王长喜-六级考试标准阅读160篇11-20(编辑修改稿)

王长喜-六级考试标准阅读160篇11-20(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

which makes chemical accidents so newsworthy. Fortunately, they are extremely rare. The most famous ones happened at Texas City (1947),Flixborough (1974), Seveso (1976), Pemex (1984) and Bhopal (1984). Some of these are always in the minds of the people even though the loss of life was small. No one died at Seveso, and only 28 workers at Flixborough. The worst accident of all was Bhopal, where up to 3,000 were killed. The Texas City explosion of fertilizer killed 552. The Pemex fire at a storage plant for natural gas in the suburbs of Mexico City took 542 lives, just a month before the unfortunate event at Bhopal. Some experts have discussed these accidents and used each accident to illustrate a particular danger. Thus the Texas City explosion was caused by tons of ammonium nitrate（硝酸铵） ,which is safe unless stored in great quantity. The Flixborough fireball was the fault of management, which took risks to keep production going during essential repairs. The Seveso accident shows what happens if the local authorities lack knowledge of the danger on their doorstep. When the poisonous gas drifted over the town, local leaders were incapable of taking effective action. The Pemex fire was made worse by an overloaded site in an overcrowded suburb. The fire set off a chain reaction os exploding storage tanks. Yet, by a miracle, the two largest tanks did not explode. Had these caught fire, then 3,000 strong rescue team and fire fighters would all have died. of the following statements is true? at the office is safer than staying at home. to work on public transport is safer than working at the office. at home is safer than working in the chemical industry. in the chemical industry is safer than traveling by air. accidents are usually important enough to be reported as news because ____. are very rare often cause loss of life always occur in big cities arouse the interest of all the readers to passage, the chemical accident that caused by the fault of management happened at ____. city City the passage we know that ammonium nitrate is a kind of ____. gas, which can easily catch fire , which can39。 t be stored in a great quantity substance, which can39。 t be used in overcrowded areas , which is stored in large tanks 中国最大的资料库下载 中国最大的资料库下载 the discussion among some experts we may coclude that ____. avoid any accidents we should not repair the facilities in chemical industry local authorities should not be concerned with the production of the chemical industry these accidents could have been avoided or controlled if effective measure had been taken gas stored in very large tanks is always safe 第十四篇答案： DBABC 第十五篇 (Unit 4,Passage 3) What we know of prenatal development makes all this attempt made by a mother to mold the character of her unborn child by studying poetry, art, or mathematics during pregnancy seem utterly impossible. How could such extremely plex influences pass from the mother to the child? There is no connection between their nervous systems. Even the blood vessels of mother and child do not join directly. An emotional shock to the mother will affect her child, because it changes the activity of her glands and so the chemistry her blood. Any chemical change in the mother’s blood will affect the child for better or worse. But we can not see how a looking for mathematics or poetic genius can be dissolved in blood and produce a similar liking or genius in the child. In our discussion of instincts we saw that there was reason to believe that whatever we inherit must be of some very simple sort rather than any plicated or very definite kind of behavior. It is certain that no one inherits a knowledge of mathematics. It may be, however, that children inherit more or less of a rather general ability that we may call intelligence. If very intelligent children bee deeply interested in mathematics, they will probably make a success of that study. As for musical ability, it may be that what is inherited is an especially sensitive ear, a peculiar structure of the hands or the vocal ans connections between nerves and muscles that make it paratively easy to learn the movements a musician must execute, and particularly vigorous emotions. If these factors are all anized around music, the child may bee a musician. The same factors, in other circumstance might be anized about some other center of interest. The rich emotional equipment might find expression in poetry. The capable fingers might develop skill in surgery. It is not the knowledge of music that is inherited, then nor even the love of it, but a certain bodily structure that makes it paratively easy to acquire musical knowledge and skill. Whether that ability shall be directed toward music or some other undertaking may be decided entirely by forces in the environment in which a child grows up. 中国最大的资料库下载 中国最大的资料库下载 1. Which of the following statements is not true? A. Some mothers try to influence their unborn children by studying art and other subjects during their pregnancy. B. It is utterly impossible for us to learn anything about prenatal development. C. The blood vessels of mother and child do not join directly. D. There are no connection between mother’s nervous systems and her unborn child’s. 2. A mother will affect her unborn baby on the condition that ____. A. she is emotionally shocked B. she has a good knowledge of inheritance C. she takes part in all kind of activities D. she sticks to studying 3. According to the passage, a child may inherit____. A. everything from his mother B. a knowledge of mathematics C. a rather general ability that we call intelligence D. her mother’s musical ability 4. If a child inherits somethi。