考试用书2012年职称英语讲义A-B-C(8)

2. What makes scientists doubt about the belief that Megalodon is extinct?

C The discovery of a live Coelacanth.

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The discovery of a live Coelacanth, a fish long believed extinct, challenged some scientists’ long-held beliefs on

extinction. There have been recent discoveries of incredibly large squid（乌贼）, and deep-sea fish never before seen by scientists.

3. Why did the U.S. Navy set up underwater microphones around the world in 1960’s?

D To follow the track of the Soviet warships under water.

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In the 1960s the U.S. Navy set up underwater microphones around the world to track Soviet submarines. The network, known as the Sound Surveillance System（声音监测系统） , still lies deep below the ocean’s surface in a layer of water known as the “deep sound channel”.

4. What was special in their recorded sounds?

A A strange, powerful animal sound was heard.

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…One sound, identified in 1977 by U.S. Navy “spy” sensors, was odd. It was obviously a marine animal but the call was more powerful than any of the calls made by any other reported sea creature. It was too big for a whale. Could it be a deep-sea monster? One possibility was a giant squid, but no one is sure.

5. What can be concluded from the passage?

C Megalodon may be still alive deep in the ocean.

※ 推断题，推测法

文章开头：The largest shark known to us, Megalodon, is extinct. Or is it?

文章末段倒数第三句：It was name “Bloop”. Could it be Megalodon? If Megalodon is still alive down in the bottom of the ocean, we may some day soon discover it.

第七讲 阅读理解（二）

第四部分 阅读理解

第2篇 A-bomb原子弹

The political background of the atomic scientists’ work was the determination to defeat the Nazis（纳粹）. It was held—I think rightly—that a Nazi victory would be an appalling（骇人的） disaster. It was also held（据认为）, in Western countries, that German scientists must be well advanced towards making an A-bomb, and that if they succeeded before the West did they would probably win the war.

When the war was over, it was discovered, to the complete astonishment of both American and British Scientists, that the Germans were nowhere near success, and, as everybody knows, the Germans were defeated before any nuclear weapons had been made. But I do not think that nuclear scientists of the West can be blamed for thinking the work urgent and necessary. Even Einstein favored it.

When, however, the German war was finished the great majority of those scientists who had collaborated（合作） toward making the A-bomb considered that it should not be used against the Japanese, who were already on the verge of defeat and, in any case, did not constitute such a threat to the world as Hitler.

Many of them made urgent representations to the American government advocating that, instead of using the bomb as a weapon of war, they should, after a public announcement, explode it in a desert, and that future control of nuclear energy should be placed in the hands of an international authority.

Seven of the most famous of nuclear scientists drew up（起草，草拟） what is known as “the Franck Report” which they presented to the Secretary of War（战争部长） in June 1945. This is a very admirable and far-seeing document, and if it had won the assent（同意，赞成） of the politicians, none of our subsequent（后来的） terrors would have arisen. Exercises

1. We may infer that the author’s attitude towards the A-bomb is that?

B it is a terrible threat to the whole of mankind.

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…and that future control of nuclear energy should be placed in the hands of an international authority.

文章最后一段

…Seven of the most famous of nuclear scientists drew up what is known as “the Franck Report” which they presented to the Secretary of War in June 1945. This is a very admirable and far-seeing document, and if it had won the assent of the politicians, none of our subsequent terrors would have arisen.

2. The American and British scientists were astonished at the end of the Second World War against Germany because

D the Germans had made little progress in developing nuclear weapons.

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…When the war was over, it was discovered, to the complete astonishment of both American and British Scientists, that the Germans were nowhere near success, and, as everybody knows, the Germans were defeated before any nuclear weapons had been made.

3. According to the writer, most scientists who had helped in making the A-bomb considered that it should not be used against the Japanese because

B its use against the Japanese was unnecessary.

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When, however, the German war was finished the great majority of those scientists who had collaborated toward making the A-bomb considered that it should not be used against the Japanese, who were already on the verge of defeat and, in any case, did not constitute such a threat to the world as Hitler.

4. The passage implies, but does not directly say, that the nuclear scientists

A might not have agreed to develop the bomb if there had been no Nazi threat.

※ 推断题，推测法

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The political background of the atomic scientists’ work was the determination to defeat the Nazis.

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…Many of them made urgent representations to the American government advocating that, instead of using the bomb as a weapon of war, they should, after a public announcement, explode it in a desert, and that future control of nuclear energy should be placed in the hands of an international authority.

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