自考英语二课文译文习题 Unit 2.doc

Text?A??Black?Holes 黑洞?????????What?is?a?black?hole??Well,?its?difficult?to?answer?this?question,?since?the?terms?we?would?normally?use?to?describe?a?scientific?phenomenon?are?inadequate?here.?Astronomers?and?scientists?think?that?a?black?hole?is?a?region?of?space?(not?a?thing)?into?which?matter?has?fallen?and?from?which?nothing?can?escape?-?not?even?light.?So?we?cant?see?a?black?hole.?A?black?hole?exerts?a?strong?gravitational?pull?and?yet?it?has?no?matter.?It?is?only?space?-?or?so?we?think.?How?can?this?happen? ??什么是黑洞呢？这个问题很难回答，因为我们通常用来描述一种科学现象的术语用在这里来解释是不够的。?天文学家和科学家们认为黑洞是个空间区域，物体会掉进去，而没有物体能从中逃逸出来――即使是光也不能，所以我们看不到黑洞。黑洞产生很强的引力，而它却没有物质。它只是空间――或者我们认为是空间。这是怎样发生的呢？?????The?theory?is?that?some?stars?explode?when?their?density?increases?to?a?particular?point;?they?collapse?and?sometimes?a?supernova?occurs.?From?earth,?a?supernova?looks?like?a?very?bright?light?in?the?sky?which?shines?even?in?the?daytime.?Supernovae?were?reported?by?astronomers?in?the?seventeenth?and?eighteenth?centuries.?Some?people?think?that?the?Star?of?Bethlehem?could?have?been?a?supernova.?The?collapse?of?a?star?may?produce?a?White?Dwarf?or?neutron?star?-?a?star,?whose?matter?is?so?dense?that?it?continually?shrinks?by?the?force?of?its?own?gravity.?But?if?the?star?is?very?large?(much?bigger?than?our?sun)?this?process?of?shrinking?may?be?so?intense?that?a?black?hole?results.?Imagine?the?earth?reduced?to?the?size?of?a?marble,?but?still?having?the?same?mass?and?a?stronger?gravitational?pull,?and?you?have?some?idea?of?the?force?of?a?black?hole.?Any?matter?near?the?black?hole?is?sucked?in.?It?is?impossible?to?say?what?happens?inside?a?black?hole.?Scientists?have?called?the?boundary?area?around?the?hole?the?event?horizon.?We?know?nothing?about?events?which?happen?once?objects?pass?this?boundary.?But?in?theory,?matter?must?behave?very?differently?inside?the?hole. ?理论是一些星球的密度增长到特定的时刻就会爆炸。它们崩溃时会产生超新星。在地球上看去，超新星就像天空中非常耀眼的灯，即使在白天也能看到其闪光。在17、18世纪，天文学家就有关于超新星的记录，一些人认为圣诞星可能是一颗超新星。一颗星崩溃可能产生吸引力，你就了解黑洞的力量。黑洞附近任何物质