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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上2016新版中石油职称水平考试通用英语选读培训笔记（考过的大题已标出）目 录温馨小语： 每篇“学习笔记”将可能涉及到的“考点”做了重点标记，它们基于“职称考试”的四个主要方面，即词汇、语法、阅读和翻译，所以在学习中要认真体会，找到自己要重点学习的内容。跳过每一段英文原文，只通篇看下“带有英文”的中文部分。是不是感觉清楚了课文大致要说的内容？熟悉中文意思，在考试中也是很有帮助的，特别是在回答阅读类的选择题时，如果它恰好又是你在此读过的一篇课文，你一定会用最短的时间，找到正确的答案。考试的题量可不小，要在此处抢得先机。过段时间，再来温习下吧。51. Those Fasci
2、nating Northern Lights 迷人的北极光（2016新增）1.At 10:00 p.m. on March 23，1969, the Bowater Power Water Company in Deer Lake, Newfoundland experienced a disturbance on its system. The frequency converter at Comer Brook tripped off, shutting down half of the big paper mill. There was a radio blackout over mos
3、t of the Atlantic Provinces. And accompanying these activities was a magnificient display of northern lights boiling up out of the north and hanging in bundles of long rays like draperies across the sky. Ninety-three million miles away, a rather ugly looking sunspot was making its way across the dis
4、c of the sun.1.1969年3月23曰晚上10点，保华特水电公司（the Bowater Power Water Company)位于纽芬兰（Newfoundland)鹿湖的设备系统出现了异常；科纳 布鲁克（ComerBrook)的变频器跳间，使得一半的大造纸厂停产；大西洋沿 岸各省的无线电中断。伴随这些异常出现的还有辉煌的北极光从北面喷涌而出，一束束巨大的光束像帷幔一般遮盖了整个天际。9300万英里之外， 一个相形见绌的太阳黑子出现在太阳的圆盘上。2.This little drama demonstrated once again the close relationship
5、of the earth with the sun, and the importance of the intervening space.2.这个小小的插曲再次展现了地球和太阳的亲密关系以及介入空间的重要性。3.During the past several years twelve similar disturbances have taken place in this area. A magnetic storm in November, 1960, was so severe its effects were felt all over Canada. The C.N.T. peo
6、ple alone suffered $3 million worth of equipment damage. At their height of excitement, sunspots can bring on violent magnetic storms.3.在过去的几年中，类似的异常在同一地区出现了 12次。1960年11月 的电磁风暴甚至影响了整个加拿大。仅仅设备损失就达300万元。太阳黑子 活跃的鼎盛时期就能带来剧烈的电磁风暴。4.What are the northern lights or “aurora borealis”？ They have been called
7、“dancing ghosts，” “searchlight of God,” and “the language of mystic signs and portents.”Old school books explain them as sunlight reflected from ice and snow. But the great scientific achievements of the past twenty years have revealed new knowledge about the sun and our earth5s outer atmosphere. It
8、 is now certain that most auroras are associated with explosive disturbances in the suns atmosphere. These disturbances reach a peak every eleven years, and take the forms of flares, prominences and sunspots. They send out great jets of X-rays and charged particles travelling at terrific speeds. Whe
9、n these charged particles reach the earths magnetic field, some of them are deflected toward the magnetic poles. There they crash into atoms and molecules of the upper atmosphere (ionosphere) causing ionization, excitement, and the glow of the aurora. The level of excitement may vary anywhere from f
10、ifty to six hundred miles above the earths surface.4.那么，什么是北极光？它们被称为“舞蹈的幽灵”、“上帝的探照灯” 或是“神秘迹象与前兆的语言”。过去的课本解释说它们是冰雪反射太阳光形 成的，但过去20年里取得的伟大科学成就揭示了太阳和地球外大气层的新知 识。现在我们知道，大部分的极光与太阳大气层的爆炸摄动有关，它们每11 年达到活动的顶峰，表现为耀斑、日珥和太阳黑子。它们释放出大量的X射 线和带电粒子高速传播；当传播到地球的磁场时，一些带电粒子就会向磁极 偏转，与上层大气（电离层）的原子和分子发生碰撞，产生电离作用，引起 极光的突发。这种
11、作用发生在距离地球表面50到600英里的空间，其强烈程 度各不相同。5.The beautiful colors of the northern lights depend on the altitude at which the collisions occur and on the particles involved. Thus green is emitted by atomic oxygen and blue by nitrogen. Perhaps the rarest colors to be seen are rosy red glows tinged with green.
12、5.极光的美丽色彩取决于它发生的纬度和粒子的种类。绿色的极光是由 氧原子发出的，蓝色的是氮原子发出的。最罕见的是带有绿色的玫瑰红的光晕。6.Actually, much of the excitement of the aurora is missed. It has recently been discovered that human eyes cannot see all of their colors. To compensate for this, any camera fan can take excellent aurora photographs. These often re
13、veal reddish areas and glows not visible to the observer.6.实际上，大部分的极光都没有被人们看到。最近人们才发现，人类的 眼睛并不能看到所有的颜色，而摄影迷们却用相机捕捉到了灿烂的极光照片， 弥补了这一缺憾，他们发现微红的光不能够被肉眼观察到。7.A romantic nature seems to be an essential part of an explorer. Certainly Arctic and Antarctic explorers have written some of the most imaginative
14、descriptions of the lights. An excerpt from Captain Scotts diary reads: “the eastern sky was massed with swaying auroral light, fold on fold, the arches and curtains of vibrating luminosity rose and spread across the sky. The appeal is to the imagination by the suggestion of something wholly spiritu
15、al, something instinct with fluttering ethereal life.”7.浪漫的天性似乎是探险家生命的一部分。到北极圈和南极洲探险的人 曾经对极光进行了最具想象力的描写，下面是斯考特船长（Captain Scott)曰 记的节选：“东边的天空被摇曳的极光笼罩着，层层叠叠。晃动的玫瑰色光晕 如拱门和帷幔一般升起，满布整个天空。这一切激发我们无限的想象，联想 起那些纯粹精神的东西，那些充满了颤动的非凡生命力的东西。”8.During a big magnetic storm, one may first see strong rays and curtains
16、, followed by flaming aurora, all climaxing in a spectacular corona at the zenith.8.强烈的电磁风暴首先展现的是耀眼的光束和光幕，紧接着是如火焰般 的光环，最后形成瑰丽的日冕达到高潮。9.All of these forms can be easily identified by the interested observer. Contrary to popular belief, auroras happen at all seasons of the year.9.热心的观察者可以轻易地辨别各种不同的极光。与普遍的看法相反的 是，极光可能发生在一年的任何一个季节。10.Can you hear the northern lights? Now the
