2014年職稱英語考試?yán)砉ゎ怌級(jí)模擬題:閱讀判斷

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　　第二部分：閱讀判斷(第16～22題，每題1分，共7分)

　　閱讀下面這篇短文，短文后列出7個(gè)句子，請(qǐng)根據(jù)短文的內(nèi)容對(duì)每個(gè)句子做出判斷。如果該句提供的是正確信息，請(qǐng)?jiān)诖痤}卡上把A涂黑;如果該句提供的是錯(cuò)誤信息，請(qǐng)?jiān)诖痤}卡上把B涂黑;如果該句的信息在文章中沒有提及，請(qǐng)?jiān)诖痤}卡上把C涂黑。

　　Ancient Water From Afar

　　It streaked across the sky on a warm March evening last year, then crashed into a street in the small town of Monahans, Texas. When seven boys quit their basketball game to inspect the damage, they found a shiny, black grapefruit-size rock settled in the asphalt (瀝青). Word of them “flaming rock”traveled quickly in newspapers and on TV. The next day, NASA scientist Everett Gibson arrived and took the meteorite(隕石), later named Monahans 1998, back to a lab in Houston. There researchers broke open the extraterrestrial(地球外的)rock with a hammer and chisel (鑿子). To their surprise, they struck water. A team led by Michael Zolensky of the Johnson Space Center reports this discovery in a journal. It's the first time anyone has found liquid water in an object from space-and a suggestion that life may exist outside our planet.

　　Meteorites containing water are probably not scarce, Zolensky says. But by the time researchers get their hands on the rocks, minerals that trap the water have dissolved away, and the water have evaporated. Worse, some researchers destroy the evidence by cutting meteorites open with rock saws and water. “I'm betting this isn't such a rare find; it's just that people have been mistreating their meteorites, ”Zolensky says.

　　Of course, Zolensky's team did get a bit lucky. Monahans 1998 was safe in their lab less than two days after it hit the Earth, so they examined an unusually fresh sample. The scientists were keen to find vivid purple crystals of halite (巖鹽)inside the meteorite, since halite is a salt mineral usually formed from liquid water. Even more curious were the hundreds of tiny bubbles suspended in the halite crystals. Zolensky's team analyzed the bubbles by shining a laser beam through them and confirmed they were made of salty brine (鹽水).

　　By dating the halite, Zolensky's team found the water trapped inside it formed at least 4.5 billion years ago, back when most scientists believe our solar system was born. That means the briny object any help researchers learn about the gaseous nebulas(星云)that gave rise to our sun and planets.

　　But how did the meteorite get wet? One possibility is that a passing comet smashed into the rock, dropping off a load of liquid water. Or the rock might have chipped off an asteroid (小行星)that holds pools of fluid. Zolensky's team still needs to study whether the water comes from our own solar system. One thing is certain, however: the Monahans meteorite will fuel the debate on extraterrestrial life, "Water is a life-giver, so if you want to study where life came from in the solar system, you have to follow where water came from,"Zolensky says. A wet rock from

　　space doesn't mean little green men are coming soon to a planet near you, but it does raise hopes that we're not alone in the universe.

　　16　Scientist find liquid water inside the rock.

　　A　Right

　　B　Wrong

　　C　Not mentioned

　　17　The meteorite was broken open in California.

　　A　Right

　　B　Wrong

　　C　Not mentioned

　　18　The Johnson Space Center reported the discovery in the journal Newsweek.

　　A　Right

　　B　Wrong

　　C　Not mentioned

　　19　Monahans 1998 was formed when the solar system came into being.

　　A　Right

　　B　Wrong

　　C　Not mentioned

　　20　Monahans 1998 means that little green men are coming soon to a planet near us.

　　A　Right

　　B　Wrong

　　C　Not mentioned

　　21　The rock clipped off an asteroid that held pools of water.

　　A　Right

　　B　Wrong

　　C　Not mentioned

　　22　A passing comet smashed into the rock and dropped off a load of liquid.

　　A　Right

　　B　Wrong

　　C　Not mentioned

　　參考答案：

　　16　A答案在第一段最后一句。句中說：“人們第一次從來自太空的物體中發(fā)現(xiàn)有液態(tài)水?！?/P>

　　17　B應(yīng)為Houston而不是California。

　　18　C原文并未明確指出哪種報(bào)紙，更未提到Newsweek一詞。

　　19　A答案在倒數(shù)第二段。即該段中第一句所說“Zolensky團(tuán)隊(duì)發(fā)現(xiàn)巖石中的水分至少是在45億年前形成太陽系時(shí)就存在于其中的”。

　　20　B答案在倒數(shù)第一段最后一句。

　　21　A答案在最后一段第三句。即“這塊巖石可能顯示有一個(gè)小行星上面曾經(jīng)有過水池”這句話。

　　22　A答案在最后一段第二句話，隕石上的水可能是彗星留下來的。