职称英语理工类阅读理解模拟题

1、职称英语理工类阅读理解模拟题2016年职称英语理工类阅读理解模拟题第一篇：Can Buildings Be Designed to Resist Terrorist Attack?In the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World TradeCenter, structural engineers are trying bard to solve a question that amonth ago would have been completely unthinkable：Can building bedesigned to with

2、stand catastrophic blasts inflict4ed by terrorists?Ten days after the terrorist attacks on the twin towers,structural engineers from the University at Buffalo and theMultidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER)headquartered at UB traveled to ground zero as part of a project f

3、undedby the National Science Foundation. Visiting the site as part of anMCEER reconnaissance visit, they spent two days beginning the task offormulating ideas about how to design such structures and to search forclues on how to do so in buildings that were damaged, but still arestanding.“Our objecti

4、ve in visiting ground zero was to go and look atthe buildings surrounding the World Trade Center, those buildings thatare still standing, but that sustained damage,” said M. Bruneau, Ph.D.“Our immediate hope is that we can develop a better understanding as towhy those buildings remain standing, whil

5、e our long-term goal is to seewhether earthquake engineering technologies can be married to existingtechnologies to achieve enhanced performance of buildings in the eventof terrorist attacks,” he added.Photographs taken by the investigators demonstrate in startlingdetail the monumental damage inflic

6、ted on the World Trade Center towersand buildings in the vicinity. One building a block away from the towersremains standing, but was badly damaged. “This building is many metersaway from the World Trade Center and yet we see a column there that usedto be part of that building,” explained A Whittake

7、r, Ph. D. “Thecolumn became a missile that shot across the road, through the windowand through the floor.”The visit to the area also revealed some surprises, according tothe engineers. For example, the floor framing system in one of theadjacent buildings was quite rugged, allowing floors that were p

8、iercedby tons of falling debris to remain intact. “Highly redundant ductileframing systems may provide a simple, but robust strategy for blastresistance,” he added. Other strategies may include providing alternatepaths for gravity loads in the event that a load-bearing column fails.“We also need a b

9、etter understanding of the mechanism of collapse,”said A Whittaker. “We need to find out what causes a building tocollapse and how you can predict it.”A Reinhorn, Ph. D. noted that “Earthquake shaking has led tothe collapse of many buildings in the past. It induces dynamic responseand extremely high

10、 stresses and deformations in structural components.Solutions developed for earthquake-resistant design may be directlyapplicable to blast engineering and terrorist-resistant design. Part ofour mission now at UB is to transfer these solutions and to develop newones where none exist at present.”31 Th

11、e question raised in the first paragraph is one _.A that was asked by structural engineers a month agoB that is too difficult for structural engineers to answer evennowC that was never difficult for before the terrorist attackD that terrorists are eager to find a solution to32 The project funded by

12、the National Science Foundation_.A was first proposed by some engineers at UBB took about two days to completeC was to investigate the damage caused by the terrorist attackD was to find out why some buildings could survive the blasts33 The column mentioned by Dr. Whittaker _.A was part of the buildi

13、ng close to the World Trade CenterB was part of the World Trade CenterC was shot through the window and the floor of the World TradeCenterCenterD damaged many buildings in the vicinity of the World Trade34 A surprising discovery made by the investigators duringtheir visit to ground zero is that _.A

14、floors in the adjacent building remain undamagedB some floor framing systems demonstrate resistance toexplosionC simple floor framing systems are more blast resistantD floors in one of the adjacent buildings were pierced by tonsof debris35 What Dr. Reinhorn said in the last paragraph may imply allth

15、e following EXCEPT that _.A blast engineers should develop new solutions for terror-resistant designB blast engineering can borrow technologies developed forterror-resistant designC solutions developed for earthquake-resistant design may applyto terrorist-resistant designD slast engineering emerges

16、as a new branch of science答案：31 C建筑设计是否能使建筑具有抵御恐怖袭击的性能，是一个月前世界贸易中心受到袭击之前人们从未想过的一个问题。这是第一段的主要内容。所以，只有C是正确答案。32 D A不是正确选项，因为文章没有提及谁首先提出这个项目。B或C都不是文章所述的内容。答案可以在第三段中找到。33 B有关本题的句子是第四段的第三句，“This building is manymeters away from the World Trade Center and yet we see a column therethat used to be Part of that building.这里的this buildin9指的是thebuilding many meters away from the World Trade Center，而that buildin9指的是World Trade Center。34 B选项A不是答案，因为文章说，the floor framing system inon