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CET4:阅读理解模拟题（一） (1)
Passage 1When your parents advise you to "get an education" in order to raise your income,they tell you only half the truth.What they really mean is to get just enough education to provide manpower for your society,but not so much that you prove an embarrassment to your society.
Get a high school diploma,at least.Without that,you will be occupationally dead unless your name happens to be George Bernard Shaw or Thomas Alva Edison,and you can successfully dropout in grade school.
Get a college degree,if possible.With a B.A.,you are on the launching pad.But now you have to start to put on the brakes.If you go for a master's degree,make sure it is an M.B.A.,and is famous law of diminishing returns begins to take effect.
Do you know,for instance,that long-haul truck drivers earn more per year than full professors?Yes,the average 1977 salary for those truckers was $24000. While the full professors managed to earn just $23030.
A Ph.D. is the highest degree you can get.Except for a few specialized fields such as physics or chemistry where the degree can quickly be turned to industrial or commercial purposes,if you pursue such a degree in any other field,you will face a dim future. there are more Ph.D.s unemloyed or underemployed in this country than any other part of the world.
If you become a doctor of philosophy in English or history or anthropology or political science or languages or-worst of all-in philosophy,you run the risk of becoming overeducated for our national demands.Not for our needs,mind you,but for our demands.
Thousands of Ph.D.s are selling shoes,driving cars,waiting on table,and endlessly filling out applications month after month.They may also take a job in some high school or backwater college that pays much less than the janitor earns.
You can equate the level of income with the level of education only so far.Far enough,that is,to make you useful to the gross national product,but not so far that nobody can turn much of a profit on you.
According to the writer,what the society expects of education is to turn out people who _____.[ANSWER]
A)will not be a disgrace to society
B)will become loyal citizens
C)can take care of themselves
D)can meet the nation's demands as a source of manpower
Many Ph.D.s are out of job because _____.[ANSWER]
A)they are improperly educated
B)they are of little commercial value to their society
C)there are fewer jobs in high schools
D)they prefer e
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C)As a result of scientific intervention,some potentially harmful substances have been added to our food
D)The scientists have preserved the color of meats,but not of vegetables
What are nitrates used for?_____.[ANSWER]
A)They preserve flavor in packaged foods
B)They preserve the color of meats
C)They are the objects of research
D)They cause the animals to become fatter
What does FDA mean as an organization?_____.[ANSWER]
A)Food Direct Additives
B)Final Difficult Analysis
C)Food and Drug Administration
D)Federal Dairy Additives
The word carcinogenic means most nearly the same as _____.[ANSWER]
A)trouble-making
B)color-retaining
C)money-making
D)cancer-causing
Which of the following statements is not true?_____.[ANSWER]
A)Drugs are always given to animals for medical reasons
B)Some of the additives in our food are added to the food itself and some are given to the living animals
C)Researchers have known about the potential hazards of food additives for over thirty-five years
D)Food may cause forty percent of cancer in the world
Passage 3There are various way in which individual economic units can interact with one another.Three basic ways may be described as the market system,the administered system,and the traditional system.
In a market system individual economic units are free to interact each other the the marketplace.It is possible to buy commodities from other economic units or sell commodities to them.In a market,transcations may take place via barter or money exchange. In a barter economy,real goods such as automobiles,shoes,and pizzas are traded against each other.Obviously,finding somebody who wants to trade my old car in exchange for a sailboat may not always be an easy task.Hence,the introduction of money as a medium of exchange eases transactions considerably.In the modern market economy,goods and services are bought or sold for money.
An alternative to the market system is admi
Get a high school diploma,at least.Without that,you will be occupationally dead unless your name happens to be George Bernard Shaw or Thomas Alva Edison,and you can successfully dropout in grade school.
Get a college degree,if possible.With a B.A.,you are on the launching pad.But now you have to start to put on the brakes.If you go for a master's degree,make sure it is an M.B.A.,and is famous law of diminishing returns begins to take effect.
Do you know,for instance,that long-haul truck drivers earn more per year than full professors?Yes,the average 1977 salary for those truckers was $24000. While the full professors managed to earn just $23030.
A Ph.D. is the highest degree you can get.Except for a few specialized fields such as physics or chemistry where the degree can quickly be turned to industrial or commercial purposes,if you pursue such a degree in any other field,you will face a dim future. there are more Ph.D.s unemloyed or underemployed in this country than any other part of the world.
If you become a doctor of philosophy in English or history or anthropology or political science or languages or-worst of all-in philosophy,you run the risk of becoming overeducated for our national demands.Not for our needs,mind you,but for our demands.
Thousands of Ph.D.s are selling shoes,driving cars,waiting on table,and endlessly filling out applications month after month.They may also take a job in some high school or backwater college that pays much less than the janitor earns.
You can equate the level of income with the level of education only so far.Far enough,that is,to make you useful to the gross national product,but not so far that nobody can turn much of a profit on you.
According to the writer,what the society expects of education is to turn out people who _____.[ANSWER]
A)will not be a disgrace to society
B)will become loyal citizens
C)can take care of themselves
D)can meet the nation's demands as a source of manpower
Many Ph.D.s are out of job because _____.[ANSWER]
A)they are improperly educated
B)they are of little commercial value to their society
C)there are fewer jobs in high schools
D)they prefer e
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C)As a result of scientific intervention,some potentially harmful substances have been added to our food
D)The scientists have preserved the color of meats,but not of vegetables
What are nitrates used for?_____.[ANSWER]
A)They preserve flavor in packaged foods
B)They preserve the color of meats
C)They are the objects of research
D)They cause the animals to become fatter
What does FDA mean as an organization?_____.[ANSWER]
A)Food Direct Additives
B)Final Difficult Analysis
C)Food and Drug Administration
D)Federal Dairy Additives
The word carcinogenic means most nearly the same as _____.[ANSWER]
A)trouble-making
B)color-retaining
C)money-making
D)cancer-causing
Which of the following statements is not true?_____.[ANSWER]
A)Drugs are always given to animals for medical reasons
B)Some of the additives in our food are added to the food itself and some are given to the living animals
C)Researchers have known about the potential hazards of food additives for over thirty-five years
D)Food may cause forty percent of cancer in the world
Passage 3There are various way in which individual economic units can interact with one another.Three basic ways may be described as the market system,the administered system,and the traditional system.
In a market system individual economic units are free to interact each other the the marketplace.It is possible to buy commodities from other economic units or sell commodities to them.In a market,transcations may take place via barter or money exchange. In a barter economy,real goods such as automobiles,shoes,and pizzas are traded against each other.Obviously,finding somebody who wants to trade my old car in exchange for a sailboat may not always be an easy task.Hence,the introduction of money as a medium of exchange eases transactions considerably.In the modern market economy,goods and services are bought or sold for money.
An alternative to the market system is admi
