研究生科技英语阅读答案(9)

出于自身的哲学认识和生活选择来设定限制手机的使用与因思想偏执而为之截然不同。这就是我对来自匹兹堡民间的说法产生失望的原因…那不是呼吁人们关注生活的健康和儿童的幸福成长，那是呼吁人们对现代生活的偏执理解。” 2.

(1) 高频热效应radiofrequency heating effects 手机知情权Cell Phone Right-to-Know

阻止这项新法律的实行block enforcement of the new law 支持食品与药物管理局的结论stands by the FDA 患脑癌的几率the odds of developing brain cancer

世界各国的研究团队research teams from around the world 长时间大量使用手机long-term heavy use of mobile phones 选择误差selection biases 原数据The raw data

需要进一步研究worth further investigation

(2) particularly in regard to taxation

(3) the extent of corruption and abuse of power (4) the risks posed by hazardous materials. (5) The incidence of this disease

(6) without the problems posed by global warming

(7) Yet there were two main barriers to the enforcement of such regulations.

(8) You can narrow the odds of a terrible accident happening in your home by being more safety-conscious.

(9) Dr. Johnson argued that there is a strong correlation between teenage crime and low educational achievement. (10) Local authorities have therefore been unable, and unwilling, to part with their own meagre resources. (11) Microsoft Corp. has filed suit against a Houston computer manufacturer as part of a nationwide crackdown on software piracy. (12) Studies so far suggest a weak connection between EMFs and illness–so weak that it might not exist at all. A multinational investigation of cellphones and brain cancer, in 13 countries outside the US, has been underway for several years. It’s funded in part by the European Union, in part by a cellphone industry group. The final report should come out later this year, but data so far don’t suggest a strong link between cellphone use and cancer risk。

IV. Cloze

1. Purchased 2. from 3. worked 4. since 5. increase 6. causes 7. radiation 8. vulnerable 9. absorptive 10. found

Unit 7

Seeing the Earth for Its Faults

I. comprehension and Appreciation

1. Is there any difference between the meaning of faults here in the title and that of in the daily language?

2. What impact does the collision of continents have on the climate? Why?

Northwestern Africa crashed and ground against North America - and mountains as tall as the Alps rose in New England. Wind and rain beat at the peaks and wore them down, and then the land on which they stood sank below the sea. Waves and tides had their turn, and the towering ranges were largely leveled. The land lifted. The balmy weather turned cold. Ice sheets scraped across bedrock, pushing a wall of rubble before them. The climate warmed again, and glaciers melted, creating a huge lake that lapped behind the wall of glacial till. Ice sheets kept melting; the lake swelled and stretched and, ultimately, broke through the wall at its lowest part. Rivers began to flow through valleys that the glaciers had carved. 3. If you have the eyes of a geologist, what do you think would happen?

To see New York with the eyes of a geologist and to understand why certain things look the way they do and stand where they do. The scar where continents ground together runs down the Bronx River; the remnant of the mountains is the city's bedrock; the rubble pushed by the glaciers gave rise to Long Island; the great lake spilled over at the Verrazano Narrows; the Hudson and East rivers fill valleys deepened by glaciers.

4. Would Wall Street and Midtown get similar impact with the other parts of New York?

No, Wall Street and Midtown raised modern mountains of glass and granite because there was solid bedrock to build on, but in between lay insufficient foundation for skyscrapers - hence low-slung Greenwich Village and Soho. Before garbage and landfill were strewn in its wetlands, Manhattan was cut in two when very high tides swelled the rivers and they met each other in the middle of the island, at 125th Street, where a fault slices the city. …… 此处隐藏：1840字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……