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13．Rachel Carson was born in the USA on May，1907．Her mother，Maria Carson，had been a schoolteacher．She also loved nature．She showed Rachel the beauty of nature．She also taught Rachel a deep love for books．As a quiet child，Rachel liked to read and write stories．At a very early age，she decided she wanted to be a writer some day．Her story first appeared in a children's magazine when she was ten years old．
   Her first books，Under the Sea Wind came out in 1941．In 1948，Miss Carson began working on another book，The Sea Around Us．She always remembered carefully when she wrote．She collected information from more than one thousand places to write The Sea Around Us．When the book came out in 1951，it won the National Book Award．It was No.1 on the best-seller list for more than a year．The Sea Around Us made Rachel Carson famous．
Rachel Carson's most famous book，Silent Spring came out in 1962．In this book，she pointed out that the use of some kinds of pesticides（殺蟲(chóng)劑） like DDT would cause the number of birds to decline because it would kill them as well．Finally，in November 1969，the United Sates government decided that the use of DDT must stop in two years．
Rachel Carson has been regarded as a great environmentalist（環(huán)保主義者） and writer．She will be remembered by the world．

62． Rachel Carson had a deep love for nature and books because ofB
A．her father   
B．her mother  
C．her schoolteacher 
D．her brother
63．Rachel decided that she wanted to be a writer whenA．
A．she was very young        
B．she was in college   
C．she became a teacher        
D．she became famous
64．The Chinese meaning of the word"decline"in this passage is probably"B"．
A．增加       
B．減少    
C．維持     
D．翻番
65．Which of the following is NOT true according to the passageD
 A．Rachel Carson was a careful and serious writer．
 B．The Sea Around Us won the National Book Award．
 C．In Silent Spring Rachel said some pesticides were bad for the environment．
 D．The use of DDT was stopped as soon as the book Silent Spring came out．

Answer 1

分析 這是一篇介紹Rachel Carson的記敘文．
Rachel Carson 1907年5月出生于美國(guó)．她的媽媽Mary Carson曾經(jīng)是一名學(xué)校的老師，同時(shí)她也熱愛(ài)大自然．她展示給給Rachel大自然的美．她也教給Rachel對(duì)書(shū)的深深地?zé)釔?ài)．作為一個(gè)文靜的孩子，Rachel喜歡讀和寫(xiě)故事．在她很小的時(shí)候，她就下決心將來(lái)一天成為一名作家．當(dāng)她10歲的時(shí)候，她寫(xiě)的故事首次出現(xiàn)在一家兒童雜志上．她的第一本書(shū)《在海風(fēng)吹拂下》在1941年出版了．1948年，她開(kāi)始著手另一本書(shū)《我們周?chē)�的海洋》．�?dāng)她寫(xiě)這本書(shū)的時(shí)候，她總是記著要十分細(xì)心．為了寫(xiě)這本書(shū)，她到過(guò)1000多個(gè)地方收集過(guò)信息．當(dāng)這本書(shū)在1951年出版的時(shí)候，它獲得了美國(guó)國(guó)家圖書(shū)獎(jiǎng)，并且連續(xù)一年多在最暢銷(xiāo)圖書(shū)榜是第一名．Rachel也因這本書(shū)而出名了．Rachel最著名的書(shū)《寂靜的春天》出版于1962年．在這本書(shū)里她指出使用某些殺蟲(chóng)劑像DDT會(huì)引起鳥(niǎo)類(lèi)的減少，因?yàn)檫@類(lèi)殺蟲(chóng)劑會(huì)殺死鳥(niǎo)類(lèi)．最后，在1969年的11月，美國(guó)政府決定2年之內(nèi)DDT的使用必須停止．Rachel Carson被看做著名的環(huán)保主義者和作家，她將會(huì)被全世界永遠(yuǎn)銘記．

解答 62．B．細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)"She showed Rachel the beauty of nature．She also taught Rachel a deep love for books"可知，Rachel受母親的影響頗深．故選B．
63．A．細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)"At a very early age，she decided she wanted to be a writer some day．"可知．當(dāng)Rachel很小的時(shí)候，就想成為一名作家．故選A．
64．B．詞意理解題．根據(jù)"because it would kill them as well．"可知，這種殺蟲(chóng)劑能夠殺死鳥(niǎo)類(lèi)，從而使鳥(niǎo)類(lèi)減少．故選B．
65．D．細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)"in November 1969，the United Sates government decided that the use of DDT must stop in two years．"可知，DDT并不是在這本書(shū)出版以后就禁止使用的．故選D．

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