2015年在职硕士考试将于2015年10月25日举行，还有不到3个月的复习时间，考生要争分夺秒哦，在 2015在职硕士考试中，全国联考英语可谓是一场硬仗，在这最后冲刺阶段，考生要在进行真题实战，找一找考试的感觉。于此小编整理了在职硕士全国联考英语的真题，希望可以助力考生。具体内容如下：

　　Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes, 40 points)

　　Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each of the passages is followed by 5 questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.

　　Passage Three

　　Our sense of smell, which we normally take for granted, is nowadays being increasingly used for purposes which might surprise us if we were aware of them. One area in which smells are created to achieve particular results is marketing. For some time manufacturers have taken advantage of our sense of smell with regard to household goods. Millions of dollars are spent on product research in the hunt for the right smell as it is believed perfume influences the way consumers perceive a brand. In a survey in the United States, when people were asked what was the most important factor in their choice of detergent (洗衣粉), smell was rated highly, above ingredients and price.

　　Now stores are becoming even more direct in their use of smell. The smell of fresh bread in a supermarket tends to encourage people to buy, and people selling their houses are recommended to have coffee being heated when potential buyers arrive. Suddenly smell is becoming big business. One company specializing in the use of smells to attract customers now has many large stores on its own list of customers. They find that when pleasant smells are filtered through a store’s air conditioning system, people tend to spend longer in the store and buy more. Research shows that smells can increase people’s view of the value of a product. In a test, people looked at the same types of shoes in two rooms—one filled with purified air, the other with a smell of mixed flowers. 84% of the people preferred the shoes in the room with the smell of flowers. In fact, many said they would be prepared to pay up to US$10 more for a pair.

　　Smells also have other potential uses. Some companies are experimenting with different smells to produce different effects in their workers according to the time of day. For example, early in the morning they might put the smell of lemon in the air conditioning system to wake people up. In the middle of the morning, when the atmosphere tends to become more tense, the smell of wood could be used to calm people down. Before lunchtime the smell of melting butter would encourage people to go to lunch on time. After lunch, when people often begin to lose concentration, the smell of mint (薄荷) would increase their alertness.

　　41.Which is the most appropriate title for the passage?

　　A.How to avoid being affected by smells

　　B.Using smells to influence people

　　C.The power of our sense of smell

　　D.New smells in supermarkets

　　42.In the survey, when selecting detergent, people considered smell ________.

　　A.not important B.as important as price

　　C.less important than ingredients

　　D.more important than price

　　43.To attract more customers, some large stores ________.

　　A.employ a company specializing in the use of smells

　　B.provide free coffee for them

　　C.filter purified air through air conditioning

　　D.decorate themselves with fresh flowers

　　44.The majority of people in the test (Para. 3) preferred ________.

　　A.the smell of shoes to that of flowers

　　B.the smell of flowers to that of shoes

　　C.the shoes in the room with purified air

　　D.the shoes in the room with appealing smells

　　45.To produce a calming effect, some companies use the smell of ________.

　　A.lemon

　　B.wood

　　C.melting butter

　　D.mint

　　答案：41.B 42.D 43.A 44.D 45.B

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