2015考研英语阅读理解模拟试题（二十七）

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　　二十七、星际网络

　　Vinton Cerf, known as the father of the Internet, said on Wednesday that the Web was outgrowing the planet Earth and the time had come to take the information superhighway to outer space.

　　“The Internet is growing quickly, and we still have a lot of work to do to cover the planet.” Cerf told the first day of the annual conference of Internet Society in Geneva where more than 1500 cyberspace fans have gathered to seek answers to questions about the tangled web of the Internet.

　　Cerf believed that it would soon be possible to send real-time science data on the Internet from a space mission orbiting another planet such as Mars. “There is now an effort under way to design and build an interplanetary Internet. The space research community is coming closer and closer and merging. We think that we will see interplanetary Internet networks that look very much like the ones we use today. We will need interplanetary gateways and there will be protocols to transmit data between these gateways, ” Cerf said.

　　Francois Fluckiger, a scientist attending the conference from the European Particle Physics Laboratory near Geneva, was not entirely convinced, saying: “We need dreams like this. But I don’t know any Martian whom I’d like to communicate with through the Internet.”

　　Cerf has been working with NASA’s Pasadena Jet Propulsion Laboratory—the people behind the recent Mars expedition—to design what he calls an “interplanetary Internet protocol.” He believes that astronauts will want to use the Internet, although special problems remain with interference and delay.

　　“This is quite real. The effort is becoming extraordinarily concrete over the next few months because the next Mars mission is in planning stages now,” Cerf told the conference.

　　“If we use domain names like Earth or Mars...jet propulsion laboratory people would be coming together with people from the Internet community.” He added.

　　“The idea is to take the interplanetary Internet design and make it a part of the infrastructure of the Mars mission.”

　　He later told a news conference that designing this system now would prepare mankind for future technological advances.

　　“The whole idea is to create an architecture so the design works anywhere. I don’t know where we’re going to have to put it but my guess is that we’ll be going out there some time,” Cerf said.

　　“If you think 100 years from now, it is entirely possible that what will be purely research 50 years from now will become commercial 100 years from now. The Internet was the same—it started as pure research but now it is commercialized.”

　　1.According to Cerf, the purpose to design interplanetary internet is to _____.

　　[A] send real-time science data [B] communicate with astronauts

　　[C] lay foundation for future technological advances [D] commercialize the technology

　　2.From the text, we learn that Vinton Cerf is _____.

　　[A] seeking answers to questions about the Internet web [B] working on interplanetary Internet with collaboration of NASA

　　[C] trying to commercialize the interplanetary Internet [D] exploring the possibility of establishing Internet network on Mars

　　3.It can be inferred from the last paragraph that _____.

　　[A] the dream to build interplanetary Internet can be fulfilled in the future

　　[B] interplanetary Internet will be commercialized in 100 years

　　[C] the research of Internet took 50 years

　　[D] it will take a long time to build interplanetary Internet

　　4.We know from the text that the Mars mission is _____.

　　[A] one of NASA’s internet projects [B] an expedition to Mars

　　[C] the infrastructure of the interplanetary Internet [D] to create an architecture on Mars

　　5.Which of the following is the main point of the text?

　　[A] The development of the Internet. [B] The possibility of space research.

　　[C] Universal information superhighway. [D] The technological advances of the Mars mission.

　　答案：1.C 2.B 3.A 4.B 5.C

　　核心词汇或超纲词汇

　　(1)outgrow(v.)长得太大而使……不再适用;长得比……快(或大、高);年久丧失(某种习惯、兴趣等)

　　(2)cyberspace(n.)电脑空间，赛博空间

　　(3)tangle(n./v.)(处于)混乱状态;纠缠，缠结;(with)(与人)争论，较量

　　(4)interplanetary行星间的，星际，太阳系内的

　　(5)gateway(n.)门，通路;网关;途径，方法

　　(6)protocol(n.)草案，协议;外交礼节，礼仪

　　(7)expedition(n.)远征;探险队;发出，派遣;迅速with ~赶紧地，迅速地

　　(8)infrastructure(n.)下部构造，基本设施(尤指社会、国家赖以生存和发展的, 如道路、学校、电厂、交通、通讯系统等);infra-前缀表示“在下”

　　全文翻译

　　有因特网之父之称的文特•塞尔夫本周三说：网络发展正超出地球的范围，把信息高速公路推向外太空的时候已经到了。

　　“因特网正迅速发展，在使因特网覆盖全球方面我们还有很多工作要做。”塞尔夫在互联网协会年会的第一天说。该年会在日内瓦举行，有1500多名赛博空间迷聚集于此，寻求关于因特网复杂的网络问题的答案。

　　塞尔夫相信很快就可能在绕其他星球比如火星的太空探险中，把实时科学数据传送到因特网上。他说：“现在，正在努力设计和建立星际因特网。太空研究界正在靠拢与合并。我们认为我们将看到的星际因特网的网络跟我们今天使用的网络看起来会很相似。我们将需要星际网关，在这些网关之间会有协议传送数据。”

　　一位从日内瓦附近的欧洲粒子物理学实验室来参会的科学家F•弗拉基杰并不完全信服，他说：“我们需要这样的梦想，但我不认识任何我想与之进行网上通讯的火星人。”

　　塞尔夫一直在与(美)国家宇航局帕萨提那的喷气推进实验室合作(该实验室是最近火星探险活动的幕后工作者)，设计他所说的“星际因特网协议”。他相信尽管在干扰和滞后性方面还存在特殊问题，宇航员们仍希望利用因特网。

　　“这很真实。在未来的几个月里，我们的努力会变得更加真实具体，因为下一次火星探险现在正处于计划阶段。”塞尔夫在会上说。

　　“如果我们用地球或火星等作为域名，喷气推进实验室的人将与因特网的网民走到一起。”他补充道。

　　“其整体构想是利用星际因特网的设计，并使其成为火星探险的基础设施。”

　　在之后的新闻发布会上，他说：现在设计这一系统将为未来技术的进步奠定基础。

　　“整个构想是创立一个架构，使该设计在任何地方都适应。我不知道我们要把它放到哪但我认为总有一天我们会将它用出去。”塞尔夫说。

　　“如果你想想100年后，从现在起50年纯粹作为研究项目的东西在100年后完全有可能商业化。因特网也是一样——从纯粹的研究开始，但现在已经商业化了。”

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