高考英语阅读理解基础全程训练(18)(1)

2014高考英语阅读理解基础全程训练（18）及答案较难题目特训：科普知识类In the long discussion of water on the Moon, a new study contradicts (与……相矛盾) some recent reports that say the Moon had water at the time of its formation.A group of researchers reports in the journal Science that when the Moon was created, some 4. 5 billion years ago, there was not much hydrogen (氢气) on it, and therefore no water.The researchers surveyed and evaluated this by analyzing chlorine isotopes found in lunar rock samples from Apollo missions. The range of chlorine (氯) isotopes in lunar samples was 25 times that found in samples from Earth.“If the Moon had significant levels of hydrogen, as Earth did, this range would have been far less,” said Zachary D. Sharp, a scientist in the Department of Earth and P lanetary Sciences and the study’s lead author.“The chlorine would have stuck together with hydrogen, forming compounds like hydrogen chloride, and escaped from the Moon’s surface,”he said. The abundance of chlorine indicates a lack of hydrogen and water.“The amount of water on the Moon was way too low for life to have ever have possibly have existed there,” he said.Most scientists believe the Moon was formed when a large object struck Earth, breaking off a chunk (a vast piece) that has since orbited Earth.On Earth, goes one theory, water was released as steam from molten basalts (玄武岩) over time, eventually forming bodies of water.“An understanding of whether the Moon was dry or wet will help us understand how water appeared on Earth,” Dr. Sharp sa id.1. A new study indicates that on the moon.A. there is plenty of waterB. water is unlikely to existC. water existed in the pastD. there is a little water now2. The author would like to tell us through the sixth paragraph.A. why there is no water on the MoonB. how the Moon was formedC. when the Earth struck the MoonD. where the Moon orbited3. What does the underlined word “this” stand for in the second paragraph?A. Neither hydrogen nor water on the Moon.B. Too much chlorine isotopes on the Moon.C. Not being much hydrogen, no water on the Moon.D. More chlorine exists on the Moon than Earth.4. Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?A. Zachary D. Sharp, a scientist of New Mexico was in charge of the new study.B. Chlorine isotopes are 25 times in lunar larger than Earth.C. The more abundant chloride, the shorter hydrogen and water.D. The new study is beneficial to understand how water appeared on Earth.5. What can we learn from the passage?A. There are enough water on the Earth.B. Hydrogen chloride easily escaped from the Moon’s surface.C. The Earth had significant levels of hydrogen.D. Water on the Earth is directly from molten basalts.【参考答案】8. BBCBC阅读理解-----ALONDON — 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(不可思议的) and elusive(躲避的) figure.She achieved such a respect through aeons(永世, 亿万年) 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 sa fely 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 Provincelast 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(官方) said. Over 200 injuries ware reported across the island, mostly minor, as a result of Sunday’s 7.5-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.答案解析：答案为C。