【绝密】2012年职称英语考试 理工类A级 阅读理解押 题第四十五篇 附带解题技巧.docVIP

理工阅读（A级） 1. 如何抓住文章中心 (提问中有mainly mostly) 1. 文章的中心思想—第一句(如是否定应在第二句)，如第二句是 but， today，this day，now，so，yet，therefore，however，new…..应在第二句。 but，“…….”，— (破折号)，today，this day，now，so，yet，therefore，however，new…..应在第二。第四＋五篇 Small But Wise 理工（A级） 小而聪明On December 14, NASA1 blasted 特别a small but mighty telescope into space. The telescope is called WISE and is about as wide around as a trashcan. Dont let its small size fool you: WISE has a powerful digital camera, and it will be taking pictures of some the wildest objects2 in the known universe, including asteroids, faint stars, blazing galaxies3 and giant clouds of dust where planets and stars are born. 12月14日，美国国家航空航天局发射了一个体积小而威力大的望远镜，它的名字叫“WISE”（聪明），大约只有一个垃圾盒子那么宽。你可千万不要轻视这个小东西，WISE可是一款强数码相机，它将在人类已知的宇宙里拍摄任何你所能想到的天体，包括小行星、那些只能看到微弱的光和因燃烧而无法观察的天体，以及自行星和恒星诞生以来的巨大尘埃云。Im very excited because were going to be seeing parts of the universe that we havent seen before, said Ned Wright, a scientist who directs the WISE project. Ned Wright是主持WISE项目的科学家，他说：“我十分兴奋，因为我们就要看到以前从未看到过的那部分宇宙”。 Since arriving in space, the WISE telescope has been circling the Earth, held by gravity in a polar orbit4(this means it crosses close to the north and south poles with each lap5). Its camera is pointed outward, away from the Earth, and WISE will snap a picture of a different part of the sky every 11 minutes. After six months it will have taken pictures across the entire sky. 到达宇宙空间后，WISE由于受极地轨道重力作用，一直在围绕地球旋转。（这意味着，每转一圈，它就离南极和北极靠近）。它的镜头是向外的，远离地球。每11分钟WISE就会抓拍天空一个不同的部分。六个月之后，它将把整个天空拍摄完毕。 The pictures taken by WISE wont be like everyday digital photographs, however. WISE stands forWide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.As its name suggests, the WISE camera takes pictures of features that give off infrared radiation6. 然而，WISE拍摄的相片不会像我们日常的数码相片。WISE是Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer （广域红外勘测探测器）的缩写。正如名字所示，WISE能拍到发出红外线辐射物体的相片。 Radiation is energy that travels as a wave. Visible light, including the familiar spectrum of light7 th