2008年职称英语考试综合类课堂笔记八十九
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4. Which of the following （下列）best describes（描述） the experience（经历，经验） of going in a lift now? A． Fascinating（迷人的） B. Uninteresting（没有意思的， 令人厌倦的） C. Frightening（令人恐惧的） D. Exciting（令人兴奋的） 4．B． 细节题。 顺着上一题的答案位置往下查找答案相关句： Think of a modern city and the first image that come to mind is the skyline. It is full of great buildings, pointing like fingers to heaven. It is true that some cities don’t permit buildings to go above a certain height. But these are cities concerned with the past. The first thing any city does when it wants to tell the world that it has arrived is to build skyscrapers. When people gather together in cites, they create a demand for land. Since cities are places where money is made, that demand can be met. And the best way to make money out of city land is to put as many people as possible in a space that covers the smallest amount of ground. That means building upwards. The technology existed to do this as early as the 19th century. But the height of buildings was limited by one important factor. They had to be small enough for people on the top floors to climb stairs. People could not be expected to climb a mountain at the end of their journey to work, or home. Elisha Otis, a US inventor, was the man who brought us the lift – or elecator, as he preferred to call it. However, most of the technology is very old. Lifts work using the same pulley system the Egyptians used to create the Pyramids. What Otis did was attach the system to a steam engine and develop the elevator brake, which stops the lift falling if the cords that hold it up are broken. It was this that did the most to gain public confidence in the new invention.(第3题答案相关句) In fact, he spent a number of years exhibiting lifts at fairgrounds, giving people the chance to try them before selling the idea to architects and builders. A lift would not be a very good theme park attraction now. Going in a lift is such（如此的） an everyday（日常的，平常的） thing that it would just（仅仅，非常， 恰好） be boring（令人感到厌倦的）. Yet psychologists and others who study human behavior find lifts fascinating. The reason is simple. Scientists have always studied animals in zoos. The nearest they can get to the that with humans is in observing them in lifts. 答案相关句说“乘电梯也成了再普遍不过的事情， 以至于乘坐电梯也变得有些令人感到厌倦”。 |
