中职技能大赛英语通用职业能力试题

I. Listening Comprehension and typing (英文听打)

Directions：In the following practice, you will hear a short dialogue. Please type the correct information on the answer sheet according to the5 questions given bellow:

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II. Reading Comprehension (阅读理解)

Directions: in the following practice，you are going to read 5 passages. After reading a passage, you will find questions or unfinished statements. For each question or statement, you are required to make the correct choice among A,B,C and D

Passage 1

What makes money valuable? Why is a piece of paper marked $ 10 worth more than one marked $1? You could say there is no reason. It’s true that a special kind of paper is used to make dollar bills, and they are pretty, but that’s not what makes them valuable. The real reason money is valuable is that everyone believes it is.

Ancient economies had no paper money or coins. Some used barter---- trading one thing for another. Others used all kinds of objects as money. Any object would do, as long as there was not an unlimited amount of it. Animals or metals were popular, and so were manufactured products like jewelry or weapons. Wealth in ancient Greece was measured in tools or cattle. This kind of money had two purposes. First, it was useful in itself. Tools and cattle can be used for farming. And second, it was a way to symbolize and measure value. A house, for example, would be valued at a certain number of tools or cattle. This greatly simplified trade. Other societies used money that was totally symbolic. For instance, American Indians used wampum, which is made from seashells. And until recently on the pacific island of Yap, people use large stone discs as money.

In most places these types of money died out because more practical forms of money were invented. People started using precious metals, such as gold and silver, that were easier to carry around than tools or stones. And in the eighteenth century, paper money was introduced. At first people were suspicious of new currency, but they came to accept it because the government or bank issuing it would exchange an equal amount of gold for the paper. A $ 10 bill really was worth $ 10 for gold. But now, people are used to the idea that the government doesn’t have to back its money w ith gold. Everyone believes that a $ 10 bill is

worth $10 and that is good enough. But if, for some reason, people ever lost faith in paper money, ten dollars wouldn’t be worth the paper it’s printed on.

1. According to the writer the real reason money is valuable is that everyone believes _________ .

A. money is valuable

B. gold is valuable

C. money is gold

D. money can buy gold

2. The writer of this selection mentioned animals, metals and manufactured products like jewelry or weapons because _______________.

A. they were valuable

B. they were used as money in ancient times

C. people liked them

D. they were useful

3. Paper money was invented ___________.

A. to take the place of other types of money

B. to be replaced by other types of money

C. in the nineteenth century

D. in the seventeenth century

4. At first people did not have trust in paper money because ___________.

A. people can make it by themselves

B. the paper was not of good quality

C. it looked like an ordinary piece of paper

D. it was not worth much

5. People came to accept paper money when ___________.

A. the government began to issue it

B. the bank began to issue it

C. they could exchange it for the same amount of gold

D. people see it for the first time.

Passage 2

Americans with small families own a small car or a large one. If both parents are working, they usually have two cars. When the family is large, one of the cars is sold and they will buy a van(住房汽车)

A small car can hold(容纳)four persons and a large car can hold six persons but it is very crowded(拥挤). A van hold seven persons easily, so a family three children could ask their grandparents to go on a holiday travel They could all travel together.

Mr.Hagen and his wife had a third child last year. This made them sell a second car and bus a van. Their children sixth and seventh seat are used to put other things, for a family of five must carry many suitcases(衣箱)when they travel. When they arrive at their grandparents’home , the suitcases are brought into the two seats can then carry the grandparents.

Americans call vans motor homes. A motor home is always used for holidays. When a family are traveling to the mountains or to the seaside, they can live in their motor home for a few days or to the seaside, they can live in their motor home for a few days or weeks. All the members of a big family can enjoy a happier life when they are traveling together. That is why motor homes have become very popular. In America there are many parks for motor homes.