科技英语复习week15-16---ESTTestSample-Revision讲述.doc

Decide whether the following statements are True or False: (1 point for each) F Much of the world’s electricity nowadays is produced from the use of renewable resources. F According to the Faraday’s law, action and reaction are opposite and equal. T In convention, alternating current is usually supplied to people’s houses at 50 cycles per second. T Dinosaurs may have become extinct because their brains were not proportional to their brawn. F Mankind has always doubted what Tennyson calls “the useful trouble of the rain. T Modern computers are sometimes classified into generations, with each generation characterized with some important technology. F Water pollution may affect humans directly, causing a smarting of the eyes or coughing. T The Internet can also be used to transfer telephone calls using an application known as IP-telephony. F The term, civil engineering, was first used in the U.S.A. to distinguish the newly profession military engineering, until then preeminent. T As late as the 1760s, the radial boulevards in Paris had military as well as aesthetic purposes. T Urban planners in the 17th-century Europe also introduced parks and playgrounds in congested city neighborhoods, providing places for recreation, and for visual relief. F Action and reaction are opposite and equal. Sound travels through the air in waves. Soft layers of ice moulded the lakes and hills of Europe and North America millions of years ago. F Civil engineering can be divided into three broad categories, which may be described as consulting, contracting and governmental engineering. T Although essentially a practical profession, civil engineering is founded on applied science. T A tunnel is a passage, or a gallery, or a roadway beneath the ground or underwater. T Electric power systems refers to all components that transform other type of energy into electrical energy and transmit this energy to a consumer. F Electricity is a phenomenon produced by the eleme