In time, the temperature dropped to freezing-point and the men shivered inside the ball. They kept in touch with the mother ship by telephone describing how they felt. Then, at a depth of 3000 feet, the telephone stopped working and they were quite cut off from the outside world. At 30,000 feet, the men were startled by a loud, cracking noise; though, it was only one of the outer windows that had broken. Soon afterwards, the bathyscaphe touched the soft ocean floor raising a big cloud of \made up of small, dead sea-creatures. Here, powerful lights lit up the dark water and the men were surprised to see fish swimming just above them quite untroubled by the enormous water-pressure. But they did not dare leave the lights on for long, as the heat from them made the water boil. Quite unexpectedly, the telephone began working again and the faint but clear voices of the officers were heard on the mother ship. After a stay of thirty minutes the men began their journey up, arriving three
hours later, cold and wet through, but none the worse for their experience.
41. The officers started their journey at dawn _____.
A) with the intention of returning to the mother ship in twenty-four hours B) because the sea then was calm C) when the sun was not too strong D) so that they could return before dark 42. What did the officers find out at the bottom of the sea?
A) They only found dead sea creatures. B) They did find signs of life. C) There was no evidence of any life. D) There was only dust.
43. The journey to the bottom of the sea helped us to realize that _____.
A) much of the world hasn't yet been explored B) there are not any signs of life at the bottom of the sea
C) enormous water-pressure has great effect on fish
D) powerful lights can not be turned on at the ocean floor without killing fish
44. \kept in touch with the mother ship\in Paragraph 3 means _____. A) they touched the mother ship
B) they maintained contact with the mother ship
C) they stayed with the mother ship D) they were connected t o the mother ship 45. Which of the following is closest in meaning to \the worse for their experience.\
A) They were cold and wet through, which was the worst thing of all.
B) They were even worse than cold and wet through at the bottom of the sea. C)
Considering
what
they
had
just
experienced, being cold and wet through was not too bad.
D) For such an experience, being cold and wet through was not bad for them at all.
III. Cloze (10%)
A few months ago the __46__ cat gave birth to __47__. There were six, and were very small. In fact, each was so __48__ that it could fit into a man’s coat pocket. The Anderson’s little boy, Jimmy, was very excited and wanted to feed them __49__. However, he had to wait. It was __50__ they were a month old that they were able to take anything __51__ their mother’s milk. When they did get bigger, Jimmy was allowed to feed them a __52__ of fish and cereal. A few weeks later Jimmy’s father told him that he could keep only one of the young cats and he would have to give the others away. Jimmy tried to decide which one to keep. He noticed that a small black one was almost __53__ a dog in its responsiveness to human beings and seemed to have much less __54__ to people than cats ordinarily are supposed to have. Jimmy decided to keep that one, and when he picked it up, it began to lick his hand. The little cat seemed to want to show him how __55__ it
felt. Soon, the other five had been given away, and the little black one remained with the Anderson.
One night, when Jimmy was __56__ in bed with his door partially shut and the windows wide open, he suddenly heard the door move with its characteristic __57__ noise. At the same time he felt a rush of cold air over him. The open window and the opening door were creating a __58__. He was very frightened and sat up. He tried to see by the __59__ moonlight streaming faintly into the room. At first, he could see __60__. Then, looking toward the floor, he saw __61__ trying to push the door open with its __62__. Jimmy, who had been very tense with fear, felt a wave of emotion rising up in him and was soon __63__ by immense relief. He laughed and decided right __64__ what he would name the cat, which until then had been without a name. He decided to name him Explorer because he was __65__ enough to open doors.
大学英语精读第二册(修订本)练习试卷2含答案及讲解
