2009年6月20日CET4 深度阅读理解两篇文章解析（A卷）

Section B
Passage OneQuestions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.

The January fashion show, called Future Fashion, exemplified how far green design has come. Organized by the New York-based nonprofit Earth Pledge, the show inspired many top designers to work with sustainable fabrics for the first time. Several have since made pledges to include organic fabrics in their lines.(第57题)
The designers who undertake green fashion still face many challenges. Scott Hahn, cofounder with Gregory of Rogan and Loomstate, which uses all-organic cotton, says high-quality sustainable materials can still be tough to find. (第58题) “Most designers with existing labels are finding there aren’t comparable fabrics that can just replace what you’re doing and what your customers are used to,” he says. For example, organic cotton and non-organic cotton are virtually indistinguishable once woven into a dress. But some popular synthetics, like stretch nylon, still have few eco-friendly equivalents.
Those who do make the switch are finding they have more support. (第59题)Last year the influential trade show Designers & Agents stopped charging its participation fee for young green entrepreneurs (企业家) who attend its two springtime shows in Los Angeles and New York and gave special recognition to designers whose collections are at least 25% sustainable. It now counts more than 50 green designers, up from fewer than a dozen two years ago. This week Wal-Mart is set to announce a major initiative aimed at helping cotton farmers go organic: it will buy transitional (过渡型的) cotton at higher prices, thus helping to expand the supply of a key sustainable material. “Mainstream is about to occur,” says Hahn.
Some analysts (分析师) are less sure. Among consumers, only 18% are even aware that ecofashion exists, up from 6% four years ago. Natalie Hormilla, a fashion writer, is an example of the unconverted consumer. When asked if she owned any sustainable clothes, she replied: “Not that I’m aware of.” Like most consumers, she finds little time to shop, and when she does, she’s on the hunt for “cute stuff that isn’t too expensive.” By her own admission, green just isn’t yet on her mind.(第60题) But—thanks to the combined efforts of designers, retailers and suppliers—one day it will be. (第61题)

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

57. What is said about Future Fashion?

A) It inspired many leading designers to start going green.
B) It showed that designers using organic fabrics would go far.
C) It served as an example of how fashion showsshould be organized.
D) It convinced the public that fashionable clothesshould be made durable.

解析：参考译文：一月举行的一个叫做Future Fashion的时尚展览，证明了环保设计的到来。展览由纽约的Earth Pledge组织，激励了众多顶级设计家首次采用可持续纤维作为材料。一些设计家还发誓以后要在他们的设计中采用有机纤维。
A) It inspired many leading designers to start going green.它（Future Fashion）激励众多顶级设计师开始走环保道路。
B) It showed that designers using organic fabrics would go far. 它（Future Fashion）说明了采用有机纤维的设计师能够扬名（go far）。
C) It served as an example of how fashion shows should be organized.它为fashion show应该如何组织举了一个例子。
D) It convinced the public that fashionable clothes should be made durable. 它使公众相信流行服装应该结实，牢固。

Convince: to bring by the use of argument or evidence to firm belief or a course of action. 说服：通过进行辩论或者提供证据使…确信或使…
Some people are not easily to convince.
He is convinced that his cat is dead.
Exemplify: to illustrate by example: 举例说明
exemplify an argument. 提供争论的例子

58. According to Scott Hahn, one bigchallenge to designers who will go organic is that .

A) much more time is needed to finish a dress usingsustainable materials
B) they have to create new brands for clothes madeof organic materials
C) customers have difficulty telling organic fromnon-organic materials
D) quality organic replacements for synthetics are not readily available

解析：答案在第二段。首句是中心句子。
译文：走环保时尚的设计师仍面临很多困难。Scott Hahn说: “高质量的，可持续使用的材料很难找到。大多数设计师发现没有相似的纤维材料来取代现有的和消费者已经习惯使用的材料。” 例如，用有机棉花和无机棉花织成的衣服肉眼很难分辨。一些现行的人工合成材料，如 stretch nylon, 仍然没有利于环保的替代产品。

Comparable:
similar or equivalent:相似或相当：pianists of comparable ability.能力相当的钢琴家
Synthetics：人工合成(绝缘)材料
Equivalent：（名词） Something that is essentially equal to another: 对等物：与另一事物基本相等的事物

59. We learn from Paragraph 3 thatdesigners who undertake green fashion .

A) can attend various trade shows free
B) are readily recognized by the fashion world
C) can buy organic cotton at favorable prices
D) are gaining more and more support

解析：答案就在第三段首句。

60. What is Natalie Hormilla’s attitudetoward ecofashion?

A) She doesn’t seem to care about it.
B) She doesn’t think it is sustainable.
C) She is doubtful of its practical value.
D) She is very much opposed to the idea.

解析：. Natalie Hormilla 这个名字出现在最后一段。作者说她是unconverted consumer（想法未改变的消费者），当被问到是否拥有sustainable clothes，她的回答是“Not that I’m aware of.”（据我所知，没有），作者还补充说明，By her own admission, green just isn’t yet on her mind.（她自己承认，她还没有环保这个概念）
Converted： adj.更换信仰的, 修改的； unconverted:未改变信仰的

61. What does the author think of greenfashion?

A) Green products will soon go mainstream.
B) It has a very promising future.
C) Consumers have the final say.
D) It will appeal more to young people.

解析：全文最后一句：But—thanks to the combined efforts of designers, retailers and suppliers—one day it will be. 但是，因为设计师，零售商，和供应商的共同努力（combined efforts），总有一天，green fashion 会成为主流的。
Combined: 动词combine的形容词形式，combine： To bring into a state of unity; merge.使结合：使成统一的状态；合并

Passage TwoQuestions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
Scientists have devised a way to determine roughly where a person has lived using a strand (缕) of hair, a technique that could help track the movements of criminal suspects or unidentified murder victims. （第62题）

The method relies on measuring how chemical variations in drinking water show up in people’s hair.
“You’re what you eat and drink, and that’s recorded in your hair,” said Thure Ceiling, a geologist at the University of Utah. （第63题）

While U.S. diet is relatively identical, water supplies vary. The differences result from weather patterns. The chemical composition of rainfall changes slightly as rain clouds move.
Most hydrogen and oxygen atoms in water are stable, but traces of both elements are also present as heavier isotopes (同位素). The heaviest rain falls first. As a result, storms that form over the Pacific deliver heavier water to California than to Utah. （第64题）

Similar patterns exist throughout the U.S. By measuring the proportion of heavier hydrogen and oxygen isotopes along a strand of hair, scientists can construct a geographic timeline. Each inch of hair corresponds to about two months.
Cerling’s team collected tap water samples from 600 cities and constructed a map of the regional differences. They checked the accuracy of the map by testing 200 hair samples collected from 65 barber shops. （第65题）

They were able to accurately place the hair samples in broad regions roughly corresponding to the movement of rain systems.
倒数第六段“It’s not good for pinpointing (精确定位),” Cerling said. “It’s good for eliminating many possibilities.” （第66题）
Todd Park, a local detective, said the method has helped him learn more about an unidentified woman whose skeleton was found near Great Salt Lake.
The woman was 5 feet tall. Police recovered 26 bones, a T-shirt and several strands of hair.
When Park heard about the research, he gave the hair samples to the researchers. Chemical testing showed that over the two years before her death, she moved about every two months.
She stayed in the Northwest, although the test could not be more specific than somewhere between eastern Oregon and western Wyoming.
“It’s still a substantial area,” Park said. “But it narrows it way down for me.” （第66题）
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

62. What is the scientists’ new discovery?

A) One’s hair growth has to do with the amount of water they drink.
B) A person’s hair may reveal where they have lived.
C) Hair analysis accurately identifies criminal suspects.
D) The chemical composition of hair varies from person to person.

解析：原文是。答案在第一段，译文：科学家已经研究出通过一缕头发来判断一个人居住的地方的方法。这项技术可以帮助犯罪嫌疑人的举动或者识别未经确认的受害者。
A) One’s hair growth has to do with the amount of water they drink.人头发的增长与喝水量有关。（原文未提及）

C) Hair analysis accurately identifies criminal suspects. 头发分析测试可以准确的识别犯罪嫌疑人。
在倒数第六段作者说这项技术不适合pinpointing (精确定位)

D) The chemical composition of hair varies from person to person.头发的化学成分因人而异。（符合常识，但原文未提及）

Unidentified:未经确认的
Devise： To form, plan, or arrange in the mind; design or contrive:设计，发明在脑中形成，计划或整理；设计或发明：
devised a new system for handling mail orders.设计一个新的信件处理系统

63. What does the author mean by “You’re what you eat and drink” (Line 1, Para. 3)?

A) Food and drink affect one’s personality development.
B) Food and drink preferences vary withindividuals.
C) Food and drink leave traces in one’s body tissues.
D) Food and drink are indispensable to one’s existence.

解析： You’re what you eat and drink. 你是由你的饮食决定的。C选项最接近，食物和水分在身体的组织里有迹可循。A, 食物水分影响性格发展。 B, 饮食喜好因人而异。D 食物和水分是生存不可缺少的东西。A, B, D如果按照常识判断，貌似正确，但在原文没又依据，是以假乱真的选项。
Indispensable： Not to be dispensed with; essential.不可缺少的；绝对必要的

64. What is said about the rainfall in America’sWest?

A) There is much more rainfall in Californiathan in Utah.
B) The water it delivers becomes lighter when it movesinland.
C) Its chemical composition is less stable than inother areas.
D) It gathers more light isotopes as it moveseastward.

解析：这里有两个知识点：一是同位素的定义，具有相同质子数，不同中子数（或不同质量数）同一元素的不同核素互为同位素。由于同位素的存在，水分子出现了质量的差别，也就是有水轻和水中之分。二是地理常识，美国的加利福尼亚州紧邻太平洋，而犹他州在内陆。综合以上两点，所以在太平洋上形成的较重的雨水现在加州降落，而较轻的雨水则会走得更远，降落在内陆的犹他州。

65. What did Cerling’s team produce in their research?
A) A map showing the regional differences of tap water.
B) A collection of hair samples from various barbershops.
C) A method to measure the amount of water in humanhair.
D) A chart illustrating the movement of the rainsystem.

解析：阅读区间已在原文标示出来。译文：Cerling’s team 收集了600个城市的自来水（tap water）样品,并建立了一张表示地区区别的图。他们通过测试从65个理发店采集的200个头发样品来检测这个图的准确性。
题目What did Cerling’s team produce in their research?译文：Cerling’s team 在研究中展示了什么？注意这里的Produce 不是生产，制造的含义，而是出示，展示的意思。
Produce:
To bring forth; exhibit 提出；展示
He reached into a pocket and produced a packet of matches. 手伸进口袋，拿出了一盒火柴；
She failed to produce an eyewitness to the crime. 无法提供犯罪的目击证人
Chart：图表

66. What is the practical value of Cerling’sresearch?

A) It helps analyze the quality of water indifferent regions.
B) It helps the police determine where a crime iscommitted.
C) It helps the police narrow down possibilities indetective work.
D) It helps identify the drinking habits of theperson under investigation.

解析：在文章最后6个自然段，有Cerling’s research的理论的应用。倒数第六段说不适合精确定位，但可以排除很多可能性。最后5个自然段举例解释了这个研究的具体应用。通过这种方法帮助警方更多的了解了在大盐湖发现的一具尸骸。比如知道了她在死前大概每两个月就换一个地方，在美国西北部呆过。她活动的范围在东Oregon 和西Wyoming之间。
最后一段Park 说“虽然这仍然很广阔的区域，但它为我们缩小了范围”


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