communicate with each other. A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
17 The dolphin leapt up into the air because Sagan was too near the water.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
18 Parts of the dolphin’s brain are particularly well developed to handle different kinds of sound. A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
19 Dolphins are the most useful animals to humans. A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
20 Dolphins travel faster in water than any other animals. A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
21 Some scientists believe that dolphins have a language of their own.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
22 Sounds can be called a language only when they have a structure and a grammar. A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
第3部分：概括大意与完成句子 （第23—30题，每题1分，共8分）
阅读下面这篇短文，短文后有2项测试任务：（1）第23—26题要
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求从所给的6个选项中为第2、 3、
5和6段每段选择1个正确的小标题；（2）第27—30题要求从所给的6个选项中选择4个正确选项，分别完成每个句子。请将答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。 The Weight Experiment
Nicola Walters has been taking part in experiments in Scotland to discover why humans gain and lost weight. Being locked in a small room called a ‘calorimeter’（热量测量室)is one way to find out.
1 The sighs above the two rooms read simply “Chamber One” and “Chamber Two”. These are the calorimeters: 4m by 2m white-walled rooms where human volunteers are locked up in the name of science. Outside these rooms another sign reads “Please do not enter- work in progress” and in front of the rooms advanced machinery registers every move the volunteers make. Each day, meals measured to the last gram are passed through a hole in the wall of the calorimeter to the resident volunteer.
2 Nicola Walters is one of twenty volunteers who, over the past eight months, have spent varying periods inside the
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calorimeter. Tall and slim, Nicola does not have a weight problem, but thought the strict diet might help with her training and fitness programme. A self-employed community dance worker, she was able to fit the experiment in around her work. She saw an advert for volunteers at her local gym and as she is interested in the whole area of diet and exercise, she thought she would help out.
3 The experiment on Nicola involved her spending one day on a fixed diet at home and the next in the room. This sequence was repeated four times over six weeks. She arrived at the calorimeter at 8:30 am on each of the four mornings and from then on everything she ate or drank was carefully measured. Her every move was noted too, her daily exercise routine timed to the last second. At regular intervals, after eating, she filled in forms about how hungry she felt and samples were taken for analysis. 4 The scientists help volunteers impose a kind of order on the long days they face in the room. “The first time, I only took one video and a book, but it was OK because I watched TV the rest of the time,” says Nicola. And twice a day she used the exercise bike. She pedaled () for half an
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hour, watched by researchers to make sure she didn’t go too fast.
5 It seems that some foods encourage you to eat more, while others satisfy you quickly. Volunteers are already showing that high-fat diets are less likely to make you feel full. Believing that they may now know what encourages people to overeat, the researchers are about to start testing a high-protein weight-loss diet. Volunteers are required and Nicola has signed up for further sessions. 23 Paragraph 1____________ 24 Paragraph 1____________ 25 Paragraph 1____________ 26 Paragraph 1____________
27 The machinery outside the calorimeters records everything___________.
28 Nicola Walters had time for the experiments________________.
29 Volunteers have to get prepared for the time in the calorimeter____________.
30 The experiments show that high-fat diets_____________. A the volunteers doB because she does not have a weight
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problemC because the life there can be very boringD make people overeatE because she was her own bossF after passing a high-protein test
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 “Salty” Rice Plant Boosts Harvests
British scientists are breeding a new generation of rice plants that will be able to grow in soil containing salt water. Their work may enable abandoned farms to become productive once more.
Tim Flowers and Tony Yeo, from Sussex University’s School of Biological Sciences, have spent several years
researching how crops, such as rice, could be made to grow in water that has become salty.
The pair have recently begun a three-year programme, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, to establish which genes enable some plants to survive salty conditions. The aim is to breed this capability into crops, starting with rice.
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2003年职称英语等级考试试题真题-理工类A级(含答案)
