四、阅读理解(共l5小题：每题3分，共45分。)
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In Melbourne, Australia, not long ago specialists gave advice on a patient's problem.
There's nothing unusual in that except that the patient was in the far west of New South Wales at the time. That's hundreds of miles from Melbourne. The heart disease experts were able to make their diagnosis after listening to the patient's heartbeat over the telephone.
They were testing a new device that can change readings of a patient's heartbeat into tone signals that can be sent by telephone. The device was designed in Australia. It is meant for use in areas far from large cities. Doctors in remote areas can take the heartbeat readings right in the patient's home. Then they can play them over a telephone line to specialists in larger centers. The doctor in the remote area is thus able to get an expert's opinion on the heart condition of his patient. Experiments with the device show that the whole process takes only a few minutes.
第36题单选 This article is mainly about a device for
A.preventing heart disease
B.sending medical information
C.moving heart patients
D.recording doctors' conversations
第37题单选 Doctors in remote areas sometimes need advice because they don't have __________.
A.any training in medicine
B.connections with telephone or telegraph offices
C.enough nurses and technicians to help them
D.the special knowledge needed to treat every condition
第38题单选 Which happens last?
A.The specialist makes his diagnosis.
B.The doctor goes to the patient's home.
C.The specialist gives the doctor his opinion.
D.The specialist hears the patient's heartbeat.
第39题单选 From the article we can conclude(得出结论)that Australia has a number of__________。
A.remote areas
B.good highways
C.mountainous regions
D.strange animals
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Many animals have an excellent sense of smell, which they use in hunting. On the other hand, their eyesight may be poor. Dogs, for example, have poor eyesight and no color vision. They see only shades of gray. But a dog's sense of smell is extraordinary.
The kind of dog known as Alastian has 220 million olfactory cells. Man has five million. Scientists believe that the Alastian is one million times better than man in finding out odors.
The human sense of smell, however, is really quite good. The average human being can distinguish more than 10000 different odors.
第40题单选 According to the passage, which of the following facts is not true?
A.Many animals have poor eyesight while their sense of smell is quite good.
B.Dogs are color blind.
C.The human sense of smell is not good.
D.Dogs can see no more than shades of gray.
第41题单选 The underlined word odor means a_______________.
A.thing
B.person
C.smell
D.color
第42题单选 Generally speaking, a man can tell __________ different odors.
A.five million
B.more than 10 000
C.fewer than 10 000
D.no more than 10 000
第43题单选 The best title of the passage is__________.
A.The Human Sense of Smell
B.Dogs Have Poor Eyesight
C.Sense of Smell
D.Dogs Have Excellent Sense of Smell
根据下面资料，回答下面试题
Most people usually traveled by ship and train which are driven by steam engine. It played an important part in many kinds of vehicles several scores of years ago. Who invented steam engine and what units could be used to measure the power of engine?
he word " horse-power" was first used two hundred years ago. James Watt from a worker's family made the world first widely used steam engine. At first, he couldn't tell people how powerful it was, because there were no units at that time. Watt decided to find out how much work one strong horse could do in one minute. He named that unit one horse-power. In this way he could measure the work of his steam engine.
He discovered that a horse could lift a 3 300 - pound weight 10 feet into the air in one minute. His engine could lift a 3 300 - pound weight 100 feet in one minute. Because his engine did ten times as much work as the horse, Watt called it a ten horse-power engine.
第44题单选 The main idea of the passage is___________。
A.James Watt invented the steam engine
B.James Watt first used horse-power as a unit of measure
C.how much power does a horse have
D.why Watt's engine is called a ten horse-power engine
第45题单选 The story says that Watt made the first___________。
A.engine
B.horse-power engine
C.useful engine
D.widely used steam engine
第46题单选 James Watt was born in___________。
A.a worker's family
B.a farmer's family
C.a teacher's family
D.a doctor's steam engine
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