【走向高考】2017年高考英语一轮复习 第一部分 基础知识聚焦 Unit 5 The power of nature习题 新人教版选修6.docVIP

Unit 5 The power of nature Ⅰ.阅读理解 Old Faithful is a geyser(喷泉) located in Wyoming, in Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Old Faithful was named in 1870 during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition and was the first geyser in the park to receive a name. The geyser, as well as the nearby Old Faithful Inn, is part of the Old Faithful Historic District. On the afternoon of September 18, 1870, members of the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition traveled down the Firehole River from the Kepler Cascades(瀑布) and entered the Upper Geyser Basin. The first geyser they saw was Old Faithful. In his book of the expedition, Nathaniel P. Langford wrote： Judge, then, what must have been our astonishment, as we entered the basin at mid-afternoon of our second days travel, to see in the clear sunlight, at no great distance, a volume of clear, sparkling water projected into the air to the height of one hundred and twenty-five feet. “Geysers! Geysers！” cried one of our members, and, we soon gathered around this wonderful phenomenon. It was indeed a perfect geyser...We gave it the name of “Old Faithful”． In the early days of the park, Old Faithful was often used as a laundry. Clothes placed in the geyser were ejected then completely washed when the eruption took place. Its been found that linen and cotton cloth was uninjured by the action of the water, but woolen clothes were torn to pieces. Eruptions can shoot 3, 700 to 8, 400 US gallons of boiling water to a height of 106 to 185 feet (32 to 56 m) lasting from 1.5 to 5 minutes. The average height of an eruption is 145 feet(44 m). The highest recorded eruption was 185 feet(56 m) high. Intervals(间隔) between eruptions can range from 45 to 125 minutes, averaging 66.5 minutes in 1939, slowly increasing to an average of 92 minutes today. 文章大意：本文是说明文。文章介绍的是美国黄石国家公园的老忠实间歇喷泉。 1．When people on the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition saw Old Faithful, they ________. A．were frightened B．decided to end their travel C．were excitedD．took so