職稱英語(yǔ)理工類閱讀理解模擬題
第一篇：
Can Buildings Be Designed to Resist Terrorist Attack?
In the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, structural engineers are trying bard to solve a question that a month ago would have been completely unthinkable：Can building be designed to withstand catastrophic blasts inflict4ed by terrorists?
Ten days after the terrorist attacks on the twin towers, structural engineers from the University at Buffalo and the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER) headquartered at UB traveled to ground zero as part of a project funded by the National Science Foundation. Visiting the site as part of an MCEER reconnaissance visit, they spent two days beginning the task of formulating ideas about how to design such structures and to search for clues on how to do so in buildings that were damaged, but still are standing.
“Our objective in visiting ground zero was to go and look at the buildings surrounding the World Trade Center, those buildings that are still standing, but that sustained damage,” said M. Bruneau, Ph.D. “Our immediate hope is that we can develop a better understanding as to why those buildings remain standing, while our long-term goal is to see whether earthquake engineering technologies can be married to existing technologies to achieve enhanced performance of buildings in the event of terrorist attacks,” he added.
Photographs taken by the investigators demonstrate in startling detail the monumental damage inflicted on the World Trade Center towers and buildings in the vicinity. One building a block away from the towers remains standing, but was badly damaged. “This building is many meters away from the World Trade Center and yet we see a column there that used to be part of that building,” explained A Whittaker, Ph. D. “The column became a missile that shot across the road, through the window and through the floor.”
The visit to the area also revealed some surprises, according to the engineers. For example, the floor framing system in one of the adjacent buildings was quite rugged, allowing floors that were pierced by tons of falling debris to remain intact. “Highly redundant ductile framing systems may provide a simple, but robust strategy for blast resistance,” he added. Other strategies may include providing alternate paths for gravity loads in the event that a load-bearing column fails. “We also need a better understanding of the mechanism of collapse,” said A Whittaker. “We need to find out what causes a building to collapse and how you can predict it.”
A Reinhorn, Ph. D. noted that “Earthquake shaking has led to the collapse of many buildings in the past. It induces dynamic response and extremely high stresses and deformations in structural components. Solutions developed for earthquake-resistant design may be directly applicable to blast engineering and terrorist-resistant design. Part of our mission now at UB is to transfer these solutions and to develop new ones where none exist at present.”
31 The question raised in the first paragraph is one __________.
A that was asked by structural engineers a month ago
B that is too difficult for structural engineers to answer even now
C that was never difficult for before the terrorist attack
D that terrorists are eager to find a solution to
32 The project funded by the National Science Foundation __________.
A was first proposed by some engineers at UB
B took about two days to complete
C was to investigate the damage caused by the terrorist attack
D was to find out why some buildings could survive the blasts
33 The column mentioned by Dr. Whittaker _________.
A was part of the building close to the World Trade Center
B was part of the World Trade Center
C was shot through the window and the floor of the World Trade Center
D damaged many buildings in the vicinity of the World Trade Center
34 A surprising discovery made by the investigators during their visit to ground zero is that __________.
A floors in the adjacent building remain undamaged
B some floor framing systems demonstrate resistance to explosion
C simple floor framing systems are more blast resistant
D floors in one of the adjacent buildings were pierced by tons of debris
35 What Dr. Reinhorn said in the last paragraph may imply all the following EXCEPT that __________.
A blast engineers should develop new solutions for terror-resistant design
B blast engineering can borrow technologies developed for terror-resistant design
C solutions developed for earthquake-resistant design may apply to terrorist-resistant design
D slast engineering emerges as a new branch of science
答案：31 C建筑設(shè)計(jì)是否能使建筑具有抵御恐怖襲擊的性能，是一個(gè)月前世界貿(mào)易中心受到襲擊之前人們從未想過(guò)的一個(gè)問(wèn)題。這是第一段的主要內(nèi)容。所以，只有C是正確答案。
32 D A不是正確選項(xiàng)，因?yàn)槲恼聸](méi)有提及誰(shuí)首先提出這個(gè)項(xiàng)目。B或C都不是文章所述的內(nèi)容。答案可以在第三段中找到。
33 B有關(guān)本題的句子是第四段的第三句，“This building is many meters away from the World Trade Center and yet we see a column there that used to be Part of that building."這里的this buildin9指的是the building many meters away from the World Trade Center，而that buildin9指的是World Trade Center。
34 B選項(xiàng)A不是答案，因?yàn)槲恼抡f(shuō)，the floor framing system in one of the adjacent buildings…remain intact.C不是文章表達(dá)的內(nèi)容。D在文中提到，但不是a surprising discovery .只有B是正確答案。
35 D選項(xiàng)A的內(nèi)容是正確的，根據(jù)是本段最后一句(“…develop new ones”)。選項(xiàng)B和C的內(nèi)容也是正確的，根據(jù)是本段最后兩句(關(guān)鍵詞是applicable和transfer)。只有D是答案。因?yàn)镽einhorn沒(méi)有說(shuō)：blast engineering emerges as a new branch of science.
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