以下內容是2015年職稱英語綜合B考試的'補全短文和閱讀理解部分的真題，供廣大考生參考使用。
補全短文
Saving a City's Public Art
Avoiding traffic jams in Los Angeles may be impossible,but the city's colorful freeway murals(壁畫)can brighten even the worst tings that depict(描述)famous people and historical scenes cover office buildings and freeway walls all across the a collection of more than 2,000 murals,Los Angeles is the unofficial mural capital of the world.
But the combination of graffiti(塗鴉),pollution,and hot sun has left many ls in terrible condition._____(46)In the past,experts say,little attention was given to caring for public sts were even expected to maintain their own works,not an easy task with cars racing by along the freeway.
_____(47)The work started in far,16 walls have been selected,and more may be added later.
Until about 1960,public murals in Los Angeles were in the 1960s and 1970s,young sts began to study early 20th-century Mexican mural painting._____(48)
The most famous mural in the city is Judith Baca's"The Great Wall,"a 13-foot-high(4-meter-high)painting that runs for half a mile (0.8 kilometer)in North Hollywood,_____(49)it took eight years to complete—400 underprivileged teenagers painted the designs—and is probably the longest mural in the world.
One of the murals that will be restored now is Kent Twitchell's"Seventh Street Altarpiece."which he painted for the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984._____ (50)Twitchell said,"It was meant as a kind of gateway through which the traveler to open hands represent peace."
Artists often call murals the people's g a busy freeway or hidden in a quiet neighborhood,murals can reach people who would never pay money to see fine art in a museum,"Murals give a voice to the silent majority,"said one artist.
city trying to stop the spread of graffiti,has painted over some of the murals complete.
striking work depicts two people facing each other on opposite sides of the freeway near downtown Los Angeles.
sts like murals because they like the work of Mexican artists.
the city is beginning a huge project to restore the city's murals.
mural represents the history of ethnic groups in California.
,their murals became a symbol of the city's cultural expressions and a showcase for L.A.'s cultural diversity.
閱讀理解
篇一：Why Buy Shade-Grown Coffee?
When people argue about whether coffee is good for health,they're usually thinking of the health of the coffee it food for your heart? Does it increase blood pressure? Does it help you concentrate? However,coffee affects the health of the human population in other ways,too.
Traditionally,coffee bushes were planted under the canopy(樹冠)of taller indigenous(土生土長的)ver,more and more farmers in Latin America are deforesting the land to grow full-sun first,this increases production because more coffee bushes can be planted if there aren't any increased production come increased profits.
Unfortunately,deforesting for coffee production immediately decreases local-wildlife ve birds nest and hide from predators(捕食者)in the tall trees and migrating birds rest there.
Furthermore,in the long term,the full-sun method also damages the ecosystem because more chemical fertilizers and pesticides are needed to grow the fertilizers and pesticides kill insects that eat coffee plant,but then the birds eat the poisoned insects and also chemicals kill or sicken other animals as well,and can even enter the water that people will eventually drink.
Fortunately,farmers in Central and South America are beginning to grow more coffee bushes in the can support these farmers by buying coffee with such labels as "shade grown" and "bird friendly." Sure,these varieties might cost a little we're paying for the health of the birds,the land,ourselves,and the planet.I think it's worth it.
閱讀理解Why Buy Shade-Grown Coffee
31、What is the main idea of this passage?
ers are changing the way they grow coffee
ee is becoming more expensive to produce.
le should buy shade-grown coffee.
e-grown coffee is more expensive than sun-grown coffee.
參考答案：A
32、The function of the word"traditionally"in Paragraph 2 is to show
positive effects of coffee.