閱讀理解

Dangerous Creatures

  Some beach creatures are wonderful-like dolphins, but others are dangerous.Find out more about the dangerous ones-puffer fish, blue ringed octopus, and stingrays.The blue ringed octopus.The blue ringed octopus is not a very big creature but it is very dangerous.

  These octopuses are found all around the coast of Australia.They often lie in rock pools close to shore.The blue ringed octopus is usually a dull color but it shows its bright blue rings when it is in danger.If it is taken out of the water it is able to bite a person and poison them.If this creature bites someone they will feel numbness(麻木)around the mouth, face and neck.

Puffer Fish

  Puffer Fish are found in all Australian seas.They are very easy to catch but must not be eaten because their flesh and internal organs contain a poison.

  Anyone who does eat the flesh can become sick very quickly.They may even stop breathing.

The Blue Bottle

  The Blue Bottle is found in most Australian waters.Blue Bottles float lightly on the surface of the water but their tentacles(觸須)can be as long as 10 meters.

  Blue Bottles are much less dangerous than some other jellyfish but they can give a swimmer a bad sting(刺)if the swimmer accidentally touches them.Stingrays

  There are many different kinds of stingrays in Australian waters.They usually swim and feed on bottom of the sea.Accidents can happen if people stand on them or try to pick them up.Stingrays have a sting on their tail.These stings have poison on them.If someone is stung the wound can easily become infected.

(1)

If you swim in Australian waters, you will probably ________.

[  ]

A.

be bitten by the blue ringed octopu.

B.

stop breathing because of Puffer Fish

C.

get a bad sting by the Blue Bottle

D.

be poisoned by stingrays

(2)

Which of the following is less aggressive according to the text?

[  ]

A.

The blue ringed octopus.

B.

Puffer Fish.

C.

The Blue Bottle.

D.

Stingrays.

(3)

Which is true according to the passage?

[  ]

A.

All creatures along the coast of Australia are dangerous.

B.

Poisonous creatures change the body color when in danger.

C.

No accident will happen unless people touch these creatures.

D.

If people stand on the beach, accidents can happen because of the creatures.

(4)

What is the meaning of the underlined word “accidentally”?

[  ]

A.

故意地

B.

害怕地

C.

親切地

D.

偶然地

(5)

The passage is mainly about ________.

[  ]

A.

dangerous creatures in the sea

B.

interesting creatures in the oceans

C.

pleasant creatures in Australia

D.

big creatures in Australian waters

答案:1.C;2.B;3.C;4.D;5.A;
解析:

(1)

這是一道細節(jié)題。從四種海洋生物傷人的方式判斷“如果你在水面上游泳,會被Blue Bottle”刺傷。

(2)

這是一道推斷題。從Puffer Fish的特性來分析,它沒有進攻性,人們只是吃了它的肉才會中毒。

(3)

這是一道判斷題。四種海洋生物傷人的方式都是在接觸的前提下才會發(fā)生。

(4)

詞義猜測題。面對這有刺的魚,沒有誰敢去故意地觸摸它,只能是不經(jīng)意地、偶然地碰到它。

(5)

這是一道主旨題。綜觀全文,本文介紹的是“在澳大利亞沿海水域某些海洋生物會給人類造成某些傷害”。


練習冊系列答案
相關習題

科目:高中英語 來源:2010年普通高等學校招生全國統(tǒng)一考試、英語(江西卷) 題型:050

閱讀理解

  Modcm inventions have speeded up people's lives amazingly.Motor-cars cover a bundred miles in little more than an hour.Aireraft cross the world a day, while computers operate at lightning speed.Indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending.Every ycar motor-cars are produced which go even faster each new computer boasts(吹噓)of saving preeious seconds in handling tasks.

  All this saves timc, but at a prick.When we lose or gain half a day in speeding aeross the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so.We get the uncomfoerable feeling known as jet-lag; our bodies feel tlru they have been left bebind in anot ar nine zoors Again pending too long at compulers resul's in painti ninrts and fingers.Mobile phones also to dange according to some seientists; too much uss may thesmit h bul radiation into our brains, a we do not like to think about.

  Howave, what do we do with the time we have saved?Certainly not or so it seems.We are so accustomed to constant activity that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing, or even just one thing at a time.Pcrhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imavination take us into another world.

  There was a time when some people's lives were devotcd simply to the cultivation of the land or the eare of eattle.No multi-tasking there; their lives wenl on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern.There is much that we might envy about a way of life like this.Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestors faeed;:they farmed with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone.Modem machinery has freed peope fre that primitive existcnee.

(1)

The new rooucts opcome more and more time-saving beeause.

[  ]

A.

our lose e u speed uts never-ending

B.

mo is liwhcd

C.

shi pnces are increasingly high

D.

the manufacturers boast a lot

(2)

What does“the days”in Paragraph 3 refer to?

[  ]

A.

I maginary life

B.

Simple life in the past

C.

Times of inventions

D.

Time for constant activity

(3)

What is the author's attitude towards the modem teehnology?

[  ]

A.

Critical

B.

Objective

C.

Optimistic

D.

Negative

(4)

What does the pa mge mainly diseuss?

[  ]

A.

The present and pad times

B.

Machin and human beings

C.

Imaginations and inventions

D.

Modem teehnology and its influenec

查看答案和解析>>

同步練習冊答案