【備戰(zhàn)2011年職稱英語考試】精選閱讀中英文語句(55)
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2010-09-13 19:04
【小編寄語】職稱英語考試中的閱讀理解有3篇文章，每篇300-450詞，每篇文章后有5道題（四選一，第31-45題，每題3分，共45分），考查應(yīng)試者對文章主旨和細節(jié)信息的理解能力。這里，小編給大家精選了閱讀理解的中英文語句材料，幫助大家積累詞匯，復(fù)習(xí)語法知識，為考試打下基礎(chǔ)。
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The Versatile Lead Pencil（萬能的鉛筆）
6. There are many novelty pencils. Some have the Ten Commandments, calendars or the multiplication table on them. Some are in the shape of umbrellas, canes, baseball bats and traffic signals. One may be 12 feet long, while others are only 1/2 inch.
6、還有許多新穎的鉛筆。有的上面有（基督教的教條的）十誡、日歷或者乘法表。有的鉛筆被做成雨傘、手杖、棒球、甚至交通信號燈的樣子。有的可能長達12英尺，而另有一些只有半英寸長。
7. One recent novelty is a pencil with paper in it. A small roll of paper fits in the center of the pencil and is drawn out through a slit in the side. It’s just the thing for those who are always looking for a scrap of paper.
7、最近的一種新奇鉛筆，里面有一卷紙。小小的一卷紙恰好放在鉛筆的中央部分，紙可以通過在鉛筆邊的縫抽出來。它適用于那些總是需要小紙片的人。
8. A popular idea is that a check, will, or other legal paper written in pencil is not legal. This is not true. Any legal document which does not specify otherwise can be legally signed in pencil.
8、一般認為用鉛筆簽署的支票或其它法律性文件是不合法的。事實并不是這樣。任何法律文件只要沒有明確指出，都可以用鉛筆簽署。
9. By one means or another, man has been writing for thousands of years. The Greeks and Romans used metallic lead for drawing faint lines. But it was not until around 1400 A.D. that graphite, the main part of the modern pencil, first appeared. And for a long time it was used without any covering.
9、無論怎樣，人類數(shù)千年來一直在書寫。古希臘和古羅馬人使用金屬鉛來畫暗淡的線。但是直到公元1400年，現(xiàn)代鉛筆的主要部分石墨才被發(fā)現(xiàn)，并且在相當(dāng)長一段時間，都是用沒有木頭外套的石墨直接書寫。
10. About a century and a half later, in 1564, a high wind blew over a heavy oak tree near Cumberland, England. The earth revealed a slab of black rock which was actually a huge deposit of almost pure graphite. Shepherds used it to brand their sheep. George II controlled the graphite by declaring it a crime to ship it out of the country.
10、大約一個半世紀(jì)之后，也就是1546年，在英國坎伯蘭郡附近，一場大風(fēng)吹倒了一棵大橡樹，一層厚厚的黑色巖石在地表顯露出來，這實際上是一塊巨大的幾乎純凈的石墨礦藏。當(dāng)?shù)氐哪裂蛉擞盟o自己的羊打標(biāo)記。喬治二世為了控制石墨開采，宣告用船運石墨出國是一種犯罪。