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博大考神2012年职称英语考试理工类B级真题试卷及参考答案 二 收集：博大教育专家 来源：/article-5969.html?page 2 第四部分：阅读理解 第31~45题，每题3分，共45分 下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题。请根据短文内容，为每题确定1个最佳选项。 　　第一篇 　　Active Gallery: The best of Bionics 仿生学 Humans might be the most highly-evolved species on the planet, but most animals possess skills we can only dream of having. Imagine how much electricity we could save if we could see in the dark the way cats do. Imagine leaping from tree to tree like a monkey. Giraffes 长颈鹿 , which are otherwise calm and good-natured, sleep only 4.6 hours a day. 　　We realized a long, long time ago that nature provides the best blueprint 蓝图 for invention. We’ve borrowed canals from beavers 河狸 and reflectors from cat’s eyes. Although the words “bionics” became popular only after the 1960s, history shows that nature has always provided ideas on solving everyday problems. Our archives 档案 don’t go back to the time of Leonardo da Vinci and his bird-like flying machines, but we can take you to the late 19th century, where we applied those same principles for building our first practical airplanes. 　　To prepare for their flight at Kitty Hawk, the Wright brothers studied the movements of pigeons to figure out how they stayed high up when they were heavier than air. Their success inspired scores of successors to improve on the airplane by studying various aspects of nature. One of Orville Wright’s pupils caught and stuffed seagulls to examine their wingspan. Meanwhile, two French inventors examined spinning sycamore 梧桐 seeds in an effort to apply those same motions, reversed, to a helicopter. 　　Some examples are more obvious than others. The outside of the airplane designed by the Wright brothers looks like a minimalistic 简单抽象艺术 structure. On the other hand, Barney Connett’s fish submarine 潜水艇 actually looks like a fish. 　　Some bio-inspired concepts have yet to be invented. In the 1960s, the US Army commissioned several university professors to conduct research on the motor skills animals in hope of appl