Question

On April 10, 1815, Mount Tambora in Indonesia erupted with great force. Fifty cubic kilometers of magma (巖漿) flew from its peak (山頂) and a blanket of ash as thick as one centimeter fell over more than 500,000 square kilometers of Indonesia and the Java Sea. The eruption destroyed Tambora’s peak and formed a hole six by seven kilometers wide. The eruption and resulting tsunamis killed 10,000 people. The agricultural loss and disease brought about by the thick ash caused the deaths of 82,000 more.
Indonesia was rocked again in 1883. On August 26, a small volcano on an uninhabited island between Sumatra and Java, erupted. The eruption produced an ash cloud 80 kilometers high and was heard in Australia—4,800 kilometers away. The eruption also caused a tsunami, which pounded (擊打) the shores of Java and Sumatra—killing 36,000 people.
In 1902, St. Pierre was a thriving (興盛的) community and the largest town on the French colony of Martinique in the Caribbean Sea. Mont Pelee cast a shadow over the town from where it stood, eight kilometers to the north. The townspeople were used to the light continuous sounds of the mountain, but in May, 1902 Pelee started to get really unstable. Clouds of steam and ash poured from the volcano and on May 8, Pelee erupted. Superheated gas and steaming volcanic ash flew out, pouring down the mountain at high speed. Within seconds, the deadly gas cloud had destroyed the town of St. Pierre and incinerated everyone in it — except one prisoner in a basement cell. It was the worst volcano disaster of the 20th century.

1. 1.
   How many people died because of the eruption on April 10, 1815 ?
   1. A.
      About 10,000.
   2. B.
      More than 82,000.
   3. C.
      About 36,000.
   4. D.
      More than 92,000.
2. 2.
   The underlined word “incinerated” in the last paragraph can be replaced by “_____”.
   1. A.
      brought up
   2. B.
      burned up
   3. C.
      woke up
   4. D.
      shut up
3. 3.
   Only one prisoner survived the volcano eruption of Mont Pelee on May 8 because _____.
   1. A.
      he was on a ship then
   2. B.
      he was kept underground
   3. C.
      he stayed in the water
   4. D.
      he was hidden in a well
4. 4.
   We can know from this article that _____.
   1. A.
      no measures can be taken to protect people from a volcano eruption
   2. B.
      volcanoes usually caused a series of earthquakes
   3. C.
      sometimes a volcano can completely destroy a city
   4. D.
      volcanoes are much more violent than the earthquakes

Answer 1

DBBC
1.細節(jié)題，由第一段的10,000 people和82,000 more可知選D
2.推理題，由這一句的意思，“迪利氣云破壞了整個圣特皮埃爾的城鎮(zhèn)和燒毀了生活在那里的每個人”可知選B
3.推理題，由最后一段的倒數(shù)第二句話except one prisoner in a basement cell.可知選B
4.推理題，由本文的主要意思，“火山的危害比較大”可知選C