中级英语词汇巩固与提升汇总.doc

酷艾英语词汇团第一期内部学习资料 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 1 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 1 郑重声明：酷艾英语词汇团的所有学习资料严禁转载或用于其他商业用途，违者将追究其法律责任。 【一周回顾】中级英语词汇巩固与提升 阅读部分 周一中级阅读： 本篇来自于 Time Magazine （ 时代周刊） 2009 年 7 月 2 日 题为 A Brief History of Black Boxes （黑匣子的历史） 文章，原文略有删减。原文参见： /time/nation/article/0,8599,1908245,00.html.文章首段阐述了飞机上的黑匣子的功能，即记录飞机的飞行状况。第二段是对首段的实例说明。第三段按时间顺序描述了黑匣子的发展历程，请关注三个时间： 1958 ， 1960 和 1965 。 最后一段说明改进后的现代黑匣子既有语音记录的功能，又能记录飞行数据 You never see them, but theyre with you every time you fly. They record where you are going, how fast youre traveling and whether everything on your airplane is functioning normally. Their ability to withstand almost any disaster makes them seem like something out of a comic book. Theyre known as the black box. 　　 When planes fall from the sky, as a Yemeni airliner did on its way to Comoros Islands in the India Ocean June 30, 2009, the black box is the best bet for identifying what went wrong. So when a French submarine (潜水艇) detected the devices homing signal five day; Later, the discovery marked a huge step toward determining the cause of a tragedy in which 152 passengers were killed. 　　 In 1958, Australian scientist David Warren developed a flight-memory recorder that would track basic information like altitude and direction. That was the first mode for a black box, which became a requirement on all U.S. commercial flights by 1960. Early model, often failed to withstand crashes,however, so in 1965 the device was completely redesigned and moved to the rear of the plane - the area least subject to impact - from its original position in the landing wells (起落架舱). The same year, 　the Federal Aviation Authority required that the boxes, which were never actually black, be painted orange or yellow to aid visibility. 　　 Modem airplanes have two black boxes: a voice recorder, which tracks pilots conversations, and a flight-data recorder, which monitors fuel levels, engine noises and other operating functions that help investigators reconstruct the aircrafts final mome