电力英语水平考试题库(第二版)阅读理解

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1,Have you ever seen a moon that

All of these/ inform/mysterious/ it is near the

horizon/ helps farmers see as they harvest

their crops

2,Strange thing happens to time when

How Time Changes Around the World/one

hour/ is divided into five time zones/ the point

where a new day begins/ahead one hour in

each new time

3,The diner is only a humble

The attraction of diners to different

people/give a summary of the whole passage/

Ifs a haven against loneliness/many different

kinds of people/fascinating

4,Doctors have known for a long time

one may lose his hearing when he hears a

terribly loud noise/will be damaged even if he

has heard a loud noise for only little more

than one second/makes hearing damage from

loud noise worse/take too much

aspirin/whether aspirin would increase the

temporary hearing damage from loud noises

5,Just two months ago, Ana，

she must do well on the exam/seven

years/the professor’s lectures/ her family/Ana

comes through with flying colors

6,Any mistake made in the printing of

a mistake is made in the printing/not yet

using postage stamps/wording/ the Twopenny

Blue/British printers

7,The communications explosion is on

display the influence of communications on

life/amazing/The low-orbit satellites would

replace towers and poles functionally/talk and

see each other no matter where we are/ each

car

8,Japan is getting tough about

the consumers/It retains its original strength

through reprocessing/a kind of plastics with

different integration in each layer/21-inch TV

with magnesium case isn’t very popular so

far/inform

9,A friend of mine，in response

like his friend, he also thought life was

unfair/make us know ifs our duty to perfect

things/it’s nice to accept the injustice of life/

life isn’t and won’t be fair/positive

10,People appear to be bom to

The development of mathematical ability in

children/begin to master simple counting soon

after they learn to walk and

talk/objective/didn’t think/Children learn

mathematics naturally and easily

11,A new technology is going to ripe

is still under development/it is being

cultivated in research labs around the world/

Dramatic/Asian scientists gain the lead in the

growth of the new

technology/Superconductivity: A New

Technology

12,People become quite illogical when

Disgusting/was angry because they might

damage his beloved plants/are the most

controversial food/One Man’s Meat is Another

Man’s Poison/they learn to eat certain foods

in their families 13,All the useful energy at the surface atomic

power/plants/water/absorbed by the earth’s

atmosphere/ a very small portion

14,The market is a concept. If you are

What Is the Market?/attending a night

school/dine at a restaurant/concrete/It tells

you what to produce

15,X-rays were first discovered by a

some radiation coming through the covered

tube/it was moved to the next room/find out

more about the rays/bone/invisible

16,Body clocks,? are biological

one can help maintain balance in the “body

clock”/possible illnesses/our body is most

active then/at night/every hour in the day

time

17,Plastics are materials which are

Agreeable/plastics are cheap as

antiques/Carbon/thermosetting/The

Development of Plastics as a Modem Material

18,When we analyze the salt salinity of

the causes of the variation in oceanic

salinity/evaporation/Formation of sea ice/The

temperature of the water has much to do with

the oceanic salinity/to give an example of

cold-water salinity

19,The science of meteorology is

Approaches to the Science of

Meteorology/anticipated needs of

industry/Sports/greater protection of human

life and property/mathematics and physics

20,As we have seen, the focus of

removing people’s bad living habits/good

health is more than not being ill/is free from

any kind of disease/to strive to maintain the

best possible health/People who try to be as

healthy as possible, regardless of their

limitations

21,If you want to teach your children

the child may feel that he owes her an

apology/I’m aware you’re upset，but Ifm not

to blame/it is vague and ineffective/their ages

should be taken into account/not as simple as

it seems

22,Scratchy throats, stuffy noses and

shorten the duration of the

illness/over-the-counter drugs can be taken to

ease the misery caused by a cold or the

flu/one should take medicine upon catching

the disease

/A high temperature/are advised not to give

them aspirin

23,Sign has become a scientific hot

a challenge to traditional views on the nature

of language/an English teacher in a university

for the deaf/a genuine language/a language

could only exist in the form of speech

sounds/language is a product of the brain

24,It is hard to track the blue

the civilian use of a military detection

system/to trace and locate enemy vessels/the

unique property of layers of ocean water in

transmitting sound/military technology has

great potential in civilian use/It is now partly

accessible to civilian scientists

25,You never see them,

It is an indispensable device on an airplane/Data for analyzing the cause of the

crash/The early models often got damaged in

the crash/To make them easily

identifiable/There is still a good chance of

their being recovered

26,New technology links the

Positive/are attaching more importance to

their overseas business/missing opportunities

for promotion when abroad/Ability to speak

the client5s language/better control the whole

negotiation process

27,A properly designed electrical

produce dangerous heat/It will cut the

electricity supply immediately/To supply

electricity to other circuits/the electrical meter

outside/It cuts off electricity supply when the

limit exceeds

28,Every hour the sun beams

a technology/Less then one thousandth/On

rooftops/as a heat source/By moveable

mirrors

29,Researchers say people traveling

polluted air/women driving in a car/Pollutants

from vehicles/more likely to die from lung

diseases/Traffic and Heart Attacks

30,Congratulations. Your decision

On their deciding to quit smoking/help

smokers give up smoking/From American

Hung Association/Care about the people

around you/To write down their reasons and

always review them

31,Unwanted sound, or noise

lower productivity/Intensity of sound/ In

airports/ Sounds of 15 000/Wearing ear

protection

32,A smart grid incorporates

Their electrical consumption and

pattern/customers can save and even sell

energy/They can provide power during peak

demand events/To manage their energy

consumption wisely/Introduction of Smart

Grid

33,In economic terms, electricity

buy or sell electricity/The principles of supply

and demand/ Market operators/the

restructuring of natural gas markets/Because

it brought transparency to power pricing

34,Large airports with lots

many large international airports/Sometimes

they are named after the city they are

in/Seatac/After a long flight of time zones you

may suffer jet lag /the lost and found

35,everybody in the city uses

Be powerful enough to send a person’s voice

to faraway places/they are small and easy to

use/will i c u b4/to introduce how mobile

phones works and how it is used/today

sending short messages is a popular way of

using mobile phones

36,in our country,the power

0.2hz/60s/an ac single-phasynchronous

motor/over or under 50-0.2hz/50+0.1hz

37,all the useful energy at

Atomic power/plants/water/absorbed by the

earth’s atmosphere/a very small portion

38,the market is a concept.

What can the market do for you?/attending a