职称英语《理工A》专项练习题及答案

1、职称英语理工A专项练习题及答案补全短文题篇一：Read with Greater SpeedDo you have difficulty reading in class? If so, a special reading program that helps match sounds with letters could speed up your brain.At least one out of every five elementary school students in the US has trouble learning to read, even when the stude

2、nts are good at other subjects._ (46) Researchers from Yale University, US, studied a group of children from New York and Connecticut State. As part of the study, 37 struggling readers received special tutoring.Every day, instructors worked with them on recognizing how written letters represent unit

3、s of sound called phonemes (音素) . _ (47)By the end of the school year, these children could read faster than before. They also made fewer mistakes, and understood more of what they read than they could earlier in the year.As part of their study, the researchers used a special machine to take action

4、photos of the students brains._(48) This is the same part of the brain that becomes active when good readers read, This activated brain area appears to include a structure that helps people recognize familiar written words quickly. In lower level readers, this structure remains inactive.A year later

5、, the brain structure was still working hard in the students who had gone through the special tutoring, and they continued to do well in reading tests. _ (49) However, some researchers still doubt the study._ (50)A. Many adults are interested in matching sounds with letters.B. The students also prac

6、ticed reading aloud and spelling.C. The biggest challenge for many of these kids, scientists say, is matching sounds with letters.D. Another group in the study who went through a more traditional reading program didnt show the same progress.E. The pictures showed all increase in activity in the back

7、 of the brain on the left side.F. They believe that reading without making any noise or linking words to sounds is more efficient.参考答案46.C。文章的题目是：用较快的速度阅读。第二段的第一个句子说的是：在美国五个小学生中至少有一个在学习阅读方面有困难，虽然这些学生其他科目都不错。这是一个总的说明，接着的句子应该具体说明。C就是进一步的说明：科学家说，这些孩子中的许多人的最大困难是如何使得读音和字母对应起来。47.B。第四段的第一句话说的是：每天老师帮助他们弄懂字

8、母是如何表达被称作音素的语音单位的。但光弄懂是不够的，还需要实践。所以选B：学生还练习朗读和拼写。48.E。第六段说的是：作为研究的一部分，研究人员用一个特殊的机器拍摄学生大脑运动的照片。B说的是：照片显示左大脑后部的活动增加了。49.D。倒数第二段的第一句讲的是试验组的情况。D讲的是用传统方法的情况，放在一起可以构成对比，很连贯。50.F。最后一段的第一句说的是：然而，有些研究人员仍然不太相信这一研究。从提供的选项中的第一个词组可以看出，只有F是合适的，因为它的起始词是They，指some researchers。篇二：Einstein Named Person of the Century

9、Albert Einstein, whose theories on space time and matter helped unravel (解决) the secrets of the atom and of the universe, was chosen as Person of the Century by Time magazine on Sunday.A man whose very name is synonymous (同义的) with scientific genius, Einstein has come to represent more than any othe

10、r person the flowering of 20th century scientific though that set the stage for the age of technology. The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic, but technologicaltechnologies that flowed directly from advances

11、in basic science, wrote theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking in a Time essay explaining Einsteins significance._ (46)Time chose as runner-up President Franklin Roosevelt to represent the triumph of freedom and democracy over fascism, and Mahatma Gandhi as an icon (象征) for a century when civil and h

12、uman rights became crucial factors in global politics.What we saw was Franklin Roosevelt embodying the great theme of freedoms fight against totalitarianism, Gandhi personifying (象征，体现) the great theme of individuals struggling for their rights, and Einstein being both a great genius and a great sym

13、bol of a scientific revolution that brought with it amazing technological advances that helped expand the growth of freedom,said Time Magazine Editor Walter Isaacson.Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany in 1879._(47) He was slow to learn to speak and did not do well in eleme.ntary school. He could not

14、stomach organized learning and loathed taking exams. In 1905, however, he was to publish a theory which stands as one of the most intricate examples of human imagination in history._ (48) Everything else- mass,weight, space, even time itself-is a variable (变量) . And he offered the world his now-famo

15、us equation (方程式) : energy equals mass times the speed of light squared-E=mc2._ (49) There was less faith in absolutes, not only of time and space but also of truth and morality. Einsteins famous equation was also the seed that led to the development of atomic energy and weapons. In 1939, six years

16、after he fled European fascism and settled at Princeton University, Einstein, an avowed pacifist, signed a letter to President Roosevelt urging the United States to develop an atomic bomb before Nazi Germany did._(50) Einstein did not work on the project. Einstein died in Princeton, New Jersey in 19

17、55.A. Indirectly, relativity paved the way for a new relativism in morality, art and politics,Isaacson wrote in an essay explaining Times choices.B. How he thought of the relativity theory influenced the general publics view about Albert Einstein.C. Clearly, no scientist better represents those adva

18、nces than Albert Einstein.D. Roosevelt heeded the advice and formed the Manhattan Project that secretly developed the first atomic weapon.E. In his early years, Einstein did not show the promise of what he was to become.F. In his Special Theory of Relativity, Einstein described how the only constant in the universe is the speed of light.参考答案46.C。本文主要讲爱因斯坦为20世纪人类科学做出的重大贡献。本段是理论物理学家史蒂芬霍金在时代杂志上发表的一篇评价爱因斯坦所做贡献的文章中的几句话。他说世界在过去的10