阅读课题练150篇(第2阶段).docVIP

PAGE  PAGE 21 开放型阅读能力培训练习 第二阶段 Passage 1 Week one 题材体裁字数题数阅读时间正确率科普类说明文1624分钟All the useful energy at the surface of the earth comes from the activity of the sun. The sun heats and feeds creatures and mankind. Each year it provides men with two hundred million tons of grain and nearly ten million tons of wood. Coal, oil, natural gas, and all other fuels are stored energy from the sun. Some was collected by this season’s plants as carbon compounds. Some was stored by plants and trees ages ago. Even waterpower derives from the sun. Water is turned into vapor by the sun and falls as rain. It courses down the mountains and is converted to electric power. Light transmits only the energy that comes from the sun’s outer layer, and much of this energy that is directed towards the earth never arrives. About nine tenths of it is absorbed by the atmosphere of the earth. In fact, the earth itself gets only one half millions of the sun’s entire output of radiant energy. 1.The sun is the source of all of the following EXCEPT________. A. gasoline B. natural gas C. animal fat D. atomic power 2.Radiant energy is stored as carbon compounds by_______. A. plants B. water C. creatures D. rock 3.The largest part of the light energy directed towards the earth is_____. A. used for electric power B. stored by the plants C. absorbed by the earth’s D. stored by the animals in the form of body fat. 4. Of the sun’s total output of radiant energy, the earth receives______. A. one tenth B. one millionth C. a very small portion D. all that comes from the surface of the sun Passage 2 题材体裁字数题数阅读时间正确率科普类说明文2444分钟Some people wonder why countries spend millions of dollars on space projects .They want to know how space research helps people on Earth .Actually. space technology helps people on Earth every day . This is called “spinoff technology’’. Spinoff technology is space technology tha