2014职称英语考试教材新变化：理工类阅读判断第十一篇

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2014年职称英语考试教材于11月15日出版发行，与2013年教材相对比，阅读理解文章有少量更新，完型填空无任何变化，阅读判断和概括大意与完成句子以及补全短文三个题型均有少量变化，词汇选项题型未做更新。网校为考生们搜集整理了教材变化相关资料，以供大家参考。

2014年职称英语国家指定教材_理工类_阅读判断更新文章

第二部分：阅读判断

阅读下面的短文。每篇短文后面都有7句话，请根据短文的内容判断这些话是正确、错误、还是在短文中没有提到

第十一篇Bill Gates: Unleashing Your Creativity【理工类A级】

理工类第十一篇

As a father. I believe mat me death of a child in Africa is no less poignant or tragic than9 the death of a child anywhere else，and that it doesn't take much to make an immense difference in these Children's 1ives10.

I’m still very much an optimist, and I believe mat progress on even the world's toughest

problems is possible—and it's happening every day. We're seeing new drugs for deadly diseases, new diagnostic t001s,and new attention paid to me health problems in me developing world.

I’m excited by the possibilities I see for medicine, for education and, of course, for technology. And I believe that through our natural inventiveness, creativity and willingness to solve tough problems, we're going to make some amazing achievements in my lifetime.

词汇：

unleash 解开;放纵;使自由 inspire 鼓舞

optimist 乐观主义者 incredible 难以置信的

clunky 发出沉闷金 curiosity 好奇心 inventiveness n.发明创造的能力

teletype (teletype.writer) n.电传 poignant 令人悲痛的，可怜的

teletype 打字机 tragic 悲剧的，悲惨的

vision 想象;幻想;美景 immense/巨大的

注释：

1.be rooted in：扎根于;深深地存在于

2. It was a clunky old teletype machine and it could barely do anything compared to title computers we have today.那是一台笨重的旧式电传打字机，跟我们今天的电脑相比几乎干不了什么事。本句中，barely意为almost not;compare to在美国英语中也可以等同于compare with也(与……相比).

3.They’re helping us build communities around meⅡlings we care about and to stay close to the people who are important to us，no matter where they are.电脑帮助我们就我们所关心的事情建立一个交流的场所，并且与那些我们认为对我们有重要意义的人密切相处，不管他们身在何处。care about指不管喜欢或不喜欢的事情都很关心、介意、在乎、计较。

4.“tap一dancing to work”：“跳着踢踏舞工作”.tap原意是“叩击、轻敲”;tap dance是“踢踏舞”。这里实际意思是“(手指)轻轻敲击键盘的工作”.

5.PC(personal computer)：个人计算机

6. But for all the cool things that a person can do with a PC, there are lots of other ways we

can put our creativity and intelligence to work to improve our world.除了我们能用计算

机做的所有神奇的事情，还有很多其他方式发挥我们的创造力和智慧，从而使世界更

加美好。

7.go unmet:得不到满足。在这里go是系动词，unmet是过去分词作表语。

8.commit to此处意为承诺，保证做某事。

9.no less than: 和……一样，不亚于……

10.and that it doesn’t take much to make an immense difference in these children's lives.而且要改善这些孩子们的命运，其实不难。此处it是形式主语，真正的主语是不定式短语to make an immense difference in these children's live so

练习：

1. A computer was as big as an icebox when Bill Gates was a high school student.