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On the morning of November 18, 1735, an earthquake(地震)shook Boston, Massachusetts. John Winthrop, a professor at Harvard College, felt the quake and awoke. “I rose,” Winthrop wrote, “and lighting a candle, looked on my watch, and found it to be 15 minutes after four.” John Winthrop walked quickly downstairs to the grandfather’s clock. It had stopped three minutes before, at 4:11. Except for stopping the clock, the quake had only thrown a key from the mantel(壁炉架)on the floor.
The clock had stopped because Winthrop had put some long glass tubes(管子)he was using for and experiment into the box for safekeeping. The quake had knocked the tubes over and blocked the pendulum(钟摆). Winthrop, therefore, had the exact time that the earthquake had hit Boston. He looked at the key on the floor. The quake had thrown it forward in the direction of the quake’s motion(movement)by a shock coming from the northwest, perhaps in Canada.
1. This passage suggests that ______.
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A. John Winthrop had difficulty in sleeping
B. earthquakes are common in Boston
C. Boston was a center for clock-making
D. Jon Winthrop was a scientist
2. The last sentence of Paragraph I suggests that _______.
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A. the earthquake was not severe(violent; serious)
B. the key of the clock was lost
C. the clock was broken up
D. the earthquake was very serious
3. The selection proves that ________.
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A. man is often unable to control the power of nature
B. earthquakes occur(happen)most often during nighttime hours
C. the direction of an earthquake can be detected(discovered)
D. universities study the cause of earthquakes
4. The earthquake happened at _________.
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A. 4:11 a.m.
B. 4:15 a.m.
C. 4:08 p.m.
D. 4:15 p.m.
5. This passage mainly deals with ___________.
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A. the earthquake happening in Boston
B. John Winthrop’s experience in the earthquake
C. Winthrop’s experiment on earthquakes
D. the terrible situation in Winthrop’s room
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