专业英语八级（阅读）模拟试卷412
选择题
PASSAGE ONE
(1)The recession came home to Price Waterhouse\’s consultancy practice in the middle of 1990. Annual growth rate of 25%-30% started to dive, and the practice began reorganizing to survive the slump.
(2)Management consultancies, ironically, have complex and disparate bodies to manage. PW is an international outfit run by partners through a network of offices. Like most professions, management consultants tend to be content to let others take the lead in office technology and put off any major investment to another day. In 1990, PW\’s UK consultancy practice could muster only one personal computer for every three or four staff.
(3)The solution PW chose was remarkable on two fronts. It involved a form of technology that remains foreign, if not downright outlandish, to most big companies; and the decision to embrace that technology was taken not as a result of a detailed cost justification, but as a simple \\
1.The technology that PW chose ______.(D)
A. had never been used by any other company
B. was believed to reduce the costs
C. could help the company get out of trouble
D. was rather new to most big companies
解析：第3段第2句提到，这种技术即使不是十分罕见，但对于大多数大公司来说也算是陌生的东西，故选D。
2.According to the passage, groupware is ______.(C)
A. a set of hardware PW bought for self-protection
B. a kind of glue PW used for repair
C. a technology that contributes to efficiency
D. a worker PW hired to examine the computer
解析：第5段第2句指出，群体软件……展现出自个人电脑发明之后对商业效率的巨大贡献。据此可以判断群体软件是可以提高效率的技术，选C。
3.The main purpose of the passage is to_______.(D)
A. advertise for groupware
B. publicize new business theory
C. tell readers an interesting story
D. present useful information
解析：本文介绍了群体软件以其独特的优势受到通用汽车和联合利华等大公司的青睐，并且极大地方便了顾问与代理人之间的合作与交流。据此可以判断D“提供有用信息”是本文的主要目的。
PASSAGE TWO
(1)Thirty-seven men have been elected President since 1789, and the American people have applied two different standards in evaluating their achievements. The first was formulated by Alexander Hamilton who test-drove the presidency in the Federalist papers. The difficulty of winning the job, he argued, virtually guaranteed it would be held by the best men. \\
4.In Hamilton’s view, \\(B)
A. those who are capable and noble-minded
B. those who have the art of popularity
C. those who confirmed Hamilton’s prediction
D. John Adams who made great achievements
解析：第1段第4句提到，汉密尔顿认为Talents for low intrigue，and the little an of popularity只能存一个州内风光。即B并非最优秀的人的特征，故选。A为该段第5句中characters pre-eminent for ability and virtue的近似表达，故排除A；该段第6句提到“头七位总统的执政印证了汉密尔顿的预见”，排除C；亚当斯是头七位总统之一，他也属于汉密尔顿提到的the best men之一，故排除D。
5.Van Buren could win the presidency NOT because ______.(B)
A. of his intrigue and the art of popularity
B. he was a self-made man from upstate New York
C. of his \\
D. the Americans changed their standards
解析：B“他来自纽约州的偏远地区，靠自己的奋斗成功”是关于范布伦从政前的介绍，并不是他赢得选举的原因。结合第3段第1、6句可知，A、D符合文意；C具有较大的干扰性，不过经过分析可知C其实是intrigue and the art of popularity的体现，故排除。
6.What does the passage mainly talk about?(C)
A. Obama will probably become President according to the American history.
B. All the presidential candidates should pass both the two mentioned tests.
C. Who will
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