公共英语二级

单选题 What is the advantage of upcycling according to Szaky?

A.The cost is kept low.
B.The product is free.
C.The product has a longer life。
D.More materials are available.

参考答案:A进入在线模考
推理题。题干意为“萨奇认为升级改造产业的优势是什么?”。根据文章最后一段第三、四句“…the biggest problem…is that they tend to cost more…and rubbish is free.”可知,产业最大的优势就是原料是免费的,因此成本相对低廉。故A为正确答案。
参考译文
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单纯的一个病毒可以像其他很多种化学物质一样被保存在瓶子里。但是,一旦病毒附着在一个生命体上,它也就有了生命。只要被附着的物体活着,它就能生长。
但是,仍然有一个难题——病毒是什么?它是生命体或是化学物质?人类科学总是把有生命和无生命的物体视作是截然相反的两者。
随着病毒的发现,他们开始意识到在之前的两者之间还有一个中间的领域,它并不属于任何一方。
直到二十世纪30年代,人们才普遍认识到,最大的化学分子和最小的生物体之间也是有巨大的大小差异的。当发明了新型的更加精细的过滤器之后,人们开始能够测量病毒的大小。第一个被测量出的病毒直径大概是100毫微米。
已知的最大的化学分子直径仅仅是22毫微米,而最小的生物体的尺寸是这个数字的7倍,即将近150毫微米。病毒的测量数据显示,它们的尺寸范围在16到300毫微米之间变化。大多数病毒尺寸介于最大的化学分子和最小的生物体之间。
回到那个问题——病毒是什么?——病毒是有生命的,又是无生命的。在一个有生命的细胞中,病毒就是有生命的;在一个空瓶子里,病毒就跟一个化学物质没什么两样。现在,我们意识到,其实病毒就是生命和非生命的纽带。

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1 根据下面资料,回答题。
A pure virus(病毒) could be kept in a bottle, just like hundreds of other chemicals. Yet,when a virus is placed on a living thing, it comes to rife. As long as it is on a living material, it grows.
A difficult question still remains--what is a virus? Is it living or chemical? Men of science had always thought life and not-rife to be as different as black and white. With the discovery of the vi-rus, they became aware of a grey area that was neither black nor white.
Until the 1930´ s, it was accepted that there was also a great difference in size between the lar-gest chemical molecules (分子) and the smallest living things. As new and much finer filters ( 过滤器) were invented, men were able to measure viruses. The first virus to be measured was found to be about 100 millimicrons(毫微米) across.
The largest known chemical molecule measures only 22 millimicrons. The smallest living thing measures almost seven times that size or 150 millimicrons. When viruses were measured, they were found to range in size from 16 millimicrons to 300 millimicrons. Most were found to be larger than the largest chemical molecules and smaller than the smallest living things.
The answer to the puzzle--what is a virus?--must be that it is both riving and not living. In a living cell, it is a live thing. In a bottle, it is nothing more than a chemical. We now realize that the virus is actually a link between life and not-rife.
What IS this text mainly about?

A.How viruses should be understood.
B.The effect viruses have on living things.
C.How filters are used in studying viruses.
D.The researches scientists do with viruses.

2 What makes a virus come tolife?

A.A large chemical molecule.
B.A dead chemical.
C.An active virus.
D.A living cell.

3 What do the underlined words“a grey area”in paragraph 2 refer to?

A.The discovery of unknown chemicals.
B.Viruses in a state of living and not living.
C.A difficult question unsolved about viruses.
D.The colour of viruses between black and white.