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LONDON — Britain awoke on Easter Monday to a period of mourning for the Queen Mother, who died over the weekend after a life spanning a century of noisy and evident change. The 101-year-old royal matriarch died in her sleep last Saturday with Queen Elizabeth, her elder and only surviving daughter, at her bedside. For a woman who was one of the best-known figures in Britain for more than 80 years — from the era of tinted portraits on tin biscuit boxes and cigarette cards to the age of the Internet, the Queen Mother remained an enigmatic and elusive figure. She achieved such a respect through aeons of, first, fawning and, later, intrusive media fascination, by remaining almost entirely silent. Her private thoughts were never paraded(炫耀) in public. What the public saw was a charming and benign elderly lady, adept at winning the admiration of press photographers, whom she always favoured with a particular smile. CHINA’s third unmanned spacecraft, Shenzhou Ⅲ, landed safely in central Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Monday afternoon, after orbiting the earth 108 times in slightly less than a week. The craft, which lifted off from Jiuquan in Gansu Province last Monday night, landed after successfully conducting a chain of flight and scientific experiments over a period of 162 hours. A powerful earthquake jolted Taiwan, killing five construction workers, authorities said. Over 200 injuries ware reported across the island, mostly minor, as a result of Sunday’s7.5-magnitude quake. The quake was centred off Hualien, 180 kilometres east of Taipei. It struck at 2:53 pm and lasted for nearly a minute.
1. Which of the following statements is true according to the news? A. The Queen Mother died on Easter Monday alone. B. The Queen Mother was an attractive person in her political life. C. The British people felt sorry for the death of the Queen Mother. D. The Queen Mother was suffering a lot when she was dying.
2. It can be inferred that _______. A. the craft landed in central Inner Mongolia unexpectedly B. it took the craft at least 2 hours to orbit the earth once C. the Chinese scientists did a lot of experiments in space D. China was successful in sending an unmanned spacecraft into space 3. The third news mainly talks about the _______ in Taiwan. A. political matters B. social problems C. unexpected damage D. construction workers
詞匯: enigmatic 不可思議 elusive躲避的 aeon 永世, 億萬(wàn)年 parade 炫耀
背景介紹: 神舟三號(hào)飛船由中國(guó)航天科技集團(tuán)公司所屬的中國(guó)空間技術(shù)研究院和上海航天技術(shù)研究院為主研制,“長(zhǎng)征二號(hào)F”運(yùn)載火箭由中國(guó)運(yùn)載火箭技術(shù)研究院為主研制。這次發(fā)射是長(zhǎng)征系列運(yùn)載火箭第66次飛行。自1996年10月以來(lái),中國(guó)運(yùn)載火箭發(fā)射已經(jīng)連續(xù)24次獲得成功。中國(guó)科學(xué)院和信息產(chǎn)業(yè)部等有關(guān)單位為這次發(fā)射研制了對(duì)地遙感、生命科學(xué)、空間科學(xué)等船載儀器和地面測(cè)控設(shè)備。神舟三號(hào)飛船于2002年3月25日22時(shí)15分,在酒泉衛(wèi)星發(fā)射中心由“長(zhǎng)征二號(hào)F”大推力運(yùn)載火箭發(fā)射升空。飛船按照預(yù)定軌道,環(huán)繞地球飛行了108圈。 飛船在軌運(yùn)行期間在北京航天指揮控制中心的統(tǒng)一調(diào)度下,分布在大西洋、太平洋、印度洋上的“遠(yuǎn)望”一、二、三、四號(hào)航天測(cè)量船及有關(guān)地面測(cè)控站,對(duì)飛船成功地實(shí)施了跟蹤、測(cè)量與控制
【答案解析】
這是 3 篇新聞報(bào)道。第 1 篇是關(guān)于英國(guó)皇太后死亡的消息;第 2 篇是關(guān)于中國(guó)發(fā)射神舟三號(hào)無(wú)人飛船的消息;第 3 篇是關(guān)于臺(tái)灣發(fā)生 7.5 級(jí)強(qiáng)烈地震的消息。 1. C。判斷題。皇太后死的時(shí)候有其女兒伊利莎白皇后在身邊,排除A項(xiàng);皇太后沒(méi)有從政,排除B項(xiàng);皇太后是在睡覺(jué)的時(shí)候死去的,D項(xiàng)也排除。所以答案選C。 2. D。判斷題。從第3段的幾個(gè)關(guān)鍵詞safely…successful 可知A項(xiàng)錯(cuò)誤;B項(xiàng)內(nèi)容在文中沒(méi)有提及,可排除;而神舟三號(hào)為無(wú)人飛船,故不會(huì)有科學(xué)家在太空中做實(shí)驗(yàn),可排除C;既然神舟三號(hào)無(wú)人飛船已安全著陸,那肯定是已成功發(fā)射了。 3. C。主旨題。既然臺(tái)灣發(fā)生了地震,那當(dāng)然是沒(méi)有預(yù)料到的災(zāi)害。A、B、D三項(xiàng)內(nèi)容離題太遠(yuǎn)。 |
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