职称英语2011真题理工A历年真题(7)

职称英语考试,历年真题

What is it that make mobile phones potentially harmful? The answer is radiation. High-tech machines can detect very small amount of radiation from mobile phones. Mobile phone companies agree that there is some radiation, but they say the amount is too small to worry about.

As the discussion about their safety continues, it appears that it’s best to use mobile phones less often. Use your regular phone if you want to talk for a long time. Use your mobile phone only when you really need it. Mobile phones can be very useful and convenient, especially in emergencies. In the future, mobile phones may have a warning label that says they are bad for your health. So for now, it’s wise not to use your mobile phone too often.

41. People buy cell phones for the following reasons EXCEPT that

A. they’re popular. B. they’re useful. C. they’re convenient. D. they’re cheap.

42. The word ―detected‖ in paragraph 3 could be best replaced by

A. cured. B. removed. C. caused. D. discovered.

43. The salesman retired young because

A. he disliked using mobile phones. B. he couldn’t remember simple tasks.

C. he was tired of talking on his mobile phone. D. his employer’s doctor persuaded him to.

44. On the safety issue of mobile phones, the manufacturing company

A. deny the existence of mobile phone radiation.

B. develop new technology to reduce mobile phone radiation.

C. try to prove that mobile phones are not harmful to health.

D. hold that the amount of radiation is too small to worry about.

45. The writer’s purpose of writing this article is to advise people

A. to buy mobile phones.

B. to update regular phones.

C. to stop using mobile phones.

D. to use mobile phones less often.

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Mt. Desert Island

The coast of the State of Maine is one of the most irregular in the world. A straight line running from the southernmost coastal city to the northernmost coastal city would measure about 225 miles. If you followed the coastline between these points, you would travel more than ten times as fawhole area that is now Maine was part of a mountain range that towered above the sea. As the glacier（冰

川） descended, however, it expended enormous force on those mountains, and they sank into the sea.

As the mountain sank, ocean water charged over the lowest parts of the remaining land, forming a series of twisting inlets and lagoons（咸水

湖）. The highest parts of the former mountain range, nearest the shore, remained as islands.

prior to the glacier.