当前位置:考试网  > 试卷库  > 外语类  > 雅思  > 阅读  >  1. A European spacecraft took off today to spearhead the search for another "Earth" among the stars. 2. The Corot space telescope blasted off aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan shortly after 2.20pm. 3. Corot, short for convection rotation and planetary transits, is the first instrument capable of finding small rocky planets beyond the solar system. Any such planet situated in the right orbit stands a good chance of having liquid water on its surface, and quite possibly life, although a leading scientist involved in the project said it was unlikely to find "any little green men". 4. Developed by the French space agency, CNES, and partnered by the European Space Agency (ESA), Austria, Belgium, Germany, Brazil and Spain, Corot will monitor around 120,000 stars with its 27cm telescope from a polar orbit 514 miles above the Earth. Over two and a half years, it will focus on five to six different areas of the sky, measuring the brightness of about 10,000 stars every 512 seconds. 5. "At the present moment we are hoping to find out more about the nature of planets around stars which are potential habitats. We are looking at habitable planets, not inhabited planets. We are not going to find any little green men," Professor Ian Roxburgh, an ESA scientist who has been involved with Corot since its inception, told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme. 6. Prof Roxburgh said it was hoped Corot would find "rocky planets that could develop an atmosphere and, if they are the right distance from their parent star, they could have water". 7. To search for planets, the telescope will look for the dimming of starlight caused when an object passes in front of a star, known as a "transit". Although it will take more sophisticated space telescopes planned in the next 10 years to confirm the presence of an Earth-like planet with oxygen and liquid water, Corot will let scientists know where to point their lenses. 8. Measurements of minute changes in brightness will enable scientists to detect giant Jupiter-like gas planets as well as small rocky ones. It is the rocky planets - that could be no bigger than about twice the size of the Earth - which will cause the most excitement. Scientists expect to find between 10 and 40 of these smaller planets. 9. Corot will also probe into stellar interiors by studying the acoustic waves that ripple across the surface of stars, a technique called "asteroseismology". 10. The nature of the ripples allows astronomers to calculate a star’s precise mass, age and chemical composition. 11. "A planet passing in front of a star can be detected by the fall in light from that star. Small oscillations of the star also produce changes in the light emitted, which reveal what the star is made of and how they are structured internally. This data will provide a major boost to our understanding of how stars form and evolve," Prof Roxburgh said. 12. Since the discovery in 1995 of the first "exoplanet" - a planet orbiting a star other than the Sun - more than 200 others have been found by ground-based observatories. 13. Until now the usual method of finding exoplanets has been to detect the "wobble" their gravity imparts on parent stars. But only giant gaseous planets bigger than Jupiter can be found this way, and they are unlikely to harbour life. 14. In the 2010s, ESA plans to launch Darwin, a fleet of four or five interlinked space telescopes that will not only spot small rocky planets, but analyse their atmospheres for signs of biological activity. 15. At around the same time, the US space agency, Nasa, will launch Terrestrial Planet Finder, another space telescope designed to locate Earth-like planets. Choose the appropriate letter from A-D for question 1. 1. Corot is an instrument which (A) can help to search for certain planets (B) is used to find planets in the orbit (C) can locate planets with human beings (D) can spot any planets with water. Do the following statements agree with the information given in the reading passage? For questions 2-5 write TRUE if the statement agrees with the information FALSE if the statement contraicts the information NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this in the passage 2. Scientists are trying to find out about the planets that can be inhabited. 3. BBC Radio 4 recently focuses on the broadcasting of Corot. 4. Passing objects might cause a fall in light. 5. Corot can tell whether there is another Earth-like planet. Based on your reading of the passage, complete the sentences below with words taken from the passage. Use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. With measurements, scientists will be able to search for some gaseous and rocky planets. They will be extremely excited if they can discover some small 6. __________, the expected number of which could be up to 7. __________ . Corot will enable scientists to study the 8. __________ of stars. In this way, a star’s mass, age and chemical composition can be calculated. According to Prof Roxburgh, changes in light can be caused by passing planets or star 9. __________. The related statistics can gain us a better 10. __________ of the star formation and evolvement. Observatories have found many exoplanets, which are 11. __________ other stars than the Sun. The common way used in finding exoplanets can only detect huge gas planets, which do not 12. ___________ . With the launching of Darwin, astronomers will be able to analyse whether those rocky planets have 13. __________ for life.
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1. A European spacecraft took off today to spearhead the search for another "Earth" among the stars.

2. The Corot space telescope blasted off aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan shortly after 2.20pm.

3. Corot, short for convection rotation and planetary transits, is the first instrument capable of finding small rocky planets beyond the solar system. Any such planet situated in the right orbit stands a good chance of having liquid water on its surface, and quite possibly life, although a leading scientist involved in the project said it was unlikely to find "any little green men".

4. Developed by the French space agency, CNES, and partnered by the European Space Agency (ESA), Austria, Belgium, Germany, Brazil and Spain, Corot will monitor around 120,000 stars with its 27cm telescope from a polar orbit 514 miles above the Earth. Over two and a half years, it will focus on five to six different areas of the sky, measuring the brightness of about 10,000 stars every 512 seconds.

5. "At the present moment we are hoping to find out more about the nature of planets around stars which are potential habitats. We are looking at habitable planets, not inhabited planets. We are not going to find any little green men," Professor Ian Roxburgh, an ESA scientist who has been involved with Corot since its inception, told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.

6. Prof Roxburgh said it was hoped Corot would find "rocky planets that could develop an atmosphere and, if they are the right distance from their parent star, they could have water".

7. To search for planets, the telescope will look for the dimming of starlight caused when an object passes in front of a star, known as a "transit". Although it will take more sophisticated space telescopes planned in the next 10 years to confirm the presence of an Earth-like planet with oxygen and liquid water, Corot will let scientists know where to point their lenses.

8. Measurements of minute changes in brightness will enable scientists to detect giant Jupiter-like gas planets as well as small rocky ones. It is the rocky planets - that could be no bigger than about twice the size of the Earth - which will cause the most excitement. Scientists expect to find between 10 and 40 of these smaller planets.

9. Corot will also probe into stellar interiors by studying the acoustic waves that ripple across the surface of stars, a technique called "asteroseismology".

10. The nature of the ripples allows astronomers to calculate a star’s precise mass, age and chemical composition.

11. "A planet passing in front of a star can be detected by the fall in light from that star. Small oscillations of the star also produce changes in the light emitted, which reveal what the star is made of and how they are structured internally. This data will provide a major boost to our understanding of how stars form and evolve," Prof Roxburgh said.

12. Since the discovery in 1995 of the first "exoplanet" - a planet orbiting a star other than the Sun - more than 200 others have been found by ground-based observatories.

13. Until now the usual method of finding exoplanets has been to detect the "wobble" their gravity imparts on parent stars. But only giant gaseous planets bigger than Jupiter can be found this way, and they are unlikely to harbour life.

14. In the 2010s, ESA plans to launch Darwin, a fleet of four or five interlinked space telescopes that will not only spot small rocky planets, but analyse their atmospheres for signs of biological activity.

15. At around the same time, the US space agency, Nasa, will launch Terrestrial Planet Finder, another space telescope designed to locate Earth-like planets.

Choose the appropriate letter from A-D for question 1.

1. Corot is an instrument which

(A) can help to search for certain planets

(B) is used to find planets in the orbit

(C) can locate planets with human beings

(D) can spot any planets with water.

Do the following statements agree with the information given in the reading passage? For questions 2-5 write

TRUE if the statement agrees with the information

FALSE if the statement contraicts the information

NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this in the passage

2. Scientists are trying to find out about the planets that can be inhabited.

3. BBC Radio 4 recently focuses on the broadcasting of Corot.

4. Passing objects might cause a fall in light.

5. Corot can tell whether there is another Earth-like planet.

Based on your reading of the passage, complete the sentences below with words taken from the passage. Use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

With measurements, scientists will be able to search for some gaseous and rocky planets. They will be extremely excited if they can discover some small 6. __________, the expected number of which could be up to 7. __________ .

Corot will enable scientists to study the 8. __________ of stars. In this way, a star’s mass, age and chemical composition can be calculated.

According to Prof Roxburgh, changes in light can be caused by passing planets or star 9. __________. The related statistics can gain us a better 10. __________ of the star formation and evolvement.

Observatories have found many exoplanets, which are 11. __________ other stars than the Sun. The common way used in finding exoplanets can only detect huge gas planets, which do not 12. ___________ .

With the launching of Darwin, astronomers will be able to analyse whether those rocky planets have 13. __________ for life.

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1. 答案:A

2. 答案:TRUE

3. 答案:NOT GIVEN

4. 答案:TRUE

5. 答案:FASLE

6. 答案:rocky planets

7. 答案:40

8. 答案:interiors

9. 答案:oscillations

10. 答案:understanding

11. 答案:orbiting

12. 答案:harbour life

13. 答案:atmospheres

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1、(第3段第1句:Corot,shortforconvectionrotationandplanetarytransits,isthefirstinstrumentcapableoffindingsmallrockyplanetsbeyondthesolarsystem.A项中的certainplanets指smallrockyplanetsbeyondthesolarsystem.)

2、(第5段第1、2句:Atthepresentmomentwearehopingtofindoutmoreaboutthenatureofplanetsaroundstarswhicharepotentialhabitats.Wearelookingathabitableplanets,notinhabitedplanets.问题中的“thatcanbeinhabited”意思就是inhabitable.)

3、(文中没有提及该信息。)

4、(第7段第1句:Tosearchforplanets,thetelescopewilllookforthedimmingofstarlightcausedwhenanobjectpassesinfrontofastar,knownasa"transit".)

5、(第7段第2、3句:Althoughitwilltakemoresophisticatedspacetelescopesplannedinthenext10yearstoconfirmthepresenceofanEarth-likeplanetwithoxygenandliquidwater,Corotwillletscientistsknowwheretopointtheirlenses.)

6、(第8段第2句:Itistherockyplanets-thatcouldbenobiggerthanabouttwicethesizeoftheEarth-whichwillcausethemostexcitement.)

7、(第8段第3句:Scientistsexpecttofindbetween10and40ofthesesmallerplanets.问题中短语“upto”的意思是“达到,高达”,所以应该选择最高的数字40。)

8、(第9段第1句:Corotwillalsoprobeintostellarinteriorsbystudyingtheacousticwavesthatrippleacrossthesurfaceofstars,atechniquecalled"asteroseismology".单词"probe”的词义是“探查,探索”。)

9、(第11段第2句:Smalloscillationsofthestaralsoproducechangesinthelightemitted,whichrevealwhatthestarismadeofandhowtheyarestructuredinternally.)

10、(第11段第3句:Thisdatawillprovideamajorboosttoourunderstandingofhowstarsformandevolve.)

11、(第12段第1句:Sincethediscoveryin1995ofthefirst"exoplanet"-aplanetorbitingastarotherthantheSun-morethan200othershavebeenfoundbyground-basedobservatories.)

12、(第13段:Untilnowtheusualmethodoffindingexoplanetshasbeentodetectthe"wobble"theirgravityimpartsonparentstars.ButonlygiantgaseousplanetsbiggerthanJupitercanbefoundthisway,andtheyareunlikelytoharbourlife.)

13、(第14段:Inthe2010s,ESAplanstolaunchDarwin,afleetoffourorfiveinterlinkedspacetelescopesthatwillnotonlyspotsmallrockyplanets,butanalysetheiratmospheresforsignsofbiologicalactivity.)

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一、 现代文阅读 (36 分) ( 一) 论述类文本阅读 ( 本题共 3 小题 ,9 分) 阅读下面的文字 , 完成 1~3 题。 诸子之学 , 兴起于先秦 , 当时一大批富有创见的思想家喷涌而出, 蔚为思想史之奇观。在狭义上 , 诸子之学与先秦时代相联系; 在广义上 , 诸子之学则不限于先秦而绵延于此后中国想发展的整个过程, 这一过程至今仍没有终结,诸子之学的内在品格是历史的承继性以及思想的创造性和突破性。“新子学” , 即新时的诸子之学 , 也应有同样的品格。 这可以从“照着讲”和“接着讲”两个方面来理解,一般而言 , “照着讲”主要是从历史角度对以往经典作具体的实证性研究, 诸如训诂、 校勘、文献编纂 , 等等 , 这方面的研究涉及对以往思想的回顾、反思, 既应把握历史上的思想家实际说了些什么, 也应总结其中具有创造性和生命力的内容, 从而为今天的思考提供重要的思想资源与“照着讲”相关的是“接着讲” 。从思想的发展与诸子之学的关联看, “接着讲”接近诸子之学所具有的思想突破性的内在品格, 它意味着廷续诸子注重思想创造的传统,以近代以来中西思想的互动为背景 , “接着讲”无法回避中西思想之间的关系, 在中西之学已相遇的背景下 , “接着讲”同时展开为中西之学的交融, 从更深的层次看种交融具体展开为世界文化的建构与发展过程, 中国思想传统与西方的思想传统都构成了世界文化的重要资源 , 而世界文化的发展 , 则以二者的互动为其重要前提意义上的“新子学”,同时表现为世界文化发展过程中创造性的思想系统, 相对于传统的诸子之学 , “新子学”无疑获得了新的内涵与新的形态照着讲”与“接着讲”二者无法分离。从逻辑上说, 任何新思想形成都不能从“无” 开始 , 它总是基于既有的思想演进过程, 并需要对既有思想范围进行反思批判照着讲”的意义 , 在于梳理以往的思想发展过程, 打开前人思想的丰富内容, 由此为后继的思想提供理论之源。 在此意义上 , “照着讲”是“接着讲”的出发点。然而 , 仅仅停留在“照着讲” , 思想便容易止于过去, 难以继续前行 , 可能无助于思想的创新就此而言, 在“照着讲”之后 , 需要继之以“接着讲”。 “接着讲”的基本精神, 是突破以往思想或推进以往思想 , 而新的思想系统的形成, 则是其逻辑结果。 进而言之 , 从现实的过程看 , “照着讲”与“接着讲”总是相互渗入 : “照着讲”包含对以往思想的逻辑重构与理论阐释,这种重构与阐释已内含“接着讲” ; “接着讲”基于已有的思想发展也相应地内含“照着讲”。“新子学”应追求“照着讲”与“接着讲”的统一。编自杨国荣《历史视域中的诸子学》 ) 1. 下列关于原文内容的理解和分析, 不正确的一项是 (3 分) A. 广义上的诸子之学始于先秦, 贯穿于此后中国思想史, 也是当代思想的组成部分 B.“照着讲”主要指对经典的整理和实证性研究, 并发掘历史上思想家的思想内涵 C.“接着讲”主要指接续诸子注重思想创造的传统, 在新条件下形成创造性的思想 D.不同于以往诸子之学, “新子学”受西方思想影响, 脱离了既有思想演进的过程 2. 下列对原文论证的相关分析, 不正确的一项是 (3 分) A. 文章采用了对比的论证手法, 以突出“新子学”与历史上诸子之学的差异 B. 文章指出理解“新子学”的品格可从两方面入手, 并就二者的关系进行论证 C.文章以中西思想交融互动为前提, 论证“新子学”“接着讲”的必要和可能。 D.文章论证“照着讲”“接着讲”无法分离, 是按从逻辑到现实的顺序推进的 3. 根据原文内容 , 下列说法正确的一项是(3 分) A. 对经典进行文本校勘和文献编纂与进一步阐发之间, 在历史上是互相隔膜的 B. 面对中西思想的交融与互动 , “新子学”应该同时致力于中国和世界文化的建构 C.“照着讲”内含“接着讲”, 虽然能发扬以往的思想, 但无助于促进新思想生成 D.“新子学”要参与世界文化的发展, 就有必要从“照着讲”逐渐过渡到“接着讲”。
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