题目内容
Millions of stars are travelling about in space. A few form groups which travel together, but most of them travel alone.
And they travel through a universe which is so large that one star seldom comes near to another. For the most important part each star makes its journey in complete loneliness, like a ship on an empty ocean. The ship will be well over a million miles from its nearest neighbour. From this it is easy to understand why a star seldom finds another anywhere near it.
We believe, however, that some two thousand million years ago, another star wandering(漫游) through space, happened to come near our sun just as the sun and the moon raised its tides(潮汐) on the earth, so this star must have raised tides on the surface of the sun. But they were very different from the small tides that are raised in our oceans; A large tidal(潮汐的) wave must have travelled over the surface of the sun, at last forming a mountain so high that we cannot imagine it. As the cause of the disturbance came nearer, so the mountain rose higher and higher. And before the star began to move away again, its tidal pull had become so powerful that this mountain was torn to pieces and thrown off small parts of itself into space.
These small pieces have been going round the sun ever since. They are the planets.
【小题1】Most stars are _________________________.
A.following a regular path in space |
B.moving about without a fixed course |
C.seldom wandering about in the universe |
D.always travelling together |
A.the star moved away from the sun |
B.another star happened to come near the sun |
C.the sun and the moon raised the tides on the earth |
D.a large tidal of wave travelled over the surface of the sun |
A.how space formed |
B.our earth exists before the sun |
C.no one knows where the earth comes from |
D.our earth used to be a high mountain in the sun |
A.the large tidal wave | B.the powerful tidal pull |
C.the star coming near the sun | D.one of sun’s planets |
A.where the planets in the universe came from |
B.how the high mountains were formed on the sun |
C.that the universe is so large that we cannot imagine it |
D.why the tides over the surface of the sun were so powerful |
【小题1】B
【小题1】B
【小题1】D
【小题1】C
【小题1】A
解析【小题1】根据A few form groups which travel together, but most of them travel alone. 描述,可知大部分没有固定的轨道。故选B。
【小题1】根据We believe, however, that some two thousand million years ago, another star wandering(漫游) through space, happened to come near our sun just as the sun …… at last forming a mountain so high that we cannot imagine it. As the cause of the disturbance came nearer, so the mountain rose higher and higher.描述,可知选B。
【小题1】根据And before the star began to move away again, its tidal pull had become so powerful that this mountain was torn to pieces and thrown off small parts of itself into space.描述,可让我们想到地球曾经也是太阳上的一座高山。故选D。
【小题1】联系上文描述,可知这指的是这颗星星来到太阳附近,故选C。
【小题1】通过阅读短文,可知这篇短文主要说明了宇宙中一些行星的来历,故选A。
Some hours later, Holmes woke up and pushed his friend. “Watson, look! What can you see in the sky?"
Watson replied, “I see millions and millions of stars.”
“What does that tell you?” asked Holmes.
Watson thought for a while. “First, it tells me that we will have a beautiful clear day tomorrow. Second, it tells me that the time is about twelve o’clock. And…”
“What else?” Holmes asked.
“Well, it also reminds me that the world is so big and we are so small. What does that tell you?” Holmes said with a grin on his face, “You silly guy! It only tells me that someone has stolen our tent!”
【小题1】Holmes woke up _____.
A.in the middle of the night | B.early in the morning |
C.soon after he fell asleep | D.after Watson pushed him |
A.two | B.three | C.four | D.five |
A.The story happened in the afternoon. |
B.They had some wine before they went to sleep. |
C.Holmes asked Watson questions because Holmes didn’t know what happened. |
D.Holmes and Watson were in their tent while they were talking about the question. |
Hit the sales. No one wants to get up at four o’clock in the morning and fight to get a good deal (交易) on Black Friday ( the first Friday at Christmas time). It’s surely very difficult to pick up the courage and get out there in the cold for a good deal. But sometimes it can be well worth. Many retailers (零售商) offer specials all through the day. Some even offer online Black Friday specials, so we may still be able to get a great deal on Black Friday.
Read advertisements regularly. Once the Christmas shopping season is coming, retailers will be hungry for business. They will try their best to get us into the store. Please read the weekly advertisements of sales among the major retailers from time to time. We may be lucky enough to find different prices for the same thing in different shops.
Shop online. Some of us don’t like running from store to store to get the best price on the perfect gift. Some of us don’t like to go out in the cold at all, and then, we can do online shopping.
The world of online shopping makes it possible for us to visit all the major retailers and some
specialty stores on the Internet. We can find exactly what we are looking for at the best possible price without even having to leave the house. With traditional Christmas shopping, it will always take us a long time to wait if we want to get the perfect gift.
【小题1】 The underlined word “specials” in Paragraph 2 means______.
A.赠品 | B.奢侈品 | C.特价商品 | D.圣诞礼品 |
A.on the Internet | B.in specialty stores | C.from salesmen | D.from retailers |
A.tell us to shop online |
B.tell us the best way to do shopping |
C.show us how hard it is to do Christmas shopping |
D.give us advice on how to get a good deal at Christmas time |
A.people are surely able to get a good deal on Friday |
B.it is possible for people to buy the perfect Christmas gifts with less money |
C.retailers will be hungry because they are busy selling Christmas gifts |
D.with traditional Christmas shopping, people can’t buy the perfect gifts |