2013年GCT考试《英语应用能力测试》专家预测试卷(七)

Passenger: Taxi! (A cab stops and he goes in.)

Cab driver: ______?

Passenger: King's Hotel on North Street.

Tony: Will you please pass me the saltshaker, Bill?

Bill: Sure.______

Tony: Thank you.

Mother: Danny! Don't make any sound when you have your soup.

Danny: Yes, Mum.

Father: ______.He's only a child.

Husband: Can I wait at the coffee bar? I feel ill at ease when you are picking things out.

Wife: ______.I don't want to shop alone.You can always give me advice, or enjoy looking at beautiful women.

Husband: Don't talk nonsense.

Lucia: Do you have any tissue, Polly?

Polly: Here.______

Lucia: Thanks.I have a terrible headache.It seems to be flu.

Bus driver: Move to the rear of the bus, please.There are plenty of seats.

Passenger: ______ ?

Bus driver: Forty cents.Drop it in the box.

Stephen: Well, hello, stranger! ______

Gordon: No, I went to California for-a few weeks.

Stephen: Oh, really? Where did you go?

Gordon: Los Angeles.I stayed with my brother.

Mother: Jimmy, what are you hiding behind your back? Let me see.

Jimmy: It's kitty.Please let me keep it.It's a good kitty and will not bring you any trouble.

Mother: ______ I told you.No pets.It'll make a mess of this house.

Sophia: There'll be an issue next month introducing your newly published book and I'd like to have an interview with you, if possible.

Josh: An interview? I'd like to, but I'm afraid my schedule is all full.

Sophia: It won't take you long, Mr.Josh.______.

Mother: Tom, it's 7:30, you're going to be late for school.

Tom: I feel like another five minutes' sleep.

Mother: ______ Get dressed.

  Besides active foreign enterprises and a (31) number of private employers, a consequential new development was the development of employment in state-owned enterprises (guanying or guanshang ). Started by some (32) Qing officials, the yangwupai, in the late nineteenth century, sizable state-owned enterprises developed primarily (33) enhancing China's national defense. Famous industrial giants of today's China such as the shipyards in Shanghai and heavy industries in cities like Wuhan, Nanjing, and Chongqing were built by the Qing or the Republic governments. Some of them later began to (34) considerable private investment. After World War II, this type of state- owned employment became very important. Labor in those enterprises consisted basically (35) two tiers: a largely market-oriented allocation of blue-collar and some white-collar workers, and a mostly state allocation of most of the white-collar workers including managerial and technical personnel. The latter was a distorted labor market that featured strong (36) considerations in allocating and managing labor. Personal and kinship connections, the so-called "petticoat influence," and political (37) were the norm for this type of labor allocation pattern. In a way, it was midway between a rather crude market oriented labor allocation pattern and the centuries-old, warm, family-based traditional labor allocation pattern. It covered a very small but important portion of the Chinese labor force, and thus (38) our attention. Later, it apparently provided the historical precedent (39) state-owned enterprises to allocate their administrative and technical cadres, even its entire industrial labor force, (40) state employees.

This passage would most probably be found in ______.

Which of the following do they not prefer?

The salary range indicates that ______.

The person who is interested in the position should ______.

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The real estate corporation is looking for ______.

What can be concluded from the passage?

What is the passage mainly about?

How long did it take her to fly to Australia?

How was her flight to Australia?

  Amy Johnson was a pioneer airwoman in Britain. She was born on July 1, 1903, in Yorkshire and lived there until 1923 when she went to Sheffield University to study for a BA. After graduation she took a job as a secretary to a London lawyer. At the same time she became interested in aviation, and to succeed in some project which would prove to the world that women could be as competent as men in a male-dominated field in those days.

  Early in 1930, she chose her objective: to fly solo to Australia and to break the previous record of 16 days. Her parents and some of her friends lent her money to buy a used airplane.

According to the passage, the sensitive plant's leaves move quickly when parts of the pulvini ______.

According to the passage, what causes potassium and water in the mimosa to shift from some cells to others?

It can be inferred from the passage that the mimosa is called the sensitive plant because it ______.

The author mentions folding chairs in the first paragraph in order to ______.

Which countries have probably spent the most money on maglev research?

  Perhaps the most familiar plant movement belongs to one species of mimosa called the sensitive plant. Within seconds, it can lower its leaves and make its tiny leaflets close up like folding chairs. This movement is thought to be initiated by electrical impulses remarkably similar to nerve signals in animals. But without the animals' sophisticated motion machinery, the mimosa has had to be creative in devising a way to move.

  For motion, the plant depends on tiny, bulb-shaped organs located at the base of each leaf stalk and leaflet. Called pulvini, these organs hold the plant parts in place. When the mimosa is stimulated--say, by a crawling insect or a sudden change in temperature--an electrical impulse sweeps through the plant. This causes potassium and then water to be shifted from certain cells in the pulvini to others, quickly turning one side of the organs flaccid. Because the pulvini can no longer support the leaves and leaflets, this shift results in a corresponding change in their position.

The passage is mainly concerned with the ______.

Argonne believes that people should regard maglev transportation as ______.

According to the passage, when could people start using a maglev commerciaily?

Why could maglev trains replace short-fight commuter aircraft?

  The next decade could see commuters speeding to work at about 300 miles per hour aboard magnetic levitation vehicles, according to a report by Argonne National Laboratories. But before "maglev" vehicles can become commercial successes, the report says, people need to stop thinking of them as high-speed trains. Instead, consider them low-flying aircraft. Argonne contends that maglev vehicles will be best suited to replace commuter aircraft. Plane flights under 600 miles are the least energy-efficient, and maglev "planes" should cut these fuel needs by up to 75 percent. Reportedly, the money saved by a 2,000- mile maglev network linking major cities world more than pay for its construction in 20 years. The quiet purr of levitating crafts would also be a balm for neighborhoods tormented by the roar of conventional takeoffs and landings. The technology behind magnetic levitation is already well understood, the report notes. The west Germans and the Japanese already well understood, the report notes. The West Germans and the Japanese have several full-scale working models. Meanwhile, research in the United States has lapsed.

What is the best title for this passage?

It is the director, and not the members of the board, ______ the most.

You are quite wrong.She ______ like you.

The old ______ well looked after by the government.

Writing stories and articles ______ what I'm fond of.

The tree, the branches ______ are almost bare, is a very old one.

The new bridge will ______ the island to the mainland.

France's methods for increasing family size give us a(n) ______ as to what might be done to encourage smaller families.

It's ______ of her to refuse to admit that she is wrong; she is very stubborn.

He is a man of respectable ______.

After criminals were caught, they were accused and put on ______.