专业英语四级（阅读）模拟试卷292
选择题
Before my many years\’ service in a restaurant, I attended a top science university. At that time, I was finishing the project that would win me my professorship. In the end, it resulted in my becoming a kitchen employee.
My forty-second birthday had made a lonely visit the week before, and I was once again by myself in the flat. Like countless other mornings, I ordered a donut from the toaster. \\
1.The accident was triggered by________.(A)
A. an unexpected act of the cat
B. the misconduct of the inventor
C. flaws in the design of the machine
D. the sudden interference of a brute
解析：
2.From the last paragraph, we can infer that________.(C)
A. the toaster may have run out of control
B. the person may destroy his new body
C. the attempt to get out of the trouble may fail
D. the function of the machine may be altered
解析：
3.The passage is most likely to be extracted from a(n)________.(C)
A. academic thesis
B. entertainment magazine
C. science fiction
D. personal diary
解析：
It turns out you can size up personality just by looking at a person\’s Facebook profile. While that may not seem like a big deal, it is providing fodder for academics who are trying to predict temperament based on the things we post online. If such predictions prove accurate, employers may have good reason to poke around our Facebook pages to figure out how we would get along with others at the office. And Pentagon officials want to use personality assessments to make better decisions on and off the battlefield.
A recent study by researchers at the University of Maryland predicted a person\’s score on a personality test to within 10 percentage points by using words posted on Facebook. \\
4.According to the passage, Facebook profiles may________.(B)
A. provide the researchers with figures about personality traits
B. give some hints about the disposition of the employees
C. help the Pentagon make decisions on and off the battlefield
D. take the place of the personality assessments
解析：
5.Golbeck and her colleagues used the following research methods EXCEPT________.(A)
A. investigating the candidates’ membership in political organizations
B. probing into the candidates’ descriptions of their hobbies
C. studying some contents posted on Facebook’s public sections
D. examining the candidates on their psychological characteristics
解析：
6.Which of the following best summarizes the main idea of the passage?(D)
A. Facebook profiles serve as a new approach to personality assessment.
B. Two kinds of temperament types can be discovered through lexical analysis.
C. Networks can provide more materials for psychological research.
D. Facebook profiles reveal personality traits to researchers.
解析：
The following question was posed by Puget Sound Community School\’s Steve Miranda in late August-. Should resumes replace school transcripts? It\’s a good question, but ultimately the wrong one. We should be asking; What yet-to-be-seen innovation will replace both transcripts and traditional resumes? In a world where jobs and school experiences are becoming less uniform, it makes more sense
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