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1、2023年广西职称英语考试真题卷本卷共分为1大题50小题，作答时间为180分钟，总分100分，60分及格。一、单项选择题（共50题，每题2分。每题的备选项中，只有一个最符合题意） 1. 下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题。请根据短文内容，为每题确定1个最佳选项。 B第一篇/B BU. S. Life Expectancy Hits New High/B Life expectancy rates in the United States are at an all- time high, with people born in 2005 projected to live for nearly

2、 78 years, a new federal study finds. The finding reflects a continuing trend of increasing life expectancy that began in 1955, when the average American lived to be 69.6 years old. By 1995, life expectancy was 75.8 years, and by 2005, it had risen to 77.9 years, according to the report released Wed

3、nesday. This is good news, said report co - author Donna Hoyert, a health scientist at the National Center for Health Statistics. Its even better news that it is a continuation of trends, so it is a long period of continuing improvement. Despite the upward trend, the United States still has a lower

4、life expectancy than some 40 other countries, according to the U. S. Census (人口普查) Bureau. The country with the longest life expectancy is Andorra at 83.5 years, followed by Japan, Macau, San Marino and Singapore. Much of the increase owes to declining death rates from the three leading causes of de

5、ath in the country - heart disease, cancer and stroke. In addition, in 2005, the U. S. death rate dropped to an all -time low of less than 800 deaths per 100,000. Dr. David Katz, director of the Prevention Research Center at Yale University School of Medicine, said, News that life expectancy is incr

6、easing is, of course, good. But the evidence we have suggests that there is more chronic disease than ever in the U. S. Adding years to life is a good thing, Katz said. But adding vital life to years is at least equally important. If we care about living well, and not just longer, we still have our

7、work cut out for us, he said.The increase in the U. S. life expectancy is mostly due to Adeclining death rates from heart disease, cancer and strokeBincreasing life expectancy rates in some other countriesCa rise in the rate of chronic diseaseDa declining birth rate 2.B第二篇/B BWhen Fear Takes Control

8、 of the Mind/B A panic attack is a sudden feeling of terror. Usually it does not last long, but it may feel like forever. The cause can be something as normally uneventful as driving over a bridge or flying in an airplane. And it can happen even if the person has driven over many bridges or flown ma

9、ny times before. A fast heartbeat. Sweaty hands. Difficulty breathing. A dizzy feeling. At first a person may have no idea what is wrong. But these can all be signs of what is known as panic disorder. The first appearance usually is between the ages of 18 and 25. In some cases it develops after a tr

10、agedy, like the death of a loved one, or some other difficult situation. In the United States, the National Institute of Mental Health says more than two million people are affected in any one-year period. The American Psychological Association says panic disorder is two times more likely in women t

11、han men. And it can last anywhere from a few months to a lifetime. Panic attacks can be dangerous - for example, if a person is driving at the time. The Chesapeake Bay Bridge in the state of Maryland is so long and so high over the water, it is famous for scaring motorists. There is even a driver as

12、sistance program to help people get across. Some people who suffer a panic attack develop a phobia (恐惧病), a deep fear of ever repeating the activity that brought on the attack. But experts say panic disorder can be treated. Doctors might suggest anti-anxiety or antidepressant (抗抑郁的) medicines. Talki

13、ng to a counselor could help a person learn to deal with or avoid a panic attack. There are breathing methods, for example, that might help a person calm down. Panic disorder is included among what mental health professionals call anxiety disorders. A study published last week reported a link betwee

14、n anxiety disorders and several physical diseases. It says these include thyroid (甲状腺的) disease, lung and stomach problems, migraine headaches (偏头痛) and allergic (过敏的) conditions. Researchers at the University of Manitoba in Canada say that in most cases the physical condition followed the anxiety d

15、isorder. But, they say, exactly how the two are connected remains unknown.Panic disorder is said to extend from Aa few months to a few yearsBa few months to a lifetimeCa few days to a few monthsDa few minutes to a few days 3. 下面的短文后列出了7个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断：如果该句提供的是正确信息，请选择A；如果该句提供的是错误信息，请选择B；如果该句的信

16、息文中没有提及，请选择C。 BSurvey Finds Many Women Misinformed about Cancer/B Sixty-three percent of American women think that if theres no family history of cancer, youre not likely to develop the disease, a new survey found. In fact, most people who develop cancer have no family history of cancer, according t

17、o the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) (美国妇产科医师学会), Which sponsored the survey. Too many women are dying from cancer, Dr. Douglas W. Laube, ACOGs immediate past president, said during a Friday teleconference. An estimated 200,070 women will die in the U. S. this year, and o

18、ver 600,078 women will be diagnosed with cancer. The results of this survey found a worrisome (令人担扰的) gap in womens knowledge about cancer. Based on the findings, ACOG is increasing its efforts to educate women about cancer and the need for regular screening tests. Although the survey found many mis

19、conceptions (错误观念) about cancer, 76 percent of women surveyed did say they feel knowledgeable about how they can reduce their risk of the disease. However, only 52 percent said they were doing enough to reduce that risk. And 10 percent said they hadnt done anything in the past year to lower their ri

20、sk. Seventeen percent said they wouldnt change their lifestyles, even if changes would lower their cancer risk. Many women said they were afraid to undergo screening out of fear of finding cancer. Twenty percent said they didnt want to know if they had cancer. In response to these findings, ACOG wil

21、l launch on Oct. 29 a new website - Protect & Detect: What Women Should Know about Cancer. The guide is designed to help women to take charge of their health and improve their understanding of their risk of cancer - and the lifestyle steps they can take to cut that risk.Most American women know too

22、little about how to lower their cancer risk. A RightB WrongC Not mentioned 4. 下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题。请根据短文内容，为每题确定1个最佳选项。 B第一篇/B BU. S. Life Expectancy Hits New High/B Life expectancy rates in the United States are at an all- time high, with people born in 2005 projected to live for nearly 78 years, a ne

23、w federal study finds. The finding reflects a continuing trend of increasing life expectancy that began in 1955, when the average American lived to be 69.6 years old. By 1995, life expectancy was 75.8 years, and by 2005, it had risen to 77.9 years, according to the report released Wednesday. This is

24、 good news, said report co - author Donna Hoyert, a health scientist at the National Center for Health Statistics. Its even better news that it is a continuation of trends, so it is a long period of continuing improvement. Despite the upward trend, the United States still has a lower life expectancy

25、 than some 40 other countries, according to the U. S. Census (人口普查) Bureau. The country with the longest life expectancy is Andorra at 83.5 years, followed by Japan, Macau, San Marino and Singapore. Much of the increase owes to declining death rates from the three leading causes of death in the coun

26、try - heart disease, cancer and stroke. In addition, in 2005, the U. S. death rate dropped to an all -time low of less than 800 deaths per 100,000. Dr. David Katz, director of the Prevention Research Center at Yale University School of Medicine, said, News that life expectancy is increasing is, of c

27、ourse, good. But the evidence we have suggests that there is more chronic disease than ever in the U. S. Adding years to life is a good thing, Katz said. But adding vital life to years is at least equally important. If we care about living well, and not just longer, we still have our work cut out fo

28、r us, he said.Which of the following statements is NOT true AThe life expectancy is at an all-time highBThe death rate was at an all-time low in 2005.CChronic disease appears to be at an all-time high in the U.S.DThe annual death rate in the is over 800 deaths per 100,000. 5. 下面的短文有15处空白，请根据短文内容为每处空

29、白确定1个最佳选项。 BBreastfeeding Can Cut Cardiovascular (心血管的) Risk/B Breastfeeding can reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke later in life and could prevent hundreds ofU (51) /Uof deaths each year, researchers said on Friday. Babies who are breastfed have fewer childhood infections and allergies (过敏

30、) and are lessU (52) /Uto obesity (肥胖). British scientists have now shown that breastfeeding and slow growth in the first weeks and months of life has a protective effectU (53) /Ucardiovascular disease. Diets that promote more rapid growth put babies at risk many years later inU (54) /Uof raising th

31、eir blood pressure, raising their cholesterol (胆固醇) and increasing their tendency to diabetes (糖尿病) and obesity theU (55) /Umain risk factors for stroke and heart attack, said Professor Alan Lucas of the Institute of Child Health in London. Our evidence suggests that the reason why breast-fed babies

32、 do better is because they grow moreU (56) /Uin the early weeks. Lucas said the effects of breastfeeding on blood pressure and cholesterol later in life are greater thanU (57) /Uadults can do to control the risk factors for cardiovascular disease, other than taking drugs. An estimated 17 million peo

33、ple die ofU (58) /Udisease, particularly heart attack and strokes, each year, according to the World Health Organization. Lucas and his colleagues compared the health of 216 teenagersU (59) /Uas babies had either been breastfed or given different nutritional baby formulas. They reported theirU (60)

34、/Uin The Lancet medical journal. The teenagers who had beenU (61) /Uhad a 14-percent lower ratio of bad to good cholesterol and lower concentrations of a protein that is a marker for cardiovascular disease risk. The researchers also found that, U (62) /Uof the childs weight at birth, the faster the

35、infants grew in the early weeks and months of life, theU (63) /Uwas their later risk of heart disease and stroke. The effect was theU (64) /Ufor both boys and girls. The more human milk you have in the newborn period, the lower your cholesterol level is, the lower your blood pressure is 16 yearsU (6

36、5) /U, Lucas said. AagainstBtowardsContoDfor 6.B第三篇/B BA Tale of Scottish Rural Life/B Lewis Grassic Gibbons Sunset Song (1932) was voted the best Scottish novel of all time by Scotlands reading public in 2005. Once considered shocking for its frank description of aspects of the lives of Scotlands p

37、oor rural farmers, it has been adapted for stage, film, TV and radio in recent decades. The novel is set on the fictional estate of Kinraddie, in the farming country of the Scottish northwest in the years up to and beyond World War I. At its heart is the story of Chris, who is both part of the commu

38、nity and a little outside it. Grassic Gibbon gives us the most detailed and intimate account of the life of his heroine (女主人公). We watch her grow through a childhood dominated by her cruel but hard-working father; experience tragedy (her mothers suicide and murder of her twin children) ; and learn a

39、bout her feelings as she grows into a woman. We see her marry, lose her husband, then marry again. Chris has seemed so convincing a figure to some female readers that they cannot believe that she is the creation of a man. But it would be misleading to suggest that this book is just about Chris. It i

40、s truly a novel of a place and its people. Its opening section tells of Kinraddies long history, in a language that imitates the places changing patterns of speech and writing. The story itself is amazingly full of characters and incidents. It is told from Chris point of view but also from that of t

41、he gossiping community, a community where everybody knows everybody elses business and nothing is ever forgotten. ISunset Song/I has a social theme too. It is concerned with what Grassic Gibbon perceives as the destruction of traditional Scottish rural life first by modernization and then by World W

42、ar I. Gibbon tried hard to show how certain characters resist the war. Despite this, the war takes the young men away, a number of them to their deaths. In particular, it takes away Chris husband, Ewan Tavendale. The war finally kills Ewan, but not in the way his widow is told. In fact, the Germans

43、arent responsible for his death, but his own side. He is shot because he is said to have run away from a battle. If the novel is about the end of one way of life it also looks ahead. It is a Sunset Song but is concerned too with the new Kinraddie, indeed of the new European world. Grassic Gibbon wen

44、t on to publish two other novels about the place that continue its story.What is the opening section of the novel mainly concerned with AThe climate Of KinraddieBThe history of KinraddieCThe geography of KinraddieDThe language spoken in Kinraddie 7. 下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题。请根据短文内容，为每题确定1个最佳选项。 B第一篇/B BU.

45、S. Life Expectancy Hits New High/B Life expectancy rates in the United States are at an all- time high, with people born in 2005 projected to live for nearly 78 years, a new federal study finds. The finding reflects a continuing trend of increasing life expectancy that began in 1955, when the averag

46、e American lived to be 69.6 years old. By 1995, life expectancy was 75.8 years, and by 2005, it had risen to 77.9 years, according to the report released Wednesday. This is good news, said report co - author Donna Hoyert, a health scientist at the National Center for Health Statistics. Its even better news that it is a continuation of trends, so it is a long period of continuing improvement. Despite the upward trend, the United States still has a lower life expectancy than some 40 other countries, according to the U. S. Census (人口普查) Bureau. The country with the longest life expectancy is