[外语类试卷]雅思(阅读)模拟试卷26及答案与解析.doc
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1、雅思(阅读)模拟试卷 26及答案与解析 一、 Reading Module (60 minutes) 0 The Prize: $10 Million A They are an elite club of billionaires, movie producers, dotcom wiz kids and the occasional astronaut and between them they hope to change the face of scientific research with money and influence, the 20-strong team among
2、them the producer of the Blues Brothers and Naked Gun movies, the cofounder of Google, a former White House aide and the Vietnam veteran-turned-billionaire genetics entrepreneur, Craig Venter, are to launch a series of multimillion dollar prizes to accelerate scientific breakthroughs that otherwise
3、might be decades away. B Together, they make up the X-Prize Foundation, an organisation set up by Peter Diamandis of Space Adventures, the company that arranged for Dennis Tito to fly to the International Space Station in 2001 and so become the worlds first space tourist. The foundation (motto: “Cre
4、ating radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity“), plans to launch three prizes of at least $10 million this year to crack some of the toughest problems facing genetics, nanotechnology and the car industry. “Our goal is to build ourselves into a world-class prize institute and focus on using
5、 those prizes to attack some of the grand challenges of our time,“ Dr Diamandis said. “By setting up prizes with a big enough purse, you can reach across space and time and problems will get solved.“ C The move follows the foundations huge success with the Ansari X-Prize, which promised $I0 million
6、for the first commercial manned spacecraft to reach suborbital space twice within two weeks. Named after Anousheh Ansari, a dotcom multimillionaire and one of only two women on the foundations board, the prize attracted 26 teams which spent more than $100 million trying to win. The prize was trigger
7、ed by what Dr Diamandis calls his “absolute frustration at the glacial pace of progress“ and was won in 2004 by Burt Rutan, an American aeronautics expert, with his rocket-plane SpaceShipOne. The competition forced US officials to draw up regulations for commercial spaceflight and paved the way for
8、Richard Branson to add space tourism to his portfolio with the launch of Virgin Galactic, a spaceflight venture that will use a rocket designed by Mr Rutan. D Now the foundation is looking to repeat its success in other areas of science. Dr Diamandis is cagey about the finer details of future prizes
9、, but one will offer $10 million for the first company to sequence the genetic code of 100 people in a matter of weeks. The prize is intended to force private industry to find ways of making full genome sequencing cheap enough for everyone to afford. It will be no cakewalk: a full genome sequence no
10、w takes around six months to read and costs $20 million. “The value of having the human genome doesnt really occur until you have it for tens or hundreds of thousands of people, so the prize will make that happen,“ Dr Diamandis said. “To say this gene correlates with adult onset diabetes, that this
11、gene reacts badly with that drug, you need a huge statistical database.“ E A second prize is aimed at kicking Americas self-proclaimed addiction to oil, by spurring research into greener vehicles. “This is a hot button that can effect our reliance on energy from around the world and our production o
12、f pollution, which are major problems from a national security standpoint and an environmental standpoint, Dr Diamandis said. “Were still using the internal combustion engine after 100 years, and getting 20 miles per gallon for the past 40 years. Its ripe for a major prize to break things open.“ The
13、 foundation is also planning prizes in nanotechnology and education and is considering a second space prize, which could see the first commercial team to put a person into orbital spaceflight win $50 million to $100 million. “Were always looking for where things have become stuck, where there are bu
14、reaucratic, technology, government or industrial problems stopping things evolving.“ According to Dr Diamandis, in the future such prizes will shape research by focusing minds on a particular problem and ensuring the goalposts do not change with political whims. Soon, he believes $100 million and ev
15、en $1 billion prizes will be put up by organisations keen to draw on the mass intelligence of the worlds experts. F The money for the prizes comes from donations from wealthy individuals and sponsorship, and entry is usually open to all. “In general we want these open to the most brilliant minds on
16、the planet,“ Dr Diamandis said. “A lot of the value is not just the cash, its the heroism that goes along with winning the competition. Its what drives people to work around the clock and take risk to levels required for breakthroughs.“ The X-Prize Foundation has inspired others to follow suit, nota
17、bly Nasa, which believes its money might be better spent setting up a prize fund than running parallel research projects in-house. This month it released details of six $5 million “challenges“ to solve technical hurdles standing in the way of typically Nasaish projects, namely how to build extraterr
18、estrial fuel depots, human lunar all-terrain vehicles, low-cost space pressure suits, lunar night power sources, micro reentry vehicles and “station-keeping solar sails“. 1 Questions 1-4 The text has 6 paragraphs (A-F). Which paragraph contains each of the following pieces of information? 1 The reas
19、on that having the genetic codes of many people would be advantageous. 2 Who can enter the competitions. 3 The number of women on the board of directors of the X-Prize Foundation. 4 The backgrounds of the people who make up the X-Prize Foundation. 5 Questions 5-8 Complete the following sentences usi
20、ng NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the text for each gap. 5 Dennis Tito was the _. 6 SpaceShipOne flew in _ space. 7 Diamandis thinks American reliance on oil is bad for the environment and for _. 8 Diamandis believes that money and _ make people interested in winning the prizes. 9 Questions 9-13 Do t
21、he following statements agree with the information given in the text? Write TRUE if the information in the text agrees with the statement. Write FALSE if the information in the text contradicts the statement. Write NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this. 9 One of the reasons for setting up the
22、 X-Prize Foundation was that the founders thought scientific development was too slow. 10 Anousheh Ansari is one of the richest women in the world. 11 If you wanted to know your full genetic code, it would currently cost you about $20 million. 12 Diamandis doesnt want politics to prevent scientific
23、development. 13 Nasa is using prizes instead of conducting its own expensive research. 13 Try To See It Our Way A Its playtime at Crown Lane primary school in Streatham, south London, and, as at every school the world over, playtime is bringing its problems. Over by the fence, Maya and Cora are squa
24、ring up for a fight. There are raised voices and some angry pointing: it has the makings of an ugly scene. Then a girl in an orange sweatshirt and a boy in a black sweatshirt move in. A few quiet words are exchanged, and the four move inside the school building to a sunny corridor where they can hav
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