题目内容
【题目】完形填空(每小题1分,满分20分)
阅读下面短文,从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
Earthquakes are common; thousands of them happen each day. But most are too__1__to feel. During a __2__earthquake, there is often a great noise first. Then the earth__3__terribly; many houses__4__down. Railway tracks break and trains go__5__lines; a great many factories are__6__; thousands of deaths are caused, and many more lose homes. __7__the great damage and deaths caused by the earthquake__8__, other disasters such as fires often__9__. More buildings are destroyed and more__10__are caused.
It is well known of the__11__of a possible earthquake, and for centuries man has been making researches on earthquakes. More than 2, 000 years ago, __12__, a Chinese scientist named Zhang Heng__13__a machine which could find out from which__14__the seismic(地震的)waves had come, and this machine is still__15__by scientists today. Now we know much more about earthquakes and__16__they happen, but we still cannot__17__exactly when and where an earthquake will happen, and cannot__18__it from happening. So earthquakes are among the__19__disasters in the world.
No one can stop natural earthquakes.__20__, scientists can help stop earthquakes from destroying whole cities and causing too many deaths.
【1】 A. thin B. weak C. light D. slow
【2】 A. real B. weak C. big D. small
【3】 A. moves B. shakes C. jumps D. breaks
【4】 A. get B. put C. set D. fall
【5】 A. off B. on C. into D. behind
【6】 A. burst B. hurt C. destroyed D. buried
【7】 A. Except B. Besides C. Instead of D. Because of
【8】A. lonely B. later C. themselves D. itself
【9】 A. follow B. copy C. come D. enter
【10】 A. quakes B. deaths C. difficulties D. results
【11】A. information B. questions C. dangers D. shock
【12】A. as a result B. in fact C. for example D. as well
【13】A. invented B. discovered C. found D. operated
【14】 A. country B. direction C. way D. city
【15】A. improved B. repaired C. protected D. used
【16】 A. where B. when C. what D. why
【17】A. speak B. tell C. talk D. point
【18】 A. make B. prepare C. stop D. let
【19】A. worst B. best C. most D. fast
【20】A. However B. But C. And D. So
【答案】
【1】B
【2】C
【3】B
【4】D
【5】A
【6】C
【7】B
【8】D
【9】A
【10】B
【11】C
【12】C
【13】A
【14】B
【15】D
【16】D
【17】B
【18】C
【19】A
【20】A
【解析】
【语篇解读】本文为说明文,讲述了地震的危害以及人们为此所做的努力。
【1】地震震感轻微而感知不到。weak指"弱的";thin指"瘦的";light指"轻的";slow指"慢的"。根据句意选B。
【2】根据后面的描述可知应该是一次大地震。
【3】首先排除C。shake指"震动,晃动,摇动";move指"移动";break指"破碎"。
【4】fall down在此指房屋倒塌。
【5】铁路轨道破裂,所以火车偏离铁路线。off指"离开,不相连",其他三个词均不符合题意。
【6】指工厂被毁。burst指"爆炸,炸开,突然爆发";hurt指"伤害,使受伤";bury指"埋葬",这三个词均不符合题意。
【7】句意:除了地震本身所造成的巨大破坏和死亡以外,其他灾害也随之而来,例如火灾。besides既包括地震本身所造成的破坏和死亡,也包括其他灾害。如果用except,则不包括地震本身所造成的破坏和死亡,所以不符合题意。
【8】这里指地震本身引起的破坏和死亡,故选D。
【9】A B、D两项不符合题意,先排除;follow有"随之而来"之意,而come只表"来到"。
【10】大火造成的两大结果:房屋被毁,人员伤亡。
【11】根据上下文可知地震的危险性是众所周知的,所以人们一直在做有关地震的研究。
【12】举例说明人们在这方面的研究。
【13】invent发明;discover发现;find找到;operate操作,运行。根据句意可知A正确。
【14】A、D两项不符合题意,先排除;direction表"方位,方向",而way则指"路,道或路线",way也可以指"方向",但一般用在this,that,which等之后构成短语。
【15】科学家们现在仍在使用这种机器。
【16】C项不符合语法,先排除;when,where在下句中出现。
【17】但是我们仍然不知道到底什么时候、在哪儿会发生地震。tell有"说出,知道,断定"之意。
【18】首先,根据题意应选择表示"制止,停止"的词;其次,根据固定搭配stop sb./sth. (from) doing...可知C项正确。
【19】根据上下文可知地震是最严重的灾害之一。
【20】此处表示转折,且后面用逗号隔开,所以选副词however;but为连词,通常不用逗号隔开。