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Icebergs
1 Icebergs are among nature’s most spectacular(壮观的) creations, and yet most people have never seen one. A vague air of mystery envelops them. They come into being—somewhere—in faraway, frigid waters, amid thunderous noise and splashing turbulence, which in most case no one hears or sees. They exist only a short time and then slowly waste away(消融) just as unnoticed.
2 Objects of sheerest(最纯粹的) beauty they have been called. Appearing in an endless variety of shapes, they may be dazzlingly white, or they may be glassy blue, green or purple, tinted faintly or in darker hues. They are graceful, stately, inspiring—in calm, sunlight seas.
3 But they are also called frightening and dangerous, and that they are—in the night, in the fog, and in storms. Even in clear weather one is wise to stay a safe distance away from them. Most of their bulk is hidden below the water, so their underwater parts may extend out far beyond the visible top. Also, they may roll over unexpectedly, churning the waters around them.
4 Icebergs are parts of glaciers that break off, drift into the water, float about awhile, and finally melt. Icebergs afloat today are made of snowflakes that have fallen over long ages of time. They embody snows that drifted down hundreds, or many thousands, or in some cases maybe a million years ago. The snows fell in polar regions and on cold mountains, where they melted only a little or not at all, and so collected to great depths over the years and centuries. As each year’s snow accumulation lay on the surface, evaporation and melting caused the snowflakes slowly to lose their feathery points and become tiny grains of ice. When new snow fell on top of the old, it too turned to icy grains. So blankets of snow and ice grains mounted layer upon layer and were of such great thickness that the weight of the upper layers compressed the lower ones. With time and pressure from above, the many small ice grains joined and changed to larger crystals, and eventually the deeper crystals merged into a solid mass of ice.
A.Formation of Iceberg
B.Iceberg Is Beautiful
C.Color of Iceberg
D.Iceberg Is Dangerous
E. Iceberg Is Mysterious
F. Classification of Iceberg
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A. damaged B. sunk C. lost D. worn
A new computer system has been designed to stop ships sinking. The greatest danger to a holed vessel is that flooding of its compartments will make the (51) unstable enough to capsize. It is estimated that nearly half the ship (52) during the Second World War capsized because of loss of (53) .
Pacer System of Burlington, Massachusetts has now refined a system devised by a reserve U.S. Navy officer, Stephen Drabouski. The computer is programmed with every possible eventuality of flood damage. Once the actual damage is keyed into the computer the operator is told by the computer (54) the implications are—and what can be done to re-establish the vessel.
Trials on the American aircraft carrier USS Midway have (55) that the re action time to damage can be cut to a fiftieth. An incident was simulated in which the ship was (56) by two Exocet missiles causing flooding to 30 (57) receipt of the flood damage information in the damage control centre to a full printout of damage, effects, (58) countermeasures and an assessment of the result of the countermeasures.
In a re-run of the incident (59) the computer program the damage control officer took four and a quarter hours to establish the effects, of the damage and another four hours (60) a decision could be taken on countermeasures.Although the system can be used to provide (61) control officers with advice, they do not, of course, have to (62) the information. Quite often the " (63) solution" will be unacceptable for operational reasons. When that happens the system can be asked for alternatives or the operator (64) interrogate the computer to find out what would happen if the officer’s (65) solution was put into action.