Tales of the unexplained教学课件2.pptVIP

4. The underlined word “halo” in Paragraph 4 probably means _____ . A. 斑点，污点 B. 区域，面积 C. 光环，光轮 D. 曲线，弓形 【解析】选C。词义猜测题。根据句中关键词“or”可知halo与ring是并列、意义相近关系。再结合句意“幻日经常以整个光环或仅一边有光环出现”，即选C。 5. From the last paragraph, we can learn that _____ . A. there has been no clear answer to this special phenomenon in Leshan B. the three suns are the “sun dog” C. there must be three suns in the universe D. “sun dog” usually happens in hot areas 【解析】选A。推理判断题。该段中紫金山天文台王思潮教授谈到可能是幻日，但是由于乐山的那天夜晚不符合幻日产生的条件, 他需要搜集有关信息及不同角度的照片作进一步的分析，通过确认它们的相似性来给出更加科学的解释。由此推断，迄今还没有明确的解释。 B Steven Felton is a man with a mission（任务）. He gave up his job to follow his childhood dream—finding the Loch Ness monster（尼斯湖水怪）. Mr. Felton, aged 34, left his home in southwest England to live by the loch（湖）in the Scottish highlands. Now he is Britain’s only professional monster-hunter, endlessly driving his car up and down the 38-kilometre shoreline of the loch. He keeps himself going by selling clay Loch Ness models to tourists. He photographs and films the loch and takes echo soundings in the hope of finding some evidence of the existence of the “animal”, a name he gave the Loch Ness monster. Mr. Felton says that one sighting of an unexplained “disturbance” on the water by himself plus a large collection of other sightings by other people has led him to believe that there are 20 to 30 Loch Ness monsters. He is certain that the “animal” is about the size of a minibus and has a back shape like an upturned boat. His faith in the monster’s existence goes back to his childhood when his family took him on a picnic to the loch at the age of seven. “I got hooked（迷住）on the Loch Ness monster as a kid, and I still find it fascinating that in the British Isles, which is all completely mapped out and about which we know almost everything, there is still a mystery unexplained. ” Since he arrived in