2017年职称英语考试理工类A级阅读判断辅导练习(二)

　　5. … a fetus starved of oxygen will send oxygenated blood to the brain in preference to the rest of the body：……一个缺乏氧的胚胎会首先把充氧的血液输送到脑部，然后才送到身体的其他部位。 starved of是分词短语，修饰 fetus，in preference to表示的是第二位的选择，如： I chose to study English in preference to Russian in university.读大学时，我选了英语，而不是俄语。练习：

　　1. According to the passage，one of the reasons why newborns in mountain communities are underweight is that their mothers are under-nourished. A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned

　　2. Giussani’s team members are all British researchers and professors from Cambridge University. A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned

　　3. Giussani did not expect to find that the weight of a baby had little to do with the financial conditions of the family he was born into. A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned

　　4. The weight of a newborn has to do with the supply of oxygen even when he was still in his mother’s womb. A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned

　　5. High-altitude babies have heads that are larger than their bodies. A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned

　　6. High-altitude babies have longer but thinner limbs than average. A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned

7. Giussani has arrived at the conclusion that babies in high-altitude regions are more likely to have heart trouble when they grow up. A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned

　　答案与题解：

　　1. B 本题的依据是第二段中的一句话： But it wasn’t clear whether … or because their mothers are under-nourished …。可见婴儿体重不足是否是因为母体营养不足尚不能肯定。

　　2. C第三段中提到 Giussani在剑桥大学有一个研究组，但其中的成员是什么人却没有讲到。

　　3. A 第四段里说 Giussani发现在 La Paz 出生的婴儿比在 Santa Cruz 出生的婴儿明显要轻，不论是高收入的家庭还是低收入的家庭都是这样，最后的一句话是： We were very surprised by this result,说明这个结果是他所没有料到的。

　　4. A第五段的第一句话是：… babies born at high altitudes are deprived of oxygen before birth.也就是说孩子还在母亲的子宫内时就已经缺氧了，这种缺氧的状况又影响荷尔蒙的择放或抑制，这些荷尔蒙又调节着婴儿的发育。

　　5. B回答此题只需正确理解第六段中的… have relatively larger heads compared with their bodies.这并不是头比身体大，而是相对身体来说头显得较大。

　　6. C关于婴儿四肢的大小文中完全没有提及。

　　7. B 这不是 Giussani已得出的结论，而是他想找到答案的问题，请见最后一段的第一、第二句： Giussani wants to find out … for example。