2017考研英語二閱讀復習：一篇典型的說明文（二）

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　　2017考研英語二閱讀復習：一篇典型的說明文(二)

　　每年的考研英語閱讀四篇文章題目難度是逐漸遞增的，文章也顯得更加晦澀些，這篇英語說明文是出現在2006年英語真題中的第四篇，很多同學反映錯誤率高，因此，今天文都網校考研英語靖老師就這篇說明文的題目進行解析，讓我們更多地把握說明文的出題規律。

　　36. What did the writer say about the plane?

　　A It had no seats.

　　B It was painted white.

　　C It had no windows.

　　D The outside was misleading.

　　該題屬于細節題，答案在一二段，AC是很容易排除的，跟原文敘述相反;而B相對的原文說的是在機艙內部曾經是座位的地方被涂成了白色，而不是說飛機被涂成了白色。正確答案是對于原文的同義替換，這也是常常出題的方式，The outside was misleading=appearances were deceptive。

　　37. According to the writer, how did the young scientists feel before the flight?

　　A sick

　　B keen

　　C nervous

　　D impatient

　　在第三段，也就是young scientists進入機艙還沒有起飛，他們的心理狀態是the young scientists quickly took their places with a look of fear.我們要尋找fear的近義詞，很明顯是nervous緊張，而不是惡心或者激情或者欠缺耐心，這些都與fear差的太多了。

　　38.What did the pilot do with the plane after it took off?

　　A He quickly climbed and then stopped the engines.

　　B He climbed and them made the plane fall slowly.

　　C He took off normally and then cut the engines for 20 seconds.

　　D He climbed and then made the plane turn over.

　　涉及到飛機起飛的，在第五段，而飛行員的操作在五段第一句話的后半部分，when the pilot put the plane into a 45 degree climb which lasted around 20 seconds. Then the engines cut out and we became weightless.飛行員以45度角往上飛行20分鐘，而后引擎關閉，大家處于失重狀態。非常吻合的A選項就是正確答案了。

　　39.According to the passage, the purpose of being weightless was to

　　A see what conditions are like in space

　　B prepare the young scientists for future work in space

　　C show the judges of the competition what they could do

　　D make the teams try out their ideas

　　和普通的飛行不一樣，此次是在失重狀態下，而目的體現在文中三段末--The challenge had been to suggest imaginative experiments to be conducted in weightless conditions.以及倒數二段的段首部分--Each time the pilot cut the engines and we became weightless. A new team conduct its experiment.失重狀態下，主要是進行實驗操作，但選項中并未出現試驗先關的內容，而D用另一種說法--把隊員的想法進行嘗試、試驗，就是conduct experiment。

　　40.This passage was written to

　　A encourage young people to take up science

　　B describe the process of a scientific competition

　　C show scientists what young people can do

　　D report on a new scientific technique

　　這道題目放在比較后算是比較簡單的了，我們已經知道是說明文并未出現作者要論證的內容，就是說明或者描述了一個過程，帶有混淆的是D，報導了.....，但是偷換了概念，不是scientific technique。

　　總的來說，這個考研英語真題的題目整體難度不是特別大，需要我們按照自己的做題思路認真對待，以不變應萬變。

　　附文章(2006.text4)

　　It looked just like another aircraft from the outside The pilot told his young passengers that it was built in 1964. But appearances were deceptive and the 13 students from Europe and the USA who boarded the aircraft were in for the flight of their lives.

　　Inside the area that normally had seats had become a long white tunnel.Heavily padded(填塞) from floor to ceiling it looked a bit strange. There were almost no windows, but lights along the padded walls illuminated it. Most of the seats had been taken out apart from a few at the back where the young scientists quickly took their places with a look of fear.

　　For 12 months，science students from across the continents had competed to win a place on the flight at the invitation of the European Space Agency .the challenge had been to suggest imaginative experiments to be conducted in weightless conditions.

　　For the next two hours the flight resembled that of an enormous bird which had lose its reason，shooting upwards towards the heavens before rushing towards Earth.The invention was to Achieve weightlessness for a few seconds.

　　The aircraft took off smoothly enough. But any feelings that I and the young scientists had that we were on anything like a scheduled passenger service were quickly dismissed when the pilot put the plane into a 45 degree climb which lasted around 20 seconds. Then the engines cut our and we became weightless. Everything become confused and left or right. Up or down no longer had any meaning. after ten seconds of free fall descent the pilot pulled the aircraft out of its nosedive. The return of gravity was less immediate than its loss. but was still sudden enough to ensure that some students came down with a bump.

　　Each time the pilot cut the engines and we became weightless. A new team conduct it experience. First it was the Dutch who wanted to discover how it is that cats always land on their feet. then the German team who conducted a successful experiment on a traditional building method to see if could be used for building a further space station. The Americans had an idea to create solar sails that could be used by satellites.

　　After two hours of going up and down in the lane doing their experiments， the predominate feeling was one of excitement rather than sickness. Most of the students thought it was an unforgettable experience and one they would be keen to repeat.