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高中英语辅导:高考英语快速阅读训练(I)
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  (A)

  A Lucky Survivor

  Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada-A man survived a plunge(跳入) over Niagara Falls with only the clothes on his back. He was the first person known to have done it without safety equipment and live.

  Witnesses described seeing the man float by on Monday in the Niagara River, go head first over the 54-metre waterfall and then pull himself out of the water onto rocks below. Water rushes over the Falls at a rate of 570, 000 litres per second.

  "He just looked calm. He was just going past so fast. I was in shock really to see a person go by," Brenda McMullen told a TV station.

  "I saw him disappear over the edge of the falls," Brenda's husband, Terry McMullen said. The American tourists took photographs afterwards, showing the man dressed in street clothes, apparently lying on the shoreline at the base of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls.

  "The guy just basically jumped in the falls," said witness Diedre Love, who was there with her husband to celebrate their first wedding anniversary (周年纪念).

  Only one other person was known to survive a plunge over the Canadian falls without a barrel or other equipment. This was a seven-year-old boy wearing a life jacket who was thrown into the water in a l960 boating accident.

  No one has ever survived a trip over the narrower and rockier American falls. Police would not release the man's name nor would they tell the press why the man went over the falls. He did not appear to have serious injuries as he was led away. He was taken to the Greater Niagara General Hospital for treatment.

  (Words: 283; Minutes: 5)

  1. Why did the man jump over the falls?

  A. It is not known from the passage.

  B. He wanted to kill himself.

  C. He wanted to find out how deep the water was.

  D. He had a fall and slipped in the water.

  2. What's the correct order of the following events?

  (a) The man got on a rock below the falls.

  (b) The man was taken to a hospital.

  (c) The man jumped in the falls.

  (d) Two American tourists took photos of the man.

  A. a, b, c, d B. c, d, a, b

  C. c, a, d, b D. d, c, b, a

  3. Why did the writer mention the 7-year-old boy in the passage?

  A. To show the man was not the first person to jump over the falls.

  B. To prove the man was the first person to jump over the falls.

  C. To warn tourists not to go boating over the falls without life jackets.

  D. To inform the readers that what the man did was of no value at all.

  4. In this passage the word "witness" probably means people________.

  A. whose jobs are taking photos

  B. who jump off the Falls

  C. who saw the accident

  D. who took him to the hospital

  (B)

  Robot Pyramid Raider Fails

  A small robot sent to solve one of history's mysteries only succeeded in presenting scientists and TV viewers with yet another mystery recently.

  With its camera peering through a hole in a small sealed door in Egypt's Great Pyramid to see what was beyond, it discovered yet another door.

  "It's another sealed door. This is very important," said Zahi Hawass, director of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.

  The robot, the Pyramid Rover, took two hours to crawl along a narrow shaft, drill through a door, then push through its camera. Dr Hawass said the next job for researchers was to study the video tape and plan for further inspections, which could take up to 12 months.

  His council, engineers from the Boston Firm Robot and researchers from National Geographic, had spent a year planning the recent event.

  American TV stations went live showing the robot creeping along the 20-centimetre-square, 60-metre-long shaft.

  As the robot inched along the rough-surfaced shaft toward the limestone door with two copper handles, its path was lit by a blue beam. During the broadcast, Dr Hawass revealed a stone sarcophagus found in a tomb near the Great Pyramid containing the skeleton(骨架) of a man thought to have died at the time of the Pyramid's construction some 4,500 years ago. (Words: 225; Minutes: 4)

  5. The mystery that the robot presented to the world was________.

  A. a stone coffin B. a tombC. the Great Pyramid

  D. another door behind the sealed door

  6. The underlined word sarcophagus probably means ________.

  A. a tomb B. a little pyramid

  C. a figure D. a container

  7. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

  A. The small robot is used to find skeletons.

  B. Dr Hawass succeeded in exploring the shaft.

  C. The Great Pyramid was built 4,500 years ago.

  D. They spent two years altogether for this event.

  8. We can see________.

  A. robots can do a lot of work that man can't do

  B. a robot can take the place of the human being

  C. this event is a success

  D. Dr Hawass will give up his effort to make a new discovery

  (文/吴慎英;英语通高三版2003-2004学年第8期;版权归英语辅导报社所有,独家网络合作伙伴新浪教育,未经许可,不得以任何形式进行转载。)


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