题目内容
________ it is!We can’t go outside.
- A.What bad weather
- B.How bad weather
- C.What a bad weather
- D.How a bad weather.
When you look up into the sky at night, have you ever felt that your eyes are playing tricks on (捉弄) you? It seems that the stars are moving all the time.
Actually, there is nothing wrong with your eyes. This twinkling effect is called scintillation (交光). Scintillation happens because of air movements in the earth’s atmosphere (大气). Light is “bent (弯曲的)” when it travels through different parts of the earth’s atmosphere. As the air in the earth’s atmosphere is moving all the time, the light from the stars looks as if it is moving too.
The same thing also happens to things on the ground. On a very hot and shiny day, if you look at the road, the image in the distance is not clear and things move slightly. You can also see the same effect if you drop a rock into water. The rock appears a little unclear under the moving water.
This twinkling effect causes a lot of problems for astronomers (天文学家) since they cannot observe the stars clearly. A telescope (望远镜) was sent into space so that the air movements in the atmosphere could be avoided (避免). It took a long time to build the space telescope but finally in 1990, a huge space telescope called the Hubble Space Telescope was successfully sent into space. Since then, astronomers have many important observations that have helped people understand space better.
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【小题1】What happens to the light from the stars we see when the air in the earth’s atmosphere is moving?
A.It looks even brighter. |
B.It looks as if it is bent. |
C.It looks as if it is moving. |
D.It looks like drops of rain. |
A.rainy days | B.shiny days |
C.cloudy days | D.windy days |
A.The rock gets broken. |
B.The rock becomes unclear. |
C.The water becomes much polluted. |
D.The water does not move anymore. |
A.watch | B.listen | C.draw | D.explain |
A.The stars never stay still. |
B.It makes the stars too dark to see. |
C.It makes astronomers feel too hot to work. |
D.Astronomers cannot observe the stars clearly. |
A French woman goes to London to see her son. She knows a little English, but can not speak it very well. One day she goes to a shop. She wants to buy a hen for supper. But she can not remember the English word for “hen”. Just then the shop waiter asks her, “Can I help you?” “I want the egg’s mother.” the woman answered. The shop waiter does not understand her and says, “Sorry, we have not any bigger eggs.” Suddenly the woman remembers the word “cock”. “I want the cock’s wife!” she says. This time the shop waiter laughs.
【小题1】The woman goes to London_______.
A.to learn English | B.to have supper |
C.to eat some hens | D.to see her son |
A.only knows a little English |
B.knows much English |
C.doesn’t know English |
D.doesn’t buy a hen at last |
A.a bigger egg | B.the cock’s wife |
C.a hen | D.the hen’s sister |
A.understands the woman at last |
B.thinks it is interesting. |
C.does not understand the woman |
D.thinks that the woman isn’t clever |
A.The waiter knows French. |
B.The woman buys a cock. |
C.The woman is foolish(笨的). |
D.The woman has a hen for her supper. |