浙 00836# 英语科技文选试题 第 1 页（共 8 页）绝密 考试结束前全国 2013 年 7 月高等教育自学考试英语科技文选试题课程代码：00836请考生按规定用笔将所有试题的答案涂、写在答题纸上。选择题部分注意事项： 1. 答题前，考生务必将自己的考试课程名称、姓名、准考证号用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔填写在答题纸规定的位置上。2. 每小题选出答案后，用 2B 铅笔把答题纸上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在试题卷上。I. Directions: Read through the following passages. Choose the best answer and blacken the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (20%)(A)The worlds largest social network will shift its corporate headquarters starting this summer to a 57-acre campus with 1 million square f.eet of office space in Menlo Park, California, making its second move in less than two years. The move, which will see Facebook swap its Palo Alto address for a home base in a largely undeveloped area near the entrance to a busy Bay Area bridge, will give the company much-needed room to grow, even if the new location lacks some of the glamour of other corporate real estate deals. Google Inc, which is increasingly vying with Facebook for engineering talent, announced on Tuesday that it had leased an iconic building for its staff in Santa Monica. Googles headquarters is in Mountain View, California. Facebook executives said the company, which turned seven on Friday, is seeking the space beyond its nearby Palo Alto base to contain its explosive expansion. The company has seen its payroll swell by about 50 percent annually in past years to about 2,000 now, a pace it expects to sustain in coming years. Its new Menlo Park location can house about 3,600 people, executives said. Facebook leased the campus - the former headquarters of Sun Microsystems which Oracle Corp 浙 00836# 英语科技文选试题 第 2 页（共 8 页）took over in 2010 - and will begin moving in June or July. The site, a cluster of nine blockish buildings and wide, open spaces wedged between the freeway and the San Francisco Bay, is known locally as “Sun Quentin” for what insiders say is a passing, resemblance to the state prison 50 miles north. John Tenanes, Facebooks director of global real estate, offered a more metropolitan analogy for the companys new home at a briefing with reporters at Menlo Park City Hall on Tuesday, noting that the various parts of the campus were connected by a courtyard. “Thats how we plan to look at this, like an urban street, or an urban setting. We think this is going to be kind of the glue that holds the buildings and people together,” he said. Speaking to reporters after the briefing, Tenanes said the new campus will provide plenty of important amenities, including a fitness center, a basketball court, an auditorium and two cafes. Facebooks move was announced the same day that Web arch-foe Google said it had leased a Frank Gehry-designed office building a stones throw from the sun-speckled beaches of Santa Monica, near Los Angeles. Google leased the iconic former headquarters of the Chiat/Day advertising agency - whose giant binoculars-shaped facade is a fixture of travel guide books - in Venice, California, to house part of its own envisioned expansion, with 6,000 people set to join the companys payroll this year.1. According to the passage, one main reason for the move of Facebook is _.A. due to its rapid growthB. in response to Googles actC. that it could provide more amenities for its employeesD. that it needs an urban setting2. The word “swap” in line 3 is closest in meaning to _.A. moveB. give upC. replaceD. use3. According to the passage, all of the following are true EXCEPT _.A. Facebook was established seven years agoB. Google probably has a higher employment level than FacebookC. both Facebook and Google are badly in need of talented engineers浙 00836# 英语科技文选试题 第 3 页（共 8 页）D. Facebooks new home is located in a metropolitan district4. According to the passage, Sun Quentin is probably the name of _.A. a parkB. a prisonC. a bayD. a company5. Which of the following is true according to the passage?A. Facebook is a larger social network than Google.B. Both Facebook and Google are the largest networks in the world.C. Facebooks staff can work out in its new home base.D. Facebooks staff get a raise every other year.(B)Some fish in New Yorks Hudson River have become resistant to several of the waterways more toxic pollutants. Instead of getting sick from dioxins and related compounds including some polychlorinated biphenyls, Atlantic tomcod harmlessly store these poisons in fat, a new study finds. But whats good for this bottom-dwelling species could be bad for those feeding on it, says Isaac Wirgin of the New York University School of Medicines Institute of Environmental Medicine in Tuxedo. Each bite of tomcod that a predator takes, he explains, will move a potent dose of toxic chemicals up the food chain eventually into species that could end up on home dinner tables. From 1947 to 1976, two General Electric manufacturing plants along the Hudson River produced PCBs for a range of uses, including as insulating fluids in electrical transformers. Over the years, PCB an