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山东科技大学2005年招收硕士学位研究生入学考试

基础英语（含阅读与写作）试卷

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Ⅰ.Explain the following terms and give each an example(20%) 1. analogy 2. oxymoron 3. metonymy 4. malapropism 5. innuendo

Ⅱ.Reading comprehension

This section 3 passages. Please read them and give a brief answer to each of the questions given at the end of each passage. Passage1

It looks as if it came straight from the set of Star Wars. It has four—wheel drive and rises above rocky surfaces. It lowers and raises its nose when going up and down hills. And when it comes to a river ,it turns amphibious: two hydro jets power it along by blasting water under its body. There is room for two passengers and a driver, who sit inside a glass bubble operating electronic, aircraft－type controls . A vehicle so daring on land and water needs windscreen wipers—but doesn’t have any. Water molecules are disintegrated on the screen’s Surface by ultrasonic sensors.

This unusual vehicle is the Racoon. It is an invention not of Hollywood but of Renault, a rather conservative French state－hatchbacks. Renault built the Racoon to explore new freedoms for designers and engineers created by advances in materials and manufacturing processes. Renault is thinking about startlingly different cars; other producers have radical new ideas for trains, boats and aeroplanes.

The first of the new freedom is in design. Powerful computer－aid designed(CAD) systems can replace with a click of a computer mouse hours of laborious work done on developed much faster. For the first time, Boeing will not have to build a giant replica of its new airliner, the 777, to make sure all the bits fit together. Its CAD system will take care of that.

But Renault is taking CAD further. It claims the Racoon is the world’s first vehicle to be designed within the digitized world of virtual reality. Complex programs were used tosimulate the vehicle and the terrain that it was expected to cross. This allowed a team leb by Patric Le Quement, Renault’s industrial－design director, to “drive”it long before a

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prototype existed.

Renault is not alone in thinking that virtual reality will transform automotive design. In Detroit, Ford is also investigating its potential. Jack Telnac, the firm’s head of design, computers. They would do more than style cars. Virtual reality will allow engineers to peer inside the working parts of a vehicle. Designers will watch bearings move, oil flow, gears mesh and hydraulics pump. As these techniques catch on, even stranger vehicles are likely to come along.

Transforming these creations from virtual reality to actual reality will also become easier, especially with advances in materials. Firms that once bashed everything out of steel now find that new alloys or composite materials(which can be made from mixtures of plastic, resin, ceramics and metals, reinforced with fibers such as glad or carbon)are changing the rules of manufacturing. At the same time, old materials keep getting better, as their producers try to secure their place in the factory of the future. This competition is increasing the pace of development of all materials.

One company in this field scaled composites. It was started in 1982 by Burt Rutan, an prototypes that have ranged from business aircraft to air racers. It has also worked on composite sails for the America’s Cup yacht race and on General Motors’Ultralite, a 100－mile －per －gallon experimental family car built from carbon fiber.

Again, the Racoon reflects this race between the old and the new. It uses conventional steel and what Renault describes as new “high－limit elastic steel” in its chassis. This steel is 30%lighter than the usual kind. The Racoon also has parts made from composites. Resnault plans to replace the petrol engine with a small gas turbine, which could be made from heat－resisting ceramics, and use it to run a generator that would provide power for electric motors at each wheel.

With composites it is possible to build many different parts into a single component. components needed in one of its car bodies from 150 to 16 by using a composite shell rather than one made of steel. Aircraft and cars may increasingly be assembled as if they were plastic kits.

composites helped to design for General Motors, uses a two－stroke engine in a “power pod” at the rear of the vehicle. The engine has been developed from an East German designexpected to run cleanly enough to qualify as an ultra－California’s tough new rules.

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