中國銀行(BOC)的筆試題目

第一篇：居然回來搜了下找到原題，不過沒答案。

How many people in the world speak English as a first a native language? Exact information on

this point is not available, but an estimate of 230 million cannot be very wide of the mark. Of

these, 145 million live the United States, a little less than 55 million in the United Kingdom,

and something like 30 million in the British dominions and colonial possessions. It is even more

difficult to arrive at a figure representing those who speak English as a second or auxiliary

language. A reasonably conservative conclusion would thus place the total number of speakers of

English between 300 million and 325 million, about one seventh of the world’s population.

If one thinks solely in terms of total number of speakers, it must be conceded that some

authorities place Chinese, the various Indic languages, and Russian ahead of English, others only

Chinese. Both Chinese and Indic, however, are terms covering a large number of mutually

unintelligible dialects; and though the number of speakers of these languages may seem

impressive, communication within the language is much more restricted than in English. Total

numbers, moreover, constitute but one phase of the matter. The factor of geographical

distribution is equally, possibly even more, significant. English is spoken as a first or native

language on at least four continents of the world, Russian on two, Chinese and the Indic language

on one, English is without question the closest approach to a world language today. It goes

without saying that no two persons ever have an identical command of their common language.

Certainly they have not precisely the same vocabulary. There are at least minor differences in

pronunciation: indeed the same individual will not pronounce his vowels and consonants in

absolutely identical fashion every time he utters them. Everyone possesses in addition certain

individual traits of grammatical form and syntactical order, constituting that peculiar and

personal quality of language which we term style. All of this is implicit in the well-known

phrase, “Style is the man”. No two men are identical; no two styles are the same. If this is

true of but two persons, the potential of difference resident in a language spoken by more than

200 million truly staggers the imagination.

51. According to the author it could be said that _______.

[A]more people speak Chinese dialects than English

more people speak English as an auxiliary language than as a first language

[C]about one seventh of the world’s population speaks Russian

[D]more people speak English in the UK than in Ireland

52. The extract implies that ________.

[A]a little less than half the native English speakers in the world live in the United States

the 55 million inhabitants of the British Isles speak like the 30 million inhabitants of the

ex-British dominions and colonies

[C]about one tenth of the total English-speaking world population lives in ex-British dominions

and colonies

[D]it would certainly be an underestimate to suppose 230 million people speaking English as a

native language

53. The reason why English is the closest approach to a world language is that _______.

[A]Chinese and Indic languages are mutually unintelligible

Chinese is too complex to be a world language

[C]Russian is only spoken on two continents

[D]there are more native speakers of English than of any other language

54. According to the author the fact that the same individual will not pronounce his vowels and

consonants identically every time shows that ________.

[A]everyone has their own literary style

mutual intelligibility is a myth

[C]people’s vocabularies vary

[D]no two people speak the same language in exactly the same way

55. According to the author, style is ________.

[A]significant when it comes to comparing only two people

a question of grammatical and syntactical correctness

[C]the particular way an individual uses language

[D]a strange type of language



第二篇：關於美國的mandated最低工資問題。 一開始說最低工資統一規定不好，不同的州情況不一樣。然後就

舉了幾個州最低工資差異。有人反對最低工資，提出最低工資造成企業成本增加，社會失業率增加。後面好像

說在經濟繁榮的時候，最低工資不為人們關心，但是經濟不好時，最低工資還是有用的，blabla~~~



第三篇：倫敦的千禧穹(Millennium Dome) 只找到斷斷續續的幾段，是在New york times上的。

If in this season of annual achievement awards there were one for the biggest New Year's bang and

sorriest year-ending whimper, the winner would be Britain's entrant, the Millennium Dome. 然後說

千禧穹是一個ambitious的創作，代表了英國人的想象力。

No country built more ambitious millennial projects and talked them up more than Britain, and the

centerpiece was the $1.2 billion Dome, on the meridian that gave the name to Greenwich Mean Time

and afforded Prime Minister Tony Blair the opportunity to proclaim Britain in 2000 as the ''home

of time.'' 然後說千禧穹雖說被認為代表英國人的想象力，但是卻是讓一個建了法國的迪斯尼的法國人建的。

（好像是這樣）

The trouble with the Dome began on opening night. Thousands of those invited got stuck on the new

subway line built to speed people from central London out to Greenwich; others who did arrive

could not get past security to see the show. Fatally for the Dome, among the barred and detoured

were top newspaper editors.

By the spring, the enormous space was virtually deserted on weekdays. The original projection of

12 million visitors was officially scaled back to 10 million, then 7 million, and finally 6

million, of which only 4.5 million were expected to pay.

In fact, the project may be more a victim of its own hyped expectations than of its actual

performance. The anticipated final figures of 6.5 million visitors (5.7 million paying) compare

favorably with other London tourist attractions, and surveys indicate customer satisfaction of 85

percent.

The huge cupola now faces mothballing for several weeks before demolition of the contents begins.

Items lent to the exhibition will be returned, following by an auction of all that is left. Over

the next months, the government will sell off the Dome and much of the land around it to Legacy

P.L.C., an Irish-English company that plans to build middle-class and luxury housing and to turn

the building into a high-tech business center with 14,000 jobs.



第四篇：美國人口老齡化問題

列舉不同時期美國人口中哪一個年齡佔主導。從一箇中等的年紀到現在老年人佔主導，說明美國社會老齡化。

年紀大了會帶來生理上疾病，舉了幾種。有一道題問哪一種不是。但是不同的人也不一樣。有的四十幾歲就老

了，還有的很老了，但是過著vigorous sex life. 年紀大了還有心理上的問題。老年人不依賴於子女，因為不

想讓他們覺得自己很可悲。老年人的意見也不再被人們尊重，說他們過著一種misery的生活。最後一道題問作

者的目的是說：A. American society is hostile to old people. people are putting on a

miserable life.



第五部分：排列段落，5道。

給出了首段和末段，讓排列中間段。主要根據連線詞。是關於服務價格的問題。一開始好像說企業不大注意服

務定價。之後有的廠商注意了，但是還是存在不合理問題。一部分怎樣怎樣，others怎樣。最後就說However,

現在又怎麼做改變。好像是這樣沒細看。

第六部分：一篇文章中間少了五個句子，給你8個句子，讓從中選出5個填進去。

是關於經濟衰退的。說人們對經濟衰退程度預測不已，一開始預測多少，後來又預測多少，後來又變。其中高

盛預測的最悲觀。然後提到和Great depression相比。後來說經濟學家們也莫衷一詞，有的說會變糟糕，有的

說會變好。

第七部分：快速閱讀。兩篇。第一篇2道題。第二篇3道題。

第一篇關於印度旅遊的。問了“palace on wheels”指什麼，是“luxury train”；泰姬陵為什麼叫“temple

of love”，是印度國王為自己心愛的亡妻修建的

第二篇。.第一題問African American如何看待Latinos，第二題問W這個美國白人說了一句話說美國不應該有其

他膚色的人種，有的話只應該是奴隸，這句話表明了什麼，一個答案是美國社會種族歧視，另一個答案美國白

人憎恨有色人種。第三題問most Mexican移民後怎麼樣了，是Americanized了，lost their mother tongue。



綜合一：16：00-17：00。 60分鐘，滿分150分。巨噁心。

第一部分：符號推理。12個。A-F不同 英文字母代表不同規則，包括圖形放大，黑白變化，顛倒位置等。做的

巨爛。

第二部分：邏輯推理。給出一小段話，100字左右，下面又說：“我們還知道：”，又給出幾條資訊，最後題幹

給出一句判斷性的話語，三個選項分別是：A.根據所給的資訊，這個推斷是正確的。B.根據所給的資訊，這個

推斷是錯誤的。C.根據所給的資訊不能判斷這個推斷是正確的還是錯誤的。

第三部分：數字推理。給出一個3×3的表格，每個格里一個數字，有一個未知數，它們之間有一定的關係，求

未知數。

第四部分：圖形推理。給出四個規則，分別是改變形狀，改變大小，改變顏色，重複上一操作，給出一個原始

符號（○●△▲有大有小），經過變化之後，讓你判斷它最後變成什麼樣了。