职称英语阅读理解试题及答案

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篇短文，每篇短文后有

5

道题。请根据短文内容，为每题确定

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第一篇

How to Be a Successful Businessperson

Have

you

ever

wondered

why

some

people

are

successful

in

business

and

others

are

not?

Here's a story about one successful businessperson. He started out washing dishes and today he

owns 168 restaurants.

Zubair -Kazi was born in Bhatkal, a small town in southwest India. His dream was to be an

airplane pilot, and when he was 16 years old, he learned to fly a small plane.

At the age of 23 and with just a little money in his pocket, Mr. Kazi moved to the United

States. He hoped to get a job in the airplane industry in California. Instead, he ended up working

for a company that rented cars.

While Mr. Kazi was working at the car rental(

祖赁的

) company, he frequently ate at a nearby

KFC restaurant. To save money on food, he decided to get a job with KFC. For two months, he

worked as a cook's assistant. His job was to clean the kitchen and help the cook.

Mr. Kazi says,

One day, Mr. Kazi's two co-workers failed to come to work. That day, Mr. Kazi did the work

of all three people in the kitchen. This really impressed the owners of the restaurant.

A few months later, the owners needed a manager for a new restaurant. They gave the job to

Mr. Kazi. He worked hard as the manager and soon the restaurant was making a profit.

A few years later, Mr. Kazi heard about a restaurant that was losing money. The restaurant

was dirty inside and the food was terrible. Mr. Kazi borrowed money from a bank and bought the

restaurant.

For

the

first

six

months,

Mr.

Kazi

worked

in

the

restaurant

from

8

a.m.

t0

10

p.m.,

seven days a week. He and his wife cleaned up the restaurant, remodeled the front of the building,

and improved the cooking. They also tried hard to please the customers. lf someone had to wait

more than ten minutes for their food, Mrs. Kazi gave them a free soda. Before long the restaurant

was making a profit.

A year later, Mr. Kazi sold his restaurant for a profit. With the money he earned, he bought

three more restaurants that were losing money. Again,'he cleaned them up, improved the food, and

retrained the employees. Before long these restaurants were making a profit, too.

Today

Mr.

Kazi

owns 168

restaurants,

but he

isn't

planning

to

stop

there. He's

looking

for

more poorly managed restaurants to buy.

mess,

31. When Mr. Kazi was young, his dream was to

A. be an airplane pilot.

B. sellcars.

C. own a restaurant.

D. become a good cook.

32. Mr. Kazi decided to work with KFC to

A. learn how to'cook.

B. save money for a'car.

C. save money on food.

D. learn how to run a restaurant.

33. Mr. Kazi became the manager of a new restaurant because

A. his co- workers praised him.

B. he was a good cook.

C. he worked very hard.

D. he knew how to run a restaurant.

34. To save a failing restaurant, Mr. Kazi did all the'following thirigs, EXCEPT to

A. clean it up

B. improve the food.

C. retrainthe'employees.

D. advertizeforit.

the last paragraph,

A. it's small.

B. it's dirty.

C. it's profitable.

D. it's cheap.

第二篇

Three Ways to Become More Creative

Most people believe they don't have has imagination, but most of us, once much imagination.

They

are

wrong.

Everyone

we

become

adults,

forget

how

to

access

it.

Creativit}r

isn't

always

connected with great works of art or ideas. People at work and in their free time routinely think of

creative ways to solve problems. Maybe you have a goal to achieve, a tricky question to answer or

you just want to expand your mind! Here are three techniques to help you.

This technique involves taking unrelated ideas and trying to find links between them. First,

think about the problem you have to solve or the job you need to do. Then find an image, word,

idea or object, for example, a candle. Write down all the ideas/words associated with candles: light,

fire, matches, wax, night, silence, etc. Think of as many as you can. The next stage is to relate the

ideas to the job you have to do. So imagine you want to buy a friend an original present; you could

buy

him

tickets

to

a

match

or

take

him

out

for

the night.

Imagine

that

normal

limitations

don't

exist. You have as much time/space/money, etc. as you want. Think about your goal and the new

possibilities. If, for example, your goal is to learn to ski(

滑雪）

, you can now practice skiing every

day of your life (because you have the time and the money). Now adapt this to reality. Maybe you

can practice skiing every day in December, or every Monday in January.

Look

at

the

situation

from

a

different

point

of

view.

Good

negotiators

(

谈判者

)

use

this

technique in business, and so do writers. Fiction writers often imagine they are the characters in

their

books,

They

ask

questions:

what

does

this

character

want?

Why

can't

she

get

it?

What

changes must she make to get what she wants? What does about? If your goal involves

other people, put yourself

36. According to the passage, become adults,

A. most of us are no longer creative.

B. we are -not as imaginative as children.

C. we can stilllearn more creative.

D. .we are unwillfng to be creative. .

37. According to the first technique, if you need to solve a problem,

A. you should link it with candles.. . .

B. you have to think of buying a present for a friend.

C. you should link it with as many words as possible.

D. you could find an image and try to link it with the problem.

38. The second technique suggests that you just imagine .

A. setting a goalis as simple as skiing..

B. you have every resource to achieve your goal.

C. new possibilities will soon appear. .

D. December and January are the best months for skiing.

39. The phrase

A. dressyourselflikethem.

B. do as they ask you to

C. put on their shoes

D. think as they would

40. We learn from the third technique that a good salesman should ask himself:

A. what are my customers' needs?

B. what do I usually do?

C. what did my boss tell me to do?

D. how should I sell my products?

第三篇

The State of Marriage Today

Is there something seriousty wrong with marriage today? During the'past 50 years, the rate of

divorce in the United States has exploded: almost 50% of marriages end in divorce now, and the

evidence suggests it is going to get worse. If this trend continues, it will lead to the breakup of the

family, a spokesperson for the National Family Association. Some futurists predict

that in 100 years, the average American will marry at least four times, and extramaritai

（婚外的）

affairs will be even more common than they are now.

But what are the reasons for this, and is the picture really so gloomy (

明暗的

)? The answer to

the

first

question

is

really

quite

simple:

marriage

is

no

longer

the

necessity

it

once

was.

The

institution

of

marriage

has

been

based

for

years

partly

on

economic

need.

Women

used

to

be

economically dependent on their husbands-as they usually didn't have jobs outside the home. But

with the rising number of women in well-paying jobs, this i:a no longer the case, so they don't feel

that they'need to stay in a failing marriage.

In answer to the second question, the outlook may not be as pessimistic (

悲观的

) as it seems.

While the rate of divorce has risen; the rate of couples marrying has never actually fallen ver}t

much, so marriage is still quite popular. In addition to this, many couples now simply live together

and don't bother to marry. These couples are effectively married, but they do not appear in either

the marriage or divorce statistics. In fact, more than 50% offtrst marriages survive.

So

is

marriage

really

an

outdated

institution?

The

fact

that

most

people

still

get .

married

indicates

that

it

isn't.

And

it

is

also

true

that

married

couples

have

a

healthier

life

than

single

people: they suffer less from stress and its consequences, such as heart problems, and married men

generally consider themselves more dontented tfian their single counterparts. Perhaps the key is to

find out what makes a successful marriage and apply it to all of our relationships!

41. Which of the following is true about the marriage in the United States today?

e leads to the breakup of the family.

B. More than half of the married couples get divorced.