Question

  Beldon and Canfield are two seashore towns，not far apart. Both towns have many hotels， and in summer the hotels are full of holiday-makers and other tourists.

  Last August there was a fire at the Seabreeze Hotel in Beldon. Next day，this news ap?peared on Page 2 of the town's newspaper,The Beldon Post:

  Fire at Seabreeze

  Late last night firemen hurried to the Seabreeze Hotel and quickly put out a small fire in a bedroom. The hotel manager said that a cigarette started the fire. We say again to all our visitors, " Please don't smoke cigarettes in bed. " This was Beldon's first hotel fire for five years.

  The Canfield Times gave the news in these words on page one： Another Beldon Hotel Catches Fire .

  Last night Beldon firemen arrived just too late to save clothing，bedclothes and some furni?ture at the Seabreeze Hotel. An angry holiday-maker said, "An electric lamp probably started the fire. The bedroom lamps are very old at some of these hotels. When I put my bedside light on,I heard a funny noise from the lamp. " We are glad to tell our readers that this sort of ad?venture does not happen in Canfield.

  What are the facts then? It is never easy to find out the exact truth about an accident. There was a fire at the Seabreeze Hotesl last August：that is one fact. Do we know anything else? Yes，we know that firemen went to the hotel.

  Now what do you think of the rest of the "news"?

（   ) 5. Which of the following best gives the main idea of this article?

A.     Beldon and Canfield are both good places for tourists in summer.

B.     Fire broke out one night in Seabreeze Hotel last summer.

C.     It was not easy to find out the exact truth from newspapers.

D.     Two newspapers gave reports on the same matter.

(   ) 6.The Canfield Times used the headline to make its readers think      

A.     hotels in Beldon often catch fire

B.     hotels in Beldon don't often catch fire

C.     this was the second fire at the Seabreeze Hotel

D.     Beldon was a good place except that hotels there were not quite safe

(   ) 7. The Canfield newspaper gave a report just opposite to The Beldon Post by saying that

A.     the bedroom lamps were very old at some of the Seabreeze's hotels

B.     the bedroom lights made funny noise when the fire took place

C.     the firemen failed to save clothing, bedclothes and other things

D.     such accidents never happened in Canfield for the past five years
(   ) 8. The "angry holiday-maker"______________ •

A.     caused the fire when he turned on a lamp

B.     did not actually tell what had caused the fire

C.     was talking about the lamps in Seabreeze Hotel

D.     lived in the room which had caught fire

Answer 1

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B篇通过两家报纸对一个旅馆发生火灾的不同报道告诉读者：从报纸上判断事实真相是不容易的。

5. C主旨大意题文章最后两段点明主题,也正是文章的重心所在，即从报纸上并不容易了解到事实真相。

6. A逻辑推理题从其标题"Another Beldon Hotel Catches Fire ( Beldon的旅馆又一次着火）"可见，该地的旅馆经常发生火灾。Can-field通过此举能招徕更多游客。

7. C细节理解题从彼此新闻的第一句话可知，两者对消防员扑火的说法截然相反。

8. B逻辑推理题从文章的倒数第三段"An angry holiday-maker said, ' An electric lamp probably started the fire可知,其并不知情，只是猜测。