TPO30:THE INVENTION OF THE MECHANICAL CLOCK
(2014-02-24 14:52:00)The Invention of the Mechanical Clock
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解析:高亮的内容意思是:在欧洲北部,有好几周太阳会被云遮住,同时温度不仅是随着季度发生改变,几乎是每天都变。这些都是使用太阳和水作为时钟的缺点,答案选B。
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解析:段落第二句提到选项D;段落第三句提到organize collective activity,提到选项B;段落第四句“They set a time to go to sleep.”提到C。答案选A。
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解析:段落第二句“The Catholic Church had its seven daily prayers, one of which was at night, requiring an alarm arrangement to waken monks before dawn.”答案选D。
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解析:authoritative是权威的意思,official:having the approval or authorization of an authority;official中文意思翻译成官方的。大家不要联想到中国的官方,于是你们觉得不可靠,不权威。Official的英文定义就是受到权威认可的意思。答案选C。
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解析:段落第三句“Once known, it spread rapidly, driving out water clocks but not solar dials, which were needed to check the new machines against the timekeeper of last resort.”意思是:一旦为人所知,机械钟快速扩散,挤走了水钟但没挤走日晷,我们需要日晷来使用“时间最后的庇护所”检测新的机器。Check……against,以……作为检查标准。日晷所使用的“时间最后的庇护所”当然指的是太阳。
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解析:rudimentary:involving or limited to basic principles;答案选D。
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解析:段落第五句“The Catholic Church resisted, not coming over to the new hours for a bout a century.”天主教堂反抗机械钟的计时方式长达一个世纪。所以答案选C。
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解析:install和put in place都是安装的意思。答案选D
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解析:段落倒数第二句“At every stage, clockmakers led the way to accuracy and precision;”每个阶段,钟表制造者都精益求精。答案选A。
10. 第五段回答了以下哪些关于机械钟的问题? (Factual Information Question)
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解析:段落最后一句“They were thus the pioneers of mechanical engineering and served as examples and teachers to other branches of engineering.”他们因此成为机械工程的先驱,并成为了工程领域其他分支学习的榜样。答案选B。
11. 与单词pioneers在文中意思最接近的是
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解析:pioneer是先驱的意思,答案A最接近。
12. 根据第六段,机械钟怎样影响了劳动?
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解析:段落最后一句“One moves from the task-oriented time consciousness of the peasant (working on job after another, as time and light permit) and the time-filling busyness of the domestic servant (who always had something to do) to an effort to maximize product per unit of time.”意思是:一个人从类似农民任务导向的意识和家仆填满时间的忙碌转变成努力增加每个单位时间的产量。
答案选D。
13. Look at the four squares [■] that indicate where the following sentence could be added to the passage.
解析:答案选C,前一句“the mechanical clock kept equal hours, a new time reckoning”与插入句子的“the division of time”形成内容联系。
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The introduction of the mechanical clock caused important changes to the society of medieval Europe.
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解析:选项A对,概括了第一、二段的内容
选项B错,太阳在阳光灿烂的时候还是很可靠的
选项C错,更多的timekeepers在原文中没讲到过
选项D错,太阳钟并没有很快消失
选项E对,概括了第四段的内容
选项F对,概括了第五段和第六段的内容
答案:AEF