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【正文】 K o f i A n n a n html ★ about MDGs Main Menu Reading Skills Reading Technical Prose The guiding motive of technical texts is the munication of information. There are mainly three kinds of technical documents with respective purposes and foci: (1) The results of pure science (2) The results of applied scientific research (3) The work of the technologist For detailed information, you should skim and scan the prose to determine which kind and focus on different aspects. Tips 1. Pay attention to the specialized terminology of the particular discipline. 2. The great frequency in the use of the passive voice in the prose. 3. Simple present tense is frequently used in expressing the timeless general statement such as natural phenomena, natural law, definition, theorem, formula and so on. *4. Pay more attention to the purpose of the article rather than the means of the experiment. *5. Look for parison of different points of view or experiment results. *6. The ending of a technical prose usually show you the result or conclusion. *7. Special attention to the infinitives and passive voice. Read the following short paragraphs and try to answer the question. On adult intelligence tests, they scored as high as they had as children. They were as a group, in good health, physically and mentally. Eightyfour percent of their group were married and seemed content with their lives. About 70 percent had graduated from college, though only 30 percent had graduated with honors. A few had even flunked out, but nearly half of these had returned to graduate. Of the men, 80 per cent were in one of the professions or in business — executive or semiprofessional jobs. The women who bad remained single had office, business, or professional occupations. The survey revealed that the women in the group _______. A) had all married B) who remained single had whitecollar jobs C) tended to marry wealthy men D) showed a higher degree of mental illness B. Reference THANK YOU
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