2005年职称英语理工类(A级)试题及答案

       

第4部分：阅读理解(第31～45题，每题3分，共45分)

    下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题，每道题后面有4个选项。请根据文章的内容从每题所给的4个选项中选择1个最佳答案，涂在答题卡相应的位置上。

第一篇

More Than a Ride to School

    The National Education Association claims．“The school bus is a mirror of the community．”

They further add that，unfortunately, what appears on the exterior does not always reflect the

reality of a chosen community．They are right--sometimes it reflects more! Just ask Liesl

Denson. Riding the school bus has been more than a ride to school for Liesl．

    Bruce Hardy．school bus driver for Althouse BUS Company has been Liesl’s bus driver since

kindergarten．Last year when Liesl’s family moved to Parkesburg，knowing her bus went by her

new residence。she requested to ride the same bus

  This year Liesl is a senior and will enjoy her last year riding the bus．She says，”It’s been a

   great ride so far! My bus driver is so cool and has always been a good friend and a good listener．Sometimes when you’re a child adults do not think that what you have to say is important．Mr.Hardy always listens to what you have to say and makes you feel important．’’Her friends Ashley Batista and Amanda Wolfe agree．

  Bruce Hardy has been making Octorara students feel special since 1975.  This  year he will

celebrate 30 years working for Althouse Bus Company，Larry Althouse，president of the company,

acknowledges Bruce Hardy’s outstanding record：“You do not come by employees like Bruce

these days. He has never missed a day of work and has a perfect driving record．He was

recognized in 2000 by the Pennsylvania School Bus Association for driving 350,000 accident

free miles．Hardy’s reputation is made further evident through the relationships he has made with

the students that ride his bus．”

  Althouse further adds，‘‘Althouse Bus Company was established 70 years ago and has been

providing quality transportation ever since．My grandfather started the business with one bus．

Althouse Bus Company is delighted to have the opportunity to bring distinctive and safe service

to our local school and community and looks forward to continuing to provide quality service for

many more years to come．’’

  Three generations of business is not all the company has enjoyed．Thanks to drivers like

Bruce Hardy，they have been building relationships through generations，Liesl’s mother Carol

also enjoys fond memories of riding Bruce Hardy’s bus to the Octorara School District．

31 The word“mirror'’in the first line could be best replaced by

    E  ‘‘vehicle”．

    F  ‘‘device”．

    G  “need”

    H  “reflection”．

32 Bruce Hardy has been working with Althouse Bus Company

  A  for 30 years．

  B  for 70 years．

  C  since last year．

  D  since 2000

33  Which of the following statements is NOT true of Bruce Hardy?

  A He is popular with his passengers．

  B He has never missed a day of work．

  C He is an impatient person

  D He has driven 350.000 accident free miles．

34 Althouse Bus Company was founded by

A  Larry Althouse．

B  Althouse’s grandfather

C  Liesl’s mother

D  Ashley Batista．

35 Althouse Bus Company pays much attention to

  A  employing young drivers

  B  running quality schools．

  C  providing free driving lessons

  D  building sound relationships．

第二篇

A Phone That Knows You’re Busy

  It’s a modern problem：you’re too busy to be disturbed by incessant(连续不断的)phone

calls so you turn your cellphone off .But if you don’t remember to turn it back on when you’re

less busy．you could miss some important calls if only the phone knew when it was wise to

interrupt you，you wouldn’t have to turn it off at all. Instead，it could let calls through when you

are not too busy

    A bunch of behavior sensors(传感器)and a clever piece of software could do just that，by

analyzing your behavior to determine if it’s a good time to interrupt you．If built into a phone，the

system may decide you’re too busy and ask the caller to leave a message or ring back later．

  James Fogarty and Scott Hudson at Camegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania based their

system oil tiny microphones，cameras and touch sensors that reveal body language and activity．

First they had to study different behaviors to find out which ones stongly predict whether your

mind is interrupted

  The potential“busyness”signals they focused on included whether the office doors were left

open or closed，the time of day，if other people were with the person in question，how close they

were to each other, and whether or not the computer was in use．

  The sensors monitored these and many other factors while four subjects were at work . At

random intervals，the subjects rated how interruptible they were on a scale ranging from“highly

interruptible’’to“highly not—interruptible” . Their ratings were then correlated with the various

behaviors . “It is a shotgun(随意的)approach：we used all the indicators we could think of and

then let statistics find out which were important，” says Hudson

  The model showed that using the keyboard，and talking on a landline or to someone else in

the office correlated most strongly with how interruptible the subjects judged themselves to be．

  Interestingly，the computer was actually better than people at predicting when someone was

too busy to be interrupted . The computer got it right 82 per cent of the time，humans 77 per cent．

Fogarty speculates that this might be because people doing the interrupting are inevitably biased

towards delivering their message，whereas computers don’t care．

  The first application for Hudson and Fogarty’s system is likely to be in an instant messaging system，followed by office phones and cellphones．“There is no technological roadblock(障碍)to it being deployed in a couple of years，” says Hudson