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1、 职称英语考试综合类阅读理解与答案 Think of a modem city and the first image that come to mind is the skyline.It is full of great buildings，pointing like fingers to heaven.It is true that some cities dont permit buildings to go above a certain height.But these are cities concerned with the past.The first thing any c
2、ity does when it wants to tell the world that it has arrived is to build skyscrapers. When people gather together in cities，they create a demand for land.Since cities are places where money is made，that demand can be met.And the best way to make money out of city land is to put as many people as pos
3、sible in a space that covers the smallest amount of ground.That means building upwards. The technology existed to do this as early as the 19th century.But the height of buildings was limited by one important factor.They had to be small enough for people on the top floors to climb stairs.People could
4、 not be expected to climb a mountain at the end of their journey to work，or home. Elisha Otis，a US inventor，was the man who brought us the lift-or elevator，as he preferred to call it.However，most of the technology is very old.Lifts work using the same pulley system the Egyptians used to create the P
5、yramids.What Otis did was attach the system to a steam engine and develop the elevator brake，which stops the lift falling ifthe cords that hold it up are broken.It was this that did the most to gain public confidence in the new invention1.In fact，he spent a number of years exhibiting lifts at fairgr
6、ounds，giving people the chance to try them out before selling the idea to architects and builders. A lift would not be a very good theme park attraction now.Going in a lift is such an everyday thing that it would just be boring.Yet psychologists and others who study human behavior find lifts fascina
7、ting.The reason is simple.Scientists have always studied animals in zoos.The nearest they can get to that with humans is in observing them in lifts2. “It breaks all the usual conventions about the bubble of personal space3 we carry around with us-and you just cant choose to move away，”says workplace
8、 psychologist，Gary Fitzgibbon.Being trapped in this setting can create different types of tensions，he says.Some people are scared of them.Others use them as an opportunity to get close to the boss.Some stand close to the door.Others hide in the comers.Most people try and shrink into the background.B
9、ut some behave in a way that makes others notice them.There are a few people who just stand in a comer taking notes. Dont worry about them.They fire probably from a university. 练习： 1. “.these are cities concerned with the past”in the first paragraph refer to cities that A) are worried about their pa
10、st. B) have a glorious past to be proud of. C) want to maintain their traditional image. D) are very interested in their own history. 2. The difficulty in constructing tall buildings in the 19th century lies in A) the shortage of money. B) the lack ora device to carry people upward. C) backward tech
11、nology. D) mountains taking up land space. 3. When Otis came up with the idea of a lift， A) he sold it to the architects and builders immediately. B) the Egyptians used it to build the Pyramids. C) it was accepted favorably by the public. D) most people had doubt about its safety. 4. Which of the tb
12、llowing best describes the experience of going in a lift now? A) Fascinating. B) Uninteresting. C) Frightening. D) Exciting. 5. Psychologists find the lift a good place where they can study human behaviour because A) here humans behave the way animals do. B) people in a lift are all scared. C) here some people take notes. D) in a lift the bubble of personal space breaks. 答案与题解： 1. C be concemed with是“关怀、关注”的意思，顾可排解B和D两个选项，依据前面一句话，these cities是指那些不允许建筑物超出肯定高度的城市，即不情愿转变固有形象的城市。