高中英语人教必修一课后阅读训练二十Unit5Period4.pdfVIP

课后阅读训练 Unit 5 Period 4 Ⅰ. 完形填空 Earthquakes are common and thousands of them happen each day. But most are too 1 to feel. During a 2 earthquake, there is often a great noise first. Then the earth 3 terribly and many houses 4 down. Railway tracks break and trains go 5 lines; a great many factories are 6 ; thousands of deaths are caused, and many more lose homes. . . 7 the great damage and deaths caused by the earthquake 8 , other disasters such as fires often 9 . More buildings are destroyed and more 10 are caused. The 11 of a possible earthquake are well known of, and for centuries man has been making researches on earthquakes. More than 2, 000 years ago, 12 , a Chinese scientist named Zhang Heng 13 a machine which could find out from which 14 the seismic(地震的 )waves had come, and this machine is still 15 by scientists today. Now we know much more about earthquakes and 16 they happen, but we still cannot 17 exactly when and where an earthquake will happen, and cannot 18 it from happening. So earthquakes are among the 19 disasters in the world. No one can stop natural earthquakes. 20 , scientists can help stop earthquakes destroying the whole city and causing too many deaths. 【语篇概述】地震每天都在发生 , 不过有很多我们感觉不到而已 , 大地震更是会 - 1 - 给人类带来无穷的灾难。因此 , 准确地预报地震就显得非常重要了 , 这样会给人 类避免巨大的损失和伤亡。张衡的地动仪的发明就是一个很好的例证。 1. A. weak B. strong C. strange D. familiar 【解析】选 A 。生活常识题。weak 虚弱的 ; strong 强大的 ; strange意为 “奇怪的 , 陌 生的 ”; familiar意为 “熟悉的 ”。由常识可知绝大多数地震比较弱。 2. A. real B.