题目内容

阅读理解,阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项ABCD中选出最佳选项。

  If a noisy neighbor is blasting music at all hours of the day and night, drowning out your phone conversations and interrupting your sleep, you can call the police.But what is a whale to do?

  Natural noise from waves, wind, rain and even earthquakes is common in oceans.Unfortunately, man-made noise from oil and gas drilling, sonar, and ships is also present.

  Low frequency noise has doubled off the California coast every decade since the nineteen sixties.The main reasons are ships’ propellers(螺旋桨).They not only generate continuous low frequency sound, some propellers cavitate(形成气穴), which means they create air bubbles that collapse, creating loud popping sounds.

  Whales use low frequency calls to communicate across thousands of miles of ocean.They are threatened by noise pollution because it can prevent them from contacting each other and from locating their foods.Endangered humpback and right whales, which use fibrous baleen to strain food from the water, are the most at risk.

  Scientists studying right whales off Canada's east coast have discovered that whales are sending louder calls through the water to make themselves heard.Because they invest more energy in making calls, they have less energy available for finding food and mating.Other scientists measuring whale calls against background noise pollution have discovered that right whales have lost about eighty percent of their normal communication area.This could seriously affect survival of this already threatened species.

  Scientists don't have badges and guns, but they are trying to correct the noise pollution problem.By tracking ships and marine mammals and understanding how noise travels, they are creating sound maps.They hope to get shipping lanes moved so that the noise pollution ships create will not overlap with areas most important to the whales.

(1)

What does the passage mainly talk about?

[  ]

A.

Whales are in danger because of the noise.

B.

Noise pollution is affecting whales.

C.

Natural noise is good for whales.

D.

How to protect whales endangered.

(2)

The following statements are true EXCEPT ________.

[  ]

A.

You can call the police if you are disturbed by a noise neighbor

B.

Low frequency noise has doubled off the Canadian coast every decade since 1960s.

C.

Noise pollution can prevent whales from contacting each other and from locating prey.

D.

Endangered humpback and right whales are the most at risk.

(3)

We can infer from the last paragraph that ________.

[  ]

A.

Some areas important to whales are overlapped with the ship lanes.

B.

Scientists are creating the sound maps by tracking ships and marine mammals.

C.

If scientists have guns, they can correct the noise pollution.

D.

Scientists have worked out a plan to protect the whales.

(4)

According to scientists, ________.

[  ]

A.

Right whales off the Californian coast have been in danger because of the loss of the energy.

B.

Right whales cannot find food and mate for they lose a lot of living area.

C.

There are about 20% of the normal communication areas still available for the right whales.

D.

The right whales always invest most of their energy for making calls.

(5)

According to the description of whales, we can know that ________.

[  ]

A.

The noise made by the ships has a bad effect on the area where whales live.

B.

Whales can communicate with each other by diving into the deep water.

C.

Whales cannot find mates because they don't have enough energy.

D.

The communication between whales is through low frequency calls

答案:1.B;2.B;3.A;4.C;5.D;
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请认真阅读下列短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

                                   A

Scars of Love

Some years ago on a hot summer day in south Florida a little boy decided to go for a swim in the old swimming hole behind his house. In a hurry to dive into the cool water, he ran out of the back door, leaving behind shoes, socks and shirt as he went.

He flew into the water, not realizing that as he swam toward the middle of the lake, an alligator(短吻鳄) was getting close. The mother in the house was looking out of the window and saw the two as they got closer and closer together. In great fear, she ran toward the water, yelling to her son as loudly as she could. Hearing her voice, the little boy became alarmed and made a U-turn to swim to his mother. It was too late. Just as he reached her, the alligator reached him. From the dock, the mother grabbed her little boy by the arms just as the alligator snatched (抓住) his legs. That began an unbelievable tug-of-war (拔河比赛) between the two. The alligator was much stronger than the mother, but the mother was much too passionate to let go. A farmer happened to drive by, heard their screams, rushed from his truck, took aim and shot the alligator.

Remarkably, after weeks and weeks in the hospital, the little boy survived. His legs were extremely scarred (留下伤疤) by the terrible attack of the animal. And on his arms, were deep scratches where his mother’s fingernails dug into his flesh in her effort to hang on to the son she loved.

The newspaper reporter, who interviewed the boy after the trauma (外伤), asked if he would show him his scars. The boy lifted the pant legs. And then, with obvious pride, he said to the reporter, “Look at my arms. I have great scars on my arms, too. I have them because my mum wouldn’t let go.”

You and I can identify with (认同) that little boy. We have scars, too. Not from an alligator, but the scars of a painful past. Some of those scars are unsightly and have caused us deep regret. But, some wounds, my friends, are because we have refused to let go.

56. The underlined part “the two” in the second paragraph refers to ______.

   A. the alligator and the mother         B. the mother and the son

C. the driver and the alligator          D. the son and the alligator

57. From the passage we can infer ________.

   A. The mother was unwilling to let the alligator go

   B. The mother was actually stronger than the alligator

   C. The son was proud of his scars on his arms

   D. The son was ashamed of his scars on his legs

58. According to the last paragraph, what is the writer’s real meaning?

   A. To forget the past is to betray.       B. We should forget the scars.

   C. Wounds are different from scars.     D. We should learn to let go sometimes.

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