There are many brave and talented people who work in different branches (分科;分支)of science. Extreme(另

综合阅读训练(一)
一、完形填空
There are many brave and talented people who work in different branches (分科;分支)of science. Extreme(另类的)scientists are people who work in very difficult and dangerous places. They don't work in a  1  all the time like other scientists do. Instead, they search  2_  information that can only be gathered through firsthand experiences. These scientists have to explore deep, dark caves, swim with sharks or act as swan(天鹅)mothers. The number of great white sharks in the world   3   smaller now. They are one of  4  animals on Earth.
    Scientists need to find out how many sharks  5  now. Sometimes scientists have to get very close to a shark. The easiest and   6  way to do this is from inside a shark cage(笼子). 7 ,sometimes sharks attack (袭击;攻击)the cage. They shake it, and bend the bars with their sharp 8  .The trumpeter swan is the largest swan in the world, but it  9  until it nearly became endangered birds. Because of this, parents swans   10  younger swans to migrate before.
Scientists have to teach the younger swans how to do it. They teach the swans to follow a plane which looks like a lead swan. Extreme scientists are always trying to discover something new.
1. A. hospital          B. factory              C. lab                  D. hotel
2.A. for              B. to               C. of                  D. at
3.A. get              B. is getting          C. was getting              D. got
4.A. dangerous       B. more dangerous      C. most dangerous        D. the most dangerous
5.A. there were      B. are there         C. there are              D. were there
6.A. safest             B. closest            C. farther               D. faster
7. A. Lovely           B. Unlovely           C. Luckily              D. Unluckily
8. A teeth             B. tooth               C. eye                  D. eyes
9. A. kills            B. killed              C. was killed             D. is killed
10. A. won't teach     B. have never taught  C. wouldn't teach          D. don't teach
【主旨大意】
本文是一篇科普说明文,介绍了靠一手经历进行研究的另类科学家:他们深入洞穴,躲进鲨鱼笼子里研究鲨鱼,如何保护天鹅等。
46.C考查名词辨析。hospital医院;factory工厂;lab实验室;hotel宾馆。多数科学家经常在实验室工作,故选C。
47. A考查介词。search for意为“搜寻;查找”,为固定搭配。
48. B考查时态。根据now可知需用现在进行时,the number of意为“……的数量”,做主语时看做单数,故选B。
49. D考查形容词比较等级。“one of+形容词最高级+名词复数”意为“最……之一”。
50. C考查宾语从句。句意:科学家们需用找出现在有多少条鲨鱼。根据now可知要用一般现在时,宾语从句要用陈述语序,故选C。
51. A考查形容词辨析。safest“最安全的”;closest“最近的”;farther“更远的”;faster“更快的”。句意:做这件事最容易最安全的方式就是在一个鲨鱼笼子里。故选A。
52. D考查副词。lovely“可爱的”;unlovely“不可爱的”;luckily“幸运的是”; unluckily “不幸的是”。结合下文,鲨鱼袭击笼子可知应选D。
53. A考查名词辨析。根据常识可知,鲨鱼经常用利齿撕咬,故选A。
54. C考查被动语态。主语为it,表示被动,意为“被杀害”。
55. B考查动词时态。根据句中before可知应用现在完成时。
留言与评论(共有 0 条评论)
   
验证码: