A school master of Thurso in Caithness, William Munro, wrote in a report in THE TIMES on September 8, 1809 that twelve years earlier he had been walking along Sandside Bay shore when he saw what he first thought was a naked woman, sitting on a rock and combing her light brown hair. The face was fatty round, with reddish cheeks and blue eyes. If the rock where the woman sat had not been so dangerous for swimmers, Munro would have thought it was human. After a few minutes it dropped into the sea and swam away. Others had seen it too.

The island of Benbecula in the outer Hebrides, about 1830, women cutting seaweed reported they had met a creature of female form playing happily off the shore. A few days later her dead body was found two miles from where she had first been seen. The description of the creature was recorded thus, “the upper part of the creature was about the size of a well-fed child of three or four years of age, with an extraordinarily developed breast. The hair was long, dark and glossy(有光澤), while the skin was white, soft and tender. The lower part of the body was like a salmon(鮭魚). ”

1.From the description given by the witnesses, we know that　　　　.

A. mermaids did exist

B. mermaids shaped like females

C. mermaids looked terrible

D. mermaids shaped like fish

2. This passage most probably comes from　　　　.

A. scientific books　　　　B. tales collection

C. travel guideD. fishing webpages

3. Which of the following is TRUE?

A. The school master and the women saw a mermaid in the same year.

B. The school master saw a mermaid swimming in the sea.

C. The women saw a mermaid swimming in the sea.

D. It was said that mermaids developed from salmons.

4. Which of the following is WRONG?

A. Not all the people believe they were mermaids.

B. People have taken photos of the creature.

C. The creature in the second case looked like a woman with a fish’s tail.

D. Both of these two tales may not be true.

 

1.B

2.B

3.C

4.B

【解析】

文章描述了兩起美人魚的目擊事件, 都是當事人口述, 事情發(fā)生的時間較久遠, 沒有照片、錄像等證據(jù), 所以文章的口氣屬于猜測性質(zhì)。

1.選B。細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)“he first thought was a naked woman”和“had met a creature of female form. . . ”可知美人魚具有女人的體形。

2.2】選B。主旨大意題。本文主要介紹美人魚目擊證人對它的描述, 這只是傳說, 所以B項為最佳選項。

3.3】選C。推理判斷題。off the shore指“離海岸不遠的水中”。且文中提及的是women, 不是school master。

4.4】選B。推理判斷題。文中沒有提到為它們拍照, C項在最后幾句可以看到, A和D兩項都屬于不確定的推斷, 符合本文的表達內(nèi)容。

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