2021银行考试英语题库:英语通用模拟题(20)
1. How much did you ______ fixing the TV?
A. pay off B. pay back
C. pay for D. pay down
2. Both teams were in hard training; ______ was willing to lose the game.
A. either B. neither
C. another D. the other
3. --I wonder why Mary is so unfriendly to us.
--She is ______ than unfriendly, I'm afraid.
A. shyer B. much shyer
C. shy more D. more shy
4. --Can I use the car now?
--Sorry, but it ______.
A. will repair B. has repaired
C. is still being repaired D. was repaired
5. She ______ a novel last month but I don't know whether she has finished it.
A. was translating B. translated
C. had translated D. has translated
阅读理解
The Norwegian Government is doing its best to keep the oil industry under control. A new law limits exploration to an area south of the southern end of the long coastline; production limits have been laid down (though these have already been raised) ; and oil companies have not been allowed to employ more than a limited number of foreign workers. But the oil industry has a way of getting over such problems, and few people believe that the Government will be able to hold things back for long. As a Norwegian politician said last week: "We will soon be changed beyond all recognition. "
Ever since the war, the Government has been carrying out a programme of development in the area north of the Arctic Circle. During the past few years this programme has had a great deal of success: Tromso has been built up into a local capital with a university, a large hospital and a healthy industry. But the oil industry has already started to draw people from the south, and within a few years the whole northern policy could be in ruins.
The effects of the oil industry would not be limited to the north, however. With nearly 100 percent employment, everyone can see a situation developing in which the service industries and the tourist industry will lose more of their workers to the oil industry. Some smaller industries might even disappear altogether when it becomes cheaper to buy goods from abroad.
The real argument over oil is its threat to the Norwegian way of life. Farmers and fishermen do not make up most of the population, but they are an important part of it, because the Norwegians see in them many of the qualities that they regard with pride as essentially Norwegian. And it is the farmers and the fishermen who are most critical of the oil industry because of the damage that it might cause to the countryside and to the sea.
6. The Norwegian Government would prefer the oil industry to ______.
A. provide more jobs for foreign workers
B. slow down the rate of its development
C. sell the oil it is producing abroad
D. develop more quickly than at present
7. The Norwegian Government has tried to ______.
A. encourage the oil companies to discover new oil sources
B. prevent oil companies employing people from northern Norway
C. help the oil companies solve many of their problems
D. keep the oil industry to something near its present size
8. According to the passage, the oil industry might lead northern Norway to ______.
A. the development of industry
B. a growth in population
C. the failure of the development programme
D. the development of new towns
9. In the south, one effect to the development of the oil industry might be ______.
A. a large reduction on unemployment
B. a growth in the tourist industry
C. a reduction in the number of existing industries
D. the development of a number of service industries
10. Norwegian farmers and fishermen have an important influence because ______.
A. they form such a large part of the Norwegian ideal
B. their lives and values represent the Norwegian ideal
C. their work is so useful to the rest of Norwegian society
D. they regard oil as a threat to the Norwegian way of life
参考答案:
1.C[解析] pay off还清(债务等);pay back偿还(借款),报答,报复;pay for偿还;pay down用现金支付。根据句意应该选C。
2.B [解析] 前句提到Both teams,由此可知谈论的是两个队,因此后文应表达“不愿意输掉比赛”,可以确定答案为B。
3.D [解析] 句意为“与其说她不友好不如说她害羞”。more…than…意为“与其说……不如说……”。
4.C[解析] 根据答句的意思,现在汽车还不能用,所以要选“现在正在修理中”。
5.A [解析] 根据句意,不知道是否完成,所以要选“上个月正在翻译”,而不是“已经翻译完”。
6.B [解析] 通过文章开头“The Norwegian Government is doing its best to keep the oil industry under control. A new law limits exploration to…”可以推出,挪威政府正竭尽全力把石油工业控制起来,制定新法律来限制勘探开采,限制产量等,B项符合题意。
7.D[解析] 通过文章第一段容易排除A、B、C项,本题正确答案为D。
8.C [解析] 由第二段的“But the oil industry has already started to draw people from the south, and within a few years the whole northern policy could be in ruins. ”可以推知C正确。
9.C [解析] 通过第三段的“The effects of the oil industry would not be limited to the north…Some smaller industries might even disappear altogether when it becomes cheaper to buy goods from abroad.”可知现存工业数量减少,C正确。
10.B [解析] 通过最后一段的“because the Norwegians see in them many of the qualities that they regard with pride as essentially Norwegian. And it is the farmers and the fishermen who are most critical of the oil industry because of the damage that it might cause to the countryside and to the sea. ”可以推知B项正确。
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