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  Many people believe the glare from snow causes snowblindness.Yet, with dark glasses or not, they find themselves suffering from headaches and watering eyes, and even snowblindness, when exposed to several hours of “snow light”.

  The United States army has now determined that glare from snow does not cause snowblindness in troops in a snow-covered country.Rather, a man's eyes frequently find nothing to focus on in a broad space of snow-covered without grass land.So his gaze continually moves and jumps back and forth over the entire landscape in search of something to look at.Finding something, hour after hour, the eyes never stop searching and the eyeballs become tired and the eye muscles ache.Nature makes up for this discomfort by producing more and more fluid (流体) which covers the eyeball.The fluid covers the eyeball in increasing quantity until it makes eyes difficult to see dearly, and the result is total, even though for a short time, snowblindness.

  Experiments led the Army to a simple method of overcoming this problem.Scouts (侦察兵) ahead of the troops are trained to shake snow from evergreen bushes, creating a dotted line as they cross completely snow-covered landscape.Even the scouts themselves throw lightweight, dark-colored objects ahead on which they can focus too.The men following can then see something.Their gaze is arrested.Their eyes focus on a bush and having found something to see, stop searching the snow-blanketed landscape.By focusing their attention on one object at a time, the men can cross the snow without becoming hopelessly snowblind or lost.In this way the problem of crossing a continuous white land is overcome.

1.To prevent snowblindness caused by the strong light from snow, wearing glasses or not________.

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A.depends on whether the snow is white enough

B.makes no difference

C.makes much difference

D.depends on whether the snow is thick

2.When the eyes are tired, tears flow out ________.

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A.to clear the vision

B.to make the eyes stop searching

C.to make the vision unclear

D.to produce more and more liquid

3.Snowblindness can be avoided ________.

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A.by moving one's gaze back and forth

B.by walking ahead and keeping looking around

C.by making up for the discomfort of one's eyes

D.by providing the eyes with something to focus on

4.What is the probable meaning of the underlined part Their gaze is arrested?

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A.They get something to look at.

B.They can only look at one spot.

C.Their eyes are clear.

D.They can't see freely.

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  When a storm is coming, most people leave the area as quickly as possible and head for safety. But there are a few people who will get into their cars and go straight for the center of the storm. These people are willing to risk (冒……危险) being killed by floods or 100-kilometer-an-hour winds for the excitement of watching the storm close up.

  “Storm chasing (追逐) ” is becoming an increasingly popular hobby (喜好), especially in the Midwest of the United States, where there are frequent storms between March and July. A storm chaser begins the day by checking the Internet for the latest weather reports, and then drives up to 1 000 kilometers to where the storm will be and waits for it to develop.

  Although anyone can do it, storm chasing is extremely dangerous. The power of a big storm can throw a cow into the air or destroy a whole house in seconds. Storm chasers are also often hurt in accidents caused by driving in a heavy rain. If you are a beginner,it is much safer to join a group for storm-chasing vacations during the storm season.

  Even then, storm chasing is not all adventure and excitement. “Storm chasing is 95% driving, ” says Daniel Lynch, who spends most of his summer storm-chasing. “Sometimes you can sit around for hours waiting for something to happen, and all you get is blue sky and a few light showers. ”

  However, for storm chasers, it is all worth it. “When you get close to a storm, it is the most exciting sight you will ever see in your life, ”says Jasper Morley. “Every storm is an example of the power of nature. It is the greatest show on Earth. ”

(1) For storm chasing, the first thing storm chasers do is to________.

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A.head straight for the center of the storm

B.get into the car for safety

C.wait patiently for the storm to develop

D.collect information about a coming storm

(2) Beginners of storm chasing are advised

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A.not do drive in a heavy rain

B.to do it in an organized way

C.not to get too close to a storm

D.to spend more time on it in summer

(3) By saying “it is all worth it” in the last paragraph, the author means that________.

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A.storm chasing costs a lot of money

B.storm chasing is worth hours of wait-ing

C.efforts in storm chasing are well paid

D.a storm presents the greatest show on Earth

(4) What can we learn from the text?

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A.Sometimes storm chasers get nothing but disappointment.

B.Many storm chasers get killed in the storms.

C.Storm chasing is becoming popular around the world

D.Storm chasing is only fit for young peo-ple.

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