Question

Science, as we think, was born when the Greek philosopher (哲學家) Thales ( about 640-546 B.C.) asked a difficult question: What makes up our universe?

No one had a ready answer, so Thales went on studying the earth around him, the sky and the stars. He saw so much water on earth and so much water falling from the sky as rain that he decided water must be the basic substance (物質(zhì)) of the universe.

Other Greek thinkers became interested in this question. They suggested other answers. One said that because air lies around the earth, it must be air that makes up all things. Another said that fire, appearing in different forms, was the building block of the universe.

The Greek philosophers were feeling their way towards the ideas on which chemistry is based. Centuries later, scientists proved that the universe is made up of certain basic substances. But the list is much more complicated than the Greeks realized. We now know of 103 basic substances which we call “ elements (元素)”.

1.Thales, the famous Greek philosopher, died when he was about_________.

A．94 years old       B．106years old       C．40 years old       D．46 years old

2.The meaning of the underlined word “complicated” in the last paragraph is “_______”.

A．not difficult        B．not simple         C．not famous        D．not different

3.From the passage we know that _______.

A．Thales asked many questions              B．Greeks were all philosophers

C．science began long ago                   D．water and air make up all things.

4.On the whole, the passage tells about _______.

A．early tries to understand the universe       B．the famous Greek thinkers

C．water falling from the sky                 D．a(chǎn)ir lying all around the earth

5.After reading the passage, we can be sure that_______.

A．nothing ever changes in the universe

B．Thales decided that the basic substance of the universe was air

C．the universe is made up of four different substances

D．the early Greek thinkers did much valuable work for the progress of science

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.A

2.B

3.C

4.A

5.D

【解析】

試題分析：本文講述了希臘的科學家在很早的時候就對宇宙的組成物質(zhì)有所研究，他們通過研究發(fā)現(xiàn)水、火和空氣因為都始終伴隨著宇宙，認為它們是宇宙的基本組成物質(zhì)，在后來人的研究中確實發(fā)現(xiàn)希臘的科學家所說的宇宙是有基本物質(zhì)組成的，是對的，只不過不是三種而是103種物質(zhì)組成的。

1.這是計算題。根據(jù)Thales ( about 640-546 B.C.) 兩數(shù)相減得知選A。

2.這是細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)We now know of 103 basic substances which we call “ elements (元素)”我們現(xiàn)在知道宇宙是有103種，所以表上列出的肯定比希臘的復雜的多，故選B。.

3.這是細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)希臘的科學家的對于宇宙研究可知，科學出現(xiàn)的很早，故選C。

4.這是細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)很早的時候人們就開始研究宇宙，故選A。

5.這是細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)The Greek philosophers were feeling their way towards the ideas on which chemistry is based. Centuries later, scientists proved that the universe is made up of certain basic substances.后來的人根據(jù)希臘的科學家的研究繼續(xù)從事研究發(fā)現(xiàn)確實宇宙是有一些基本物質(zhì)構成的，故選D。

考點：這是一篇科普性的文章。

點評：閱讀能力的測試包括閱讀速度，理解程度以及記憶能力等。要想獲得滿意的英語成績，最根本的方法就是提高詞匯量，加強閱讀訓練，同時熟悉一些閱讀技巧和做題方法也是至關重要的。本文是比較容易讀懂的，仔細閱讀后能在原文找到正確答案。