职称英语第二部分 阅读判断

第二部分 阅读判断

Comruter Mouse

The basic computer mouse is an amazingly clever invention with The computer mouse was invented in 1964 by Douglas Englehart of How does the mouse work? We have to start at the bottom, so think So far we have only discussed the basic computer mouse that most

1|Most computer users want to know how the computer mouse works Wrong

2According to the author ,general computer users need not to know how the computer mouse was invented Not mentioned

3The computer mouse derives its name from the cable that goes out its body, which looks like the tail of a mouse. Right

4The key components of a computer mouse are the two LEDs Right

5When an ordinary computer mouse gets dirty it has to be replaced with a new one. Wrong

6The most durable computer mice on sale are the IBM ones. Not mentioned 7The optical mouse is superior to the basic one in that the former has no moving parts Right

Dangers A wait Babies with Altitude

Women who live in the world’s highest communities tend to give birth to underweight babies,

Research has hinted that newborns in mountain communities are lighter than average. To find out more, Sure enough

The results suggest that babies born an high altitudes are deprived of oxygen before birth.

His team also found that high- altitude babies tend to have relatively larger heads compared with their bodies.

Giussani wants to find out if such babies have a higher risk of disease in later life.

1、 According to the passage ,one of the reason why newborns in mountain communities

are underweight is that their mothers are under-nourished. 答案：Wrong

2、 Giussani’s team members are all British researchers and professors from Cambridge

University. 答案：Not mentioned

3、 Giussani did not expect to find that the weight of a baby had little to do with the

financial conditions of the family he was born into. 答案：Right

4、 The weight of a newborn has to do with the supply of oxygen even when he was still in

his mother’s womb. 答案：Right

5、 High-altitude babies have longer but thinner limbs than average. 答案：Not mentioned 6、 High-altitude babies have heads that are larger than their bodies. 答案：Wrong

7、 Giussani has arrived at the conclusion that babies in high-altitude regions are more

likely to have heart trouble when they grow up. 答案：Wrong

EI Nino

While some forecasting methods had limited success predicting the 1997 EL Nino a few months in advance

Using a computer,the researchers matched sea-surface temperatures to later EL Nion occurrences between 1980 and 2000

The researchers say their method is not perfect,

“This will probably convince others to search arond more for even better methods”

The ability to predict the warming and cooling of the Pacific is of immense importance.

When EL Nino hit in 1991 and 1997

While predicting smaller EL Nino events remaina tricky

EL Nino tends to develop between April and June and reaches its peak between December and February

The new forecasting method does not predict any major EL Nino events in the next two years 1、The method used by the Columbia University resarchers can predict EL Nion a few months in advance.答案：Wrong

2、 The Columbia University researchers student the relationship between the past EL Nion

occurences and sea-surface temperature答案：Right

3、The Columbia University researchers are the first to use sea-surface temperatures to match the Past EL Nino occurrences.答案：Not mentioned

4、Wear’s contribution in predicting EL Nion was highly praised by other meteorologidts. 答案：Not mentioned

5、According to a Chinese report,the flooding in China caused by EL Nion in 1991 and 1997 affected 200 million Chinese people. 答案：Wrong

6、It takes about eight months for EL Nion to reach its peak. 答案：Right 7、A special institute has been set up in America to study EL Nion. 答案：Not mentioned

Engineering Ethics

Engineering ethics is attracting interest in engineering universities throughout the nation .

The increasing concern for the value dimension of engineering is,

The problem presented by this development is that most engineering professors are not prepared to introduce literature in engineering ethics into their classrooms.

1、Engineering ethics is a compulsory subject in every institute of science and technology in the United States. 答案：Not mentioned

2、The number of students wishing to take the course of engineering ethics is decling at TexasA&M university答案：Wrong 3、The National Science Foundation involves itselfs directly in writtening up material about ethical

issues. 答案：Wrong

4、It seems that medical ethic are more mature than engineering ethics. 答案：Right

5、Several engineering professors have quie from teaching to protest against the creation of a new course in engineering ethics. 答案：Not mentioned

6、Many engineering professors may not have time to prepare material for class discussion on professional ethics. 答案：Right

7、It is likely that following this introuductory passage,the author will provide the necessary material related to the top of engineering ethics. 答案：Right

Easy Learing

Students should be jealous..

By the time babies are a year old they can recognise a lot of sounds and even simple words.

To test the theory,

Fifteen of the babies then went back with their mothers. When tested in the morning

Cheour doesn’t know how babies accomplish this night-time learing.

1、 Babies can learn language even in their sleep. 答案：Right

2、 An infant can recognize a lot of vowels by the time he or she is a year old. 答案：

Not mentioned

3、 Finnish vowels are easy to distinguish. 答案：Not mentioned

4、 The three vowels mentioned in this article are all Finnish sounds. 答案：Right 5、 The study shows that the infant’s cerebral cortex is working while he is sleep. 答

案：Right

6、 If an ault wants to learn a language faster,he can put a language tape under his

pillow. 答案：Wrong

7、 Cheour’s finding is worthless. 答案：Wrong

Inventor of LED

When Nick Holonyak set out to create a new kinf of visible lighting using semiconductor alloys,

On April 23,2004,Holonyak received the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Program at a ceremony in Washington.

“Anytime you get an award ,big or little2,it’s always a surprise ,”Holonyak said.

Holonyak,75,was a student of John Bardeen,an inventor of the transistor, Later, Holonyak started looking into how semiconductors could be used to generate light.

Holonyak,now a prfessor of electrical and computer engineering and physics at the University of Illinois.

“You don’t know in the bing.

The Lemelson-MIT Program also recognized Edith Flanigen,75

1、 Holonyak’s colleagues though he would fail in his researsh on LEDs at the time

when he started it. 答案：Right

2、 Holonyak believed that his students that were with him on the project would get

the Lemelson-MIT Prize sooner or later.答案:Not mentioned

3、 Holonyak was the inventor of the transistor in the early 1950s.答案：Wrong 4、 Holonyak believed that LEDS would become very popular in the future.答案：Right 5、 Holonyak said that you should not do anthing you are not interested in.答案：

Not mentioned

6、 Edith Flanigen is the only co-inventor of LEDS.aa答案：Not mentioned

7、 The Lemelson-MIT prize has a history of over 100 years. 答案：Wrong

Irish Dolphins May Have a Unique Dialect

Irish scientists monitoring dolphins living in a river estuary in the southwest of the country believe they may have developed a unique dialect dialect to communicate with each other. The Shannon Dolphin and wildlife Foudation has been studing a group of up to 120 bottle-nose dolphins in the River Shannon using vocalizations on a computer in a cow shed near the River Shannon.

As part of a research project,

“we are building up a catalogue of the different whistle types they use and trying to associate them with behaviour like foraging, Berrow ,a marine biologist

“when I first heard it was surprised as I thought sperm whales were the only species who used it

They are regularly seen by passengers on the Shannon ferry and an estimated25,000 tourists every year take special sightseeing tours on local boats to visit them.

1、 The difference in eating habits between the bottle-nose dolphins and the sperm whales

interested the SDWF scientists. 答案：Not mentioned

2、 Ronan Hickey analysed almost2,000 different dialects of the bottle-nose dolphins. 答案：

Wrong

3、 Of the 32 categories,eight were producede only by the Irish dolphins. 答案：Right

4、 Whistles could also be used to communicate between adult dolphins and baby dolphins答

案：Right

5、 Sperm whales can produce stronger ultrasonic waves to kill their prey than dolphins. 答案：

Not mentioned

6、 As early as the 6th century ,Irish fishermen started rasing dolphins in the Shannon estuary.

答案：Wrong 7、 Irish dolphins attract tourists and over 25,000 people come to see them every year.