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2014年综合类类职称英语A级考试全真模拟题三（4）
2014年职称英语考试时间为2014年3月29日，考生们在备考的过程中切记要结合模拟题来练习，使自己的复习更加有效。
第4部分：阅读理解
下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题，每道题后面有4个选项。请根据文章的内容，从每题所给的4个选项中选择l个最佳答案，涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
根据材料，回答31-36问题。 第一篇
When our Eyes Serve our Stomach
Our senses aren't just delivering a strict view of what's going on in the word; they're affected by what's going on in our heads. A new study finds that hungry people see food-related words more clearly than people who've just eaten.
Psychologists have known for decades that what's going on, inside our head affects our senses. For example, poorer children think coins are larger than they are, and hungry people think pictures of food are brighter, Remi Radel of University of Nice Sopbia-Antipolis, France, wanted to investigate how this happens. Does it happen right away as the brain receives signals from the eyes or a little later as the brain's high-level thinking processes get involved?
Radel recruited 42 students with a normal body mass index. On the day of his or her rest, each student was told to arrive at the lab at noon after three or four hours of not eating. Then they were told there was a delay. Some were told to come back in 10 minutes; others were given an hour to get lunch first. So half the students were hungry when they did the experiment and the other half had just eaten.
For the experiment, the participant looked at a computer screen. One by one, 80 words flashed on the screen for about 1/300th of a second each. They flashed at so small a size that the students could only consciously perceive. A quarter of the words were food-related. After each word, each person was asked how bright the word was and asked to choose which of two words they'd seena food-related word like cake or a neutral word like boat. Each word appeared too briefly for the participant to really read it.
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Hungry people saw the food-related words as brighter and were better at identifying food-related words. Because the word appeared too quickly for them to be reliably seen, this means that the difference is in perception not in thinking processes, Adel says.
\strive for. From the experiment, I know that our brain can really be at the disposal of our motives and needs,\
31、What does the new study mentioned in Paragraph 1 find____? A.Hungry people see every word more clearly than ordinary people. B.Hungry people are always thinking of food-related words.
C.Hungry people are more sensitive to food-related words than stomach-fullpeople. D.Hungry people do not have lower-level of thinking process. 32、What have psychologists known for a long time____ ? A.Poorer children think coins are larger than they are. B.Hungry people think pictures of food are brighter. C.Hungry people see food-related words more clearly. D.What we think inside our head affects what we sense. 33、Why was there a delay on the day of the experiment____? A.Because hungry people needed time to fill their stomach.
B.Because Radel wanted to create two groups of testees, hungry and non-hungry. C.Because noon was not the right time for any experiment.
D.Because Radel needed time to select participants in terms of body mass index. 34、What did the results of the experiment indicate____?
A.80 words flashed on the screen too fast for the participant to intentionally perceive. B.Hungry people were better at identifying neutral words.
C.People who had just eaten were better at identifying food-related words.
D.The participants could barely perceive what they needed or what they strived for. 35、What does the writer want to tell us____?
A.Human's senses aren't just delivering a strict view of what's going on in the world. B.What's perceived by our senses affects onr way of thinking.
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C.Human brains can really be at the disposal of our motives and needs. D.Thinking processes guarantee the normal functions of our senses. 根据材料，回答36-41问题 第二篇
Musical Robot Companion Enhances Listener Experience
Shimi, a musical companion developed by Georgia Tech's Center for Music Technology, recommends songs, dances to the beat and keeps the music pumping based on listener feedback.The smartphone-enabled (智能手机支持的), one-foot-tall robot is billed as an interactive\friend\
\Professor Gil Weinberg, the robot's creator. He will unveil the robot at the June 27th Google I/O conference in San Francisco. A band of three Shimi robots will perform for guests, dancing in sync with music created in the lab and composed according to its movements.
Shimi is essentially a docking station with a \docked the robot gains the sensing and musical generation capabilities of the user's mobile device. In other words, if there's an \the phone's camera and face-detecting software, Shimi can follow a listener around the room and position its \speakers, for optimal sound. Another recognition feature is based on rhythm and tempo. If the user taps a beat, Shimi analyzes it, scans the phone's musical library and immediately plays the song that best matches the suggestions. Once the music starts, Shimi dances to the rhythm.
\people think that robots are limited by their programming instructions,\said Music Technology Ph.
D. candidate Mason Bretan, \\a hand in the air to alert Shimi to skip to the next song or increase/decrease the volume. The robot will also have the capability to recommend new music based on the user's songchoices and provide feedback on the music play list.
Weinberg hopes other developers will be inspired to create more apps to expand Shimi's
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creactive and interactive capabilities. \that will see more robots in homes. \
Weinberg is in the process of commercializing Shimi through an exclusive licensing agreement with Georgia Tech. Weinberg hopes to make the robot available to consumers by the 2013 holiday season. \kind of machines -- small, entertaining and fun,\and pave the way for more intelligent service robots in our lives.
36、Which of the following is NOT true according to the first three paragraphs____? A.Shimi is a one-foot tall robot.
B.Shimi is the creator of the musical companion.
C.Shimi is a docking station (对接站) with a \D.Shimi can gain the sensing and musical generation capabilities of the user‘s mobile device.
37、What does Shimi do if the user taps a beat____? A.It stores the beat in the musical library. B.It transmits the beat to the docking station. C.It positions its speakers for optimal sound. D.It selects a perfectly-matched song.
38、Compared with those robber limited the programming, Shimi is____ A.same B.similar C.identical D.different,
39、What is the prediction of Weinberg about Shimi____? A.Shimi can be applied to all types of smart phones. B.Shimi will bring more fun to the human lives. C.himi will be appreciated by all users.
D.Shimi will be commercialized by the end of 2012. 40、What can we infer from the last paragraph____?
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A.The research center is developing a stronger and more versatile Shimi. B.Georgia Tech. will develop more apps for Shimi.
C.Shimi is not yet technologically ready for commercialization.
D.Robots such as Shimi are created for large corporations rather than homes. 根据材料，回答41-46问题。 第三篇
Researchers Discover Why Humans Began Walking Upright
Most of us walk and carry items in our hands every day. These are seemingly simpleactivities that the majority of us don't question. But an international team of researchers, including Dr. Richmond from GW's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences have discovered that human walking upright, may have originated millions of years ago as an adaptation to carrying scarce, high-quality resources. The team of researchers from the U. S. , England, Japan and Portugal investigated the behavior of modem-day chimpanzees as they competed for food resources, in an effort to understand what ecological settings would lead a large ape–one that resembles the 6 million-year old ancestor who shared in common with living chimpanzees --to walk on two legs.
\ancestors might have begun walking on two legs,\
The research findings suggest that chimpanzees switch to moving on two limbs instead of four in situations where they need to monopolize a resource. Standing on two legs allows them to carry much more at one time because it frees up their hands. Over time, intense bursts of bipedal activity may have led to anatomical changes that in turn became the subject of natural selection where competition for food or other resources was strong.
Two studies were conducted by the team in Guinea, The first study was conducted by the team in Kyoto University's \Researchers allowed the wild chimpanzees access to different combinations of two different types of nut -- the oil palm nut, which is naturally widely available, and the coula nut (可乐果), which is not. The \only oil palm nuts were vailable, (b) when a small number of coula nuts were available, and
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