Perfect Disaster
All around us buildings shook. We decided to leave the town. We stopped once we had left the buildings behind us. The carts were moving in opposite directions, though the ground was perfectly flat, and they wouldn't stay in place even with their wheels blocked by stones.
In addition, it seemed as though the sea was being sucked(吸) backwards, as if it were being pushed back by the shaking of the land. Certainly the shoreline moved outwards, and many sea animals were left on dry sand.
Behind us were frightening dark clouds that opened up to show fire—like lightning, but bigger. Not long after that the clouds reached down to the ground and covered the sea. Now came the dust, though still thin. I looked back. A dense cloud appeared behind us, following us like a flood pouring across the land. Then a darkness came that was not like a moonless or cloudy night, but more like being in a closed and unlighted room. You could hear women and children crying, men shouting. Some were calling for parents, others for children; they could only recognize them by their voices.
Darkness and ashes came again, a great weight of them. We stood up and shook the ash off again and again; otherwise we would have been covered with it and crushed by the weight.
At last the cloud became thinner and thinner until it was no more than smoke or fog. Soon there was real daylight. The sight that met our still terrified eyes was a changed world, buried in ash like snow.
―from Pliny's letter to a friend
小題1:Pliny left the town after _____.  
A．the eruptionB．the sky became dark
C．the buildings began shakingD．the sea went back
小題2:The carts wouldn't stay still because _____.
A．the earth was shaking
B．the sea sucked them backwards
C．the wheels had stones under them
D．the lightening frightened the horses
小題3:The reason why it was dark is that _____.
A．it was very late at nightB．clouds of ash covered the sun
C．there was a very bad stormD．there was no moon that night
小題4:People tried to find their relations by calling out their names and      .
A．listening to their voicesB．running about looking for them
C．shaking the ash off peopleD．watching people as they ran past

小題1:C
小題2:A
小題3:B
小題4:A

試題分析：文章是Pliny寫(xiě)給朋友的信，介紹地震后地動(dòng)山搖，天昏地暗的情景，和人們驚慌失措的樣子。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題：從文章第一段的句子：All around us buildings shook. We decided to leave the town.可知Pliny離開(kāi)城鎮(zhèn)是在房屋開(kāi)始搖晃以后，選C
小題2:推理題：文章在說(shuō)明"The carts were...flat。and they wouldn't stay in place.., by stones. " 之前已有交待，說(shuō)明:是大地抖動(dòng)，這正是說(shuō)明了產(chǎn)生此種結(jié)果的原因。選A
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)題：根據(jù)第三段的句子：Now came the dust, though still thin. I looked back. A dense cloud appeared behind us, following us like a flood pouring across the land. Then a darkness came that was not like a moonless or cloudy night, but more like being in a closed and unlighted room.可知天黑是因?yàn)榛覊m掩蓋了太陽(yáng)，選B
小題4:細(xì)節(jié)題：根據(jù)第三段最后一句可以推斷出。You could hear women and children crying, men shouting. Some were calling for parents, others for children; they could only recognize them by their voices.
人們想通過(guò)叫他們的名字和聽(tīng)他們的聲音找到他們的親戚。選A
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小題9:
A．driversB．policeC．cleanersD．villagers
小題10:
A．behindB．a(chǎn)headC．besideD．a(chǎn)long
小題11:
A．goB．stopC．overtakeD．a(chǎn)rrive
小題12:
A．whileB．a(chǎn)fterC．a(chǎn)sD．before
小題13:
A．takeB．followC．moveD．push
小題14:
A．officersB．passers-byC．driversD．ministers
小題15:
A．puzzledB．excitedC．depressedD．delighted
小題16:
A．coughingB．laughingC．cryingD．shouting
小題17:
A．howB．whatC．whoD．why
小題18:
A．pleasedB．fooledC．interestedD．hit
小題19:
A．so B．butC．a(chǎn)ndD．or
小題20:
A．droveB．walkedC．flewD．left

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Nick Petrels is a doctor in Montreal. He works 60 hours a week. He takes care of 159 patients a week in the hospital and at his office. He’s been a doctor for ten years.
Dr. Petrels gives his patients good medical advice. But he doesn’t just tell his patients what to do. He also sings to them on television! Dr. Petrels has his own TV show. The show is in Italian, English and French. The doctor starts the show with a song and then gives medical advice. He explains a medical problem or disease in simple language. After that, he sings another song.
Dr. Petrels produces and performs in his own show every week. The program is very popular with his patients and with people who enjoy his singing. His dream is to perform in Las Vegas. His favorite songs are love songs, and he has a compact disk of love songs that he wrote. Dr. Petrels says, “I always loved to sing. All my problems are gone when I sing.” But when Dr. Petrels was young, his father didn’t want him to be a singer, so he went to medical school.
Some people tell Dr. Petrels he can help people more as a doctor. But Dr. Petrels says he helps people when he sings, too. “I like to make people smile. Sometimes it’s difficult to make a sick person smile. Medicine and pleasure both try to do the same thing. They try to make people feel good.”
小題1:Dr. Petrels works 60 hours a week, because he _______.
A．gives his patients medical advice
B．takes care of 159 patients a week
C．sings on television
D．has his own TV show
小題2:Dr. Petrels _______, so he is called a singing doctor.
A．a(chǎn)lso sings to his patients on TV
B．a(chǎn)lways loves to sing
C．is popular with his patients
D．has been a doctor for ten years
小題3:In his TV show, Dr. Petrel _______.
A．sings and gives medical advice
B．sings about different diseases
C．starts to explain diseases with a song
D．sings love songs he wrote
小題4:Dr. Petrels says he likes to _______.
A．help people singB．make people feel better
C．do the same thingD．make difficult people smile

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