[B] professors at the University of Pennsylvania used to wear black suits which made them look like priests
[C] professors are a group of professionals that differ in their academic ability but behave in the same way
[D] professors are like priests wearing the same kind of black gown but having different roles to play
25. Whose teaching method is particularly commended by the author?
[A] Alfred North Whitehead’s. [B] Patricia Nelson Limerick’s.
[C] Cotton Mather’s. [D] Ezekiel Cheever’s.
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
A new high-performance contact lens under development at the department for applied physics at the University of Heidelberg will not only correct ordinary vision defects but will enhance normal night vision as much as five times, making people’s vision sharper than that of cats.
Bille and his team work with an optical instrument called an active mirror—a device used in astronomical telescopes to spot newly emerging stars and far distant galaxies. Connected to a wave-front sensor that tracks and measures the course of a laser beam into the eye and back, the aluminum mirror detects the deficiencies of the cornea, the transparent protective layer covering the lens of the human eye. The highly precise data from the two instruments—which, Bille hopes, will one day be found at the opticians(眼镜商) all over the world—serve as a basis for the production of completely individualized contact lenses that correct and enhance the wearer’s vision.
By day, Bille’s contact lenses will focus rays of light so accurately on the retina(视网膜) that the image of a small leaf or the outline of a far distant tree will be formed with a sharpness that surpasses that of conventional vision aids by almost half a diopter( 屈光度). At night, the lenses have an even greater potential.“Because the new lens—in contrast to the already existing ones—also works when it’s dark and the pupil is wide open,”says Bille,“lens wearers will be able to identify a face at a distance of 100 meters”—80 meters farther than they would normally be able to see. In his experiments night vision was enhanced by an even greater factor: in semi-darkness, test subjects could see up to 15 times better than without the lenses.
Bille’s lenses are expected to reach the market in the year 2000, and one tentative plan is to use the Internet to transmit information on patients’ visual defects from the optician to the manufacturer, who will then produce and mail the contact lenses within a couple of days. The physicist expects the lenses to cost about a dollar a pair, about the same as conventional one-day disposable lenses.
26. The new contact lens is meant for .
[A] those with vision defects [B] the night blind
[C] astronomical observations [D] optical experiments
27. What do the two instruments mentioned in the second paragraph (Line 4) refer to?
[A] The astronomical telescope and the wave-front sensor.[B] The aluminum mirror and the wave-front sensor. |
