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阅读理解 　　For more than two days in September 1974, the people of Honduras shut their windows, locked their doors and covered in their homes．Fifi was outside, and they were frightened． 　　By the time Fifi had left, 8 000 people were dead．Fifi wasn't a pet dog as the name suggests．It was a hurricane, one of the most destructive natural phenomena in the world． 　　Why do we give human names to storms and hurricanes? 　　We didn't always, Two hundred years ago, many hurricanes in the Caribbean were named after the saint’s(基督教徒的)day on which the storm occurred．Later, storms were known by the name of the city where they came ashore． 　　Meteorologists then tried naming storms after the latitude(纬度)and longitude(经度)where they occurred． 　　Finally, in 1953, hurricanes started getting people's names－specifically, female names．Male names were added in 1979． 　　There are six sets of names for what the experts call “Atlantic tropical cyclones”． 　　Each list is used every six years and consists of 21 names, starting with every letter but Q, U, X, Y and Z．The names alternate(交替)between male and female． 　　A storm won’t get a name until its winds reach 39 mph or about 62.4 kph, at which point it becomes a tropical storm．At 74 mph or 118.4 kph it's declared a hurricane． 　　The 126 names on the list are used only for stormas that form off the Atlantic coast of the US．There are separate lists for the Pacific． 　　So what happens if a hurricane should cross from the Atlantic to the Pacific? It's happened before．The storm just gets a new name and sometimes a new sex． 　　Max Mayfield is the director of the National Hurricane Centre, headquartered in Miami, Florida．He's in charge of picking new names for storms off the Atlantic coast． 　　He doesn't do it alone, though．His counterparts in two dozen other countries in the Caribbean, Central America and North America vote on what names will replace retired names． (1) From the first paragraph we can find that ________． [　　] A． Honduras is a country which was destroyed by Fifi B． Honduras is a country which has no mountains C． Honduras is a country which faces the ocean D． Honduras is a country which lies at high latitude (2) Which of the following is true according to the passage? [　　] A． There were no hurricanes two centuries ago． B． The Caribbean is a state of the United States． C． The Caribbean is a place where hurricanes occur often． D． Fifi was formed off the Pacific． (3) The names for storms and hurricanes, as this passage shows, ________． [　　] A． are set for use B． are all from American English C． are difficult to spell D． are easy to fix (4) The underlined word “counterparts” in the last paragraph means ________． [　　] A． citizens holding the same opinion B． people with a similar position or function C． passengers traveling by sea D． assistants working abroad (5) Which list could be used to name the five storms from the Atlantic in a year? [　　] A． David, Helen, Jack, Mike, Lucy B． Lucy, Mary, Owen, Nina, Peter C． Sam, Tina, Victor, Wanda, Yeats D． Peter, Rose, Sam, Tereasa, Victor

Answer 1

答案：1．C;2．C;3．A;4．B;5．D;
解析：

(1)	考查推理判断。结合句中的Caribbean(加勒比海)和Atlantic(大西洋)可推测Honduras(洪都拉斯)是一个海洋国家。第二段开头部分提到8 000人在飓风中死亡，而不是整个国家都毁于一旦，所以A项错误；B项在文章中没有信息支持；文章中间部分是说气象学家后来用纬度和经度给暴风取名，但这并不意味着洪都拉斯的纬度很高，因此D项不恰当。
(2)	考查推理判断。洪都拉斯是加勒比海的一个海岸国家，该国1974年遭受了飓风袭击，第四段中又提到加勒比海过去有很多飓风，由此可推断此项正确。根据第四段的前半部分可排除A项；根据最后一段中的other countries in the Caribbean可判断B项错误；根据倒数第二段最后一句可知飓风是在大西洋外形成的，因此D项不正确。
(3)	考查细节理解。结合文章中间部分的“There are six sets of names for…”和下一段可知有6套名字可供使用，所以选择此项。后三项在文章中没有信息支持。
(4)	考查猜测词义。上一段提到Max Mayfield负责给大西洋海岸的暴风取名，此处又提到不只是他自己这么做，由此可推断此项正确。
(5)	[解析]考查细节理解。根据文章的中间部分可知每个名字都以英文中的字母开头，但字母Q，U，X，Y，Z除外，而且男性和女性交替出现，由此可判断此项正确。A项中的Jack和Mike是两个男性连用；B项中的Lucy和Mary是两个女性连用；C项中出现了以字母Y开头的名字。 　　[文章大意]威力无比的飓风令人闻风丧胆，可它们却拥有美丽动听的人类名字，这其中的奥秘是什么？本文将给你一个圆满的答复。