2019年成人高考专升本英语巩固练习及答案（六）_第4页

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　　Passage Three

　　Researchers have found that REM (rapid eye movement) sleep is important to human beings. This type of sleep generally occurs four or five times during one night of sleep lasting five minutes to forty minutes for each occurrence. The deeper a person's sleep becomes, ~the longer the periods of rapid eye movement.

　　There are physical charges in the body to show that a person has changed from NREM( non-rapid eye movement) to REM sleep. Breathing becomes faster, the heart rate increases, and, as the name implies, the eyes begin to move quickly,

　　Accompanying these physical changes in the body is a very important characteristic of REM sleep. It is during REM sleep that a person dreams..

　　第44题　According to the passage,, how often does REM sleep occur in one night? __________

　　A.Once　　B.Twice　　C.Four or five times　　D.Forty times

　　答案：C

　　第45题　The word "deeper" in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to which of the following? __________

　　A.heavier.　　B.louder.　　C.stronger.　　D.Happier.

　　答案：A

　　第46题　Which of the following shows that a person is NOT dreaming in his sleep?__________

　　A.His eyes begin to move.　　B.His breathing-becomes faster.

　　C.His heart rate increases.　　D.His eyes stop moving.

　　答案：D

　　第47题　The subject of this passage is__________.

　　A.why people sleep　　B.the human need for REM sleep

　　C.the characteristic of REM sleep　　D.physical changes in the human body

　　答案：C

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　　Passage Four

　　Man's first real invention, and one of the most important inventions in history, was the wheel. All transportation and every machine in the world depend on it. The wheel is the simplest yet perhaps the most remarkable of all inventions, because there are no wheels in nature-no living thing was ever created with wheels. How, then, did man come to invent the wheel? Perhaps some early hunters found that they could roll the carcass of a heavy animal through the forest on logs more easily than they could carry it. However, the logs themselves weighed a lot.

　　It must have taken a great prehistoric thinker to imagine two thin slices of log connected, at their centers by a string stick. This would roll along just as the logs did, yet be much lighter and easier to handle. Thus the wheel and axle came into being and with them the first carts.

　　第48题　The wheel is important because__________.

　　A.it was man's first real invention　　B.all transportation depends on it

　　C.every machine depends on it　　D.both B and C

　　答案：D

　　第49题　The wheel is called__________.

　　A.simple　　B.complicated　　C.strange　　D.unusual

　　答案：D

　　第50题　It was remarkable of man to invent the wheel because__________.

　　A.it led to .many other inventions　　B.man had no use for it then

　　C.there were no wheels in nature　　D.all of the above

　　答案：D

　　第51题　The wheel was probably invented by__________.

　　A.a group of early hunters　　B.the first men on earth

　　C.a great prehistoric thinker　　D.the man who made the first cart

　　答案：A

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　　Passage Five

　　Even plants can run a fever, especially when they're under attack by insects or disease. But unlike humans, plants can have their temperature taken from 3,000 feet away--straight up. A decade ago, adapting the infrared (红外线) scanning technology developed for military purposes and other satellites, physicist Stephen Paley came up with a quick way to take the temperature of crops to determine which ones are under stress. The goal was to let farmers precisely target pesticide (杀虫剂) spraying rather than rain poison on a whole field, which invariably includes plants that don't have pest (害虫) problems.

　　Even better, Paley's Remote Scanning Services Company could detect crop problems before they became visible to the eye. Mounted on a plane flown at 3,000 feet at night, an infrared scanner measured the heat emitted by crops. The data were transformed into a color-code map showing where plants were running" fevers". Farmers could then spot-spray, using 50 to70 percent less pesticide than they otherwise would.

　　The bad news is that Paley's company closed down in 1984, after only three years. Farmers resisted the new technology and long-term backers were hard to find. But with the renewed concern about pesticides on produce, and refinements in infrared scanning, Paley hopes to get back into operation. Agriculture experts have no doubt the technology works~ "This technique can be used on 75 percent of agricultural land in the United States", says George Oerther of Texas A&M. Ray Jackson, who recently retired from the Department of Agricultrue, thinks re- mote infrared crop scanning could be adopted by the end of the decade. But only if Paley finds the financial backing which he failed to obtain 10 years ago.

　　第52题　In order to apply pesticide spraying precisely, we can use infrared scanning to__________.

　　A.locate the problem areas　　B.drew a color-ceded map

　　C.measure the size of the affected area　　D.estimate the damage to the crops

　　答案：A

　　第53题　Farmers can save a considerable amount of pesticide by__________.

　　A.transforming poisoned rain　　B.consulting infrared scanning experts

　　C.resorting to spot-spraying　　D.detecting crop problems at an early date

　　答案：C

　　第54题　Plants will emit an increased amount of heat when they are__________.

　　A.sprayed with pesticides　　B.in pour physical condition

　　C.facing an infrared scanner　　D.exposed to excessive sun rays

　　答案：B

　　第55题　The application of infrared scanning technolgy to agriculture met with some difficulties due to__________.

　　A.the lack of official support　　B.its high cost

　　C.its failure to help increase production　　D.the lack of financial support

　　答案：D