2015年00015英语（二）复习资料-真题练习33

单选题
　　1.【完成句子】Sagan was noted for the vigour of his logic style,especially when criticizing some piece of pseudoscience（伪科学）.I remembered a 1973 AAAS meeting at which he destroyed the theories of Immanuel Velikovsky,who was maintaining that only a few thousands of years ago,Venus had repeatedly collided with Earth and Mars;events well noted. Velikovsky said,in the bible.
　　In Sagan‘s opinion,Velikovsky might be__________.
　　A.a member of the National Academy of Science
　　B.a pseudo-scientist
　　C.a science populariser
　　D.a reporter
正确答案：B
　　答案解析：从这段文字中，我们可以了解到作者认为，Sagan与伪科学作斗争的一个实例就是Sagan摧毁了Velikovsky的错误论述，即Velikovsky提出，在过去几千年中，水星与地球和火星反复多次相撞，这在圣经中有加载。 单选题
　　1.【完成句子】Did you know that before 1950,hurricanes had no names?They were simply given numbers. The first names were simply Alpha,Bravo,Charlie,etc. but in 1953,females names were given because of the unpredictability（不可预知）factor of the storms. In 1979,realizing the sexist（性别歧视的）nature of such names,the lists were expanded to include both men and women.
　　The main consideration of using males and females‘ names for hurricanes is __________.
　　A.the timely（及时的）discovery
　　B.its uncertainty
　　C.sex equality
　　D.its connection with humans
正确答案：C
　　答案解析：依靠原文（利用（male,female）names作为答案线索词）中最后一句判断答案为C（与性别有关）。