19.When I returned to the common,the sun was setting.The crowd around the hole had increased,and stood out black against the lemon yellow of the sky-a couple of hundred people,perhaps.There were really,I should think,two or three hundred people elbowing one another,the one or two ladies there being by no means the least active."He's fallen in the hole!"cried someone."Keep back!"said several.The crowd moved a little,and I elbowed my way through.Everyone seemed greatly excited.I heard a peculiar humming sound from the hole.
"I say!"said Ogilvy;"help keep these idiots back.We don't know what's in the puzzling thing,you know!"
The end of the cylinder(圓柱體) was being screwed out from within.I turned,and as I did so the screw(螺絲釘) must have come out,for the lid of the cylinder fell upon the ground with a ringing shock.For a moment that circular cavity seemed perfectly black.I had the sunset in my eyes.
I think everyone expected to see a man emerge-possibly something a little unlike us earthly men,but in all essentials a man.But,looking,I presently saw something exciting within the shadow:clumsy movements,one above another,and then two disc-like eyes.Then something resembling a grey snake,about the thickness of a walking stick,climbed up out of the twisting middle,and moved in the air towards me-and then another.
A sudden chill came over me.I stood frightened and staring.A big gray rounded bulk,the size,perhaps,of a bear,was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder.As it bulged up and caught the light,it looked like wet leather.
Anyone who has never seen a living Martian can scarcely imagine the strange horror of its appearance.The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip,the absence of brow ridges,the Gorgon groups of tentacles(觸手),the unstable breathing of the lungs in a strange atmosphere,the evident heaviness and painfulness of movement due to the greater gravitational energy of the earth-above all,the extraordinary intensity of the huge eyes,which was unforgettable-were at once vital,intense,inhuman,and monstrous.There was something fungoid in the oily brown skin,something in the clumsy deliberation of the tedious movements unspeakably nasty.Even at this first encounter,this first glimpse,I was overcome with disgust and dread.

73.Why was the crowd"elbowing one another"according to paragraph 1?B
A.There were no officials to control them.
B.They were curious and wanted to get a good view of the hole.
C.They were angry and trying to push people into the hole.
D.They were trying to get away from the hole in fear.
74.The Martian shocked the narrator becauseD.
A.it did not look like the other Martians that had arrived earlier
B.it arrived on Earth in a strange and nasty-looking cylinder
C.it was moving surprisingly slowly for a Martian
D.like most people,he had thought it would resemble a human
75.A"sudden chill"(paragraph 5)came over the narrator becauseC.
A.the Martian was heading directly towards the crowd
B.a(chǎn) cold tentacle had almost reached the narrator
C.he saw the Martian's terrifying features as it climbed out of the cylinder
D.the sun had set and he suddenly noticed the night-time chill
76.What did the narrator find most impressive about the creature?D
A.The horrible shape of its mouth and face.
B.Its long and strange tentacles.
C.The way it moved in the Earth's atmosphere.
D.Its unusual large and intense eyes.
77.The description of the Martians implies that they areC.
A.cute and charming
B.friendly and cooperative
C.frightening and probably dangerous
D.ugly but unluckily misunderstood.

分析 本文屬于說明文閱讀,作者通過這篇文章主要向我們描述了解說員首次見到未知的外星生物的場景,出乎意料的,它并不具有人的外形,而是十分丑陋的,令人害怕的野獸模樣.

解答 73.B.推理判斷題.根據(jù)文章第一段"Everyone seemed greatly excited"可知他們很好奇,想得到一個(gè)很好的視野;因此相互擁擠;故選B.
74.D.推理判斷題.根據(jù)文章第三段"I think everyone expected to see a man emerge-possibly something a little unlike us earthly men"可知解說員震驚的原因是向大多數(shù)人一樣他們都以為會(huì)出現(xiàn)一個(gè)類似地球人的人;故選D.
75.C.細(xì)節(jié)理解題.根據(jù)文章第四段"A big gray rounded bulk,the size,perhaps,of a bear,was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder.As it bulged up and caught the light,it looked like wet leather."可知我突然很害怕是因?yàn)榭吹交鹦堑目膳碌奶卣骱退谙蛲馀赖哪;故選C.
76.D.細(xì)節(jié)理解題.根據(jù)文章第五段"the extraordinary intensity of the huge eyes,which was unforgettable-were at once vital"可知講述人對這個(gè)生物印象最深刻的是它不尋常的大而強(qiáng)烈的眼睛;故選D.
77.C.推理判斷題.通讀全文,可知文章對于這種未知生物的描述基本都是可怕,丑陋的,由此可推測它是十分令人恐懼的并且有可能十分的危險(xiǎn);故選C.

點(diǎn)評 考察學(xué)生的細(xì)節(jié)理解和推理判斷能力,做細(xì)節(jié)理解題時(shí)一定要找到文章中的原句,和題干進(jìn)行比較,再做出正確的選擇.在做推理判斷題不要以個(gè)人的主觀想象代替文章的事實(shí),要根據(jù)文章事實(shí)進(jìn)行合乎邏輯的推理判斷.

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