阅读理解

　What do we know about the sea? Most of us have seen it, We know that it looks very pretty（迷人的）when the sun is lighting on it. We also know that it can be less pretty when the weather is terrible. What other things do we know about it?

　The first thing is that the sea is very big. Look at a map of the world and you'll find there is less land than sea. The sea covers 3/4 of the world. The sea is very deep in some places. Some parts of the sea is nearly 11 kilometres deep! If the highest mountain in the world were put into the sea at the place, there would be two kilometres of water above it.

1． Which of the following is true according to （根据）the passage?

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A． The sea always looks pretty.

B． The sea always looks terrible.

C． The sea looks neither pretty nor terrible when it is fine.

D． The sea doesn't look pretty all the time.

2． What will you find it you look at a map of the world?　We'll find ________.

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A． there's much more water than land

B． the sea covers three?fourths of the land

C． the land covers one?fourths of the land

D． the sea was very pretty

3． This passage tells us that ________.

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A．the sea is very shallow

B． the sea is very deep

C． the sea is neither shallow nor deep

D． the depths （深度）of the sea in different places are quite different

4． The word “it” in the last sentence of this passage means ________.　　　

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A． the water　　　　　　B． the mountain

C．the sea　　　　　　　D．Japan

5． The best title（题目）for this passage is ________.

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A． The Big Sea　　　　　　　   B．The Sea And Its Depths

C． Something About The Sea　　　D．Sea And Land

　　A certain poet(诗人) had written a play, and arrangements(安排) were being made to perform it. Of course, the poet was asked to give his advice on the scenery(布景), the lighting, and all the other things that help to make a play successful, and he proved to be a very difficult man to please, as he had his own very definite(固定的) ideas of how each scene should look.

　　In one of the scenes in the play, it was necessary to produce the effect of a wonderful sunset, which the young lovers watched together before singing one of their great love songs.

　　The theatre electricians (电工) worked very hard to produce this sunset effect. They tried out all kinds of arrangements and combinations(组合) of lights－red lights, orange lights, yellow lights,blue lights, lights from above, lights from behind, lights from the front, lights from the sides－but nothing satisfied the poet, until suddenly he saw exactly the effect that he had been dreaming of producing ever since he had written his play.

　　“That's it!” he shouted excitedly to the electricians behind the stage. “That's just right! Keep it exactly like that!”

　　“I'm sorry, sir,” answered the chief electrician, “but we can't keep it like this.”

　　“Why ever not?” asked the poet angrily.

　　“Because the theatre is on fire, sir,” answered the chief electrician. “That's what's producing the effect you can see now!”

1．Who had written a play?

2．What was he asked to give?

3．Why did he prove to be a very difficult man to please?

4．What was it necessary to produce in one scene?

5．When did the young lovers watch this wonderful sunset?

6．Who worked hard to produce this sunset effect?

7．What did they try out?

8．What kind of effect did the poet see suddenly?

9．What did he say to the electricians?

10．Why did they say they could not keep that effect?