2017职称英语考试理工A级阅读理解模拟题

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第4部分：阅读理解(第31——45题，每题3分，共45分)

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l个最佳选项。

　第一篇

　　Privacy in the 21st Century

Someday a stranger will read your e-mail without your permission or scan the Websites you've visited, or perhaps someone will casually glance through your credit card purchases or cell phone bills to find out your shopping preferences or calling habits.

In fact, it's likely some of these things have already happened to you. Who would watch you without your permission.0 It might be a spouse, a girlfriend, a marketing company, a boss, a cop or a criminal. Whoever it is, they will see you in a way you never intended to be seen--the 21st century equivalent of being caught naked.

Psychologists tell us boundaries are healthy, that it's important to reveal yourself to friends,family and lovers in stages, at appropriate times. But few boundaries remain. The digital bread crumbs (碎屑) you leave everywhere make it easy for strangers to reconstruct who you are, where you are and what you like. In some cases, a simple Google search can reveal what you think. Like it or not, increasingly we live in a world where you simply cannot keep a secret.

The key question is: Does that matter? For many Americans, the answer apparently is "no".

When opinion polls ask Americans about privacy, most say they are concerned about losing it.

A survey found an overwhelming pessimism about privacy, with 60 percent of respondents saying they feel their privacy is "slipping away, and that bothers me".

But people say one thing and do another. Only a tiny fraction of Americans change any behaviors in an effort to preserve their privacy. Few people turn down a discount at tollbooths (收费站 ) to avoid using the EZ-Pass system that can track automobile movements. And few turn down supermarket loyalty cards. Privacy economist Alessandro Acquisti has run a series of tests that reveal people will surrender personal information like Social Security numbers just to get their hands on a pitiful 50-cents-off coupon (优惠劵) .

But privacy does matter--at least sometimes. It's like health: When you have it you don't notice it. Only when it's gone do you wish you'd done more to protect it.

31. Why does the author list several cases that your information can be accessed without your permission?

A. To introduce the topic.

B. To remind the importance of privacy.

C. To inform what 21 st century is like.

D. To call for the action against the spread of website.

32. What does the author mean by saying "the 21st century equivalent of being caught naked"?

A. People's personal information is easily accessed without their knowledge.

B. In the 21st century people try every means to look into others' secrets.

C. People tend to be more frank with each other in the information age.

D. Criminals are easily caught on the spot with advanced technology.

33. What would psychologists advise on the relationships between friends?

A. Friends should open their hearts to each other.

B. Friends should always be faithful to each other.

C. There should be a distance even between friends.

D. There should be fewer disputes between friends.

34. Why does the author say "we live in a world where you simply cannot keep a secret"?

A. Modem society has finally evolved into an open society.

B. People leave traces around when using modem technology.

C. There are always people who are curious about others' affairs.

D. Many search engines profit by revealing people's identities.

35. What do most Americans do with regard to privacy protection?

A. They change behaviors that might disclose their identity.

B. They use various loyalty cards for business transactions.

C. They rely more and more on electronic devices.

D. They talk a lot but hardly do anything about it.

　第二篇

　　The Supermarket

You may have wondered why the supermarkets are all the same. It is not because the companies that operate them lack imagination. It is because they all aim at persuading people to buy things.

In the supermarket, it takes a while for the mind to get into a shopping mode. This is why the area immediately inside the entrance is known as the "decompression zone". People need to slow down and look around, even if they are regulars. In sales terms this area is bit of a loss, so it tends to be used more for promotion.

Immediately inside the first thing shoppers may come to is the fresh fruit and vegetables section. For shoppers, this makes no sense. Fruit and vegetables can be easily damaged, so they should be bought at the end, not the beginning, of a shopping trip. But what is at work here? It turns out that selecting good fresh food is a way to start shopping, and it makes people feel less guilty about reaching for the unhealthy stuff later on.

Shoppers already know that everyday items, like milk, are invariably placed towards the back of a store to provide more opportunities to tempt customers. But supermarkets know shoppers know this, so they use other tricks, like placing popular items halfway along a section so that people have to walk all along the aisle looking for them. The idea is to boost "dwell time": the length of time people spend in a store.

Traditionally retailers measure "football" as the number of people entering a store is known,but those numbers say nothing about where people go and how long they spend there. But nowadays, a piece of technology can fill the gap: the mobile phone. Path Intelligence, a British company tracked people's phones at Gunwharf Quays, a large retailer centre in Portsmouth—not by monitoring calls, but by plotting the positions of handsets as they transmit automatically to cellular networks. It found that when dwell time rose l minute, sales rose 1.3%.

Such techniques are increasingly popular because of a deepening understanding about how shoppers make choices. People tell market researchers that they make rational decisions about what to buy, considering things like price, selection or convenience. But subconscious forces, involving emotion and memories, are clearly also at work.

36. In Paragraph 2, "decompression zone" is the area meant to

A. prepare shoppers for the mood of buying.

B. offer shoppers a place to have a rest.

C. encourage shoppers to try new products.

D. provide shoppers with discount information.

37. Putting fruit-and-vegetable section near the entrance takes advantage of shoppers'_________.

A. common sense.

B. shopping habits.

C. shopping psychology.

D. concerns with time.

38. Path intelligence uses a technology to

A. measure how long people stay at a store.

B. count how many people enter a store.

C. find out what people buy in a store.

D. monitor what people say and do in a store.