Question

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 (騙局) 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 (獵狗) 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 (紀念匾) for his recent touch on the face of Mr. X.
【小題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

【小題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.

【小題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

【小題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.

Answer 1

【小題1】A
【小題2】B
【小題3】B
【小題4】A

解析試題分析：本文講述的是一部分美國人懷疑登陸月球的真實性，NASA為了證明登陸月球的真實性，做出了一些反應和回饋。
【小題1】A 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第三段最后3行They believe that the landings were a big hoax (騙局) staged in the Mojave Desert, to convince everyone that U.S. technology was the “best” in the whole wide world.可知又部分人認為美國人登山月球是假的，是編造出來的謊言。故A正確。
【小題2】B 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)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這個電視節(jié)目上聲稱要揭露這個謊言。故B正確。
【小題3】B 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)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認為NASA應該花錢來證明人類曾經(jīng)到過月球。就好像證明地球是圓的一樣。故B正確。
【小題4】A 推理題。根據(jù)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.可知作者認為沒有必要這樣做，因為這樣做的是在浪費金錢，還不如把錢花在另外更值得花的地方。故A正確。
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點評：本文講述的是一部分美國人懷疑登陸月球的真實性，NASA為了證明登陸月球的真實性，做出了一些反應和回饋。文章基本上是考查細節(jié)題，對此類題型考生可以首先從問題中找到關(guān)鍵詞，然后以此為線索，運用略讀及查閱的技巧在文中迅速尋找這一細節(jié)，找到后再把這一部分內(nèi)容仔細閱讀一遍，仔細比較所給選項與文中細節(jié)的細微區(qū)別，在準確理解細節(jié)的前提下，最后確定最佳答案。