2014山西省山大附中第二次月考英语试题答案(2)

22. Johns proved his ability as a salesman by___.
   A. going into roofing business    B. carrying asbestos from Italy
   C. sending out a trained scientist        D. showing the use of asbestos gloves
23. Which is the most important character of asbestos that the author wants to show us?
   A. It is like thread                    B. It feels soapy
   C. It burns easily                      D. It is unusually heavy
24. The author’s main purpose in writing the passage was to___.
   A. show the need for more scientists   B. compare asbestos with other materials
   C. increase the sales of asbestos    D. present facts about asbestos
B         
　　BEIJING(China Daily2010-8-27)---With a rapid increase in the number of Chinese PhD graduates programs in the past decade, it seems the quality of educating doctoral students is falling.
    About 70 percent of employers complain that employees who hold PhDs show little creation in their work performance, according a resent survey.
    The number of PhD students in China reached 246,300 in2009, about five times the figure in 1999. China replaced the United States to become the world’s top producer of doctorate holders in 2008, according to an Asia Times report.
    “Nowadays, it is not rare for people in their 30s to become professors in Chinese universities, but I really doubt their experience and capability at such a young age,” said Ge Daoshun, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
    Almost half of the professors admitted each of them had to direct more than seven PhD candidates. Some 60 percent of PhD candidates admitted they have been given more than half of their professors’ research projects. The relationship between PhD students and their teachers has become an employment, in other words, a ”master-apprentice” relationship, since professors use their students as cheap labor to do research.
    “Chinese universities should reform the tutorial system and introduce more stricter requirements for people to get a PhD diploma to improve the quality of education,” Ge told China Daily.
    However, Liu Xin, a 25-year-oldPhDcandidate at the University of Sussex in England, argued that a major reason China is producing low quality doctorates is that most of the candidates do not have a passion for academic research… “The best college students of China have seldom ended up in academic positions. Most of them want to work in either banking or foreign companies, which pay much better.”
25. What does the underline word in Para,5 mean?
A. teacher    B. director   C. student   D. co-operator
26. From what Liu Xin said in the last paragraph, we can know______.
   A. the quality of doctorates is based on the quality of students
   B. the PhD students in China are not so good as those in western countries
   C. the PhD students in China are not good at academic research
   D. the PhD students in other countries do not want to make money
27. Which of the following would be the best title of this passage?
   A. PhD education in China          
　　B. PhDs High in number, low in quality
   C. The differences of PhDs between Chinese and other countries
   D. The “master-apprentice” relationship
C    
　　The man traveling in the back of the ambulance which was running at a high speed along the streets of Baltimore that morning in2008 had no business to be alive. By everything that was reasonable, and there were plenty of such things before, he should have been very dead indeed. But he wasn’t. As the people in the hospital pointed out after they had examined him, he was only slightly hurt. Yet he had just fallen 150 feet down a hotel lift shaft！
　　Unknown to the man, two things had occurred which were to affect his life that day. On the thirteenth floor of the hotel, somebody had carelessly left the lift gate open. Down in the basement, a pipe had burst and it had flooded from the bottom of the lift shaft to a depth of two feet.
　　Modern lifts have all sorts of fail-safe system to prevent accidents, but this was ancient equipment unreliable, slow, dangerous, and unsuitable material to recycle.
    The man had plenty of things to occupy his mind that morning. He had overslept. The hotel had forgotten to call him and now he was late for an important business appointment. He dressed quickly, shaved hurriedly, took hold of his briefcase and hurried off down the hotel corridor.
    Good! The lift gate was open. The lift must be there. He need not press the button and wait while the large, clumsy lift made its way upwards. Without looking or thinking, he stepped out into space, The lift cage was, in fact, one floor above him on the fourteenth. The lift shaft which he had walked was a narrow space of not very fresh air, ending150 feet below in two feet of dirty water.
　　The man fell, making his journey to the ground at a speed he had never dreamed of. Confused patterns, a rush of air, time enough to be afraid, split-second thoughts of death, then crash!
　　Perhaps this gave him the record for some sort of high-diving act. No doubt in future he always looked before he jumped. Certainly he learnt that this was no way to save time. The experts said that those two feet of water had saved his life.