________ engineer Richard Trevithick invented the first steam locomotive.
A.Swiss
B.American
C.English
D.German
- · 有4位网友选择 D,占比44.44%
- · 有2位网友选择 B,占比22.22%
- · 有2位网友选择 C,占比22.22%
- · 有1位网友选择 A,占比11.11%
A.Swiss
B.American
C.English
D.German
听力原文: Much of the world was watching on television when the commander of the Apollo-11 mission, Nell Armstrong, took the first steps on the moon in July, 1969. The pictures of that historic footstep and everything else about that and subsequent Apollo moon landings were recorded on magnetic tapes at three NASA ground tracking stations around the world. The tapes were then shipped to a NASA operations center near Washington, the Goddard Space Flight Center. In late 1969, the space agency began transferring them and tens of thousands of tapes from other space missions to a nearby U. S. government archives warehouse. NASA says it asked for them back in the 1970s, but now does not know where they are. "I probably am overly sensitive to the word 'lost'. I did not feel they are lost," said Richard Nafzger, a Goddard Space Flight Center engineer who was in charge of television processing from all of NASA's ground receiving sites. The space agency has authorized him to set aside his other duties for the foreseeable future and devote his time to the hunt for the tapes. Nafzger says they are stored somewhere.
The tapes of the Apollo 11 mission were first stored in ______.
A.a U. S. government archives warehouse.
B.a NASA ground tracking station.
C.the Goddard Space Flight Centre.
D.none of the above places.
Part A
Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D . Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
How to jump queue fury? If you find yourself waiting in a long queue at an airport or bus terminus this holiday, will you try to analyze what it is about queuing that makes you angry? Or will you just get angry with the nearest official?
Professor Richard Larson, an electrical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hates queuing but rather than tear his hair out, he decided to study the subject. His first finding, which backs up earlier work at the US National Science Foundation, was that the degree of annoyance was not directly related to the time. He cites an experiment at Houston airport where passengers had to walk for one minute from the plane to the baggage reclaim and then wait a further seven minutes to collect their luggage. Complaints were frequent, especially from those who had spent seven minutes watching passengers with just hand baggage get out immediately.
The airport authorities decided to lengthen the walk from the aircraft, so that instead of a one minute fast walk, the passengers spent six minutes walking. When they finally arrived at the baggage reclaim, the delay was then only two minutes. The extra walk extended the delay by five minutes for those carrying only hand baggage, but passenger complaints dropped almost to zero.
The reason? Larson suggests that it all has to do with what he calls" social justice ". If people see others taking a short cut, they will find the wait unbearable. So in the case of the airport, it was preferable to delay everyone.
Another aspect Larson studied was the observation that people get more fed up if they are not told what is going on. Passengers told that there will be a half-hour delay are less unhappy than those left waiting even twenty minutes without an explanation.
But even knowing how long we have to wait isn' t the whole answer. We must also believe that everything is being done to minimize our delay. Larson cites the example of two neighboring American bands. One was highly computerized and served a customer, on average, every 30 seconds. The other band was less automated and took twice as long. But because the tellers at the second band looking extremely busy, customers believed the service was faster and many transferred their accounts to the slower bank. Ultimately, the latter had to introduce time-wasting ways of appearing more dynamic.
According to the passage, "How to jump queue fury" means ______.
A.how to stand in a queue comfortably
B.how to avoid feeling angry while waiting
C.how to jump a queue when in a hurry
D.how to avoid standing in a queue
Jacobson is often referred to ______ at the factory.
A.as the best engineer
B.be the best engineer
C.by the president to be best engineer
D.as being the best engineer
I am an engineer, ______ I?
A.aren't
B.amn't
C.are
D.am not
While _______ in London, the young engineer picked up some English.
A.staying
B.stay
C.stayed
D.to stay
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