2015年阅读判断综合类职称英语考试练习试题

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　　What are special effects? Do you enjoy movies that use a lot of special effects?

　　Dinosaurs (恐龙) from the distant past! Space battles from the distant future! There has been a revolution in special effects, and it has transformed the movies we see.

　　The revolution began in the mid-1970s with George Lucas's Star Wars, a film that stunned (使震惊) audiences. That revolution continues to the present with dramatic changes in special effects technology. The company behind these changes is Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). And the man behind the company is Dennis Muren, who has worked with Lucas since Star Wars.

　　Muren's interest in special effects began very early. At the age of 6, he was photographing toy dinosaurs and spaceships. At 10, he had an 8-millimeter movie camera and was making these things move through stop-motion. (Stop-motion is a process in which objects are shot with a camera, moved slightly, shot again, and so on. When the shots are put together, the objects appear to move. )

　　Talk to Muren and you'll understand what ILM is all about; taking on new challenges. By 1989, Muren decided he had pushed the old technology as far as it would go.

　　He saw computer graphics(图像)(CG)technology as the wave of the future and took a year off the master it.

　　With CG technology, images can be scanned into a computer for processing, for example, and many separate shots can be combined into a single image. CG technology has now reached the point, Muren says, where special effects can be used to do just about anything so that movies can tell stories better than ever before. The huge success of Jurassic Park and its sequel (续集), The Lost World, the stars of which were computer-generated dinosaurs, suggests that this may very well be true.

　　16 The special-effects revolution began in the mid-1980s with Star Wars.

　　A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned

　　17 ILM is the company responsible for many of the changes in special-effects technology.

　　A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned

　　18 Dennis Muren started his schooling at a very early age.

　　A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned

　　19 At the age of 10, Muren was able to use computer graphics technology to make things move.

　　A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned

　　20 By the stop-motion process, many separate shots can be combined into a single image.

　　A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned

　　21 Muren feels that with CG technology, special effects can be used to make movies more expressive.

　　A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned

　　22 Today’s film makers emphasize special effects at the expense of the story.

　　A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned

　　答案：16 B 17 A 18 C 19 B 20 B 21 A 22 C

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       As many as 20% of all children in the United Stated suffer from some form of the learning disorder called dyslexia.
　　Experts on dyslexia say that the problem is not a disease. They say that persons with dyslexia use information in a different way. One of the world's great thinkers and scientists Albert Einstein was dyslexic. Einstein said that he never thought in words the way that most people do. He said that he thought in pictures instead. The American inventor Thomas Edison was also dyslexic. Dyslexia first was recognized in Europe and the United States more than 80 years ago. Many years passed before doctors discovered that persons with the disorder were not mentally slow or disabled. The doctors found that the brains of persons with dyslexia are different. In most people, the left side of the brain-the part that controls language-is larger than the right side. In persons with dyslexia, the right side of the brain is bigger. Doctors are not sure what causes this difference. However, research has shown that dyslexia is more common in males than in females, and it is found more often in persons who are left-handed. No one knows the cause of dyslexia, but some scientists believe that it may result from chemical changes in a baby's body long before it is born. They are trying to find ways to teach persons with dyslexia. Dyslexic persons think differently and need special kinds of teaching help. After they have solved their problems with language, they often show themselves to be especially intelligent or creative.
　　1. One out of five American children suffers from dyslexia.
　　A. Right
　　B. Wrong
　　C. Not mentioned
　　2. Many great thinkers and scientists in the world are dyslexic.
　　A. Right
　　B. Wrong
　　C. Not mentioned
　　3. The first cases of dyslexia in Europe were discovered less than a century ago.
　　A. Right
　　B. Wrong
　　C. Not mentioned
　　4. The left side of the brain in a dyslexic person is bigger than the right side.
　　A. Right
　　B. Wrong
　　C. Not mentioned
　　5. Generally speaking, dyslexia is more common in left-handed males than in right-handed females.
　　A. Right
　　B. Wrong
　　C. Not mentioned
　　6. It is believed that dyslexia is related to the bad habits of a baby's mother.
　　A. Right
　　B. Wrong
　　C. Not mentioned
　　7. Dyslexic people often turn out to be intelligent or creative once they have learned to handle language properly.
　　A. Right
　　B. Wrong
　　C. Not mentioned
　　答案: ACABACA