英語科技文選試題_全國2008年7月自考試卷
全國自考2008年7月英語科技文選試題
湖北自考網11月14日整理
課程代碼:00836
PART A:VOCABULARY
I.Directions: Add the affix to each word according to the given Chinese, making changes when necessary. (8%)
1.consciously 意識 1.______________
2.variant 不變量 2.______________
3.guarantee 保證人 3.______________
4.play 相互作用 4.______________
5.scan 掃描儀 5.______________
6.diversify 變化;不同之處 6.______________
7.nourished 營養(yǎng)不良的 7.______________
8.rhythm 有節(jié)奏地 8.______________
II.Directions: Fill in the blanks, each using one of the given words or phrases below in its proper form. (12%)
after all expose to contribute to a spectrum of in relation to response to
run for emanate from in comparison a shower of delve into shake up (with)
9.More people than ever before are _________ the city council.
10.The whole world today is so much _________ the word “biotechnology” that it has become a strong belief that this is “the field” which will give solution to our “any” problem.
11.The money he had been ordered to pay was minimal _________ his salary.
12.The law was passed by the town council in_________ complaints from local residents.
13.He should do well at college; _________, he is a very smart boy.
14.Pollution _________ these sites and the movement of diseases across ecosystems have turned some environments off aquaculture.
15._________, photographs are recorded images of the intensity of ordinary, incoherent light.
16.Everyone on the team _________ winning the game last Saturday.
17.There’s _________ opinion on this question.
18.A0620-00 was discovered in 1975, when it emitted _________ light and X rays.
19.Kate _________ new ideas when she went to college.
20.Mary said she was tired of journalists’ digging and _________ her private life.
III. Directions: Fill in each blank with a suitable word given below. (10%)
true to called contain exclusively animals live diet fit eat
A carnivore is an animal that eats a diet consisting mainly of meat, whether it comes from
21 animals or dead ones (scavenging). Some 22 are considered carnivores even if their diets 23 very little meat (e.g., predatory arthropods such as spiders or mantids that may rarely consume small vertebrate prey). Animals that subsist on a 24 consisting only of meat are referred to as obligate carnivores. The word also refers 25 the mammals of the Order Carnivora, many (but not all) of which 26 the first definition. Bears are an example of members of Carnivora that are not 27 carnivores. Carnivores that 28 insects primarily or exclusively are 29 insectivores, while those that eat fish primarily or 30 are called piscivores.
PART B:TRANSLATION
IV.Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, each using one of the given words or phrases below. (10%)
cater for analytical draw on do justice to sth./sb. arbitrary
31.她要做的事太多,因此沒有好好上課。
32.他沒有跟別人商量就隨意決定關閉這個劇場。
33.一種化學分析方法被用來鑒定這種物質。
34.我希望新建的實驗中心能適應你們的特殊要求。
35.作者運用自己的想象力和經驗寫成了這部巨著。
V.Directions: Translate the following paragraph into Chinese. (15%)
36.The prediction process is aided by the fact that the artificial is generally simpler than the natural. The role of a bowling ball down an alley, for instance, is easier to predict than the motion of an irregular stone tumbling down a rough hillside. It is likely that the artificial will increasingly save us from the unpredictable. It may be easier to move gradually toward a completely enclosed earth whose climate could be artificially controlled than to learn to predict the natural weather.
PART C: READING COMPREHENSION
VI.Directions: Read through the following passages. Choose the best answer and put the letter in the bracket. (20%)
(A)
The transition from apes to humans may have been partially triggered by the need to stand on two legs, in order to safely carry heavier babies. This theory of species evolution presented by Lia Amaral from the University of São Paulo in Brazil has just been published.
For safety, all nonhuman primates carry their young clinging to their fur from birth, and species survival depends on it. The carrying pattern changes as the infant grows. Newborns are carried clinging to their mother’s stomach, often with additional support. Months later, infants are carried over the adult body usually on the mother’s back, and this carrying pattern lasts for years in apes. However, this necessity to carry infants safely imposes limits on the weight of the infants.
Through a detailed mechanical analysis of how different types of apes-gibbons, orangutans and gorillas-carry their young, looking at the properties of ape hair, infant grip, adult hair density and carrying position, Amaral demonstrates a relationship between infant weight, hair friction and body angle which ensures ape infants are carried safely.
Amaral also shows how the usual pattern of primate carrying heavy infants is incompatible with bipedalism. African apes have to persist with knuckle-walking on all fours, or “quadruped” position, in order to stop their young from slipping off their backs.
The author goes on to suggest that the fall in body hair in primates could have brought on bipedality as a necessary consequence, through the strong selective pressure of safe infant carrying, as infants were no longer able to cling to their mother’s body hairs. In the author’s opinion, safe carrying of heavy infants justified the emergence of the biped form of movement. Although an adult gorilla is much heavier than an adult human, its offspring is only half the weight of a human baby.
Amaral concludes that this evolution to bipedality has important consequences for the female of the species. Indeed, it frees the arms and hands of males and juveniles, but females have their arms and hands occupied with their young. This restriction of movement placed limits on food gathering for biped females carrying their infants, and may have been at the origin of group cooperation.
37.What is the passage mainly concerned with?( )
A. The transition from apes to humans.
B. Bipedality and safe carrying of heavy infants.
C. The ape infant carrying pattern.
D. The theory of species evolution.
38.According to Amaral, what is responsible for safe ape infant carrying?( )
A. Infant weight.
B. Adult weight.
C. The biped form of movement.
D. Infant hair density.
39.What probably remains unchanged as the ape infant grows?( )
A. When it is carried, it clings to its mother’s stomach.
B. It is carried on its mother’s back.
C. It has to learn to stand on two legs.
D. When it is carried, it holds tightly its mother’s body hairs.
40.All of the following could account for bipedality EXCEPT _______. ( )
A. safe carrying of heavy infants
B. the fall in body hair
C. the weight of the infant
D. the weight of the adult
41.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?( )
A. Primates must be two-footed so as to safely carry their heavy infants.
B. Ape evolution to humans is somewhat attributed to the need to stand on two legs.
C. Group cooperation among biped species was probably due to the fact the females carrying their infants in arms had difficulty in
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