2022年职称英语考试理工类B级阅读理解练习题(6)阅读理解题第一篇TapeStore: A New Tape Storage SystemTapeStore is a new kind of tape storage system which can store up to 6,000 computer tapes. No other tape storage system can hold as many computer tapes as TapeStore. The tapes look exactly like video cassettes. Many hundreds of data files can be stored on each tape, up to a maximum of 500 million bytes （字节） of data. If you stored the same amount of information on paper, you would “need nearly 4.5 billion printed pages.The machine is a tall black box with a mechanical arm. The machine is 2.5 metres high and 3.0 metres wide. This is how it works. Each tape has a code printed on it. You feed the code number into TapeStore, which then looks for the code. As soon as TapeStore locates the code, the arm reaches in and pulls out the tape.The system is very fast. It takes the mechanical arm about 10 seconds to find the tape it is looking for. The machine then searches the tape to extract （提取） the required file, and this takes less than a minute. A human technician would have to locate and remove the tape by hand, and could take at least an hour to find the right file on the tape.Some of the world”s biggest companies, including banks, insurance companies, airlines, telephone companies, utilities and computer centres, have bought the system.They like it particularly because the system guarantees the security of their data.TapeStore was originally developed in Canada and is now being marketed worldwide. In Europe alone, 750 have already been installed at a cost of 480,000 dollars each.1 TapeStore is better than any other storage system becauseA it can store more video cassettes.B itis extremely small.C it stores more tapes.D it stores data files on the same tape.2 The mechanical arm finds a tape byA recording the file name on the tape.B identifying the printed code on the tapeC looking for its file name.D searching for the tape number.3 The TapeStore system is popular among big companies mainly becauseA it costs less than a skilled worker.B it looks impressive.C the information it stores is valuable.D it ensures the safety of their data.4 Which of the following statements about TapeStore is NOT true?A It can store a large amount of information.B It is very cheap.C It is very fast.D It is secure.5 The word “marketed” in the last paragraph can be replaced byA installed.B used.C promoted.D designed.其次篇The Cherokee NationLong before the white man came to America, the land belonged to the American Indian nations. The nation of the Cherokees lived in what is now the southeastern part of the United States.After the white man came, the Cherokees copied many of their ways. One Cherokee named Sequoyah saw how important reading and writing were to the white man. He decided to invent a way to write down the spoken Cherokee language. He began by making word pictures. For each word he drew a picture. But that proved impossible - there were just too many words. Then he took the 85 sounds that made up the language. Using his own imagination and an English spelling book, Sequoyah invented a sign for each sound. His alphabet proved amazingly easy to learn. Before long, many Cherokees knew how to read and write in their own language. By 1828, they were even printing their own newspaper.In 1830, the U.S. Congress passed a law. It allowed the government to remove Indians from their lands. The Cherokees refused to go. They had lived on their lands for centuries. It belonged to them. Why should they go to a strange land far beyond the Mississippi River?The army was sent to drive the Cherokees out. Soldiers surrounded their villages and marched them at gunpoint （在枪口的威逼下） into the western territory. The sick, the old and the small children went in carts, along with their belongings. The rest of the people marched on foot or rode on horseback. It was November, yet many of them still wore their summer clothes. Cold and hungry, the Cherokees were quickly exhausted by the hardships of the journey. Many dropped dead and were buried by the roadside. When the last group arrived in their new home in March 1839, more than 4,000 had died. It was indeed a march of death.6 The Cherokees used to liveA by the roadside.B in the southeastern part of the US.C beyond the Mississippi River.D in the western territory.7 Which of the following statements about Sequoyah is NOT true?A He was imaginative.B He was an Indian.C He was a white man.D He wrote down the spoken Cherokee language.8 A law was passed in 1830 toA allow the Cherokees to stay where they were.B stop the Cherokees using their own language.C force the Cherokees to move westward.D forbid the Cherokees to print their own newspaper.9 The Cherokees went t