外语考试2022职称英语优质每日一练(10月17日)

1. [单选题] 

A. take
B. contain
C. consume
D. consist

2. [单选题]What was Ponzi’s crime?

回答下面的题目：From Ponzi to MadoffThe year was 1920．The country was the United States of America．The man’s name was Charles Ponzi．Ponzi told people to stop depositing money in a savings account．Instead，they should give it to him to save for them．Ponzi promised to pay them more than the bank．For example，a savings account might pay you$5 a year for every$1 00 you deposit．Ponzi，however，would pay you $40 a year for every $1 00 you gave him to hold．Many people thought this was a good plan．They began to give their money to Ponzi．How could Ponzi make so much money for people? This is what he did with the money people gave him：He used some of that money to pay other people who gave him money．However，he also kept a lot of the money for himself．Soon he had $250 million．This was a kind of theft，and it was against the law．The people who gave him their money didn’t think anything was wrong．Ponzi paid them every month，just like a bank．Ponzi continued this way of working for two years．Then one day，he didn’t have enough money to pay all the people．They discovered his crime，and he went to prison for froud．Ninety years later，people began to hear about a businessman in New York named Bernard Mad off．People said he gave good advice about money．They said when they gave him their money，he paid them a lot more than the bank．Mad off helped hospitals，schools，and individuals earn money．Over a period of 40 years，people gave him$1 70 billion．However，no one investigated what he did with themoney．The people who gave Mad off their money also didn’t think anything was wrong because he paid them every month．One day，Mad off didn’t have enough money to pay all the people he needed to pay．That’s when people discovered how Madoff worked：He was taking money from some people to pay other people， just the way Charles Ponzi did．However，this time，instead of losing millions of dollars，people lost billions．Madoff was accused of fraud，and United States government officials arrested him．He didn’t have to go on trial because he said he was guilty．In 2009，a judge sentenced him to 150 years in prison．Bernard Madoff’s crime was even bigger than Ponzi’s．It was the biggest fraud in history．The lesson of this story is clear：When something seems too good to be true，it probably is !For every$100 Ponzi promises to pay people__________．

A. He kept a lot of other peoples’money for himself__________．
B. He robbed the banks of millions of dollars．
C. He gave people more than bank allowed．
D. He didn’t pay people the interests．

3. [单选题]请在第__64__处填上正确答案。

根据材料，完成下面的题目。UFOS       Sixty years ago, a. man named Kenneth Arnold saw something that we can still (51) today -- something that changed popular culture for ever.Flying his plane over mountains in the U. S. state of Washington, he saw a,line of strange objects, either crescent-shaped (月牙形^(crescent)的) or disc-like, flying (52) the motion of a saucer (碟) skimming (飞速掠过) on water.       The media soon picked up on the story -- the Flying Saucers were here] Was the earth being (53) by creatures from another planet? Soon, So many sightings were made that the U. S. military began to (54) It called these strange Objects UFOs – Unidentified Flying Objects, and that is how they are (55) today.       Military investigations found no evidence of visitors from outer space. But that did not stop the true (56) The military were (57) up, they said. Or maybe it was because the travelers from space were of such superior intelligence (58) they could hide from military analysts (分析家).People have always seen strange lights in the sky. In the past these were explained in (59) ways. In a world where religion was less influential and science fiction was popular, signs from God were replaced by visitors from other (60).       The date of the first UFO sightings was also significant. In 1947, World War II had just ended and the (61) War was just .beginning. Humanity seemed locked in endless conflicts. Like generations before them, people looked (62) the skies for help. But instead of seeking God, they looked for help from super-intelligent aliens (外星人) with (63) technology. Belief in UFOs became the first religion of science.However, even people who believe in UFOs are not quite sure why they visit the earth.The universe is a big place and it is (64) to assume that there is life somewhere out there. It is possible that aliens have worked out how to travel through space. Yet some people report that they have been taken by aliens and have had experiments (65) on them. Why would anyone travel across half the universe to conduct medical experiments on people living in small towns in the United States?请在第__51__处填上正确答案。

A. unthinkable
B. Impossible
C. reasonable
D. unimaginable

4. [单选题]请在第____处填上正确答案。

根据以下资料，回答下面的题目。 请在第____处填上正确答案。

A. reactive   
B. preferable   
C. due
D. equivalent

5. [单选题]The committee was asked to render a report on the housing situation.

A. copy
B. publish
C. furnish
D. summarize

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