; a spur of the Gulf Stream and part of the Japan Current temper the frigid airs of this polar region. This, and the presence of the Arctic Ocean in the center of the great land mass, give the area a markedly different conformation and climate from that around the opposite pole. Antarctica seems a vast basin of rock, filled and overflowing with a load of ice. In the heart of the continent it is almost as high as the summits of the Alps, yet soundings show that in some places the rock floor is below sea level. Actually, the ice accumulation is less than it was perhaps 1,000 years ago. Its seaward flow is not so voluminous as it once was, and as a result there are patches of bare rock here and there along the coast and inland. They were scoured clear of soil ages ago, but one may sometimes find moss or lichens growing, though virtually no flowering plants.

41. Unlike the North Pole, the South Pole is

A. not fixed in one position

B. the same as the South Magnetic Pole

C. on land covered with ice

D. on water

42. The large area in the southern hemisphere is taken up by

A. the major part of South America

B. oceans

C. Australia

D. Africa

43. The makers of the Antarctic Treaty clearly wanted to

A. prevent the Russians from settling in Antarctica

B. prevent possession or control by any nation

C. conserve its natural resources

D. insure the safety of the natives of Antarctica

44. Land animals on the Antarctic continent

A. are insects only

B. are relics of the prehistoric past

C. are fur-bearing animals and cold-blooded

D. exist only in the fossil state

Questions 45 to 48 are based on the following passage:

Americans smoke six thousand million cigarettes every year (1970 figures). This is roughly the equivalent of 4,195 cigarettes a year for every person in the country of 18 years of age or more. It is estimated that 51% of American men smoke compared with 34% of American women. Since 1939, numerous scientific studies have been conducted to determine whether smoking is a health hazard. Research teams have conducted studies that show beyond all reasonable doubt that tobacco smoking, particularly cigarette smoking is associated with a shortened life expectancy. Cigarette smoking is believed by most research workers in this field to be an important factor in the development of cancer of the lungs and cancer of the throat. Male cigarette smokers have a higher death rate from heart disease than non-smoking males. (Female smokers are thought to be less affected because they do not breathe in the smoke so deeply.) The majority of doctors and researchers consider these relationships proved their point and say, "Give up smoking. If you don't smoke--don't start!" Some doctors and research workers--though their small number is decreased even further--are less sure of the effect of cigarette smoking on health. They consider the increase in respiratory diseases and various forms of cancer may possibly be explained by other factors in the human environment—atmospheric pollution, increased nervous stress, chemical substance in processed food, or chemical pesticides that are now being used by farmers in large quantities to destroy insects and small animals. Smokers who develop cancer or lung diseases, they say, may also, by coincidence, live in industrial areas or eat more canned food. Gradually, however, research is isolating all other possible factors and proving them to be statistically irrelevant. Apart from the scientific statistics, it might be helpful to look at what smoking tobacco actually does to the human body. Smoke is a mixture of gases, vaporized chemicals, small particles of ash, and other solids. There is also nicotine, which is a powerful poison, and black tar. As the smoke is breathed in, all these components form deposits on the membranes of the lungs. One point of concentration is where the air tube, or bronchus, divides. Most lung cancer begins at this point.

Smoking also affects the heart and blood vessels. It is known to be related to Beurger's disease, a narrowing of the small vessels in the hands and feet that can cause great pain and lead even to the amputation of limbs. While all tobacco smoking affects life and expectancy and health, cigarette smoking appears to have a much greater effect than cigar or pipe smoking. However, nicotine consumption is not decreased by the latter forms, and current research shows a causal relationship between all forms of smoking and cancer of the mouth and throat. Filters and low tar tobacco are claimed to make smoking to some extent safer, but they can only reduce, not eliminate the hazards.

45. What can we mainly get from the passage?

A. Smoking is harmful to health.

B. Women smokers are healthier than men smokers.

C. The increased diseases have something to do with pollution.

D. Smoking cigarettes is more harmful than smoking pipes.

46. Cigarette smoking is believed by doctors to __

A. reduce nervous stress

B. causes lung and throat cancer

C. make life shorter but exciting

D. broaden the blood vessels

47. Women smokers have a lower death rate than men smokers because __

A. women smoke light cigarettes

B. women smoke less cigarettes

C. women's bodies can prevent nicotine

D. women don't breathe in the smoke so deeply

48. What is Beurger's disease?

A. It is a kind of lung cancer.

B. It happens in the hands and feet.

C. It happens in the heart while smoking

D. It is a kind of throat disease.

Questions 49 to 52 are based on the following passage:

From National to International

Do you have what it takes?

It's our job to help you make that leap.

The world is waiting. Are you ready?

Is your small business ready to make that next step and expand abroad? A recent survey estimates that up to 40% of all small businesses are intending to do just that. Is your business making up this 40%? Making that move and expanding into the international market requires a different approach fi.om the one you're used to. On a national level, it is often enough to sell the right products at the right price. Failure to adopt a different sales approach on the international market can often lead to failure as international customers expect different things. This is where we come in. The right knowledge and the right preparation can make all the difference on the international level.

The main aspects of the program we offer are:

1. How can weaknesses be identified and reduced?

2. How are cultural differences handled in the business world?

3. In-depth knowledge of district law, how does it help?

4. How can we target the right kind of international customers and how can we finance this bigger, more complicated international operation?

5. What can be done to create a foolproof business plan?

Cost of the course:

$2,000 per person. If 4 or more people apply from the same company, then discounts can be arranged. Course times can be changed to accommodate your employees' schedule. This course is fully accredited by some top level colleges and universities.

49. Who will most likely benefit from this course?

A. Anybody not interested in business administration

B. A small international business manager

C. An individual running a small company

D. Any owner of an international business hoping to go domestic

50. Why is there a danger of an international business failure?

A. The price of shipping is too high.

B. It takes too long to deliver products.

C. International customers do not speak the same language.

D. The business owner cannot understand the local market.

51. What is NOT listed in the advertised program?

A. How to pay the international workforce

B. The best way to study international law

C. Cultural diversities that must be known exactly

D. What we should learn from our deficiencies

52. What is the main advantage of participating in this study program?

A. International travel

B. Fixed schedule for the employees

C. The availability of discounts of 20%

D. Credits that can be transferred to university courses

Questions 53 to 56 are based on the following passage:

With the widespread and still growing use of personal computers, typing has become an indispensable part of our ordinary lives. As a result, many users now find they can't write even familiar words though they can type them quickly and correctly on a computer keyboard. To make matters worse, some people even forget how to write at all. Currently, 90 percent of students in America, a nation which has completely adapted to everyday use of computers and the Internet, are unable to write properly and clearly because they have been typing onto keyboards since early childhood. Many younger teachers also have trouble writing clearly on blackboard. A university student never imagined that he would lose the chance to get his first job because of his handwriting problem. Another student, for fear that she wouldn't be able to write well when doing the test papers for the university entrance examination, quit using a computer for two months before the exam. "It is not surprising," an expert of psychological medicine said. "The occurrence can be attributed to several factors. Firstly, it's the result of social developments and the work needs of constant computer use. Secondly, it relates to introverted (~ Ih] ~) personal character and lack of self-control abilities especially for those students who indulge in playing computer games." Experts also think that many activities on computers make people's thoughts simplified, which also affects their lives in other aspects, such as how they communicate with others and the way they think. Writing can strengthen human body's functions in psychology and physiology, which cannot be substituted by typing into a computer. Relevant research indicates that inscribing or drawing something on paper can leave a deep impression in the language processing areas of the central nervous system in the brain. This process does not occur when typing on a computer. Experts' tips are arranging work time well and paying particular attention to not working in front of the screen for long periods of time and trying to read books and writing down something, such as keeping a diary or making notes with a pen regularly--it's a good way to strengthen the formation of words in one's memory.

53. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in this passage as a negative result of

a user's constant work at a computer?

A. Harm for his physical conditions.

B. Unsatisfactory personality.

C. Problems in his communication with others.

D. Deteriorated memory.

54. According to the experts, __

A. the user's problem in handwriting is helpless

B. writing with a pen is also necessary besides typing

C. computer users need more communication with others

D. there should be more healthful computer games available

55. The word "tips" in the last paragraph means __

A. warnings B. predictions C. suggestions D. analysis

56. The title of this passage might be ....

A. Harms of Typing at the Computer

B. Keep Away FromYour Computer

C. The Advantages of Handwriting

D. Pick Up Your Pencils and Write

Questions 57 to 60 are based on the following passage:

In 1939 two brothers, Mac and Dick McDonald started a driven-in restaurant in San Bemardino, California. They carefully chose a busy comer for their location. They had run their own businesses for years, first a theater, then a barbecue restaurant, then another driven-in, but in their new operation, they offered a new, shortened menu: French fries, hamburgers, and sodas. To this minimal selection they added one new concept: quick service, no waiters or waitresses, and no tips. Their hamburgers sold for fifteen cents. Cheese was another four cents. Their French fries and hamburgers had a remarkable uniformity, for the brothers had developed a strict routine for the preparation of their food, and they insisted on their cooks' sticking to that routine. Their new drive-in became incredibly popular, particularly for lunch. People drove up by the hundreds during the busy noontime. The self-service restaurant was so popular that the brothers had allowed ten copies of their restaurant to be opened. They were content with this modest success until they met Ray Kroc. Kroc was a salesman who met the McDonald brothers in 1954, when he was selling milkshake-mixing machines. He quickly saw the unique appeal of the brothers' fast-food restaurants and bought the right to franchise other copies of their restaurants. The agreement struck included the right to duplicate the menu, the equipment, even their red and white buildings with the golden arches. TodayMcDonald's is literally a household name. Its names for its sandwiches have come to mean hamburger in the decades since the day Ray Kroc watched people rush up to order fifteen-cent hamburgers. In 1976, McDonald's had over $1 billion in total sales. Its first twenty-two years is one of the most incredible success stories in modern American business history.

57. This passage is mainly about __

A. the business careers of Mac and Dick McDonald

B. how the brothers developed the routine for the preparation of their food

C. Ray Kroc's business abilities

D. the development of fast-food services

58. We can conclude from this passage that __

A. Mac and Dick McDonald never became weakhy because they sold their idea　　to Kroc

B. Ray Kroc was a good businessman

C. the location the McDonalds chose was the only source of the great popularity　of their drive-in

D. seventy years ago there were numerous fast-food restaurants

59. The passage suggests that __

A. creativity is an important element of success

B. Ray Kroc spent long hours working in the first McDonald's

C. the McDonalds sold only fresh homegrown vegetables

D. California is the best place to go into business

60. As used in Para.3, the word "franchise" means

A. to copy

B. to grant a special right

C. to deprive

D. to follow the example

Section B

Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.

About nine men in every hundred 61 from color blindness in some way; women are luckier—only about one in two hundred is affected in this manner. Perhaps, after all, it is safer to be driven by a woman. There are different forms of color blindness. In some cases, a man may not be able to see deep red. He may think that red, orange and yellow are shades of green. Sometimes a person cannot 62 the difference between blue and green. In 63 cases, an unlucky man may see everything in shades of green--a 64 world indeed. Sometimes color blindness can be dangerous. For example, when in the forest 65 soldiers use 66 to signal to 67. A green light may mean" 68 "and a 69 light may mean "Danger, keep back." You can seen what will 70 if somebody thinks that is green.

61. A. fall ill B. suffer C. get D. lose

62. A. tell B. say C. tall D. speak

63. A. little B. less C. rare D. few

64. A. beautiful B. ugly C. usual D. strange

65. A. at the night B. at night C. at afternoon D. in the morning

66. A. fire B. lights C. smoke D. flags

67. A. another B. the other C. the enemy D. each other

68. A. Advance B. Hazard C. On board D. Come back

69. A. bright B. weak C. red D. deep green

70. A. find B. cause C. happen D. disappear

IV. Translation

Directions: There are some passages in this part of the test. You are to translate the　passages into Chinese on your Answer Sheet.

71.(第34 课：地震时刻)

Earthquakes are the most terrible of all natural disasters. Asia has a history of huge earthquakes within its borders.

What causes these earthquakes? To answer this question we must first understand some things about the earth itself. The earth's crust is composed of many different layers of rocks. These layers of rocks are not laid evenly, as a bricklayer would build a wall. On the contrary, areas of the earth's crust are irregular and weak.

As a result of the great stress that is put on these parts of the crust, the rock beds fold down towards the earth's core, which results in unstable spots along the earth's crust. This instability results in breaks along the crust. When a break occurs, or when two different sides of the crust rub against each other, the result is an earthquake.

Geologists would like to be able to predict earthquakes accurately by using laser beams, gravity-measuring devices and some other devices. Should predictions of a quake in the future be accurate, many people may be able to save both their lives and their property.

答案：

1-5：A C A D B

6-10：B B D B B

11-15：B D B C A

16-20：D B B A D

21-25：A D B A A

26-30：C B C B A

31-35：D B A D C

36-40：D A A A C

41-44 ：C B D B

45-48：A B D C

49-52：A D A D