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小题1:According to Warranty Limitations, a product can be under warranty if __________.
A. shipped from a Canadian factory B. rented for home use
C. repaired by the user himself D. used in the U.S.A.
小题2:According to Owner’s Responsibilities, an owner has to pay for __________.| A．the loss of the sales receipt | B．a servicer’s overtime work | | C．the product installation | D．a mechanic’s transportation |
小题3:Which of the following is true according to the warranty?| A．Consequential damages are excluded across America. | | B．A product damaged in a natural disaster is covered by the warranty. | | C．A faulty cabinet due to rust can be replaced free in the second year. | | D．Free repair is available for a product used improperly in the first year. |
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小题:D
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小题:C |
【文章大意】文章是一篇烘干机的保修情况说明，列举了产品保修的覆盖范围和不属于保修的几种情况。
小题1:根据Warranty Limitations保修限制部分的“Applies only to product used within the United States or in Canada ”适用于在美国或者加拿大使用的产品，可知D项正确。根据“if product is approved by Canadian Standards Association when shipped from factory.”适用于产品从工厂运输时由加拿大标准协会批准的产品，并不是说一定要从加拿大的工厂运出来。因此A项错误。根据 Products used on a rental basis not covered by this warranty，租用的产品是不覆盖在保修范围的，因此排除B项。根据Service must be performed by an Amana servicer服务必须是在Amana的维修工来操作的，因此排除C项。
小题2:根据从该部分的最后两条里面找。需要付钱的项目里面没有A项，因此排除。根据Pay for extra service costs, over normal service charges, if servicer is requested to perform service outside servicer’s normal business hours可知，需要付额外的服务费用，比通常的服务费用要高，如果维修人员在正常工作时间之外被要求服务的话。因此B项是正确的，即维修人员的超时服务。根据Pay for service calls related to product installation可知，你需要支付的是叫安装服务的电话费用calls，而不是安装费用，故排除C项。D项也没有在文中提到，因此排除掉。
小题3:根据最后一段的This warranty gives you specific legal rights, and you may have others which vary from state to state 意为这个保修给予了你具体的合法权利，同时你也可能有其他的一些权利，这在不同的州情况有所不同，因此排除A项，A项意为间接损失在全美都不包括。根据Product has damage due to……floods,可知，由于自然灾害，比如洪水，造成的损失，是不属于保修的，因此排除B项。根据Product is improperly installed or applied意为不恰当的安装和使用造成的损失是不保修的。因此排除D项。由此得出结论，答案是C项，意为机箱第一年内生锈的会免费更换。 |
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A team of engineers at Harvard University has been inspired by Nature to create the first robotic fly. The mechanical fly has become a platform for a series of new high-tech integrated systems. Designed to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny machine is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.
“It’s extremely important for us to think about this as a whole system and not just the sum of a bunch of individual components (元件),” said Robert Wood, the Harvard engineering professor who has been working on the robotic fly project for over a decade. A few years ago, his team got the go-ahead to start piecing together the components. “The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of those components are off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own,” he said.
They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. “The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of interdependencies on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well to everything it’s connected to,” said Wood. The flight device was built into a set of power, computation, sensing and control systems. Wood says the success of the project proves that the flying robot with these tiny components can be built and manufactured.
While this first robotic flyer is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, so that it might someday perform data-gathering work at rescue sites, in farmers’ fields or on the battlefield. “Basically it should be able to take off, land and fly around,” he said.
Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications. “You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animals, but using these robots instead,” he said. “So there are a lot of technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives us on a day to day basis.”
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小题1:The difficulty the team of engineers met with while making the robotic fly was that __________.| A．they had no model in their mind | | B．they did not have sufficient time | | C．they had no ready-made components | | D．they could not assemble the components |
小题2:It can be inferred from paragraphs 3 and 4 that the robotic fly __________.| A．consists of a flight device and a control system | | B．can just fly in limited areas at the present time | | C．can collect information from many sources | | D．has been put into wide application |
小题3:Which of the following can be learned from the passage?| A．The robotic flyer is designed to learn about insects. | | B．Animals are not allowed in biological experiments. | | C．There used to be few ways to study how insects fly. | | D．Wood’s design can replace animals in some experiments. |
小题4:Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?| A．Father of Robotic Fly | | B．Inspiration from Engineering Science | | C．Robotic Fly Imitates Real Life Insect | | D．Harvard Breaks Through in Insect Study |
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Fear may be felt in the heart as well as in the head, according to a study that has found a link between the cycles of a beating heart and the chance of someone feeling fear.
Tests on healthy volunteers found that they were more likely to feel a sense of fear at the moment when their hearts are contracting(收缩) and pumping blood around their bodies, compared with the point when the heartbeat is relaxed. Scientists say the results suggest that the heart is able to influence how the brain responds to a fearful event, depending on which point it is at in its regular cycle of contraction and relaxation.
Sarah Garfinkel at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School said: "Our study shows for the first time that the way in which we deal with fear is different depending on when we see fearful pictures in relation to our heart."
The study tested 20 healthy volunteers on their reactions to fear as they were shown pictures of fearful faces. Dr Garfinkel said, "The study showed that fearful faces are better noticed when the heart is pumping than when it is relaxed. Thus our hearts can also affect what we see and what we don"t see - and guide whether we see fear."
To further understand this relationship, the scientists also used a brain scanner(扫描仪) to show how the brain influences the way the heart changes a person"s feeling of fear. “We have found an important mechanism by which the heart and brain ‘speak’to each other to change our feelings and reduce fear," Dr Garfinkel said.
"We hope that by increasing our understanding about how fear is dealt with and ways that it could be reduced, we may be able to develop more successful treatments for anxiety disorders, and also for those for those who may be suffering from serious stress disorder."
小题1:What is the finding of the study?| A．One"s heart affects how he feels fear. | | B．fear is a result of one"s relaxed heartbeat. | | C．fear has something to do with one"s health. | | D．Ones fast heartbeats are likely to cause fear. |
小题2:The study was carried out by analyzing _______.| A．volunteers" heartbeats when they saw terrible pictures | | B．the time volunteers saw fearful pictures and their health conditions | | C．volunteers" reactions to horrible pictures and data from their brain scans | | D．different pictures shown to volunteers and their heart-brain communication |
小题3:Which of the following is closest in meaning to "mechanism" in Paragraph 6?| A．Order. | B．system. | C．machine. | D．treatment. |
小题4:This study may contribute to _______.| A．treating anxiety and stress better | | B．explaining the cycle of fear and anxiety | | C．finding the sky to the heart-brain communication | | D．understanding different fears in our hearts and heads |
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Almost every machine with moving parts has wheels, yet no one knows exactly when the first wheel was invented or what it was used for. We do know, however, that they existed over 5,500 years ago in ancient Asia.
The oldest known transport wheel was discovered in 2002 in Slovenia. It is over 5,100 years old. Evidence suggests that wheels for transport didn’t become popular for a while, though. This could be because animals did a perfectly good job of carrying farming tools and humans around.
But it could also be because of a difficult situation. While wheels need to roll on smooth surfaces, roads with smooth surfaces weren’t going to be constructed until there was plenty of demand for them. Eventually, road surfaces did become smoother, but this difficult situation appeared again a few centuries later. There had been no important changes in wheel and vehicle design before the arrival of modem road design.
In the mid-1700s, a Frenchman came up with a new design of road—a base layer (层) of large stones covered with a thin layer of smaller stones. A Scotsman improved on this design in the 1820s and a strong, lasting road surface became a reality. At around the same lime, metal hubs (the central part of a wheel) came into being, followed by the pneumatic tyre(充气轮胎) in 1846. Alloy wheels were invented in 1967, sixty years after the appearance of tarmacked roads (柏油路). As wheel design took off, vehicles got faster and faster.
小题1:What might explain why transport wheels didn’t become popular for some time?| A．Few knew how to use transport wheels. | | B．Humans carried farming tools just as well. | | C．Animals were a good means of transport. | | D．The existence of transport wheels was not known. |
小题2:What do we know about road design from the passage?| A．It was easier than wheel design. | | B．It improved after big changes in vehicle design. | | C．It was promoted by fast-moving vehicles. | | D．It provided conditions for wheel design to develop. |
小题3:How is the last paragraph mainly developed?| A．By giving examples. | | B．By making comparisons. | | C．By following time order. | | D．By making classifications. |
小题4:What is the passage mainly about?| A．The beginning of road design. | | B．The development of transport wheels. | | C．The history of public transport. | | D．The invention of fast-moving vehicles. |
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Not all bodies of water are so evidently alive as the Atlantic Ocean, an S-shaped body of water covering 33 million square miles. The Atlantic has, in a sense, replaced the Mediterranean as the inland sea of Western civilization. Unlike real inland seas, which seem strangely still, the Atlantic is rich in oceanic liveliness. It is perhaps not surprising that its vitality has been much written about by ancient poets.
“Storm at Sea”, a short poem written around 700, is generally regarded as one of mankind’s earliest artistic representations of the Atlantic.
When the wind is from the west
All the waves that cannot rest
To the east must thunder on
Where the bright tree of the sun
Is rooted in the ocean’s breast.
As the poem suggests, the Atlantic is never dead and dull. It is an ocean that moves, impressively and endlessly. It makes all kinds of noise—it is forever thundering, boiling, crashing, and whistling.
It is easy to imagine the Atlantic trying to draw breath—perhaps not so noticeably out in mid-ocean, but where it meets land, its waters bathing up and down a sandy beach. It mimics(模仿) nearly perfectly the steady breathing of a living creature. It is filled with symbiotic existences, too: unimaginable quantities of creatures, little and large alike, mix within its depths in a kind of oceanic harmony, giving to the waters a feeling of heartbeat, a kind of sub-ocean vitality. And it has a psychology. It has personalities: sometimes peaceful and pleasant, on rare occasions rough and wild; always it is strong and striking.
小题1:Unlike real inland seas, the Atlantic Ocean is______.| A．always energetic | | B．lacking in liveliness | | C．shaped like a square | | D．favored by ancient poets |
小题2:What is the purpose of using the poem “Storm at Sea” in the passage?| A．To describe the movement of the waves. | | B．To show the strength of the storm. | | C．To represent the power of the ocean. | | D．To prove the vastness of the sea. |
小题3:What does the underlined word “symbiotic” mean?| A．Living together. | | B．Growing fast. | | C．Moving harmoniously. | | D．Breathing peacefully. |
小题4:In the last paragraph, the Atlantic is compared to______.| A．a beautiful and poetic place | | B．a flesh and blood person | | C．a wonderful world | | D．a lovely animal |
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Almost everyone wants to get smarter. We struggle to improve our 36_ , intelligence and attention. We drink cup after cup of coffee to help us 37_ the day.
38 __, a new study published in Current Directions in Psychological Science warns that there are 39___ to how smart humans can get.
Each of our body parts develops in a certain way for a reason. 40 _, we are not 3 meters tall 41 _ most people’s hearts are not strong enough to send 42 _ up that high. Scientists say that our thinking ability works in the same way. A baby’s brain size is limited by a series of __43 , such as the size of the mother’s pelvis (骨盆). If our brains developed to be bigger, there could be more 44 during childbirth.
The study of Jews, who have an average IQ much _ 45_ than other Europeans, showed they were more _46_ to develop diseases of the _47_ system. This might be because of their increased brainpower.
If intelligence cannot be improved, can we at least get better at _ 48 _ ? Not really, say scientists. They studied _49_ like caffeine (咖啡因)that improve attention. They found the drugs only helped people with serious 50 _ problems. For those who did not have trouble paying attention, the drugs could have the 51 _ effect. Scientists say that this suggests there is a(n) 52 limit to how much people can or should concentrate.
Our memory is also a “double-edged sword”. People with extremely good memories could 53__ having a difficult life because they cannot _54 bad things that happen to them.
Thomas Hills, one of the authors of the paper, said that 55 all the problems in trying to get smarter, it’s unlikely that there will ever be a “super mind”.
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| 小题2: | | A．go through | B．put through | C．get through | D．carry through |
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| 小题3: | | A．Though | B．Therefore | C．However | D．Meanwhile |
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| 小题4: | | A．standards | B．measures | C．ranges | D．limits |
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| 小题5: | | A．At first | B．In addition | C．For example | D．Above all |
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| 小题6: | | A．until | B．because | C．before | D．so that |
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| 小题7: | | A．blood | B．information | C．breath | D．strength |
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| 小题8: | | A．factors | B．reasons | C．aspects | D．effects |
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| 小题9: | | A．chances | B．deaths | C．choices | D．lives |
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| 小题10: | | A．smarter | B．better | C．lower | D．higher |
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| 小题11: | | A．likely | B．possible | C．probable | D．sure |
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| 小题12: | | A．physical | B．bodily | C．personal | D．nervous |
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| 小题13: | | A．exercising | B．concentrating | C．memorizing | D．thinking |
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| 小题14: | | A．poisons | B．drinks | C．plants | D．drugs |
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| 小题15: | | A．attention | B．family | C．health | D．living |
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| 小题16: | | A．same | B．opposite | C．different | D．similar |
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| 小题17: | | A．lower | B．smaller | C．upper | D．higher |
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| 小题18: | | A．end up | B．make up | C．start up | D．come up |
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| 小题19: | | A．forget | B．remember | C．perform | D．share |
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| 小题20: | | A．supposing | B．concerning | C．considering | D．regarding |
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