专项辅导 as negative effects on us. had been responsible for encouraging voyages C. The telephone has helped to prevent during which soundings (ir iN were taken to wars and conflicts investigate the depths of the North Atlantic and D. The telephone has made the e modern Pacific Oceans. Later, some of his findings city neither better nor worse aroused much popular interest in his book The iR E What has the telephone done to us, Physical Geography of the Sea. or for us, in the hundred years of its existence? The cable was laid. but not until 1866 A few effects suggest themselves at once. it- was the connection made permanent and reli 问一答及下面的阐述,我们可以知道文章的able. At the early attempts, the cable failed 中心思想为B。 and when it was taken out for repairs it was 2000年6月四级考试阅读理解第3篇 found to be covered in living growths, a fact 属于此模式。 which defied contemporary scientific opinion that there was no life in the deeper parts of the 四、定义型 seal Within a few years oceanography was un- 这一类文章给出定义开头,接下来的段 der way.mn1872 Thomson led a scientific ex- 落围绕着这个主题谈开去。 pedition, which lasted for four years and Passage(1994年1月四级考题): brought home thousands of samples from the Oceanography has been defined as"The sea. Their classification and analysis occupied application of all sciences to the study of the scientists for years and led to a five-volume re- port. the last volume being published in 1895 Before the nineteenth century, scientists This passage is mainly about with an interest in the sea were few and far A. the beginnings of oceanography between. Certainly Newton considered some B the laying of the first undersea cable theoretical aspects of it in his writings, but he C the investigation of ocean depths was reluctant to go to sea to further his work D. the early intercontinental communica- For most people the sea was remote, and tions with the of early intercontinental 文章第一段谈的是关于“海洋学”的定 travelers or others. who earned a living from义;第二段是讲19世纪前对海洋感兴趣的科 the sea, there was little reason to ask many学家不多;第三段谈到由于有人提出要铺设 questions about it, let alone to what lay be-海底电缆,人们才开始研究“海底深处究竟是 neath the surface.. The first time that the ques-什么”;第四段说 Maury考察北大西洋和太平 ion" What is at the bottom of oceans?” had to洋的发现引起广泛的注意;第五段讲修筑海 be answered with any commercial consequence底电缆过程中发现大量的海洋生物;最后 was when the laying of a telegraph cable from段是海洋学研究的成果。可见全篇主要是讲 Europe to America was proposed. The engi 海洋学的研究是如何开展起来的,所以正确 neers had to know the depth profile(轮廓)of答案是A the route to estimate the length of cable that 2002年6月四级阅读第2篇属于此模 had to be manufactured 式 It was to Maury of US Navy that the At- lantic Telegraph Company turned, in 1853, for 五、花开两朵 information on this matter. In the 1840s. Maury 2005.03