题目内容
Bruce Jones thinks there is still a healthy thirst for exploration into underwater worlds on our own planet. After growing up with his grandfather who was in the marine construction business, Jones quickly got a feel for the water. He started diving at age 9 and, by the 1980s, began offering advice for those interested in the submarine business. By 1993, he was running his own company, U.S. Submarines, which designed and built submarines for resorts and individuals.
Jones plans to spend $40 million in building a hotel where the most expensive rooms will be 50 feet under the sea off Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas. Unlike the Jules Undersea Lodge — the only undersea hotel now, just off the coast of Key Largo, Fla. — guests at the Poseidon won't need to put on a wet suit to get to their rooms. They also won't need to worry about changing pressure levels since the rooms will be kept at above-surface pressure. Instead, they can move easily to their $1,500-a-night underwater rooms by escalator.
“I think there are a large number of people who would be interested,” said Jones, “including anyone who is looking for a different experience.”
Each room will feature strong windows that look out onto coral gardens. There will be controls in each room that guests can use to change the lighting of the underwater worlds outside their windows and to provide food for fish swimming by.
“By now I envisioned (展望) we'd have whole underwater cities,” Craig Cooper, the director for the Aquarius research station said. “It's about time some of these visions became reality.”
1. Which of the following is the correct order of the events that happened to Bruce Jones?
a. Jones started running U.S. Submarines.
b. Jones began to learn to dive.
c. Jones planned to build an undersea hotel.
d. Jones began giving others advice on the submarine business.
A. a, b, c, d B. a, c, b, d
C. b, d, a, c D. b, a, c, d
2. We can learn from the second paragraph that the Jules Undersea Lodge________.
A. lies off Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas
B. is the first undersea hotel in the world
C. needn't provide wet suits for its guests
D. sends its guests to their rooms by lift
3. What do we know about Bruce Jones' undersea hotel from the passage?
A. It will be much cheaper than the Jules Undersea Lodge.
B. It has taken Jones $40 million to build it.
C. Guests in it will open the windows to give food to the fish.
D. Guests in it will see beautiful coral through the windows.
4. The underlined word “Poseidon” in Paragraph 2 refers to ________.
A. Bruce Jones' undersea hotel
B. Jules Undersea Lodge
C. an island off the coast of Key Largo
D. another name of Eleuthera Island
5. Judging by Cooper's words, his attitude towards underwater hotels is ________.
A. disappointed B. critical
C. objective D. hopeful
1. 解析:选C。事件排序题。由第一段可知,Jones 9岁开始潜水;80年代能够在潜水生意方面给他人提出见解,到1993年他已经开始经营自己的公司,而打算建海底旅馆是发生在这些事件之后。故选C。
2. 解析:选B。细节理解题。由第二段中的“the only undersea hotel now”可知,the Jules Undersea Lodge是世界上目前唯一的海底旅馆,也就是世界上第一家海底旅馆。
3. 解析:选D。细节理解题。由第四段第一句可知,海底旅馆外将会建珊瑚公园,所以入住客人通过窗户可以看到漂亮的珊瑚。
4. 解析:选A。词义猜测题。文章第二段中第一句前一部分提到Jones计划修建一个海底旅馆,再根据第二句中“Unlike the Jules Undersea Lodge...guests at the Poseidon”可推知Poseidon是Jones的海底旅馆。把句中两个破折号之间的内容去掉即可得到正确答案。
5. 解析:选D。推理判断题。从文章的最后一段可知,Cooper对海底旅馆是充满希望的。
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