重庆华章MBA英语每日一练（5.9）
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2014年5月8日阅读理解答案及详解
答案详解：
1.选A。第一段下划线的it指的是？很简单，肯定是指的color。
2.选C。新娘穿白色婚纱是因为这种颜色象征着什么？文中在第三段的第二句话中提到新娘穿婚纱：A person who wishes to appear youngish, pure and innocent dresses in white, like the choice of a bride’s wedding gown. 从文章中可以从上文推出此题的答案，因为白色象征着 “youngish, pure and innocent”.所以，答案选C。purity是pure的名词形式。
3. 选D。在办公室里工作，穿什么颜色最安全？
见原文第四段中间：Brown, blue or grey clothes are the usual colors worn by office workers so as not to draw unnecessary attention to them. 办公司白领们经常穿褐色、蓝色或灰色衣服，以免吸引不必要的注意力。因此可以说褐色、蓝色或灰色衣服对于办公室里工作的人来说是最安全的，看答案里的选项，只有D符合，所以答案选D。
全文翻译：（重庆MBA）
颜色在我们的日常生活中非常重要。它在我们购物时会影响我们购买的选择，也会影响我们观察和感觉的方式。一个人也许天生就钟情于一种颜色，而排斥另一种颜色。颜色对人类情绪和感觉的影响十分巨大，因此设计师们、营销者们、艺术家们甚至医生们都会在他们的工作中利用这一点来达到不同的目的。
每天，我们都不知不觉地在用颜色表达我们的感受。例如，我们选择穿什么颜色的衣服就是表达自我的一种方式。它可以透露一个人的一些信息，例如他/她的感受，他/她希望别人对穿衣者留下什么印象。换句话说，颜色会说话。
一个人如果希望自己看起来有格调、成熟，通常会穿深色或黑色衣服。一个人如果希望自己看起来年轻，单纯，天真，会穿白色衣服，就像新娘选择她的婚纱颜色一样（用白色代表纯洁的爱情）。医生、牙医、护士和住院的病人也穿白色，因为白色象征着舒适、干净和专业。办公司白领们经常穿褐色、蓝色或灰色衣服，以免吸引不必要的注意力。这也用另外一种方式传达着，他们希望人们关注他们的工作，而不是外表。穿鲜艳、明亮色彩的人希望吸引人们的注意力，因此这种颜色在演员、歌手和常常参加晚会的人中很流行。
在过去，普通百姓是不被允许穿某几种颜色的衣服的。例如在泰国，只有国王、王后和皇室家族成员才能穿紫色；而在古代中国，黄色是皇帝和皇后的御用颜色。现如今，人们可以穿他们喜欢或者他们觉得合适的任何颜色的衣服。
词汇短语：
purchase 购买, 购置
repulsive 令人厌恶的,可憎的;排斥的
stylish 有格调的；时髦的；新潮的
innocent 无罪的, 无辜的；天真的, 单纯的。这里取后面的意思。
dentist 牙医
hospital in-patient 住院病人
convey 1. 运输; 运送；输送2. 表达, 转达，传递
party goer 经常参加晚会的人
reserved 预定的,保留的
emperor 皇帝, 君主 empress 皇后
2014年5月9日阅读理解练习题（重庆MBA）
Andrew Ritchie, inventor of the Brompton folding bicycle, once said that perfect portable bike would be “like a magic carpet... You could fold it up and put it into your pocket or handbag". Then he paused: “But you'll always be limited by the size of the wheels. And so far no one has invented a folding wheel."
It was a rare --- indeed unique --- occasion when I was able to put Ritchie right. A 19th-century inventor, William Henry James Grout, did in fact design a folding wheel. His bike, predictably named the Grout Portable, had a frame that split into two and a larger wheel that could be separated into four pieces. All the bits fitted into Grout's Wonderful Bag, a leather case.
Grout's aim: to solve the problems of carrying a bike on a train. Now doesn't that sound familiar? Grout intended to find a way of making a bike small enough for train travel: his bike was a huge beast. And importantly, the design of early bicycles gave him an advantage: in Grout's day, tyres were solid, which made the business of splitting a wheel into four separate parts relatively simple. You couldn't do the same with a wheel fitted with a one-piece inflated tyre.
So, in a 21st-century context, is the idea of the folding wheel dead? It is not. A British design engineer, Duncan Fitzsimons , has developed a wheel that can be squashed into something like a slender ellipse . Throughout, the tyre remains inflated.
Will the young Fitzsimons's folding wheel make it into production? I haven’t the foggiest idea. But his inventiveness shows two things. First, people have been saying for more than a century that bike design has reached its limit, except for gradual advances. It’s as silly a concept now as it was 100 years ago: there's plenty still to go for. Second, it is in the field of folding bikes that we are seeing the most interesting inventions. You can buy a folding bike for less than £1,000 that can be knocked down so small that can be carried on a plane —— minus wheels, of course —— as hand baggage.（重庆MBA）
Folding wheels would make all manner of things possible. Have we yet got the magic carpet of Andrew Ritchie's imagination? No. But it's progress.
1. We can infer form Paragraph 1 that the Brompton folding bike____.
A. was portable
B. had a folding wheel.
C. could be put in a pocket.
D. looked like a magic carpet
2. We can learn from the text that the wheels of the Grout Portable_______.
A. were difficult to separate.
B. could be split into 6 pieces.
C. were fitted with solid tyres.
D. were hard to carry on a train.
3. We can learn from the text that Fitzsimons`s invention_______.
A. kept the tyres as whole piece.
B. was made into production soon.
C. left little room for improvement.
D. changed our views on bag design.
