第十章 真题讲解七

专题一 新事物新科技
新事物新科技题型解题技巧
抓住usage, advantage, disadvantage
要点：过程、原理要略读，不回读
留心强对比、段落末句，往往是考点所在
把握小数字，能够为解题提供线索

Questions 1~5
共5小节

In a bay near Almeria in Southern Spain will be built the world’s first underwater residence for tourists. The hotel will be 40 feet down in the Mediterranean. As all the world opened to tour operators, there was still a frontier behind which lay three quarters of the globe’s surface, the sea; in whose cool depths light fades; no winds blow; there are no stars. There even the most bored travelers could recapture their sense of romance, terror or beauty. For a submerged hotel is such a beautiful idea.
The hotel will cost 170,000 and will be able to accommodate up to ten people a night. Up until now only scientists and professional divers have lived under the sea, but soon, for the first time, the public will be able to go down into the darkness. They will have to swim down in diving suits, but at 40 feet there would be no problem about decompression.

accommodate容纳
up to 最高级，至多

Design of the hotel was crucial. Most of the underwater structures used before had been in the shape of a diving bell or submarine. Professional divers could cope with such things but ordinary people would run the risk of violent claustrophobia. Then an Austrian architect had the idea of making three interconnecting circular structures, 18 feet in diameter, and looking much like flying saucers. They would be cast in concrete and launched from the shore. Towed into position they would then be sunk. A foundation of cast concrete would already be in place on the sea- bed. Pylons would attach the structures to this. Once in position the structures would be pumped dry. The pylons made to withstand an uplift pressure of 350 tons, would then take the strain.

本段中包含专家观点和大众观点的强对比，专家观点往往是考点所在。

Cables linking the underwater structures to the hotel on shore would connect it with electricity, fresh water, television, and an air pump, and also dispose of sewage. Entry would be from underneath, up a ladder; because of the pressure inside there would be no need of airlocks or doors.

Cable 电缆
Entry 入口

The first structure would include a changing room and a shower area, where the divers would get out of their gear. There would also be a kitchen and a lavatory. The second structure would contain a dining room/ lecture theatre, and sleeping accommodation for eight people. The third structure would contain two suites. A steward would come down with the ten customers, to cook and look after them. Television monitors would relay all that went on to the shore so that discussions on the sea bed could be transmitted to all the world.

1. From the passage we understand that tour operators and travelers will be interested in the submerged hotel as ___________.
(A) it is a quiet place for research work (B) it is an ideal sea- food restaurant
(C) it will offer new possibilities (D) it will have unchanging weather

2. What design was finally considered most suitable for the new hotel?
(A) Three separated circles. (B) Three linked discs.
(C) Three connected globes. (D) Three interlocked cylinders.
globalization 全球化
multi-polarization 多极化
cone 圆锥体

3. The hotel would be able to float under water because it would be ____________.
(A) made of light material (B) 350 tons in weight
(C) filled with air (D) attached to pylons

4. It is planned that sleeping quarters will be provided for the guests in the __________.
(A) second structure (B) second and third structures
(C) first and third structures (D) third structure

5. The purpose of television monitors under the sea would be to relay ____________.
(A). instructions from the sea bed to the shore
(B). news from the shore to the sea bed
(C).information from the world to the sea bed
(D). information to the world from the sea bed

Mediterranean地中海
Medieval 中世纪

词根terr与土地有关
territory国土
territorial integrity国土完整
terracotta warrior 兵马俑
extra-terrestrial 外星人

submerge 沉下去
submarine潜水艇

TV-relay rights 电视转播权

Claustrophobia幽闭恐惧症
claustro隐蔽的、封闭的
phobia恐惧烦感
xenophobia 生客恐惧
acrophobia (acrobatics)恐高症

-phile：
philosophy哲学
philanthropy慈善事业
(anthropology)
bibliophile爱书
(bibliography)

-mania：疯狂的喜爱、癖好
bibliomania对书的疯狂喜爱
kleptomania盗窃癖