专业英语八级（阅读）模拟试卷414
选择题
PASSAGE ONE
(1)Peanuts, a dietary outcast during the fat-phobic 1990s, have made a comeback, with consumption soaring to its highest level in nearly two decades and more doctors recommending nuts as part of a heart-healthy diet. When peanut butter and snack peanuts plummeted as Americans switched to low fat diets, the peanut industry responded with studies showing the health benefits of peanuts. Total consumption of peanuts jumped last year to nearly 1.7 billion pounds, compared to 1.5 billion pounds the year before. The amount of snack peanuts eaten climbed to 415 million pounds in the 2003-2004 crop year, the highest since the mid-1990s. And peanut butter consumption soared to 900 million pounds, from a low of about 700 million in the 90s\’.
(2)\\
1.The rhetorical device in the sentence of the first paragraph \\(C)
A. personification
B. simile
C. metaphor
D. contrast
解析：该句意为“在人们对脂肪满怀恐惧的上世纪90年代，花生成了食品中的弃儿。现在，它又盛行起来……”。可见这里将花生比喻成弃儿，且未出现比喻词like，as，因此是暗喻(metaphor)，故选C。
2.The relationship between the second and third paragraphs is that ______.(D)
A. they both describe the health benefits of peanuts
B. the latter presents a striking contrast to the former
C. the latter provides conclusive statement to the former
D. the latter offers further supplementation to the former
解析：第2段主要说花生含有不饱和脂肪，适当食用对身体有益。第3段接着进一步用数字阐述适当食用且要控制花生食用数量，可见这是对前一段的补充说明，故选D。
3.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage as health benefits of peanuts?(B)
A. To help with weight loss.
B. To decrease harm of wine.
C. To reduce risk of diabetes.
D. To lower bad cholesterol.
解析：第4段第3句提到，花生含有一种抗氧化剂白藜芦醇，红酒中也含这种物质，法国人喜欢喝红酒，所以心脏病发病率很低，由此可见白藜芦醇对心脏起保护作用，而不是降低喝酒的危害，B符合题意。
PASSAGE TWO
(1)Yu Zhuoping hasn\’t taken a vacation in two years, nor does the 44-year-old take many weekends off. Instead he logs 12-hour days in a soccer-pitch-size laboratory filled with flashing computer screens and disemboweled electric motors. He\’s trying to build the future—in the form of hydrogen-powered cars that can not only work, but can sell. Since Yu\’s team of 28 Ph.D.-level scientists and 200 students at Shanghai\’s Tongji University began the work in 2002, they\’ve come out with two generations of cars—built with Chinese technology. \\
4.Which of the following statements implies a synecdoche?(A)
A. Beijing is undaunted in its ambitions to become a world leader in… cars.
B. Which strategy China chooses stands to have a huge impact on the country…
C. China… would have to double import every 7 or 8 years to keep all these wheels spinning.
D. Beijing’s public transportation armada includes 120 pure-battery buses.
解析：A意为“中国并不畏惧自己拥有领头氢动力汽车工业的雄心”，其中以表示局部的Beijing指代表示全体概念的“中国”，是提喻或举隅修辞法。C的干扰性较强，事实上，wheels在这里就是“汽车”的意思，而不是“轮子”指代“汽车”，故不是提喻。
5.A hydrogen-based auto industry can NOT benefit China in ______.(A)
A. establishing hydrogen-fueling stations
B. promoting tighter emissions controls
C. dropping conventional technology and fuels
D. attracting more foreign investment
解析：本题关键在于抓住题眼NOT和benefit。根据第2段第5句可知，A是伴随新汽车工业建立而产生的，不是新工业带来的益处，故为答案。B、C、D在第3段均有体现，其中B、C是现行汽车工业管理经营体系的反例，也能作为新汽车工业给中国带来的益处，故排除。
6.The point of
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