巩固与拓展
1.A majority of the reports received from people claiming
to have seen the lengendaiy Loch Ness monster have
proven to be mistakes, misconceptions, or tricked. ___________
2. Your semester grade is based not only on how well you
do on each test, but also how you participate in class. ___________
3. Modern sience was born when Galileo began trying to explain
how things happen and thus originating the method of controlled __________
experiment which now forms the basis of scientific investigation
4. Restrict your self to one or two pages, and listing ___________
any publications or referees on a separate sheet.
5. The House proposal would have barred the federal
government from demanding library records, read lists, __________
book customer lists and other material in terrorism and
intelligence investigations.
综合改错
The biggest safety threat facing airlines today may not be a terrorist
With a gun, than the man with the portable computer in business class. 1._____
In the last 15 years, pilots report well over 100 incidents tha could 2. _____
have been caused by electromagnetic interference. The source of this
interference remains confirmed, but increasingly, experts are pointing the 3._____
blame at portable electronic devices such as portable computers, radio and 4. _____
cassette players and mobile telephones.
RTCA, an organization advertises the aviation industry, has 5. ______
recommended that the airline bans such devices from 6.______
used during “critical” stages of lignt, particularly take-off and landing. 7._______
Some experts have gone further, calling for a total ban during all flights.
Currently, rules on using these devices are left up to individual airlines.
And although some airlines prohibit passengers from using such equipment
during take-off and landing, most are willing to enforce a total ban, given 8. ______
that many pasengers want to work during flights.
The difficulty is predicting how electromagnetic fields may affect an
aircraft’s computers. Experts know that portable devices emit radiation
which affect those wavelength which craft use for navigation and 9.______
communication. But , because they have not been able to reproduce
these effects in a laboratory, they have no way of knowing
whether the interference might be danger or not. 10.______