2013年GCT英语日常练习（7.15）
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You’re busy filling out the application form for a position you really need. Let’s assume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isn’t it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University? More and more people are turning to utter deception like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university.
Registrars at most well-known colleges say they deal with deceitful claims like these at the rate of about one per week. Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms, then. If it turns out that an applicant is lying, most colleges are reluctant to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school calls them “impostors (骗子)” ; another refers to them as “ special cases”. One well-known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says that these claims are made by “no such people”. To avoid outright (彻底的) lies, some job-seekers claim that they “ attended” or “ were associated with” a college or university. After carefully checking, a personnel officer may discover that “attending” means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that “being associated with” a college means that the job-seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century—that’s when they began keeping records, anyhow. If you don’t want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a phony diploma.
One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of nonexistent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from “Smoot State University”. The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the “University of Purdue”. As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.
1. The main idea of this passage is that ______.
A. employers are checking more closely on applicants now
B. lying about college degrees has become a widespread problem
C. college degrees can now be purchased easily
D. employers are no longer interested in college degrees
2. According to the passage, “special eases” refers to cases that ______.
A. students attend a school only part-time
B. students never attended a school they listed on their application
C. students purchase false degrees from commercial firms
D. students attended a famous school
3. We can infer from the passage that ______.
A. performance is a better judge of ability than a college degree
B. experience is the best teacher
C. past work histories influence personnel officers more than degrees do
D. a degree from a famous school enables an applicant to gain advantage over others in job competition
4. This passage implies that ______.
A. buying a false degree is not moral
B. personnel officers only consider applicants from famous schools
C. most people lie on applications because they were dismissed from school
D. society should be greatly responsible for lying on applications
5. The word “phony” (Para. 2) means ______.
A. thorough
B. ultimate
C. false
D. decisive
(本期答案明日公布)
7月13日详细解析：
1.【解析】正整数N的8倍与5倍之和是N的13倍，也就是13N。除以10的余数为9，说明13N的个位数是9，那么N的最末一位数字只能是3，选择B。
2.【解析】每两个人握手时，握手次数的和必然同时增加2次，因此所有人和别人握手的次数的和必然为偶数。选择C。
3.【解析】不超过29的质数有：2、3、5、7、11、13、17、19、23、29共10个。它们的和是2+3+5+7+11+13+17+19+23+29=129，平均数是M=129/10=12.9，因此与M最接近的整数是13。
4.【解析】根据sinx和cosx图像的性质可知x的取值范围是(π/4，5π/4)。
5.【解析】反证法，若a是有理数，b是无理数，假设a+b是有理数，则根据”有理数减有理数还是有理数”，a+b-a=b是有理数，这与”b是无理数”的前提矛盾，因此”a+b是有理数”错误，从而a+b是无理数。选择C。
6.【解析】联立方程，令判别式等于零，得到m2=3/4。选择C。
7.【解析】40和60的最小公倍数是120。在120米的距离内需挖一个新坑和填掉原来的两个坑，故需重新挖坑和填坑的个数分别是30和60。
8.【解析】设女生宿舍的房间数为x，由题意得8x-8<4x+20<8x，解得x=6。
9.【解析】已知取出的球不是黑球，则此球不是白球或红球，故所求概率是p=6/9=2/3。故应选C。
10.【解析】对于该问题，不妨分成四步来考虑：
第一步，从甲地到乙地有4条路径;
第二步，从乙地到丙地有5条路径;
第三步，从丙地到乙地有5条路径;
第四步，从乙地回到甲地有4条路径。
那么，根据乘法原理，可供选择的路径有：4×5×5×4=400
