2011汕头一模英语试题及答案

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As I grew older, Dad was to build all sorts of things for me as I explored a variety of interests: magic tricks, a toy circus, neighborhood shows and science projects.
    From as early as I can remember to the time I left home for college, I continued to come to him with a design or an idea, and he would figure out how to build it.
    In fifth grade, a schoolmate and I wrote a puppet (木偶) show that we wanted to perform for our class. I made the puppet heads myself, and I made the costumes and curtains with Mon---who was as expert designing and sewing with cloth as my father was designing and working with wood and metal. With Dad I made the puppet stage, in our own invented style between kid and adult with me saying something like, “ It has to be this high, and it needs to come apart and fold up so it can fit in the backseat of the car, and it needs to set up fast, and it needs to have different colored lights on top with switches you can reach to control them and a curtain you can pull from under it, even if you still have a puppet on your hand.” Dad figured out how to make it all work, making plans as we went along. Then with the tools in his shop he built it, and I helped.
   Dad also spent a lot of time out in the garage or in the driveway working on the family car. I don’t remember that he ever took it to a professional auto-repair shop. Maybe to save money, but also because he could usually figure out what needed fixing, just by taking it apart and looking. Though not trained as an auto mechanic, he could look under the engine cover and take parts and pieces out, spread them on a tarp (油布) to catch the oil and figure out what was supposed to happen to the machine and then figure out what wasn’t happening and then replace the worn-out part or whatever and then put everything back together again.
36. If you are the writer, you are supposed to write about ________ahead of the first paragraph.
   A. father’s achievement in mechanics      B. father’s love and skills in mechanics
   C. father’s experience at repairing cars     D. father’s inventions in mechanics
37. Who helped the writer to make the puppet?
   A．The writer himself.  B．His classmate. C．His teacher.      D．His parents.
38. Before the writer went to college, he always turned to his father for _____________.
   A．designing a machine                 B．building his design or idea
   C．making a puppet show                D．building a show stage
39. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
   A．The writer’s car is always breaking down.  B．Father works in a car repairing shop.
   C．Repairing in a shop can save much money.  D．Father was good at mending his car.
40. The purpose of the writer’s writing the passage is ______________.
   A．to tell how his father made a puppet for him
   B．in memory of his parents
   C．to describe to the readers his memories about his father
   D．to argue that parents should help children to explore the world and make inventions
D
From bankers to factory staff, employees in the West face a cold prospect of losing their jobs as a global recession(衰退) starts to bite. For colleagues in the East, the pain is more likely to come through a pay cut.
Human resource experts say cultural differences explain why Asian companies try harder to preserve jobs in difficult times, which will prevent unemployment and may help Asian economies survive at a time of slowing exports. The East Asian attitude may also make it easier for companies to recover quickly from the economic downturn since they will not need to rehire or train new staff, but build up a more loyal and devoted group.
“In the Confucian mindset(儒家思想), the right thing to do is to share the burden, which is the sense of collective(集体的) responsibility. While in the West, it’s more about individual survival,” said Michael Benoliel, associate professor of organizational behavior at Singapore Management University (SMU).
In contrast, local Western companies from General Motors to Goldman Sachs plan to lay off workers by the thousands, but at the Asian units of Western multinationals or western units of Asian groups, job cuts will probably be less severe.
Japan’s jobless rate was 4 percent in September, up from 3.8 percent in January, while Hong Kong’s was flat at 3.4 percent. But US unemployment is expected to have jumped to 6.3 percent last month from below 5 percent in January.
Experts say that while there are noticeable differences in labor practices in East and West, the gap will narrow as more firms become more multinational and competition forces firms to adopt the best practices of rivals from abroad.
41. The underlined word “prospect” in the first paragraph most probably means _________.
 A．weather      B．scene      C．future      D．place
42. Compared with job cuts, pay cuts can bring the following benefits EXCEPT that _________.
 A．it’s helpful to the economy recovery
 B．it costs the company less money to survive
 C．it will keep the experienced and skilled workers
 D．it can form a team working harder and more loyally
43. According to Michael Benoliel, the Confucian mindset focuses on _________.
 A．human rights                    B．sharing responsibility
 C．personal profits                  D．individual survival
44. In which company can we infer the job cuts will be probably the most severe?
    A．A local American group. 
 B．A small Japanese company.
 C．A German branch of a Korean multinational.
D．A Hong Kong’s unit of a French company.
45. The passage mainly tells us ________.
 A．the difficulties all the companies around the world will meet with today
 B．the cultural differences between Eastern and Western world at present
 C．the ways to cut down the cost of the companies in economic downturn
 D．the different labor solutions of Asian and Western in global recession

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