第三节: 阅读理解(共20题，每题2分，共40分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Hurricane(飓风) Babette reached the northeastern United States today and caused death and destruction everywhere. The killer storm carried winds of 135 miles per hour. The high winds and heavy rains, together with the force of the Atlantic Ocean, created extremely dangerous waves. It is not yet known how many people died or were hurt in this storm, but it is said that the numbers will be very high. The damage to homes, business and crops will run into billions of dollars. Now that the storm is over, the long, slow rebuilding will begin.

With the arrival of the tornado season, the National Weather Service is again telling people how to protect themselves from these deadly storms. The winds from tornadoes are the most violent winds on earth. They can blow up to 400 miles per hour. A tornado looks like a funnel(漏斗). It is also very loud. It may sound like a train coming at you. In fact, the winds from a tornado can pick up a train and throw it around. If a tornado is seen in your area, it is very important that you protect yourself. A basement (地下室) is the safest place to go. Try to wait under a table in the basement. If your building does not have a basement, stay on the ground floor but lie flat under a bed or table. Stay away from windows. If you are outside or in your car, try to find a narrow place to lie down in.

As the area tries to deal with the worst flood of the century , there are many heartwarming stories of people helping other people. From all over the world people have sent food and clothes to help the thousands who have had to leave their homes. Many volunteers have come to help to make sandbags and use them to build walls against the overflowin g river. While the result of this disaster will be terrible for many, it is beautiful to see people coming together to help others and save lives, and property (财产).

36. What are the three  short passages about?

A. Newspaper articles about the weather.

B. Bad weather forecasts in newspapers.

C. Introduction to climate in different places.

D. Popular science on climate.

37. We can learn from the passages that ________.

A. when there?s flooding, sandbags can be made and used to build walls

B. Hurricane Babette damaged the northwestern coast of US

C. the National Weather Service often takes measures to protect the local people

D. people are often reminded of how to protect themselves from snowstorms

38. What does the word ? tornado ?mean?

A. 台风 B. 龙卷风 C. 洪水 D. 冰雹

39.Which of the following is WRONG about tornados?

A. look like a pipe B. come regularly very year

C. are the most violent winds on Earth

D. carry winds of 135 km per hour and create a loud noise

40. According to the passages, a person who sees a tornado in his area, had better Not _______.

A. drive his car away as fast as possible

B. go to the basement and wait under a table

C. find a deep narrow place to lie down in

D. stay on the gound floor but lie down under a bed

B

On July 16,1960, Jane Goodall, a 26-year-old former secretary from England, began to study the behaviour  of chimpanzees in the wild. Until that time, scientists had mostly observed and studied chimpanzees in laboratories and zoos. Few  scientists had gone to study chimpanzees in the remote areas of Africa where the chimps live. When scientists had studied the chimpanzees in the wild, they hadn't spent long periods of time observing them. Jane Goodall planned to watch chimpanzees in Africa over a ten-year period and see exactly how they behaved. She was not a professional scientist when she started out. Her book, "In the Shadow of Man", tells how she began her project and what she discovered.

As Goodall said in 1973, "I had no qualifications at all. I was just somebody with a love of animals". Her love of animals drew her to Africa where she met Dr. Louis S. B. Leakey. Leakey was a world-famous scientist who was studying how prehistoric people lived. Since chimpanzees are humans' closest living relatives, Leakey thought prehistoric people might have lived in the same ways that chimpanzees live today. Leakey told Goodall that studying chimpanzees might give clues about the way that early people lived.

Leakey asked Goodall to study the chimpanzees on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Africa. The chimpanzees were very shy and the country was very difficult to travel through. Goodall took on the difficult job of finding and watching the chimpanzees.

41. Jane Goodall decided to study chimpanzees ____.

A. because she was working in a laboratory

B. when she was doing research for a book

C. because of her scientific work in England

D. out of her love for animals

42. Jane Goodall was different from other people who had studied chimpanzees because she_________.

A. was a professional scientist and had been trained by Dr. Leakey

B. observed the animal both in the wild and in laboratories and zoos

C. observed chimpanzees in their natural surroundings over a long period of time

D. was more qualified than most other scientists

43. The word closest in meaning to "remote" is ____.

A. famous B. suitable C. critical D. distant

44. According to the information, finding chimpanzees in Africa would be a difficult task for Jane because____.

A. the animals would stay away from humans

B. the chimpanzees may not remain in the area for ten years.

C. Jane would have to identify areas where prehistoric people had lived.

D. Dr. Leakey was not aware of the conditions in which the chimpanzees lived.

45. The title of Jane Goodall's book ______.

A. reflects Jane's passion for her work

B. hints at the difficulties that Jane faced

C. emphasized the link between chimps and mankind

D. indicates her experience mirrored that of other scientists