Question

Science, as we think, was born when the Greek philosopher (哲學(xué)家) Thales ( about 640-546 B.C.) asked a difficult question: What makes up our universe?

No one had a ready answer, so Thales went on studying the earth around him, the sky and the stars. He saw so much water on earth and so much water falling from the sky as rain that he decided water must be the basic substance (物質(zhì)) of the universe.

Other Greek thinkers became interested in this question. They suggested other answers. One said that because air lies around the earth, it must be air that makes up all things. Another said that fire, appearing in different forms, was the building block of the universe.

The Greek philosophers were feeling their way towards the ideas on which chemistry is based. Centuries later, scientists proved that the universe is made up of certain basic substances. But the list is much more complicated than the Greeks realized. We now know of 103 basic substances which we call “ elements (元素)”.

1.Thales, the famous Greek philosopher, died when he was about_________.

A．94 years old       B．106years old       C．40 years old       D．46 years old

2.The meaning of the underlined word “complicated” in the last paragraph is “_______”.

A．not difficult        B．not simple         C．not famous        D．not different

3.From the passage we know that _______.

A．Thales asked many questions              B．Greeks were all philosophers

C．science began long ago                   D．water and air make up all things.

4.On the whole, the passage tells about _______.

A．early tries to understand the universe       B．the famous Greek thinkers

C．water falling from the sky                 D．a(chǎn)ir lying all around the earth

5.After reading the passage, we can be sure that_______.

A．nothing ever changes in the universe

B．Thales decided that the basic substance of the universe was air

C．the universe is made up of four different substances

D．the early Greek thinkers did much valuable work for the progress of science

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.A

2.B

3.C

4.A

5.D

【解析】

試題分析：本文講述了希臘的科學(xué)家在很早的時(shí)候就對(duì)宇宙的組成物質(zhì)有所研究，他們通過(guò)研究發(fā)現(xiàn)水、火和空氣因?yàn)槎际冀K伴隨著宇宙，認(rèn)為它們是宇宙的基本組成物質(zhì)，在后來(lái)人的研究中確實(shí)發(fā)現(xiàn)希臘的科學(xué)家所說(shuō)的宇宙是有基本物質(zhì)組成的，是對(duì)的，只不過(guò)不是三種而是103種物質(zhì)組成的。

1.這是計(jì)算題。根據(jù)Thales ( about 640-546 B.C.) 兩數(shù)相減得知選A。

2.這是細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)We now know of 103 basic substances which we call “ elements (元素)”我們現(xiàn)在知道宇宙是有103種，所以表上列出的肯定比希臘的復(fù)雜的多，故選B。.

3.這是細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)希臘的科學(xué)家的對(duì)于宇宙研究可知，科學(xué)出現(xiàn)的很早，故選C。

4.這是細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)很早的時(shí)候人們就開(kāi)始研究宇宙，故選A。

5.這是細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)The Greek philosophers were feeling their way towards the ideas on which chemistry is based. Centuries later, scientists proved that the universe is made up of certain basic substances.后來(lái)的人根據(jù)希臘的科學(xué)家的研究繼續(xù)從事研究發(fā)現(xiàn)確實(shí)宇宙是有一些基本物質(zhì)構(gòu)成的，故選D。

考點(diǎn)：這是一篇科普性的文章。

點(diǎn)評(píng)：閱讀能力的測(cè)試包括閱讀速度，理解程度以及記憶能力等。要想獲得滿意的英語(yǔ)成績(jī)，最根本的方法就是提高詞匯量，加強(qiáng)閱讀訓(xùn)練，同時(shí)熟悉一些閱讀技巧和做題方法也是至關(guān)重要的。本文是比較容易讀懂的，仔細(xì)閱讀后能在原文找到正確答案。