第二部分:閱讀判斷(第16~22題,每題1分,共7分)
下面的短文后列出了7個句子,請根據短文的內容對每個句子做出判斷:如果該句提供的是正確信息,請選擇A;如果該句提供的是錯誤信息,請選擇B;如果該句的信息文中沒有提及,請選擇C。
16、閱讀材料,回答16-22題:
Fermi Problem
On a Monday morning in July, the world's first atom bomb exploded in New Mexico desert.Forty seconds later, the shock waves reached the base camp where the Italian-American physicistEnrico Fermi and his team stood. After a mental calculation, Fermi announced to his team thatthe bomb's energy had equated 10,000 tons of TNT. The bomb team was impressed, but not sur-prised. Fermi's genius was known throughout the scientific world. In 1938 he had won a NobelPrize. Four years later he produced the first nuclear chain reaction, leading us into the nuclear
age. Since Fermi's death in 1954, no physicist has been at once a master experimentalist( 實驗室) and a leading theoretician(理論學家).
Like all virtuosos( 大師), Fermi had a distinctive style. He preferred the most direct routeto an answer. He was very good at dividing difficult problems into small, manageable bits talentwe all can use in our daily lives.
To develop this talent in his students, Fermi would suggest a type of question now known asa Fermi problem. Upon first hearing one of these, you haven't the remotest notion of the answer,and you feel certain that too little information had been given to solve it. Yet when the problem isbroken into sub-problems, each answerable without the help of experts or books, you can comeclose to the exact solution.
Suppose you want to determine earth's circumference without looking it up. Everyone knowsthat New York and Los Angeles are about 3,000 miles apart and that the time difference betweenthem is three hours. Three hours is one-eighth of a day, and a day is the time it takes the planetto complete one rotation(旋轉) , so its circumference must be eight times 3,000 or 24,000 mi-les. This answer differs from the true value, 24,902.45 miles, by less than four percent.
Ultimately the value of dealing with everyday problems the way Fermi did lies in the rewardsof making independent discoveries and inventions. It doesn't matter whether the discovery is asimportant as determining the power of an atom or as small as measuring the distance between NewYork and Los Angeles. Looking up the answer, or letting someone else find it, deprives you of thepleasure and pride that accompany creativity, and deprives you of an experience that builds up
self-confidence. Thus, approaching personal dilemmas as Fermi problems can become a habit thatenriches your life.
Fermi's team was impressed by Fermi's announcement in the base camp because he couldeven work out the power of the atom bomb in his mind.
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17、 Fermi, an experimentalist as well as a theoretician, won a Nobel Prize for producing the firstnuclear chain reaction in the world.
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18、 Dividing a big problem into small problems is a talent Fermi had and a talent that has practi-cal value in life.
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19、 Fermi problem is to develop the talent of breaking a seemingly unanswerable problem intosub-problems and finding the solution to it, which is a typical Fermi problem.
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20、 Then the fourth paragraph tells us how Fermi solved the problem of earth's circumferencewithout looking up.
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21、 The last paragraph concludes the whole writing by stressing the value of important inventionsand small discoveries.
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22、 Fermi was famous for inventing a device to calculate bomb's energy accurately.
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