职称英语理工类b级考试真题(3)
职称英语理工类b级考试真题（3）
王祖贤父亲去世第三篇 Longer Lives for Wild Elephants
Most people think of zoos as safe places for animals, where struggles such as difficulty finding food and avoiding predators (猛兽) don't exist. Without such problems, animals in zoos should live to a ripe (成熟的) old age1.
But that may not be true for the largest land animals on Earth. Scientists have known that elephants in zoos often suffer from poor health. They develop diseases, joint problems and behavior changes. Sometimes, they even become infertile, or unable to have babies.
To learn more about how captivity (圈养) affects elephants, a team of international scientists compared the life spans of female elephants born in zoos with female elephants living outdoors in their native lands. Zoos keep detailed records of all the animals in their care, documenting factors such as birth dates, illnesses, weight and death. These records made it possible for me researchers to analyze 40 years of data on 800 African and Asian elepha
nts in zoos across Europe. The scientists compared the life spans of the zoo-born elephants with the life spans of thousands of female wild elephants in Africa and Asian elephants that work in logging camps(伐木场),over approximately the same time period.
The team found that female African elephants born in zoos lived an average of 16.9 years. Their wild counterparts who died of natural causes lived an average of 56 years-more than three times as long. Female Asian elephants followed a similar pattern. In zoos, they lived 18.9 years, while those in the logging camps lived 41.7 years.
Scientists don't yet know why wild elephants seem to fare so much better than their zoo-raised counterparts. Georgia Mason, a biologist at the University of Guelph in Canada who led the study, thinks stress and obesity (肥胖症) may be to blame. Zoo elephants don't get the same kind of exercise they would in the wild, and most are very fat. Elephant social lives are also much different in zoos than in the wild, where they live in large herds and family groups.
The study raises some questions about acquiring more elephants to keep in zoos. While
some threatened and endangered species living in zoos reproduce (生殖) successfully and maintain healthy populations, that doesn't appear to be the case with elephants. 41 Unlike other animals in zoos, zoo-raised elephants
A live a long life
B give birth to many babies
C develop poor health
周杰伦的新歌D have difficulty getting food
42 Which of the following about the international scientists' study is NOT true?
A They compared zoo elephants with wild elephants.
B They analyzed the records of the elephants kept in zoos.
C The zoo-born elephants they studied are kept in European zoos.
D They kept detailed records of all the elephants in their care.
43 It was found that, compared with female wild elephants, female zoo-born elephants
A lived longer.
B grew up faster.
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C died much earlier.
中国传统节日有哪些D enjoyed the same life spans.
44 One of the possible reasons for the Zoo-raised elephants' problems is that
A they do not get enough exercise.
B they do too much exercise.
C they live in large herds.
陌生的恋人剧情介绍D they do not live in family groups.
45 It can be inferred from the last paragraph that
A Zoo-born elephants should be looked after more carefully.
B Zoos should keep more animals except elephants.
C It may not be a wise policy to keep elephants in the zoo.
D Elephants are no longer an endangered species.
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41 C 第二段第二句话 "Scientists have known that elephants in zoos often suffer from poor health"，说明"生活在动物园的大象经常会有不良的健康状态"。答案为C。
42 D 第三段第二句话"Zoos keep detailed records of all the animals in their care, documenting factors such as birth dates, illnesses, weight and death"，说明是动物园记录了有关大象生活的各个方面，而不是科学家做的，所以选项 D 不符合文章本意。其余选项的内容在文中都有体现。
43 C 第四段中作者向读者讲述了野生雌大象存活的时间是生活在动物园的雌大象存活时间的三倍，所以答案为 C。
44 D 第五段最后一句话"Social lives of elephants are a1so much different in zoos than in the wild, where they live in large herds and family groups"，说明"生活在动物园里的雌大象与野生雌大象不同之处是后者是居并以家族的方式生活"。答案为D。
45 C 文章最后一段主要讲述大象不适宜动物园的生活，尤其是最后一句话 "that doesn't appear to be the case with elephant"，说明"那不适宜大象的情况"。答案为 C。
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Flying into History
Whenyou turn on the television or read a magazine, celebrites　(名人)are everywhere. Al
though fame and the media play such major roles in our lives today, it has not always been that way. _______(46) Manyhistorians agree that Charles Lindberghwas one of the first major
celebrities, or superstars.
Lindbergh was born in Detroit, Michigan, in1902, but he grew up in Little Falls, Minnescta. As a child, he was very interested in how things worked, so when he reached college, he pursued a of flying captured Lindbergh’s degree in engineering. At the age of 20, however, the allure(诱惑) imagination. _______(47) Soon after, Lindbergh bought his own plane and traveled across the nation performing aerial stunts(空中特技).

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