【题目】阅读理解

Rachel Carson was born in the USA on May 271907Her motherMaria Carsonhad been a schoolteacherShe loved booksShe also loved natureShe showed Rachel the beauty of nature

She also taught Rachel a deep love for booksAs a quiet childRachel liked to read and write storiesAt a very early ageshe decided she wanted to be a writer some dayHer story first appeared in a children’s magazine when she was ten years old

Her first bookUnder the Sea Wind came out in 1941In 1948Miss Carson began working on another bookThe Sea Around UsShe always researched carefully when she wroteShe collected information from more than one thousand places to write The Sea Around UsWhen the book came out in 1951it won the National Book AwardIt was No.1 on the bestseller list for more than a yearThe Sea Around Us made Rachel Carson famous

Rachel Carson’s most famous bookSilent Spring came out in 1962In this bookshe pointed out that the use of some kinds of pesticides(杀虫剂)like DDT would cause the number of birds todeclinebecause it would kill them as wellFinallyin November 1969the United States governmentdecided that the use of DDT must stop in two years

Rachel Carson has been regarded as a great environmentalist(环保主义者)and writerShe will be remembered by the world

1】【1Rachel Carson had a deep love for nature and books because of________

A. her father

B. her mother

C. her schoolteacher

D. her brother

2】【2Rachel decided that she wanted to be a writer when________

A. she was very young

B. she was in college

C. she became a teacher

D. she became famous

3】【3The Chinese meaning of the word“decline”in this passage is probably“________”

A. 增加

B. 减少

C. 维持

D. 翻番

4】【4Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage

A. Rachel Carson was a careful and serious writer

B. The Sea Around Us won the National Book Award

C. In Silent Spring Rachel said some pesticides were bad for the environment

D. The use of DDT was stopped as soon as the book Silent Spring came out

【题目】(2014贵阳)阅读理解

Paul Nicklen waited patiently on a sheet of ice in the Arctic.He was there to take pictures for National Geographic.Finally,he saw something big and white.It was a polar bear,swimming towards him in the icy water.

Paul lay down on the ice to get a better photo,but the polar bear jumped out of the water and tried to attack him!Luckily for Paul,the ice cracked,or broke.and the bear fell back into the water.The polar bear wasnt so lucky.It couldnt get a meal and had to swim farther away to find food.

To understand the polar bears problem,you need to know two things about the Arctic.First,the Arctic is mostly ocean.Second,ice covers a lot of the Arctic Ocean.In winter,the ice forms a thick,white sheet,but in summer,the ice becomes thinner and breaks into pieces.Sea ice is the key to survival(幸存)for Arctic animals.However,because of global warming,Arctic temperatures are rising and polar ice is melting.

Polar bears need ice to hunt seals,their favorite meal.They stand on the ice and wait for the seals to come up for air.As Arctic ice melts,polar bears have to swim farther to find ice floes,or large pieces of floating ice.Sometimes,bears have to swim more than 200 km to find an ice floe.Some bears cannot swim that far and,sadly,they drown.

On his last trip,Paul Nicklen saw three dead bodies of polar bears.Before global warming threatened Arctic ice,a dead bear was a rare sight.Paul is sad to see the dead bodies.Wildlife experts think global warming will have a terrible effect on polar bears.In the future,polar ice will continue to shrink and endanger the bears.some scientists believe 65 percent of the worlds polar bears will disappear by 2050.In other words,polar bears are in great danger.

【1】The main idea of the passage is that________.

A.polar bears are amazing swimmers

B.Arctic temperatures are rising

C.global warming is endangering polar bears

【2】The polar bear that tried to attack Paul was unlucky because________.

A.Paul swam away

B.it was on an ice floe

C.it couldnt eat Paul

【3】According to the passage,polar bears hunt seals by________.

A.waiting on the ice

B.waiting in the water

C.drowning the seals

【4】From the passage,Paul Nicklen is maybe a________.

A.scientist

B.photographer

C.psychologist

【5】We can infer that polar bears________.

A.wont have any food in 2050

B.will all die before 2050

C.cannot find food easily

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