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历年英语四级阅读真题全解�(2002-2004)

  Passage Three
  Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
  It is hard to track the blue whale, the ocean’s largest creature, which has almost been killed off by commercial whaling and is now listed as an endangered species. Attaching radio devices to it is difficult, and visual sightings are too unreliable to give real insight into its behavior.
  So biologists were delighted early this year when, with the help of the Navy, they were able to track a particular blue whale for 43 days, monitoring its sounds. This was possible because of the Navy’s formerly top-secret system of underwater listening devices spanning the oceans.
  Tracking whales is but one example of an exciting new world just opening to civilian scientists after the cold war as the Navy starts to share and partly uncover its global network of underwater listening system built over the decades to track the ships of potential enemies.
  Earth scientists announced at a news conference recently that they had used the system for closely monitoring a deep-sea volcanic eruption (爆�) for the first time and that they plan similar studies.
  Other scientists have proposed to use the network for tracking ocean currents and measuring changes in ocean and global temperatures.
  The speed of sound in water is roughly one mile a second—slower than through land but faster than through air. What is most important, different layers of ocean water can act as channels for sounds, focusing them in the same way a stethoscope (�诊器) does when it carries faint noises from a patient’s chest to a doctor’s ear. This focusing is the main reason that even relatively weak sounds in the ocean, especially low-frequency ones, can often travel thousands of miles.
  31. The passage is chiefly about ________.
  A) an effort to protect an endangered marine species
  B) the civilian use of a military detection system
  C) the exposure of a U.S. Navy top-secret weapon
  D) a new way to look into the behavior of blue whales(B)
  32. The underwater listening system was originally designed ________.
  A) to trace and locate enemy vessels
  B) to monitor deep-sea volcanic eruptions
  C) to study the movement of ocean currents
  D) to replace the global radio communications network(A)
  33. The deep-sea listening system makes use of ________.
  A) the sophisticated technology of focusing sounds under water
  B) the capability of sound to travel at high speed
  C) the unique property of layers of ocean water in transmitting sound
  D) low-frequency sounds traveling across different layers of water(C)
  34. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
  A) new radio devices should be developed for tracking the endangered blue whales
  B) blue whales are no longer endangered with the use of the new listening system
  C) opinions differ as to whether civilian scientists should be allowed to use military technology
  D) military technology has great potential in civilian use(D)
  35. Which of the following is true about the U.S. Navy underwater listening network?
  A) It is now partly accessible to civilian scientists.
  B) It has been replaced by a more advanced system.
  C) It became useless to the military after the cold war.
  D) It is indispensable in protecting endangered species.(A)
  这篇�料讲的是美国军用技术的民用化。开头用追踪�鲸的例��引出一个问题,�水下跟踪技术的难度颇高。这就��引起人们对问题解决方法的关注,而第二段就顺��章地介�近�生的一件事,此事给段的问题�供了解决办法:科学家�功地追踪了一��鲸43天,并监�了它的声音。�功的关键就是应用了美国海军曾�的水下监��密设备(because of the Navy’s formerly top-secret system of underwater listening devices spanning the oceans)。
  这样,文章的核心论题就出现了:美国军用技术——水下监�技术的民用化。此�,作者开始详细地�述与论题有关的信�。
  首先是事情的原委。冷战以�,美国海军�开始与民间科学家分享其水下监�系统(after the cold war as the Navy starts to share and partly uncover its global network of underwater listening system)。这一系统�的用途是追踪潜在敌人的船�。(track the ships of potential enemies)。
  而�是水下监�技术民用化的�一事例。科学家们应用这一系统次细致地监控一次深水�山爆�的过程(used the system for closely monitoring a deep-sea volcanic eruption)。
  �有科学家打算使用这一系统�追踪洋�,分�海洋�化和全�温度�化(use the network for tracking ocean currents and measuring changes in ocean and global temperatures)。
  �一段简�解释了这一系统的工作原�。声音在水中的传播速度大约是�秒一英里,介于在陆地和空气之间(The speed of sound in water is roughly one mile a second—slower than through land but faster than through air)。这是水下追踪声音的基本�件。海洋的��水层�以作为声音传播的��通�,这些通��以使声音更为集中,其原�等�于�诊器将病人胸部的声音集中加强传给医生。这就使得�常微弱的声音也能在海水中传播上�英里(can often travel thousands of miles),从而被这一系统所监测到。这是水下追踪声音的���件。
  31. B
  题目问这篇文章主�内容是关于什么的。这是一�全文总结性的题目,这�题出现在�的情况并�多�。
  A,�护一�海上濒�生物的努力。这里的海上濒�生物指的是段�到的�鲸(blue whale),�过关于�鲸的�述仅仅局�于段,其余部分就��出现�护�鲸的内容,因此A的说法过于片�。
  B,一�军事探测技术的民用化。�四段举出的事例都�以归为军事探测技术民用化,�一段讲解了这一探测技术的原�,总体�看,文章主�内容是军事探测技术的民用化,B的说法正确。
  C,一�美国海军�密武器的�光。这里的�密武器指的是水下监�系统,文中�到Navy starts to share and partly uncover its global network of underwater listening system,这里有uncover一�,�以算是exposure的注脚,�过,仅仅�光是�够的,文中的诸多例�都是科学家把�光�的技术用于民用的 例�,因此文章主体还是在讲述�密武器在民间的应用,而�仅仅是�光。
  D,一�观察�鲸行为的新的方�。这个选项的错误和A一样,把内容局�于�鲸。除了�鲸之外,文中还�到了�山爆��洋�等等现象,A的说法过于片�了。
  32. A
  题目问水下监�系统�设计是用�……
  A,跟踪定�敌方船�。
  B,监�深海�山爆�。
  C,研究洋��动。
  D,�代全�无线电传播系统。
  题目中需�注�的一个��是originally,�为�,指水下监�设备在被美军�设计时的用途。文中有一��对此作了交代:the Navy starts to share and partly uncover its global network of underwater listening system built over the decades to track the ships of potential enemies,这��的宾语是global network of underwater listening system,而�的built�以还原为which was built,其引导的���视为一个定语从�,是对这一系统的修饰。Over the decades,表示时间追溯到几�年�。To表示目的,track the ships of potential enemies,跟踪潜在敌人的船�。由此��水下监�系统�设计是用�跟踪潜在敌人的船�的,答案是A。
  33. C
  题目问深海监�系统应用了……
  A,采集水下声音的尖端技术。
  B,声音高速传播的特性。
  C,海洋的��水层传播声音的特性。
  D,低频声波�在��水层传播。
  从四个选项�看,这�题考查的是深海监�系统的技术原�。根�篇章分��知,对原�的说明是在�一段,那么答案需�到�一段去找。值得注�的是�一 ��:This focusing is the main reason that even relatively weak sounds in the ocean, especially low-frequency ones, can often travel thousands of miles,这里�到了main reason,表明声音的加强(focusing)是声音得以传播上�英里的主�原因。而声音能够传播上�英里�味�什么呢?�味�深海监�系统�以监测 到上�英里外的声音,这就是监�系统的���件,而声音得以加强的原因�是什么呢?是different layers of ocean water can act as channels for sounds,这应该是题目所问的“make use of……�的宾语。应该选择C。A的说法在�一段没有�到。B的说法在�一段中有所论述,但属于���件,�是main reason。D所说的低频声音�是作者举的一个例�——既然低频声音也能传播很远,那么中高频的声音传播得就更远,更容易被监�系统��到了——还是说 明了通�的作用。
  34. D
  题目问从文章中�以推断出什么。
  A,应该�展新的无线电技术�追踪濒临��的�鲸。
  B,因为新的监�技术的使用,�鲸��是濒临��动物。
  C,关于民间科学家是�应被�许使用军事技术,尚存在��观点。
  D,军事技术的民用化潜力很大。
  A和B都与�鲸有关。关于�鲸的内容�在�两段,我们�看这两段的内容。段开头首先说明了�鲸濒临��的状况,指出追踪�鲸存在较大的困难,而�解释了存在困难的原因。第二段讲述科学家们终于�功追踪了一��鲸,而其背�的原因是军事技术的应用。
  从这里�知,科学家应用现有技术已�能够追踪�鲸,A说的应该�展新的技术是无从推�的。新的监�技术到底对�护�鲸起到多大的作用?文章所述甚少,原因是本文论述的主题是军事技术的民用化,�是�鲸�护,所以作者把�眼点放在了军事技术得以应用于民间研究的角度上。文中��到一�monitoring its sounds,表明应用军事技术所起到的作用仅是监测了�鲸的声音,这�离拯救�鲸�群于��应该还差很远。由此��,B的推论也是�对的。
  从全文�看,并没有���对军事技术民用化的观点,因此C的说法�正确。
  �三个选项全部排除,D自然是正确答案。从文章的逻辑结构�看,文章先是指出在没有军事技术帮助时,从事民间科学研究的困难,而�举出几个军事技术民用化的�功例�,显然是对此�肯定�度,对其未���观�度,D的说法与此相符。
  35. A
  本题问下列关于美国海军水下监�网络的�述,哪一项是正确的。
  A,目�已�部分对民间科学家开放。这一说法�以在文中找到对应点。第三段the Navy starts to share and partly uncover its global network of underwater listening system一�中�到partly uncover,“部分公开�,与A说法一致。
  B,已�被更先进的系统所�代。�能在文中找到有关“更先进的系统�的任何直接�述或间接�述,因此B�对。
  C,冷战以�就失去了军事用途。第三段�到了“冷战以��,但冷战以��生的事情�是“opening to civilian scientists�,�民间科学家开放技术。开放技术�代表该技术失去了军事用途,从�文�知这�开放�是部分开放(partly uncover),��该技术没有失去军事用途。�便无法直接�出此推断,但至少�能�C所说那样推出已�失去军事用途。
  D,在�护濒�物�上是��缺少的。在�鲸�护问题上,该技术目�所显现的作用�是“monitoring its sounds�,�监�其声音,文中没有关于其作用��或缺的�述。

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