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Passage
1
In
1901
，
, an English writer,
wrote a book describing a trip to the moon. When
the
explorers landed on the moon, they
discovered that the moon was full of underground
cities. They
expressed their surprise
to the “moon people” they met. In turn, the “moon
people” expressed their
surprise.
“Why,” they asked, “are you traveling to outer
space when you don’t even use your inner
space?”
could only
imagine travel to the moon. In 1969, human beings
really did land on the
moon. People
today know that there are no underground cities on
the moon. However, the question
that
the
“moon
people”
asked
is
still
an
interesting
one.
A
growing
number
of
scientists
are
seriously thinking about it.
Underground systems are already
in
place.
Many
cities
have underground car
parks.
In some
cities,
such
as
Tokyo,
Seoul
and
Montreal,
there
are
large
underground
shopping
areas.
The
“Channel”
，
a
tunnel connecting England and France, is now
complete.
But
what
about
underground
cities
？
Japan’s
Taisei
Corporation
is
designing
a
net
work
of
underground systems, called “Alice
Cities”. The designers imagine using surface space
for public
parks
and
using
underground
space
for
flats,
offices,
shopping,
and
so
on.
A
solar
dome
would
cover the whole
city.
Supporters
of
underground
development
say
that
building
down
rather
than
building
up
is
a
good way to use the
earth’s space. The space, they say, can be used
for farms, parks, gardens, and
wilderness. “moon people” would agree.
Would you?
1. The explorers
in H. G. Well’s story were surprised to find that
the “moon people”
．
A. knew so much about the
earth
B. understood their
language
C. lived in so many
underground cities
D. were ahead
of them in space technology
2. What does the underlined word
“it”
（
paragraph
2
）
refer to?
______.
A. Discovering the moon’s
inner space
B. Using the
earth’s inner space
C. Meeting the
“moon people” again
D. Traveling to outer space
3. What sort of underground system are
already here with us? _______.
A.
Offices, shopping areas, power stations
s, car parks,
shopping areas
C. Gardens, car parks,
power stations
s,
gardens, offices
4. The word
“wilderness” in the last paragraph means ______
．
A. wildlife
B. poor
districts
C. desert
D. an area that is not allowed to build
on
5. What would be the best
title for the text? _______
A. Alice
Cities—Cities of the Future
B. Space Travel
with
C. Enjoy Living Underground
D. Building Down, not Up
参考答案
; CBBD
Passage
2
From
far
out
in
space,
Earth
looks
like
a
blue
ball.
Since
water
covers
three
-
fourths
of
the
Earth’s
surface, blue is the color we see most. The
continents look brown, like small islands floating
in the huge, blue sea. White clouds
cover around the Earth like a light blanket. The
Earth is shaped
like a sphere, or a
ball. It is 25,000 miles around! It would take
more than a year to walk around the
whole planet. A spaceship can fly
around the widest part of the sphere in only 90
minutes.
Even
though
spaceships
have
traveled
to
the
Moon,
people
cannot
visit
the
Moon
without
special suits. The Moon has no air or
water. Plants and animals can’t live there either.
Astronauts
first landed on the Moon in
1969. After that, there were six more trips to the
Moon. They brought
back Moon rocks,
which scientists are still studying. There are
holes, or craters, all over the Moon’s
surface. Scientists believe that
meteorites
（陨石）
smashed into
the Moon millions of years ago and
formed the craters.
The Sun is the closest star to Earth. A
star is a hot ball of burning gas. The Sun looks
very big
because it is so close. But
the Sun is just a
medium
-
sized star. Billions
of far
-
away stars are much
bigger than our Sun. The burning gases
from the Sun are so hot that they warm the Earth
from 93
million miles away! Even though
the Sun is always shining, the night here on Earth
is dark. That’s
because the Earth
rotates, or turns around, every 24 hours. During
the day, the Earth faces the Sun.
Then
we see light. During the night, the Earth turns
away from the Sun. Then it faces the darkness
of space.
Each
day we learn more about the Earth, the Moon and
the Sun.
we look at the
Earth from outer space, the color we see most is
blue because ________ .
A. most of the
Earth is covered in land
B. the Sun’s
rays make the Earth look blue
C. most of the Earth is covered in
water
D. clouds wrap around the Earth
2.
What’s the meaning of the
underlined word “smashed” in the second
paragraph?
A. crashed
B.
made
C. broke
D. got
causes
daylight on Earth?
A. The full Moon
causes daylight.
B. Daylight is caused
by the Earth facing away from the Sun.
C. The heat of the Sun’s rays causes
daylight.
D. Daylight is
caused by the Earth facing toward the Sun.
of the following sentences BEST
describes the Sun?
A. The Sun looks
small because it is so far from Earth.
B. The Sun is a ball of burning gases
that gives the Earth heat and light.
C.
The Sun is a small star.
D. The Sun is
not as hot as it looks.
is the main
idea of the text?
A. Plants and animals
can’t live on the Moon.
B.
Without the Sun we would have no heat or light.
C. We know a lot about the Earth, Moon,
and Sun, but there is still more to learn.
outer space, the Earth looks tiny,
even though it is thousands of miles around.
参考答案：
CADBC
Passage
3
Space
travel
is
definitely
bad
for
astronauts’
bones,
reducing
their
bone
density(
密度
)
after
only a month of
weightlessness, according to French research
published on Friday.
Laurence Vico and his fellow workers at
St Etienne University called for more research
into
the effects of microgravity, after
their study of 15 astronauts from the Russian MIR
station showed
bone loss continued
throughout space flights.
“Bone
loss
was
especially
striking
in
four
astronauts,
”
the
scientists
reported
in
the
Lancet
Medical Journal.
They measured the bone mineral density
(BMD) of bones in the
forearm(
前臂
) and lower leg
of the astronauts who had spent one to
six months in space.
The BMD
loss was significant in the
tibia(
胫骨
) of the lower leg,
a weight
-
bearing bone, but
barely changed in the
radius(
桡骨
) of the forearm.
“Our results indicate the need to investigate not
only different bones, but also
different areas of the same bone since not all
sites of the skeleton
(
骨
架
) are
similarly affected by space conditions, ” they
added.
Without gravity the
body isn’t bearing any weight so there is no need
for calcium (
钙
) which
makes bones strong, and it becomes
empty into the bloodstream.
The
research
team
suggested
in
future
scientists
should
try
to
determine
if
the
loss
of
bone
density
was
only
on
weight
-
bearing
bones
on
longer
flights,
also
the
possible
recovery
after
returning to
Earth.
1. French scientists
did their research on Russian astronauts, because
_______.
A. they only cared
for the Russian astronauts
B. they were not interested in their
own astronauts
C. the
Russian government invited them to do their
research
D. the Russian
astronauts worked in space for a long
time
2. Scientists have
found that _______.
A. the
BMD loss may cause serious illness to
astronauts
B. the BMD loss
may cause some change in astronauts’
bodies
C. astronauts
shouldn’t care about the BMD loss
D. astronauts should take some calcium
before space travel
3. What
cause the BMD loss to astronauts, according to
this passage?
A. The food
they eat in space.
C. The
temperature in space.
B. The drinks
they take in space.
D. The
gravity in space.
4. In the
third paragraph, the word “striking” means
______.
A.
unusual
B.
simple
C. weak
D. slow
参考答案
(1—4 DBDA)
Passage
4
Water goes around and around Earth in a
never ending journey called the water cycle
（
循环）
。
The sun heats up lakes, oceans, and
other wet places on Earth. When the water gets
warm enough, it
changes into vapour.
Plants also give off lots of water vapour. Some of
this water vapour cools off
high in the
sky and becomes clouds. Then it falls back to
Earth in a new place as rain or snow. This
cycle happens over and over again.
The ground can
absorb water like a sponge
（海绵）。
If you
could see this groundwater, it
wouldn’t
look like a lake or river. The groundwater is
mixed in with the rocks and sand that lie in
layers
（层）
below Earth’s surface.
Groundwater
moves along slowly. How slowly? Maybe 1.5
kilometres in one century. Some
of this
water has been underground for thousands of years.
And once groundwater is pumped out of
the ground from a deep
well
（井）
by
people, it may take hundreds of years for another
water to take
its place.
which order does water go
around Earth?
a
.Fall down as rain or snow.
b. Heated up by the sun on
lakes, oceans and other wet places.
c. Cool off high in the
sky.
d. Form
clouds.
e.
Change into vapour.
A. dacbe B. becda C. caebd D. bceda
2. The
groundwater seems to________.
A. be just on the ground B.
be pure water like that in a lake or river
C. exist in
rocks and sand D. flow along like rivers or
streams
3. The
under
lined word “pumped” in the passage
can be replaced by________.
A. run B. pushed
C. drawn D.
picked
4. What
conclusion
（结论）
can we draw from the passage?
A. Groundwater
can be quickly replaced by other water once pumped
out.
B.
Groundwater is very valuable.
C. Groundwater has nothing
to do with human beings.
D. Groundwater travel in an unknown
way.
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Passage
5
Satellites are an important
part of our ordinary example, the information for
weather
forecasts is sent by
satellites have cameras which take photographs of
the Earth to
show how clouds are ites
are also used to connect our international phone
calls.
Computer
connections of the World Wide Web and Internet
also use satellites. Many of our
TV
programs come to US through ne pilots also
sometimes use a satellite to help
them
find their exact location.
We use satellites to send television
pictures from one part of the world to are
usually 35
，
880
kilometers above the mes we can see a satellite in
the sky and it
seems to stay in the
same is because it is moving around the world at
11
，
000 kilometers
an hour
—
exactly
the same speed that the earth rotates.A satellite
must orbit the Earth with its
antennae<
/p>
（
天线）
facing the
mes, it moves away from its
orbit
，
So there are little
rockets
on it which are used to put the
satellite back in the right usually happens about
every
five or six days.
Space is not empty! Every
week, more and more satellites are sent into space
to orbit the
Earth.A satellite usually
works for about 10-12 ites which are broken are
sometimes
repaired by astronauts or
sometimes brought back to Earth to be
，
very old or broken
satellites are left in space to orbit
the Earth for a very long is very serious because
some
satellites use nuclear power and
they can crash into each other.
of the following is NOT
done by satellites according to the passage?
g information
for weather forecast.
photographs of the Earth.
g TV pictures.
ing food for airplane
pilots.
’s the
speed the earth rotates at?
A.35,880 kilometers per
hour. B.335,880 kilometers per hour.
C.11,000 kilometers per
hour. D.110,000 kilometers per hour
does the satellite move
around the world at the same speed as the Earth
rotates?
order
to take photographs.
order to stay in a certain position in
the orbit.
order to move away from its orbit.
order to send television
pictures.
does
the underlined word “This” in the 3rd paragraph
refer to?
A.A satellite. B.A little rocket.
C.A satellite
seems to stay in the same place in the sky.
satellite puts
the rockets in the right position.
is true of satellites?
A.A satellite
usually works for about 10-12 years.
time a satellite gets
broken
，
it is brought back to
the Earth to be repaired.
C.A broken satellite is never left in
space.
often
crash into each other.
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DCBCA
Passage
6
If
your
cellphone
suddenly
stops
working,
don't
blame
the
service
provider.
The
malfunction(
故障
)
might have been caused by something
bigger
—
a solar storm.
Experts expect that
the earth will see
more solar activities in the near future. The
malfunction of electronic devices is
just one of the effects.
Sunspots(
太阳黑子
)
serve as an indicator of the sun's activity. For
the past two years, sunspots
have
mostly
been
missing.
Their
absence,
the longest
in
nearly
100
years,
has
taken
even
sun
watchers
by surprise.
When the number of
sunspots drops at the end of each 11-year cycle,
solar storms die down
and all become
much calmer. This “solar minimum” doesn't last
long. Within a
year,
sunspots and
solar storms begin to
build toward a new crescendo,_the next solar
maximum.
What's special about this
latest cycle is that the sun is having trouble
starting the next solar cycle.
The sun
began to calm down in late 2007, so no one
expected many sunspots in 2008. They should
return in 2010. Scientists have
predicted that the next solar cycle could be the
most active on record:
more sunspots
and more solar storms.
However,
sunspots are mostly missing now.
Since
the earth is in close contact with the sun, strong
solar activities can bring trouble to our
life.
People of the 21st
century rely on high-tech systems for the basics
of daily life. Air travel and
radio
communications can be affected by strong solar
activities.
A big solar storm could
cause 20
times more economic damage
than Hurricane Katrina.
What
the
sun
will
do
next
is
beyond
our
ability
to
predict.
Most
astronomers
think
that
the
solar
cycle will go on but
at
low
level.
However, there is
also
evidence that the sun
is losing its
ability to produce
sunspots. By 2015, they could be gone altogether.
1
．
The sun
watchers feel surprised at________.
A.
the longest sunspots' absence
B. the
largest sunspot number
C. the
malfunction of electronic devices D. the serious
damage by sunspots
2
．
What does the
underlined w
ord “crescendo” in
Paragraph 3 most probably mean?
A. small number
B. high level
C. usual cycle
D. fresh start
3
．
We can infer
that in the past two years________.
A.
solar activities have brought much trouble to our
life
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