下面是一篇关于Popular Culture的SAT阅读练习题,后面有相关的题目和答案解析。SAT阅读考试中的文章阅读一般都是考试的难点,需要大家经过一定时间的练习才能掌握。下面大家就一起来做一下这些题目吧。
Questions 13 are based on the following passage.
The following selection is about the invention of the compact disc, and explains how it works.
Compact discs , which may be found in over 25 million American homes, not to mention backpacks and automobiles, first entered popular culture in the 1980s. But their history goes back to the 1960s, when an inventor named James Russell decided to create an alternative to his scratched and warped phonograph recordsa system that could record, store, and replay music without ever wearing out.
The result was the compact disc . Made from 1.2 mm of polycarbonate plastic, the disc is coated with a much thinner aluminum layer that is then protected with a film of lacquer. The lacquer layer can be printed with a label. CDs are typically 120 mm in diameter, and can store about 74 minutes of music. There are also discs that can store 80, 90, 99, and 100 minutes of music, but they are not as compatible with various stereos and computers as the 74minute size.
The information on a standard CD is contained on the polycarbonate layer, as a single spiral track of pits, starting at the inside of the disk and circling its way to the outside. This information is read by shining light from a 780 nm wavelength semiconductor laser through the bottom of the polycarbonate layer. The light from the laser follows the spiral track of pits, and is then reflected off either the pit or the aluminum layer. Because the CD is read through the bottom of the disc, each pit looks like a bump to the laser.
Information is read as the laser moves over the bumps and the areas that have no bumps, also known as land . The changes in reflectivity are interpreted by a part of the compact disc player known as the detector. It is the job of the detector to convert the information collected by the laser into the music that was originally recorded onto the disc. This invention brought 22 patents to James Russell, who today says he working on an even better system for recording and playing back music.
1. According to the passage, why did James Russell invent the CD?
a. He was tired of turning over his records to hear both sides.
b. He wanted to record more music on a new format.
c. He wanted a purer, more durable sound than he could get from vinyl records.
d. He was interested in getting patents.
e. He wanted to work with lasers.
2. What would happen if the detector on a CD player malfunctioned?
a. The spiral track would not be read properly.
b. The pits and land would look like one unit.
c. The changes in reflectivity would be absorbed back into the laser.
d. The music would play backwards.
e. The information read by the laser would not be converted into music.
3. Paragraph 3, lines 1421, explains all of the following EXCEPT
a. how the information on a CD is read.
b. why semiconductor lasers were invented.
c. where information is stored on a CD.
d. what pits and bumps are.
e. the purpose of the aluminum layer of a CD.
Answers
1. c. The answer may be found in lines 4 and 5, which state that Russell wanted an alternative to his scratched and warped phonograph records. You may infer that the problem with such records was their poor sound quality.
2. e. Lines 2627 state that the detectors function is to convert data collected by the laser into music.
3. b. While the paragraph explains the function of semiconductor lasers in reading the information on CDs, it does not say anything about why they were invented.
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