职称英语考试《卫生类》章节练习题精选及答案0524-68
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职称英语考试《卫生类》章节练习题精选及答案0524-68
1、Egypt Felled by Famine
Even ancient Egypt's mighty pyramid builders were powerless in
the face of the famine that helped bring down their civilization
around 2180 BC. Now evidence gleaned from mud deposited by
the River Nile suggests that a shift in climate thousands of
kilometers to the south was ultimately to blame and the same
or worse could happen today.
The ancient Egyptians depended on the Nile's annual floods to
irrigate their crops. But any change in climate that pushed the
African monsoons southwards out of Ethiopia would have
diminished these floods.
Dwindling rains in the Ethiopian highlands would have meant
fewer plants to stablize the soil. When rain did fall it would have
washed large amounts of soil into the Blue Nile and into Egypt,
along with sediment from the White Nile.
The Blue Nile mud has a different isotope signature from that of
the White Nile. So by analyzing isotope differences in mud 2
deposited in the Nile Delta, Michael Krom of Leeds University
worked out what proportion of sediment came from each
branch of the river.
Krom reasons that during periods of drought, the amount of the
Blue Nile mud in the river would be relatively high. He found
that one of these periods, from 4,500 to 4,200 years ago,
immediately predates the fall of the Egypt's Old Kingdom.
The weakened waters would have been catastrophic for the
Egyptians. " Changes that affect food supply don't have to be
very large to have a ripple effect in societies," says Bill Ryan of
the Lamont Doberty Earth Observatory in New York.
"Similar events today could be even more devastating," says
team member Daniel Stanley, a geoarchaeologist from the
Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D C. " Anything humans
do to shift the climate belts would have an even worse effect
along the Nile system today because the populations have
increased dramatically. "
Which of the following statements is true?
【单选题】
A.The White Nile is the trunk of the River Nile. 3
B.The White Nile is the trunk of the Blue Nile.
C.The White Nile is a branch of the Blue Nile.
D.The White Nile and the Blue Nile are branches of the River
Nile.
正确答案:D
答案解析: D说的是：青尼罗河和白尼罗河是尼罗河的支流。第四段中的最后一句话是这么说的：… worked out what
proportion of sediment came from each branch of the river. 这里的“河”是指“尼罗河”，“每条支流”是指上文所说的“青尼罗河”和“白尼罗河”。因此，D是正确的答案。A：白尼罗河是尼罗河的干流。B：白尼罗河是青尼罗河的干流。C:白尼罗河是青尼罗河的支流。显然，这些都不是答案。
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2、A Tale of Scottish Rural Life
Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song (1932) was voted "the best
Scottish novel of all time" by Scottish's reading public in 2005.
Once considered shocking for its frank description of aspects of
the lives of Scotland's poor rural farmers, it has been adapted
for stage, film, TV and radio in recent decades.
The novel is set on the fictional estate of Kinraddie, in the
farming country of the Scottish northwest in the years up to
and beyond World War I. At its heart is the story of Chris, who is
both part of the community and a little outside it.
Grassic Gibbon gives us the most detailed and intimate account
of the life of his heroine. We watch her grow through a
childhood dominated by her cruel but hard-working father;
experience tragedy (her mother's suicide and murder of her
twin children); and learn about her feelings as she grows into
woman. We see her marry, lose her husband, then marry again.
Chris has seemed so convincing a figure to some female readers
that they cannot believe that she is the creation of a man.
But it would be misleading to suggest that this book is just
about Chris. It is truly a novel of a place and its people. Its
opening section tells of Kinraddie's long history, in a language
that imitates the place's changing patterns of speech and 5
writing.
The story itself is amazingly full of characters and incidents. It is
told from Chris' point of view but also from that of the
gossiping community, a community where everybody knows
everybody else's business and nothing is ever forgotten.
Sunset Song has a social theme too. It is concerned with what
Grassic Gibbon perceives as the destruction of traditional
Scottish rural life first by modernization and then by World War
I. Gibbon tried hard to show how certain characters resist the
war. Despite this, the war takes the young men away, a number
of them to their deaths. In particular, it takes away Chris'
husband, Ewan Tavendale. The war finally kills Ewan, but not in
the way his widow is told In fact, the Germans aren't
responsible for his death, but his own side. He is shot because
he is said to have run away from a battle.
If the novel is about the end of one way of life it also looks
