职称英语第五部分补全短文【讲义】0204192317

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第一篇：House of the Future 综合类

What will houses be like in thirty years’ time? No one really knows, but architects are trying to predict.___________ (46)

Future houses will have to be flexible. In thirty years' time even more of us will be working from home. So we will have to be able to use areas of the house for work for part of the day and for living for the rest. Families grow and change with children arriving, growing up and leaving home. __________(47) Nothing will be as fixed as it is now. The house will always be changing to meet changing needs.

Everyone agrees that in thirty years’ time we will be living in “intelligent” houses. We will be able to talk to our kitchen machines and discuss with them what to do. Like this: “We’ll be having a party this weekend. What food shall we cook?” _________(48) We will be able to leave most of the cooking to the machines, just tasting things from time to time to check.

The house of the future will be personal — each house will be different. __________(49) You won’t have to paint them — you'll be able to tell the wall to change the color! And if you don't like the color the next day, you will be able to have a new one. ____________.(50)

A．You will be able to change the color of the wall easily.

B．The only thing you won't be able to do is move the house somewhere else!

C．And the machine will tell us what food we will have to buy and how to cook it.

D．What will our home be like then?

E．The house of the future will have to grow and change with the family.

F．The kids might take their bedrooms with them as they leave.

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第二篇：Flying into History 卫生类

When you turn on the television or read a magazine, celebrities（名人）are everywhere. Although fame and the media play such major roles in our lives today.it has not always been that way. ___________(46) Many historians agree that Charles Lindbergh was one of the first major celebrities, or superstars.

Lindbergh was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1902, but he grew up in Little Falls, Minnesota. As a child, he was very interested in how things worked, so when he reached college, he pursued a degree in engineering. At the age of 20, however, the allure（诱惑）of flying captured Lindbergh’s imagination. _________(47) Soon after, Lindbergh bought his own plane and traveled across the nation performing aerial stunts（空中特技）.

In 1924, Lindbergh became more serious about flying. He joined the United States military and graduated first in his pilot class._________(48)

During the same time, a wealthy hotel owner named Raymond Orteig was offering a generous a- ward to the first pilot who could fly nonstop from New York City to Paris. France. The Orteig Prize was worth $25,000 — a large amount even by today's standards.

Lindbergh knew he had the skills to complete the flight, but not just any plane was capable of flying that far for that long. ____________(49)

On May 20, 1927, Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in New York City and arrived the next day at an airstrip（简易机场）outside Paris. Named in honor of the sponsor, The Spirit of St. Louis carried Lindbergh across the Atlantic Ocean and into the record books. He became a national hero and a huge celebrity.

When he returned to the United States, Lindbergh rode in a ticker-tape（热烈的）parade held to celebrate his accomplishment. __________(50) A very popular dance was even named for Charles Lindbergh — the Lindy Hop. Today, the Spirit of St. Louis is kept at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

A．Lindbergh used this additional training to get a job as an airmail pilot, flying out of St. Louis, Missouri.

B．Working with an aviation company from San Diego, California, and with financial help from the city of St. Louis, Lindbergh got a customized（定制的）airplane that could make the journey.

C．He also received a Medal of Honor, the highest United States military decoration. D．Eighty years ago, radio and movies were just beginning to have that kind of effect on Americans.

E．His childhood was not full of fond memories.

F．He quit school and moved to Nebraska where he learned to be a pilot.

A级The Mysteries of Nazca 理工类

In the desert of Peru, 300 kilometers from Lima, one of the most unusual artworks in the world has mystified（迷惑）people for decades.________(46) But from high above, these marks are huge images of birds, fish, seashells, all beautifully carved into the earth.

The Nazca lines are so difficult to see from the ground that they weren’t discovered until the 1930s, when pilots spotted them while flying over the area. In all, there are about 70 different human and animal figures on the plain, along with 900 triangles, circles, and lines.

Researchers have figured out that the lines are at least 1,500 years old, but their purpose is still a mystery. ____________(47) However, it would probably be very tricky to land a spaceship in the middle of pictures of dogs and monkeys.

In the 1940s, an American explorer named Paul Kosok suggested that the drawings are a chronicle（记录）of the movement of the stars and planets. __________(48) Later, an astronomer tested his theory with a computer, but he couldn’t find any relation between the lines and movements in space.

Another explanation is that the lines may have been made for religious reasons. British researcher Tony Morrison investigated the customs of people in the Andes Mountain and learned that they sometimes pray by the side of the road. It’s possible that in the past, the lines of Nazca were created for a similar purpose. big. ______(49) But the local people

have never constructed anything this big.

Recently, two other scientists, David Johnson and Steve Mabee, have speculated that lines could have been related to water. Nazca is one of the driest places in the world and receives only 2cm of rain every year. While Johnson was searching for ancient water sources in the area, he noticed that some waterways built ancient people were connected with the lines. Johnson believes that the Nazca lines are a giant map of the underground water in the area. A．Scholars differ in interpreting the purpose of the designs.____________(50)

A．Scholars differ in interpreting the purpose of the designs.

B．The largest picture may have been the sites for special ceremonies.

C．He called Nazca“the largest astronomy book in the world”

D．A Swiss writer named Erich von Daniken wrote that the Nazca lines were designed as a landing

place for UFOs.

E．Other scientists are now searching for evidence to prove this.

F．Seen from the ground, it looks like lines scratched into the earth.

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