福神六级模拟试题(二)

，

markets

，

and specialists in toolmaking

，

hide

－

dressing

，

potting

，

jewelry

－

making

，

weaving

，

and salt

－

making.

1. What is the main topic of the passage

？

A. The Mississippian culture.

B. The decline of Mound Builder culture.

C. The architecture of Meso

－

American Indians.

D. the eastern woodlands tribes.

2. The paragraph preceding this one most probably discussed .

A. the Mound Builder cultureB. warfare in A.D. 500

C. the geography of the Mississippi area

D. agriculture near the Mississippi River

3. In relation to the Mississippian culture

，

the Mound Builder culture was located

A. in essentially the same area

B. farther south along the watershed

C. to the east D. to the west

4. The Mississippian culture influenced the culture of the .

A. eastern woodland tribes B. Mound Builders

C. Meso

－

AmericansD. Egyptians

5. According to the passage

，

the mounds were used as .

A. palaces for the royal familiesB. fortresses for defense

C. centers for conducting tradeD. places for burying the dead

Passage 2

Money spent on advertising is money spent as well as any I know of. It serves directl

y toassist a rapid distribution of goods at reasonable prices

，

thereby establishing a f

irm homemarket and so making it possible to provide for export at competitive prices

. By drawingattention to new ideas it helps enormously to raise standards of living. B

y helping to increasedemand it ensures an increased need for labor

，

and is therefor

e an effective way to fightunemployment. It lowers the costs of many services

：

with

out advertisements your dailynewspaper would cost four times as much

，

the price o

f your television license would need tobe doubled

，

and travel by bus or tube would

cost percent more. And perhaps most importantof all

，

advertising provides a guaran

tee of reasonable value in the products and services youbuy. Apart from the fact that

twenty

－

seven Acts of Parliament govern the terms ofadvertising

，

no

regular advertiser dare promote a product that fails to live up to the promise of hisad

vertisements. He might fool some people for a little while through misleading adverti

sing. Hewill not do so for long

，

for mercifully the public has the good sense not to b

uy the inferiorarticle more than once. If you see an article consistently advertised

，

i

t is the surest proof Iknow that the article does what is claimed for it

，

and that it re

presents ising does more for the material benefit of the community

than any other force Ican think is one more point I feel I ought to touch on.

Recently I heard awell

－

known television personality declare that he

was against advertising because it persuades rather than informs. He was drawing e

xcessivelyfine distinctions. Of course advertising seeks to its message we

re confined merelyto information

－

and that in itself would be difficult if not impossible to achieve

，

for even adetail suc

h as the choice of the color of a shirt is subtly persuasive

－

advertising would be soboring that no one would pay any attention. But perhaps that

is what the well

－

knowtelevision personality wants.

6. By the first sentence of the passage the author means that .

A. he is fairly familiar with the cost of advertising

B. everybody knows well that advertising is money consuming

C. advertising costs money like everything else

D. it is worthwhile to spend money on advertising

7. The

phrase“live

up to

，

Paragraph 2 can be replaced by .

A. surviveB. complementC. agree withD. carry on

8. In the passage

，

which of the following is NOT included in the advantages of adve

rtising

？

A. Securing greater fame.B. Providing more jobs. C. Enhancing living standards.D. Re

ducingnewspaper cost.

9. The author deems that the well

－

known TV personality is .

A. very precise in passing his judgment on advertising

B. interested in nothing but the

buyer?s

attention

C. correct in telling the difference between persuasion and information

D. obviously partial in his views on advertising

10. In the

author?s

opinion .

A. advertising can seldom bring material benefit to man by providing information

B. advertising informs people of new ideas rather than wins

them over

C. there is nothing wrong with advertising in persuading the

buyer

D. the buyer is not interested in getting information from an

advertisement

Passage 3

In 1950 it was predicted that eight or ten electronic computers would be sufficient to

handle all the scientific and business needs of the United States. Likewise

，

the chief

executive officer of IBM advised the company not to invest time or money in

developing computers because he foresaw a limited commercial market. But these

predictions were proved totally inaccurate as the computer industry developed into a

multibillion

－

do llar

business. Today the computer plays a vital role in the lives of many Americans and is

seen as one of the greatest technological developments of all lly a

computer is an electronic machine that is capable of performing mathematical tasks to

solve scientific or clerical problems in a relatively short period of time. There are two

main elements of any computer system

——

hardware and software. Hardware is the

physical equipment

，

i.e. the machinery and electronic components. Certain tasks are

performed by the hardware. In very simple

terms

，

these tasks can be described in the following

processes

：

input

→

storage and/or manipulation

→

output

Properly prepared pieces of information known as data are put into the computer

（

input

）

. They are put away for future use

（

storage

）

and/or handled for a specific

purpose

< br>（

manipulation

）

. Finally

，

the results are made available to the users

（

output

）

. The combination of these tasks is known as data processing. Equally as

important as hardware in the operation of computers is software. This term refers to

the programs and procedures that make it possible to use the computer. A program is

a

detailed set of instructions that tells the computer what to do

，

how to do it

，

and the

proper sequence of steps to follow. Programs are written in special computer

languages by trained people called computer programmers. Programmers must be

familiar with the computer language used in each program. There are a number of

different computer languages used in data

processing; COBOL

（

Common Business Oriented Language

）

is the one used most

frequently in business computer applications.

The technological development of computer hardware and software has affected the

modern world in numerous ways. Business is one of the areas in which the effect has

been greatest.

11. Since the 1950?s the computer industry has .

A. declined B. remained about the same C. increased tremendously sed

slightly

12. Properly prepared pieces of information that are put into the computer are termed .

A. input B. data C. facts D. information

13. The manipulation step of data processing involves .

A. handling data B. making the results available to the users C. putting the information