全国职称英语考试综合类C级课堂笔记阅读理解第5讲3

1、全国职称英语考试综合类 C 级课堂笔记 :阅读理解第 5 讲 3Passage 2Pushbike 自行车 Peril 危险Low speed bicycle crashes can badly injure-or even kill-children if they fall onto the ends of the handlebars so a team of engineers is redesigning the humble handlebar in a bid to make it safer.Kristy Arbogast, a bioengineer at the Child

2、ren'sHospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, began the project with her colleagues after a study of serious abdominal injuries in children in the past 30 years showed that mol-e than a third were caused by bicycle accidents "the task was to identify how the injuries occurred and come up w

3、ith some countermeasures " she says.By interviewing the children and their parents，Arbogast and her team were able toreconstruct many of theaccidents and identified a common mechanism responsible for serious injures. They discovered that most occur when childrenhit an obstacle at a slow speed ，

4、causing them to topple over. To maintain their balance they turn the handlebars through 90degrees-but their momentum forces them into the end of the handlebars The bike then falls over and the other end of the handlebars hits the ground，ramming it into theirabdomen.The solution the group came up wit

5、h is a handgrip fitted with a spring and damping system. The spring absorbs up to 50 per cent of the forces transmitted through the handlebars in an impact ，The group hopes to commercialize the device ， which should add only a few dollars to the cost of a bike. "But our task has been one of edu

6、cation because up until now, bicycle manufacturer were unaware of the problem，"saysArbogast.The team has also approached the US Consumer Product Safety Commission to try to persuade manufacturers to adopt the new design A decision is expected later this year词汇：来源：考试大handlebar n 常用复数 自行车等的 车把 ab

7、dominal adj 腹部的redesign v 重新设计来源：考试大bioengineer n 生物工程师reconstruct vt 重建；重构来源：考试大countermeasure n 对策abdomen n 膜，腹部来源：考试大momentum n 冲力handgrip n 握柄来源：考试大damping adj 制动的减速的，缓冲的commercialize vt 使商品化来源：考试大练习：来源：考试大1 According to the passage ， SOme engineers are trying to improve the handlebars becauseA)

8、 they are not noble enough，B) they may kill childrenC) they are likely to crashD) they make the bike move at a low speed2 In paragraph 2, the author mentions a study of serious abdominal injuriesA) to discuss how abdominal injuries in children occur,来源：考试大B) to show that more than a third injuries w

9、ere caused by bicycle accidents.C) to point out what the countermeasures can be.D) to tell us why Kristy Arbogast began the project3 Paragraph 3 mainly discussesA) why the children and their parents were interviewedB) when the children tom the handlebars through 90 degrees ，C) what causes the childr

10、en to topple overD) how serious injuries occur4 The passage implies thatA) it is not easy to persuade manufacturers to adopt the new design.B) the team of engineers has not found any countermeasures 来源：考试大C) children like to ride bicycles at a very low speedD) a lot of children were killed in bicycl

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