2009年职称英语等级考试理工C级模拟试题(二)

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　　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。请仔细阅读短文并根据短文回答其后面的问题，从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
　　Pushbike Perilhttp://www.hxen.net
　　Low speed bicycle crashes can badly injure--or even kill--children if they fall onto the ends of the handlebars so a team of engineers is redesigning the humble handlebar in a bid to make it safer.
　　Kristy Arbogast, a bioengineer at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, began the project with her colleagues after a study of serious abdominal injuries in children in the past 30 years showed that mol-e than a third were caused by bicycle accidents.”the task was to identify how the injuries occurred and come up with some countermeasures.” she says.
　　By interviewing the children and their parents，Arbogast and her team were able to reconstruct many of the accidents and identified a common mechanism responsible for serious injures. They discovered that most occur when children hit an obstacle at a slow speed，causing them to topple over. To maintain their balance they turn the handlebars through 90degrees——but their momentum forces them into the end of the handlebars The bike then falls over and the other end of the handlebars hits the ground，ramming it into their abdomen.
　　The solution the group came up with is a handgrip fitted with a spring and damping system. The spring absorbs up to 50 per cent of the forces transmitted through the handlebars in an impact，The group hopes to commercialize the device，which should add only a few dollars to the cost of a bike. “But our task has been one of education because up until now, bicycle manufacturer were unaware of the problem，”says Arbogast.
　　The team has also approached the US Consumer Product Safety Commission to try to persuade manufacturers to adopt the new design A decision is expected later this year.
　　词汇：来源：www.hxen.net
　　handlebar n(常用复数)(自行车等的)车把
　　abdominal adj 腹部的 redesign v 重新设计
　　bioengineer n 生物工程师 reconstruct vt.重建;重构
　　countermeasure n 对策 abdomen n 膜，腹部
　　momentum n冲力 handgrip n握柄
　　damping adj 制动的.减速的，缓冲的 commercialize vt 使商品化
　　练习：来源：和谐英语
　　1 According to the passage，SOme engineers are trying to improve the handlebars because
　　A)they are not noble enough
　　B)they may kill children
　　C)they are likely to crash
　　D)they make the bike move at a low speed
　　2 In paragraph 2, the author mentions a study of serious abdominal injuries
　　A)to discuss how abdominal injuries in children occur,
　　B)to show that more than a third injuries were caused by bicycle accidents.
　　C)to point out what the countermeasures can be.
　　D)to tell us why Kristy Arbogast began the project.
　　3 Paragraph 3 mainly discusses
　　A)why the children and their parents were interviewed
　　B)when the children tom the handlebars through 90 degrees，
　　C)what causes the children to topple over
　　D)how serious injuries occur.
　　4 The passage implies that
　　A)it is not easy to persuade manufacturers to adopt the new design.
　　B)the team of engineers has not found any countermeasures
　　C)children like to ride bicycles at a very low speed.
　　D)a lot of children were killed in bicycle accidents in the past 30 years.
　　5 The new handgrip works in which of the following ways?
　　A)It call be commercialized.
　　B)It reduces the dangerous forces in bicycle accidents
　　C)It adds a few dollars to the cost of a bike
　　D)It changes the direction of the handlebars in all impact.
　　标准答案： B,D,D,A,B