2013-2014学年澳门科技大学入学分班试-英语科卷二.pdfVIP

Admission Examination 2013/2014 – ENGLISH (Paper 2) I. Reading Comprehension (40 marks) Passage 1 In the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans, all hurricanes are given girls’ names. For years hurricanes in the Caribbean were named after the saint’s day on which the hurricane occurred. An example is the “Santa Ana” hurricane which struck Puerto Rico on July 26, 1825, and “San Felipe” (1876) and “San Felipe” (1828) which passed over Puerto Rico on September 3. An Australian forecaster once named hurricanes in this area after political figures ( 人物 ) he disliked. Another method of identifying hurricanes was the phonetic alphabet used by the military during World War I. The oldest method is the more cumbersome latitude-longitude (緯度 -經度 ) description. The first written mention of lady hurricanes may have been in the novel Storm , by George R. Steward (1941). During World War II the practice of giving the storms girls’ names became more widespread. 1. Hurricanes were probably first given girls’ names in ___________. A. the Second World War B. 1941 C. 1825 D. 1928 2. The oldest method of naming hurricanes was ________. A. identifying them by using a phonetic alphabet B. giving them the name of the saint whose feast they occurred on C. identifying them according to their longitude and latitude description D. giving them the name of a political figure 3. Two hurricanes had the same name. They were both called ______ . A. Storm B. Santa Ana C. San Felipe D. none of above 4. The practice of naming hurricanes after saints’ days began _______ . A. in Australia B. in the Caribbean C. in the North Pacific area D. during the Second World War 5. What does the author mean when he describes the practice of naming hurricanes by giving their longitude and latitude as “cumbersome”? A. The method is traditional B