题目内容
阅读理解:阅读下面短文并根据其内容选择最佳答案。
A meteorite (陨石) almost hit an 80-year-old man named Arthur Pettiffer in Britain when he was working in his garden. The meteorite was the biggest in the past 26 years in Britain.
The meteorite weighed one kilo, and might be over four thousand million years old.
“I heard the big noise in the air. I looked up and I saw the tops of the trees coming and going,” he said. “I didn't know what it was.”
Meteorites are small things from the small planets in space. About 3,500 meteorites may fall on earth every year, but only very few are found. Mr Pettiffer's meteorite is the fifth to fall in Britain since the Second World War.
Mr Pettiffer is glad. “When you think about it coming from so far away, it really is something strange.”
1.The meteorite was ________ Mr Pettiffer when it fell down.
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A.close to
B.far from
C.hitting
D.coming to
2.The meteorite was already ________ years old.
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A.40,000,000,000
B.40,000,000
C.400,000,000
D.4,000,000,000
3.Mr Pettiffer found the tops of the trees coming and going because ________ .
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A.the trees were afraid
B.the fast falling meteorite kept the tree tops moving
C.it was going to rain
D.the moving was made by wind
4.________ people see a meteorite fall although they visit the earth often eachyear.
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A.Quite a few
B.Some
C.Few
D.Many
5.Mr Pettiffer was ________ to see the falling of the meteorite.
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A.happy
B.afraid
C.sorry
D.angry
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阅读理解
Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford, England on.8th January, 1942. He went to school in St Albans, a small city near London. Although he did well, he was never top of his Class.
After leaving school, Hawking went first to Oxford University where he studied physics, and then he went to Cambridge University where he studied cosmology
(宇宙论). As he him-self admits, he didn't work hard. He was a very lazy student, and did very little work. How-ever, he still got good marks.It was at the age of 20 that Hawking first noticed something was wrong with him. He started to bump
(撞下)into things. When he visited his family at Christmas time, his mother was so worried that she made him see a doctor. Hawking was sent to hospital for tests. Finally, the result came back. Hawking had motor neuron disease, an incurable illness which would make him unable to speak, breathe or move without the help of a machine. Doctors said they had no way to help him. He would die before he was 23.At first, Hawking became very depressed. After a while, though, he began to see his life in a different way. As he later wrote,
“Before my illness was diagnosed, I had been very bored with life. There had not seemed to be anything worth doing. But shortly after I came out of hospital, I suddenly realized that there were a lot of worthwhile things I could do.”Hawking married, found a job at Cambridge University, and had three children. He also went to do some of the most important scientific research.Today, Hawking still works at Cambridge University as a professor. He strongly believes that his story shows that nobody, how had their situation is, should lose hope.
“Life is not fair,” he once said.“You just have to do the best you can in your own situation.”(1) AS a university student, Stephen Hawking ___________.
[
]A
.worked very hardB
.studied math and physicsC
.was the best student in his classD
.was lazy and did very little work(2) Hawking first noticed something was wrong with him when _________.
[
]A
.he was sent to hospital for testB
.his mother made him see a doctorC
.he was twentyD
.he visited his family at Christmas time one year(3) In this passage the word
“incurable”means“___________.”[
]|
A .无法治愈的 |
B .难以确诊的 |
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C .常见的 |
D .可以治愈的 |
(4) When Hawking was first diagnosed with motor neuron disease, he ___________.
[
]A
.made up his mind to get marriedB
.made up his mind to get marriedC
.thought that nothing in life was worth doingD
.became very sad(5) What would be the best title for this passage?
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]|
A .Motor Neuron Disease |
B .Life is Fair |
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C .Professor Stephen Hawking |
D .A Lazy Boy |