英语科技文选自考2015年04月真题及答案解析

Fighting Fog and Haze

他的性格与他夫人相同。

   The traditional method of food drying is to put it in places through which hot air is blown at temperature of about 110°C at entry to about 43°C at exit. This is the usual method for drying such things as vegetables, meat and fish. Liquids such as milk, coffee, tea, soups and eggs may be dried by pouring them over a heated horizontally round steel or by spraying them into a place through which hot air passes. Dried foods take up less room and weigh less than the same food packed in cans or frozen, and they do not need to be stored in special conditions. For these reasons they are invaluable to climbers, explorers and soldiers in battle, who have little storage space. They are also popular with housewives because it takes so little storage space. They are also popular with housewives because it takes so little time to cook them. Usually it is just a case of replacing the dried-out wetness with boiling water.

I was told that while some denied the possibility of doing this and others were in doubt, there were none who maintained that it was actually possible. On the basis of the above I formulated the following very general problem for myself: Given any configuration of the river and the branches into which it may divide, as well as any number of bridges, determine whether or not it is possible to cross each bridge exactly once.

WHO代表世界卫生组织。

你应该把自己的才华发挥出来。

为了健康和学习，我们必须吃早餐。

by  in   grinding    explained    with    out    published   since  and    occurred

      For centuries people have observed strange phenomena before large earthquakes, such as light coming from ridges(31) mountaintops. These reports were once dismissed by many scientists, (32)part because they are often entangled in unscientific theories. For example, some who reported the lights thought they were produced(33) UFOs. But the lights are not necessarily created by E.T. “Earthquake lights are a real phenomenon—they’re not UFOs,” researcher Robert Theriault told Nature. “They can be scientifically(34).” In study (35) in the January/February issue of the journal Seismological Research Letters, Theriault and colleagues pulled together reliable sightings of these lights (36) 1600, and found some strange similarities. A total of 63 (37) of the 65 sightings(38) along nearly vertical faults. The researchers suggest that along these faults, the stress of rocks (39) against each other produces electrical charges, which can travel upward and interact (40) the atmosphere to create light.

These new government regulations________foreigners only.

identical 

stand for

 for the sake of

give off

bring into play

所有发热物体都发射红外线。

Oil paintings did not________him.

Much of the criticism against him_______his political opponents.

_______your request, I am now sending you the price list.

Her story_______my father’s personal experience in the past.

Computer software________90% of our products.

The pilot_______his imagination and experience to perform this difficult fight.

The way he laughed was strongly______his father.

He_______his speech with a quotation.

reminiscent of   in advance        coincide with         draw on        be applicable to       compatible with         emanate from        wind up       account for         appeal to      turn out        in accordance with

It is cheaper if you book the tickets________.

The factory_______900 cars a week last year.

The new system will be_______existing equipment.

nourished 营养不良的

different 区分

spring 子孙;后代

compass 包含

scan 扫描仪

artificial 人工制品

reverse 不可逆转性

custom 合乎风俗习惯的

What does Allen imply when he mentions the first IPCC report about climate change?

Paying compensation after disasters may involve all of the following EXCEPT_______.

The word “fingerprints” in line 5, para. 7 refers to______.

Which of the following is NOT true about the latest round of United Nations climate conference in Warsaw?

(B)

   To a casual observer of the latest round of United Nations climate talks in Warsaw, Poland, last week, it was a battle between Polish coal miners determined to hang on to their jobs, and the people of the Philippines, who would rather not lose their lives to the tempests likely unleashed by climate change.

    In the corridors, the talks looked different: another stage in the agonizingly slow crawl towards a deal on carbon emission that diplomats hope to seal in 2015.

    Little progress was made on most issues, but the two-week negotiations did end with an outline agreement that could one day allow people like the Filipino victims of the super-typhoon Haiyan to use science to sue coal-mining firms and power companies for compensation.

    The deal was still being hammered out on Saturday—a day after the talks were due to close. After compromises from all sides, the negotiators agreed to set up an “international mechanism to provide roost vulnerable populations with better protection against loss and damage caused by extreme weather”. It was a tacit acceptance that the promises made by governments at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero in 1992 to prevent “dangerous climate change” have failed. Dangerous climate change is now happening.

    It is not yet clear how such an international mechanism will work. Rich nations remain deeply hostile to the idea to handing out compensation payments after disasters. But, with efforts to prevent escalating climate change making such slow progress, it could all end up in court with or without this mechanism in place.

    Lawyers say nations hit by extreme weather might already have a case at the UN International Court of Justice in The Hague, the Netherland, which resolves legal disputes between nations. For example, the court could attempt to charge rich nations with failing to honor their Earth Summit commitment.

    Such cases would depend on researchers’ increasing ability to attribute blame for specific disasters. Myles Allen and fellow climate modellers at the University of Oxford have shown that the European heatwave of 2003, which may have killed as many as 70,000 people, was made at least twice as likely by global warming. Researchers could well conclude that typhoon Haiyan has human fingerprints all over it. Especially since the most recent assessment of climate science from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) found that warmer oceans are increasing the intensity of winds in tropical cyclones, while rising sea levels worsen storm surges.

Orchid’s software agents can perform all the following tasks EXCEPT_______,

The word “traumatic” in line 2, para. 9 is closest in meaning to______.

In which of the aspects does the Orchid system need improving?

(A)

   In the aftermath of a disaster like the massive typhoon Haiyan, which devastated the Philippines on 8 November, confusion often reigns and sketchy information abounds. This can leave responders unsure if their efforts are being put to the best effect.

It can be inferred from the passage that______.