III.阅读理解

Flying Saucers In 1947,the pilot of a small aeroplane saw nine strange objects in the sky over Washington in the U.S. He said that they looked like saucers. Newspapers printed his story under the headline u Flying Saucers ”.

Since then,all over the world,people have reported seeing similar strange objects. No one knows what they are or where they come from.

Perhaps some people saw them only in their imagination. Perhaps some people made a mistake. But airline pilots and astronauts do not usually make mistakes of this kind. Captain EdMitchell,who was the sixth man to walk on the moon,said in 1974 that he believes that some “flying saucers” are real. Many other people now believe that these strange flying objects are visiting the earth from the outer space.

“They have come to look at us,” they say. The American government tried to find out more about these objects. It listened to a great many people who said they had seen them. But the Government Committee could not decide on what the objects were. It called them UFOs,which is short for “Unidentified Flying Objects”.

Some say they have seen people in the flying saucers!In 1964,a driver of a police car in New Mexico saw a UFO landing a mile away. When he reached it,there were two small figures standing near it. They looked like little men. When he reported on his radio,they got inside the object and flew away.

In 1973 two men were out fishing in Mississippi. They said they saw a UFO shaped like an egg. There were three creatures like men but their skins were silver in colour. They had no eyes,arid their mouths were just slits (裂缝) .Their noses and ears were pointed. They made the fishermen get inside the UFO for a while. Then the creatures photographed them and took them to the place where they had been fishing.

There are many other similar stories. Some are probably untrue but some may be true. No one knows.

1. took pictures of the two fishermen.

   A. The creatures in a UFO

   B. A driver of a police car

   C. A pilot of a plane

   D. Captain EdMitchell

2. The American government tried to .

   A. look for the flying objects

   B. know where the objects come from

   C. learn more about UFOs

   D. report more about UFOs

3. According to the passage,the name “flying saucers”

was first used by .

   A. a pilot of a small plane

   B. an official in Washington

   C. an editor of a newspaper

   D. the man who flies in saucers

4. The purpose of this passage is to tell us .

   A. the shape of UFOs

   B. how to observe UFOs

   C. the danger of UFOs

   D. what we know about UFOs

5. It is implied in the passage that the author

   A. does not believe at all about the existence of UFOs

   B. believes that UFOs are real objects flying in the sky

   C. is not sure whether there are UFOs or not

   D. thinks UFOs come from other planets

  第二节完形填空(共20小题;每小题1. 5分,共30分)

I was only eight years old when the Second World War ended,but I can still remember something about the 16 celebrations in the small town where I lived on the day when the war in Europe ended. We had not 17 much from the war,though,like most children of my age,I often saw 18 houses in the streets and the very big 19 lorries passing through. But both at home and at school I had become 20 to the phrases “before the war” and “when the war is over”. “Before the war”, obviously,21  had been better,though I was too young to understand why,22  there had been no bombs then,and people had eaten things like ice cream and bananas,which I had 23 heard of. When the war was over we would go back to London,but this meant very 24 to me. I did not remember what London was like.

What I remember now 25 V-Day was the afternoon and the evening. Some boys and girls were collecting 26 and building an enormous bonfire. We stood and watched them for a time,and then I went home and 27 myself in with my key and waited for my parents to come back from work.

It was May and still broad 28 when my mother arrived,and my father came in about an hour later. After dinner I said I wanted to 29 the bonfire,so when it got dark my father took me to the end of the street. The bonfire was very 30 , and somehow people had collected some old clothes to 31 ‘‘ Hitler ” with the moustache they had put on top of it. Just as we arrived,they set light to it. The flames 32 soon. Everyone was cheering and shouting.

I stood beside my father until the 33 started to go down,not knowing what to say. He said nothing,either. He had 34 in the First World War and remembered everything he had experienced. At last he said,MWell,that*s it'son. Lefs hope that this time it really will be the 35 one. ”

16. A. war   B. victory   C. Christmas   D. birthday

17. A. suffered   B. learnt   C. heard   D. read

18. A. crowded   B. rebuilt

   C. bombed   D. enlarged

19. A. modem   B. old

   C. railway   D. army

20. A. used   B. devoted

   C. engaged   D. related

21. A. food   B. things

   C. houses   D. news

22. A. except that   B. now that

   C. for fear that   D. in order that

23. A. never   B. hardly

   C. only   D. already

24. A. much   B. little

   C. great   D. important

25. A. about   B. on

   C. for   D. during

26. A. money   B. wood

   C. information   D. clothes

27. A. showed   B. allowed

   C. let   D. called

28. A. early   B. daylight   C. dark   D. warm

29. A. see   B. light   C. find   D. put out

30. A. high   B. hot

   C. dangerous   D. far

31. A. draw   B. paint

   C. write   D. dress

32. A. disappeared   B. happened

   C. rose   D. came

33. A. sun   B. moon   C. fire   D. noise

34. A. fought   B. worked

   C. grown   D. changed

35. A. best   B. worst   C. first   D. last

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