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2012年职称英语理工类 新增A级文章篇目 阅读理解（2篇） +四＋五篇Teaching Math, Teaching Anxiety +四十六篇Ants Have Big Impact on Environment as Ecosystem Engineers 完形填空（2篇） +十三篇 Solar Power without Solar Cells +第十五篇 “Liquefaction” Key to Much of Japanese Earthquake Damage 注： 1、+表示A级文章；*表示B即文章；其他为C级文章； 2、完形填空请参见第#页； 第四＋五篇Small But Wise小而聪明 On December 14,NASA1 blasted a small but mighty telescope into space. The telescope is12月14日，美国国家航空航天局发射了一个体积小而威力大的望远镜，它的名字叫“WISE”(聪明) called WISE and is about as wide around as a trashcan. Dont let its small size fool you:WISE has大约只有一个垃圾盒子那么宽。你可千万不要轻视这个小东西，WISE可是一款高强数码相机 a powerful digital camera, and it will be taking pictures of some the wildest objects2 in the known它将在人类已知的宇宙里拍摄任何你所 universe,including asteroids,faint stars,blazing galaxies3 and giant clouds of dust where planets能想到的天体，包括小行星、那些只能看到微弱的光和因燃烧而无法观察到的天 and stars are born.体，以及自行星和恒星诞生以来的巨大尘埃云 Im very excited because were going to be seeing parts of the universe that we havent seenNed Wright是主持WISE项目的科学家 before,said Ned Wright, a scientist who directs the WISE project. 要看到以前从未看到过的那部分宇宙”。 Since arriving in space,the WISE telescope has been circling the Earth,held by gravity in a到达宇宙空间后，WISE由于受极地轨道重力作用，一直在围绕地球旋转。 polar orbit4(this means it crosses close to the north and south poles with each lap5).Its camera is(这意味着，每转一圈，它就离南极和北极靠近)。它的镜头是向外的，远离地球。 pointed outward,away from the Earth,and WISE will snap a picture of a different part of the sky每11分钟WISE就会抓拍天空一个不同的部分。六个月之后，它将把整个天空 every 11 minutes. After six months it will have taken pictures across the entire sky.拍摄完毕。 The pictures taken by WISE wont be like everyday digital photographs,however. WISE然而，WISE拍摄的相片不会像我们日常的数码相片。WISE是Wide-field stands forWide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.As its name suggests,the WISE camera takesInfrared Survey Explorer(广域红外戡测探测器)的缩写。正如名字所示，WISE能 pictures of features that give off infrared radiation6. Radiation is energy that travels as a wave. Visible light, including the familiar s