新建科技英语阅读与翻译

Part I Reading comprehension (40%)

共四篇，其中一篇来自教材，占10%；

Passage 6

1.

1) Yes, it is.

2) Once the technology had evolved, it became possible. It is just a matter of time.

3) The faster you go, the slower time seems to move for you with respect to everyone else. This concept is known as “time dilation.”

4) travel at the speed of light;

5) If your speed finally reaches the speed of light then time actually stands still, exceed the speed of light and its thought that time will start to flow backward.

6) An effect of Relativity is that the faster you go, the heavier you become and as you reach the speed of light, you become infinitely heavy.

7) The technique is called “quantum tunneling”. It is used by electrons orbiting around atoms to instantly move from point A to point B without passing through the space between.

8)It is actually only technology stopping us from doing it.

2.

1) 即使如我面前的杯子这么普通的东西也可以说某种程度上掌握了时间旅行。它在桌子上放着，看似无所事事，然而实际上正在穿越时空，无情地，它的速度是每天走一天。

2）如果我跑到这咖啡店的速度接近光速，当我坐下来时，我的年龄小于我周围的人。实际上，我已经走到他们的未来。

3) 剩下的就是当宇宙倒退时，以这个速度飞行，在适当的时候减速，然后在1973年7月突然出现，那是有史以来最伟大的时刻——我出生啦。

Passage 7

1.

1)By altering the function of one gene, the life span of a species of roundworm could be

increased from the usual two weeks to a month.

Study with roundworms found that certain anticonvulsant drugs had a substantial impact on life expectancy. The drugs lengthened the life of the worms by up to 50 percent.

2) The research has fueled speculation that there soon may be drugs available that could have related life-extending effects in humans.

3) Currently, heart disease is treated by drugs or, in more serious cases, with bypass surgeries and angioplasties.

4) Heart “patch” someday soon could be used to repair damaged heart tissue, essentially returning the heart to pre-heart attack functionality.

5) The most exciting part of the research into regenerative therapies is the prospect that future regenerative treatments could focus on causing damaged tissues to repair themselves in the body.

6) The conventional wisdom is that energy supplies are dwindling while demand is rising, creating a condition in which a serious social and economic dislocation is unavoidable, if not actually imminent.

7) It is not just oil that is in abundance. Coal abounds in the United States and can be burned much more cleanly now than in the past, making it, once again, a very viable resource for the generation of electricity.

8) Of all the natural resources available, by far the most important are man’s own God-given abilities.

2.

据美国心脏协会介绍，每年有大约50万人死于心脏病。据估计，有多达650万美国人深受心绞痛及其他心脏病带来的胸痛之苦。目前，治疗心脏病的方法主要是药物，或病情比较严重时，采用心脏搭桥手术或者血管造影术。最危重的情况下，心脏移植可以延续病人生命。不过很快可能会有一种新颖革新的技术补充或者替代这些治疗手段。

Passage8

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