2009职称英语--综合A类考试试题2009职称英语--综合A类考试试题参考答案
第一部分：词汇选项
1. Why can't you stop your (enternal) complaining?
A. long
B. everlasting
C. temporary
D. boring
2. Hundreds of buildings were (wrecked) by the earthquake.
A. shaken
B. damaged
C. fallen
D. jumped
3. These paintings are considered by many to be (authentic).
A. faithful
B. royal
C. genuine
D. sincere
4. Many economists have given in to the fatal (lure) of mathematics.
A. attraction
B. simplicity
C. power
D. rigor
5. Ten years after the event, her death still remains a (puzzle).
A. mist
B. tog
C. mystery
D. secret
6. irritated
答案：A. annoyed
7. duplicated
答案：D. copied
8. spurred
答案：B. encouraged
9. ample
答案：D. enough
10. marvels
答案：B. miracles
11. perpetual
答案：B. endless
12.
D. unfair
13. adhere to
A. follow
B. order
C. prove
D. handle
14. barren
答案：C. bare
15. specifications
答案：C. instructions
第二部分：阅读判断
Keep on Fighting
Turning once again to the question of invasion, I would observe that there has never been a period in all these long centuries of which we boast when an absolute guarantee against invasion, still less against serious raids, could have been given to our people. In the days of Napoleon the same wind which would have carried his transports across the Channel might have driven away the blockading fleet. There was always the chance, and it is that chance which has excited and befooled the imaginations of many continental tyrants. Many are the tales that are told. We are assured that novel methods will be adopted, and when we see the originality of malice, the ingenuity of aggression, which our enemy displays, we may certainly prepare ourselves for every kind of novel stratagem and every kind of brutal and treacherous manoeuvre. I think that no idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered and viewed with a searching, but at the same time, I hope, with a steady eye.
We must never forget the solid assurances of sea power and those which belong to air power if it can be locally exercised. I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone. At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do. That is the resolve of His Majesty's government - every man of them. That is the will of parliament and the nation. The British empire and the French republic, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength. Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous states have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail.
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and
