COMAC航空科技英语等级考试B1（技术类）样题
Test Time：120 minutes
部门_______________ 姓名____________ 工号____________
Part I Listening （30%）
Section 1 Conversation and Lecture（10%）
Directions: In this section, you will hear a long conversation and a lecture. At the end of the conversation or the lecture, you will hear five questions. The conversation, the lecture and the questions will be spoken ONLY ONCE. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices.
Conversation
1. A) They get you directly to holiday destination. B) Their tickets can be bought on the internet. C) They offer excellent services to customers. D) They?re much cheaper than famous airlines.
2. A) They have sprung up recently and become successful. B) They change prices on the basis of customers? demand. C) They always offer travelers the extremely cheap flight. D) They do much advertising but few people ever watch it.
3. A) By travelling before public holidays. B) By buying tickets a day in advance. C) By booking at the very last minute. D) By flying at peak time like Fridays.
4. A) They try every possible means to reduce expenses. B) They charge different prices depending on demand. C) They don?t serve any food on any of their flights. D) They have increased the speed of their aero planes.
5. A) They only offer cheap tickets online. B) They fail to offer satisfactory service. C) They spend little time on the ground. D) They fly to and from smaller airports.
Lecture
6. A) The 845m2 wing area is large enough to park 70 cars. B) The plane has the potential to carry 550 passengers.
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C) The tail is about as long as the Great Sphinx in Egypt. D) The two deck fuselage is as high as a 7-storey building. 7. A) It is as economical to run as a common jet. B) It burns more fuel than other jumbo jets. C) It can fly an amazing 15,000 km non-stop. D) It can carry more fuel than other planes. 8. A) Toulouse in France. B) England and Wales. C) All over the Europe. D) Spain and Germany.
9. A) It is remarkably expensive. B) It is impressively efficient. C) It is a nation-wide project. D) It is extremely complicated.
10.A) The expenses. B) The designing. C) The electronics. D) The cooperation.
Section 2 Compound Dictation （10%）
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage TWICE. You have its script in the following, but with eleven blanks in it. You are required to fill in the first eight blanks with the exact words you have just heard. For last three blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Remember, there will be a pause for the last three blanks.
Laurence Barron, President of Airbus China, defended the A380 superjumbo jet as its safety performance has been called into question.
“The Qantas A380 suffered an (1) ______________ engine failure, a fairly rare event, which also damaged the aircraft itself. The aircraft performed as expected and (2) ______________ safely, so no, there is nothing wrong with the A380. It?s a (3) ______________ aircraft.”
Barron also says the engine issue will not (4) ______________ next summer?s scheduled delivery of the A380 to China Southern Airlines, the only (5) ______________ carrier to purchase the plane.
Meanwhile, Barron explains that the lack of orders for its A350 aircraft, which is under development, from Chinese carriers is due to the country?s (6) ______________ planning structure.
“The Chinese government, as you are well aware, works on a 5-year-plan basis, and they are about to (7) ______________ the 12th 5-year-plan which runs from 2011 to 2015. The A350 deliveries that we can offer are now in the what will become the 13th 5-year-plan period.”
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Eric Chen, Airbus China?s Vice President, adds that the Chinese carriers? timid (8) _____________ to the A350 is due to its competing product, Boeing?s 787.
“Several years ago, Chinese airlines ordered more than 60 Boeing 787?s and for various reasons, airlines lack this kind of courage and determination to be a launching customer for a new program again. In other words, we are buying the bill for our rivals? dilemma and consequences.”
(9) ______________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________
“I don?t really understand the world ?challenge?. Our industry is challenging. There are lots of challenges but this is not a challenge, this is a competitor. (10) _____ _____________________________________________________________________
Beverly Wyse, Vice President of Boeing?s 737 program, says Boeing is open to work with C919?s manufacturer.
“I think (11) ______________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________”
Four Chinese airlines and two aircraft leasing companies have signed agreements to purchase 100 C919?s as launching costumers.
Section 3 Listening and translating （10%）
Directions: In this section you are going to hear five short passages. You will hear them ONLY ONCE. In each of these passages some of the sentences are already printed. You are required to translate the missing parts into Chinese. After each of the passages there will be a pause lasting one and a half minutes. The pause is intended for you to do the translation.
1) The ARJ21-700 jetliner, China?s first self-designed aircraft, will undertake its
maiden flight before the end of the year. COMAC chairman, Zhang Qingwei says this first homegrown regional jet has aroused great interest from aviation companies at home and abroad.” I just came back from the United States and Canada. __________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________.” 2) Nine top tier US manufacturing companies won competitive contracts to build
and supply the aviation system for China?s new aircraft program, the C919. Airport infrastructure needs are filling opportunities in the US companies as well. _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________
3) The Deputy Chief of the China?s Civic Aviation Administration, Xia Xinghua,
says more cooperation is crucial for the Chinese side. “Firstly, we need to strengthen our cooperation on sustainable security development, expanding the relationship in a pragmatic way._______________________________________
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_________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________”
4) The Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said that the review would be
comprehensive covering design, manufacturing and assembly of the Dreamliner. Michael Huerta of the Federal Aviation Administration said emphasis would be put on electrical systems and how these and the plane?s sophisticated mechanical systems interact.___________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________.
5) Though the tricycle arrangement may be most popular today, that was not always
the case. The tail wheel undercarriage dominated aircraft design for the first four decades of flight and is still widely used on many small piston-engine planes. What makes this form of landing gear most attractive is its simplicity. Another potential advantage results from the fact that _____________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________
Part II Reading Comprehension（30%） Section 1 Skimming and Scanning (10%)
Directions: In this section there are 10 incomplete statements. Based on the following passage, please complete the statements with the information given in the passage.
Commercial aviation is an essential component of the global economy. The cost of aviation fuel is directly determined by the prevailing world price of oil, and it accounts for a major proportion of airplane operating costs. Several airline companies now add a fuel surcharge to the ticket cost of a commercial flight to compensate for the recent rapid rise in fuel costs. World oil prices are expected to remain high for several years. The prospect of sustained high aviation fuel prices could propel airline companies to seek alternative aviation fuels. Seeking alternative fuel could become paramount（最高的） for the airline industry should the peak-oil phenomenon actually occur.
Breakthroughs and Research
It may become possible for super-cooled liquid hydrogen（氢） to eventually be used as an alternative fuel for some types of commercial airline service. Other alternative fuels may include high-density energy-storage technologies that result from breakthroughs in research in the areas of nanotechnology(纳米技术) and in high-temperature superconductivity(超导性). High-temperature superconductivity holds great promise for use in high-density energy-storage technology. Advances in nanotechnology could enable superconductive materials to eventually be manufactured at a cost that could justify their application in airliner propulsion.
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Electrical Storage and Propulsion
Energy stored in a superconductive storage technology could power electric motors that drive the identical propulsion fans that are found at the front-end of modern, “high-bypass” turbo-fan aircraft engines. Such fans provide up to 90% of the propulsive thrust of the turbo-fan engine. Each electrically powered propulsion fan may be driven by multiple (induction) lightweight electric motors during take-off. Some electric motors would “cut-out” under reduced power demand at cruising altitude so that the remaining motors will operate at higher efficiency (electric motors have poor part-load efficiency).
Coanda fans may propel subsonic commercial aircraft that use high-density electrical storage technology. Such units were originally developed by physicist Henri Coanda and can operate at comparable efficiency and at comparable flight speeds as turbine-driven propulsion fans. Electrically powered aircraft that use either turbine propulsion fans or Coanda fans could be flown in thinner air at higher altitude (up to 65,000-feet) to reduce energy consumption (less drag on aircraft) on extended flights. The cooler air found at such altitudes could assist in keeping the superconductive energy storage systems functioning properly.
Superconductive energy storage systems used in future commercial aircraft would likely be cooled by liquid nitrogen(氮). Both systems would need to be frequently recharged, which would likely be both energy-intensive as well as time consuming.
It may be possible to design the energy storage systems along with their cooling systems to be removed and replaced during shorts layovers—such technology could help reduce the turn-around time of the aircraft. The introduction of superconductive energy storage systems in commercial aircraft in the long-term future would require that future airport terminals be equipped with power generation technology at or near the premises.
Power Generation
The number of electrically powered and hydrogen powered road and railway vehicles would likely increase during a post peak-oil period. Commuter aircraft that operate short-haul service could be powered by ethanol(乙醇) or by hydrogen while future supersonic aircraft could use liquid hydrogen as fuel. The commercial aviation industry of the future (post peak oil) could likely require vast amounts of electric power to recharge superconductive energy storage systems, recharge liquid nitrogen cooling systems as well as to generate, compress and supercool large amounts of hydrogen.
Modern commercial aircraft are energy intensive during take-off. Airports that serve metropolitan areas presently process continual processions of large long-distance aircraft during peak periods. Such aircraft could require between 300-Mw-hr and 1000-Mw-hr of power to undertake trans-oceanic flights at subsonic speed. The power requirements of a future electrically based commercial aviation industry could likely overwhelm the power generation industry of most developed nations.
Major international airports may eventually need to generate electric power
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