Question

【題目】 Earlier this year in Norway, people buried a steel bottle with plant seeds, a wristwatch and rock samples (樣本) in it. Why did they do this? They were making a time capsule(時間膠囊).

Time capsules are small collections of goods or information that are stored somewhere safe. They can be opened by people many years later, giving future people a view of life in the past.

They may contain (包含) newspaper articles, popular music recordings, and photos. Historians can use time capsules to learn more about societies that lived in the past.

One of the earliest time capsules was the Detroit Century Box. On Dec 31st, 1900, the city picked several photos and letters to be placed in a box. The box was then locked until Dec 31st, 2000. The things inside the capsule give us a look at Detroit in the past. There were photos of people and places, as well as letters written by local people. Some of them even gave predictions for the future. One person predicted that Detroit would have a population of 4 million by 2000. But in fact, the city’s population was about 951,000 that year.

Humans have even sent time capsules into space! The US sent two capsules into space on the Voyager spacecraft (旅行者號航天器) in 1977. They are called the Voyager Golden Records. They contain sounds and pictures that show the diversity of human life and culture. For example, they have music by German composer (作曲家) Beethoven and pictures of plants, insects and landscapes (山水風(fēng)景畫). The Voyager spacecraft has traveled far away from our solar system(太陽系). It is hoped that aliens might find the time capsules someday and learn about us.

【1】A time capsule________.

A.is a subject about societies that lived in the past

B.is a small collection of things stored in a safe place

C.collects medicines and buries them deep underground

D.collects music recordings which will be popular in the future

【2】The earliest time capsule was locked for________ .

A.23 yearsB.77 yearsC.100 yearsD.218 years

【3】From the collections in the Detroit Century Box, we may learn________.

A.what people wore in the pastB.what Detroit was like in 1977

C.what would happen to Detroit in the futureD.what the population of Detroit is in 2000

【4】What does underline word “diversity” in paragraph 5 probably mean in Chinese?

A.思想性B.普遍性C.預(yù)見性D.多樣性

【5】The Voyager Golden Records________.

A.contain pictures and plantsB.were sent into space by Germany

C.have traveled far from the solar systemD.have been found by the aliens

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】C

【3】A

【4】D

【5】C

【解析】

文章大意：文章主要介紹的是很多人在制作時間膠囊，它可以儲存商品或信息，許多年后當(dāng)人們打開時，可以知道過去生活的一些觀念。人們甚至把時間膠囊送到太空，希望外星人有一天能找到時間膠囊并了解我們。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第二段第一行“Time capsules are small collections of goods or information that are stored somewhere safe”“時間膠囊是儲存在安全地方的貨物或信息的收藏品”，故選B。

【2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第四段第一、二、三行“One of the ……until Dec 31st, 2000”“最早的膠囊之一是底特律世紀(jì)盒子。1900年12月31日，這個城市挑選了幾張照片和幾封信放在一個盒子里。然后這個箱子一直鎖到2000年12月31日”可知，最早的時間膠囊被鎖了100年，故選C。

【3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第四段第四行“There were photos of people and places, as well as letters written by local people”“有人和地方的照片，還有當(dāng)?shù)厝藢懙男拧笨梢灾�道盒子里有人的照片，可以看到過去人們穿什么，可知，A說法是正確的；根據(jù)文章第四段第四、五行“Some of them even gave predictions for the future. One person predicted that Detroit would have a population of 4 million by 2000”“其中一些人甚至對未來做出了預(yù)測。有人預(yù)測到2000年底特律將有400萬人口”可知，C和D說法是錯誤的；根據(jù)文章最后一段第一、二行“Humans ……spacecraft (旅行者號航天器) in 1977”“人類甚至將時間膠囊送入太空！1977年，美國用旅行者號宇宙飛船將兩個太空艙送入太空”和文章最后一行“It is hoped that aliens might find the time capsules someday and learn about us”“希望有一天外星人能找到時間膠囊，了解我們”可知，B說法是錯誤的，故選A。

【4】詞句猜測題。根據(jù)文章第五段第三行“They contain sounds and pictures”“它們包含聲音和圖片”和第四、五行“they ……insects and landscapes (山水風(fēng)景畫)”“他們有德國作曲家貝多芬的音樂和植物、昆蟲和風(fēng)景畫”可推知diversity的意思是多樣性，故選D。

【5】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章最后一段第三行“They contain sounds and pictures”“它們包含聲音和圖片”可知，A說法是錯誤的；根據(jù)文章最后一段第一、二行“The US sent two capsules into space on the Voyager spacecraft (旅行者號航天器) in 1977”“1977年，美國用旅行者號宇宙飛船將兩個太空艙送入太空”可知，B說法是錯誤的；根據(jù)文章最后一段倒數(shù)第二行“The Voyager spacecraft has traveled far away from our solar system”“旅行者號宇宙飛船已經(jīng)遠(yuǎn)離我們的太陽系”可知，C說法是正確的；根據(jù)文章最后一行“It is hoped that aliens might find the time capsules someday and learn about us”“希望有一天外星人能找到時間膠囊，了解我們”可知，D說法是錯誤的，故選C。