职称英语阅读理解常见题型及解题技巧3_职称英语备考指南

职称英语阅读理解常见题型及解题技巧3

　　1. The idea of the improvement factor implies roughly______.

　　A. wages should be paid on the basis of length of service

　　B. the benefit of the increased production and lower costs should be shared by workers

　　C. supplementary unemployment benefit plans should be promoted

　　D. the transition to automation should be brought about with the minimum of inconvenience and distress to workers

　　本题要求学生根据上下文理解improvement factor的含义。在文章的第二段第七行，提出增值因素是要求随着生产率的提高，工资也要相应地提高;而生产率的提高就是增加生产降低成本。因而选项B是正确答案。选项A，把解雇金协议，即根据服务期长短给长期解雇者一笔钱，与增值因素的内容混淆起来，说明有时文章和题目并不难，但粗心大意会使你答错题。选项C是讲另一种劳工利益保护措施的，即失业者补助金计划;而选项D是讲工人们对自动化带来的种种影响所关切的问题。

　　例3

　　Before the nineteenth century, scientists with an interest in the sea were few and far between. Certainly Newton considered some theoretical aspects of it in his writings, but he was reluctant to go to sea to further his work.

　　For most people the sea was remote, and with the exception of early intercontinental travelers or others who earned a living from the sea, there was little reason to ask many questions about it, let alone to ask what lay beneath the surface. The first time that the question What is at the bottom of the oceans? had to be answered with any commercial consequence was when the laying of a telegraph cable from Europe to America was proposed. The engineers had to know the depth profile of the route to estimate the length of cable that had to be manufactured.