Which is sillier: denying we ever went to the moon or trying to convince the tru

Which is sillier: denying we ever went to the moon or trying to convince the tru

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Which is sillier: denying we ever went to the moon or trying to convince the true non-believers?
Once upon a time—July 20, 1969, to be specific – two men got out of their little spaceship and wandered around on the moon for a while. Ten more men walked on the moon over the next three and a half years. The end.
Unfortunately, not quite. A fair number of Americans think that this whole business of moon landings really is a fairy tale. They believe that the landings were a big hoax (骗局) staged in the Mojave Desert, to convince everyone that U.S. technology was the “best” in the whole wide world.
Which is the harder thing to do: Send men to the moon or make believe we did? The fact is that the physics behind sending people to the moon is simple. You can do it with computers whose entire memory capacities can now fit on chips the size of postage stamps and that cost about as much as, well, a postage stamp. I know you can because we did.
However, last fall NASA considered spending $15,000 on a public-relations campaign to convince the unimpressed that Americans had in fact gone to the moon. That idea was mostly a reaction to a Fox television program, first aired in February 2001, that claimed to expose the hoax. The show’s creator is a publicity hound (猎狗) who has lived up to the name in more ways than one by hounding Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon. Mr. X (as I will call him, thereby denying him the joyous sight of his name in print) recently followed Buzz Aldrin around and called him “a thief, liar and coward” until the 72-year-old astronaut finally lost it and hit the 37-year-old Mr. X in the face.
Anyway, NASA’s publicity campaign began to slow down. The nonbelievers took the campaign as NASA’s effort to hide something while the believers said that $15,000 to convince people that the world was round — I mean, that we had gone to the moon — was simply a waste of money. (Actually, the $15,000 was supposed to pay for an article by James E. Oberg, an astronomy writer who, with Aldrin, has contributed to Scientific American.)
If NASA’s not paying Oberg, perhaps it could put the money to good use by hiring two big guys to drag Neil Armstrong out of the house. Armstrong is an extremely private man, but he is also the first man on the moon, so maybe he has a duty to be a bit more outspoken about the experience. Or NASA could just buy Aldrin a commemorate plaque (纪念匾) for his recent touch on the face of Mr. X.
小题1:We can learn from Paragraphs 2 and 3 that some Americans believe _______.
A.moon landings were invented
B.U.S. technology was the best
C.moon landing ended successfully
D.the Mojave Desert was the launching base
小题2:According to the writer, which of the following is to blame for the story about the hoax?
A.NASA’s publicity campaign. B.The Fox television program.
C.Buzz Aldrin. D.James E. Oberg.
小题3:The believers think that NASA’s publicity campaign is ________.
A.proof to hide the truth
B.stupid and unnecessary
C.needed to convince the non-believers
D.important to develop space technology
小题4:What is implied in the last paragraph?
A.NASA should not bother with the non-believers.
B.Armstrong was a very private and determined person.
C.Armstrong should be as outspoken as Buzz Aldrin.
D.NASA should send more astronauts to outer space.

答案

小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:B
小题4:A
解析

试题分析:本文讲述的是一部分美国人怀疑登陆月球的真实性,NASA为了证明登陆月球的真实性,做出了一些反应和回馈。
小题1:A 细节题。根据文章第三段最后3行They believe that the landings were a big hoax (骗局) staged in the Mojave Desert, to convince everyone that U.S. technology was the “best” in the whole wide world.可知又部分人认为美国人登山月球是假的,是编造出来的谎言。故A正确。
小题2:B 细节题。根据文章第四段2,3行That idea was mostly a reaction to a Fox television program, first aired in February 2001, that claimed to expose the hoax.可知正是Fox这个电视节目上声称要揭露这个谎言。故B正确。
小题3:B 细节题。根据文章倒数第二段The nonbelievers took the campaign as NASA’s effort to hide something while the believers said that $15,000 to convince people that the world was round — I mean, that we had gone to the moon — was simply a waste of money.可知the believers认为NASA应该花钱来证明人类曾经到过月球。就好像证明地球是圆的一样。故B正确。
小题4:A 推理题。根据本段第一行If NASA’s not paying Oberg, perhaps it could put the money to good use by hiring two big guys to drag Neil Armstrong out of the house.可知作者认为没有必要这样做,因为这样做的是在浪费金钱,还不如把钱花在另外更值得花的地方。故A正确。
点评:本文讲述的是一部分美国人怀疑登陆月球的真实性,NASA为了证明登陆月球的真实性,做出了一些反应和回馈。文章基本上是考查细节题,对此类题型考生可以首先从问题中找到关键词,然后以此为线索,运用略读及查阅的技巧在文中迅速寻找这一细节,找到后再把这一部分内容仔细阅读一遍,仔细比较所给选项与文中细节的细微区别,在准确理解细节的前提下,最后确定最佳答案。
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They leap from helicopters or speeding boats, bringing aid to swimmers who get into trouble off Italy’s popular beaches.
Hundreds of specially trained dogs from Italy’s corps of canine(犬类的) lifeguards set out each summer to help swimmers in need of rescue.
These "life dogs" wear a harness that victims can grab to be dragged back to shore, and unlike human lifeguards, they can easily jump from helicopters and speeding boats to reach swimmers in trouble.
With millions flocking to Italy’s crowded beaches each summer, the Italian Coast Guard says it rescues about 3,000 people every year —and their canine helpers have saved several lives.
It takes three years for the canines to reach expert rescue status, and currently 300 dogs are fully trained for duty, said Roberto Gasbarri, who directs the Italian School of Canine Lifeguards program.
"Dogs are of good physical strength. They can increase the speed at which victims are rescued," Gasbarri said.
"The dog becomes a sort of intelligent lifebuoy(救生圈). It is a buoy that goes by itself to a person in need of help, and comes back to the shore also by himself, choosing the best landing point and swimming through the safest currents," he said.
The school will train any breed, as long as they weigh at least 30 kilograms, but New found lands and golden retrievers are most commonly used because they are good at swimming. Each dog works together with a human lifeguard, who also acts as the animal’s trainer.
"Being retrievers, they set out to pick up anything we tell them, be it a human being, an object, or a fish, and they bring it back to the shore," said lifeguard Monia Luciani. "They do not associate it with a physical activity, but it is rather a game for them."
小题1:The dogs wear a harness so that __________.
小题2:The dogs are helpful to _________.
小题3:Why does the school usually choose to train the New found lands and golden retrievers?
___________________________________.
小题4:How do the dogs regard the pickup training?
____________________________________.
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Which is sillier: denying we ever went to the moon or trying to convince the true nonbelievers?
Once upon a time – July 20, 1969, to be specific – two men got out of their little spaceship and wandered around on the moon for a while. Ten more men walked on the moon over the next three and a half years. The end.
Unfortunately, not quite. A fair number of Americans think that this whole business of moon landings really is a fairy tale. They believe that the landings were a big hoax (骗局) staged in the Mojave Desert, to convince everyone that U.S. technology was the “bestest” in the whole wide world.
Which is the harder thing to do: Send men to the moon or make believe we did? The fact is the physics behind sending people to the moon is simple. You can do it with computers whose entire memory capacities can now fit on chips the size of postage stamps and that cost about as much as, well, a postage stamp. I know you can because we did.
However, last fall NASA considered spending $15,000 on a public-relations campaign to convince the unimpressed that Americans had in fact gone to the moon. That idea was mostly a reaction to a Fox television program, first aired in February 2001, that claimed to expose the hoax. The show’s creator is a publicity hound (猎狗) who has lived up to the name in more ways than one by hounding Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon. Mr. X (as I will call him, thereby denying him the joyous sight of his name in print) recently followed Buzz Aldrin around and called him “a thief, liar and coward” until the 72-year-old astronaut finally lost it and hit the 37-year-old Mr. X in the face.
Anyway, NASA’s publicity campaign began to slow down. The nonbelievers took the campaign as NASA’s effort to hide something while the believers said that $15,000 to convince people that the world was round — I mean, that we had gone to the moon — was simply a waste of money. (Actually, the $15,000 was supposed to pay for an article by James E. Oberg, an astronomy writer who, with Aldrin, has contributed to Scientific American.)
If NASA’s not paying Oberg, perhaps it could put the money to good use by hiring two big guys to drag Neil Armstrong out of the house. Armstrong is an extremely private man, but he is also the first man on the moon, so maybe he has a duty to be a bit more outspoken about the experience. Or NASA could just buy Aldrin a commemorate plaque (纪念匾) for his recent touch on the face of Mr. X.
小题1:We can learn from Paragraphs 2 and 3 that some Americans believe _______.
A.moon landings were invented
B.U.S. technology was the best
C.moon landing ended successfully
D.the Mojave Desert was the launching base
小题2:According to the writer, which of the following is to blame for the story about the hoax?
A.NASA’s publicity campaign.B.The Fox television program.
C.Buzz Aldrin.D.James E. Oberg.
小题3:According to the writer, Mr. X _______.
A.told a faithful story B.was not treated properly
C.was a talented creator D.had a bad reputation
小题4:The believers think that NASA’s publicity campaign is ________.
A.proof to hide the truth
B.stupid and unnecessary
C.needed to convince the non-believers
D.important to develop space technology
小题5:The tone of the article is _______.
A.angry B.conversationalC.humorousD.matter-of-fact

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At 10 years old, Flynn Mc Garry became sick of the meals his mother cooked for him. So the Los Angeles native took matters into his own hands and started making his own dinners. One of his specialties? Trout with braised leeks(韭葱炖鲑鱼).
Now 13, the young chef is being praised as a “food prodigy(神童)”. He will spend his summer apprenticing with some of the best chefs at LA’s famous restaurants, MSNBC Nightly New reports.
Mc Garry began making a name for himself in the culinary(烹饪) world when John Sedlar, owner of the trendy Playa Restaurant, let Mc Garry take over the kitchen for a special nine-course meal. The meal sold out almost instantly.
“Flynn is a very unusual young man, and he’s very, very passionate,” owner John Sedlar told MSNBC.
By usual teenage boy standards, it’s true. So strong is his passion for cooking that the young man has turned his bedroom into an experimental kitchen laboratory.
Instead of video game consoles, baseball trophies and movie posters, Mc Garry’s room is lined with mixers, pots and pans, cutting boards and a stainless steel worktable. It’s where Mc Garry cooks his monthly pop-up dinners, which are served from his family’s dining room, a monthly supper club he calls Eureka.
Mc Garry is deft(灵巧的) and confident in the kitchen, with skills he’s been practicing since he was a child. What started out as a means of self-preservation from his mom’s unsatisfactory cooking has turned into a passion that the teen hopes to develop into a career.
“My goal? Michelin three stars, a restaurant in the top 50 list,” he told MSNBC. “Hopefully the top five.” Meanwhile, Mc Garry’s 13-year-old resume is already richer and more impressive than most cooks many times his age.
Mc Garry isn’t the only talented young prodigy to surprise experts in his field in recent years. At just 17 years old, physicist Taylor Wilson is already teaching graduate-level courses in physics and has built a functioning nuclear reactor.
小题1:Mc Garry first started cooking ___________.
A.for himself B.as an experiment
C.in his own bedroom D.with a teacher’s guidance
小题2:Compared with many adult chefs, Mc Garry ________.
A.has the best cooking equipment in his kitchen
B.is inventive and has many new specialties to his name
C.has much and impressive cooking experience for his young age
D.wants to open his own Michelin three-star restaurant
小题3:The author mentions Taylor Wilson in the last paragraph to ______.
A.prove that Flynn’s success is not a rare case
B.compare his talent to that of Flynn Mc Garry
C.introduce a young talent in a different field
D.suggest experts should be trained at a young age
小题4:Where does this text probably come from?
A.A recipe bookB.A restaurant introduction
C.A career guideD.A news report

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South Asia heatwave kills nearly 100
DHAKA - A heat wave sweeping India, Bangladesh and Nepal has killed nearly 100 people over the past two weeks, officials said on June 3, 2005.
A third of the people died in northern Bangladesh, mostly women and children from dehydration(脱水), heat stroke and diarrhoea(腹泻).
"We are getting reports of several deaths due to heat wave and related diseases almost every day," an official said, as temperatures touched 43℃.
The weather office in Dhaka said the hot weather will last for another week until the monsoon(季风) rains which are normally due by the middle of June.
Severe heat conditions in the southern Indian have killed at least 55 people, officials in the two states said.
While temperatures have fallen from a high of 45℃ in Andhra Pradesh to around 40℃, giving a respite(休息) to people, they are still on the rise in Orissa with Talcher town registering 48.5℃, a weather official said.
At least five people have died in Nepal from extreme heat, the government said.
小题1:We can infer that the heatwave can cause ______.
A.heat stokeB.dehydrationC.diarrhoeaD.all above
小题2:When the monsoon rains come, the temperature will _______.
A.remain the sameB.go on to rise sharply
C.begin to drop obviously D.rise a little
小题3:Which place is the hottest in the early June, 2005?
A.DhakaB.TalcherC.Andhra PradeshD.Nepal

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Harvard University named historian Drew Gilpin Faust as its first female president on Sunday, ending a lengthy and secretive search to find a successor to Lawrence Summers.
The seven-member Harvard Corporation elected Faust, a noted scholar on History of the American South and dean of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, as the university’s 28th president.
“This is a great day, and a historic day, for Harvard,” James R. Houghton, chairman of the presidential search committee, said in a statement. “Drew Faust is an inspiring and accomplished leader, a superb scholar, a dedicated teacher, and a wonderful human being.”
Her selection is noteworthy given the heated debates over Summers’ comments that genetic differences between the sexes might help explain the lack of women in top science jobs.
Faust has been dean of Radcliffe since 2001, two years after the former women’s college was combined into the university as a research center with a mission to study gender issues.
Some professors have quietly groused that the 371-year-old university is appointing a fifth president who is not a scientist. No scientist has had the top job since James Bryant Conant retired in 1953; its last four have come from the fields of classics, law, literature and economics.
Faust is the first Harvard president who did not receive a degree from the university since Charles Chauncy, a graduate of Cambridge University, who died in office in 1762. She attended the University of Pennsylvania.
“Teaching staff turned to her constantly,” said Sheldon Hackney, a former president of the University of Pennsylvania and historian who worked closely with Faust. “She’s very clear. She has a sense of humor, but she’s very strong-minded. You come to trust in her because she’s so solid.”
小题1:Which might be the best title for the passage?
A.Harvard named its first female president.
B.History of Harvard University changed.
C.Debates on female equality ended.
D.Drew Gilpin Faust, a famous woman historian.
小题2:Which is NOT true about Drew Gilpin Faust?
A.She is the 28th president of Harvard University.
B.She is a famous scholar from the American South.
C.She isn’t a graduate from Harvard University.
D.She was head of Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
小题3:The underlined word “groused” in the 6th paragraph means____ .
A.approvedB.commentedC.complainedD.indicated
小题4:This passage probably appears in a____ .
A.biographyB.personal letterC.research paperD.newspaper report

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