Question

Ⅳ.任务型阅读理解

仔细阅读下面的短文并按要求完成后面的小题。

  Men have always wondered about the earth they live on and about the  ①     above them.

  When early men looked at the night sky,they asked themselves a lot of questions.They looked at the moon,and wondered what this strange bright object in the sky was.They did not understand why it changed its shape from night to night. They looked at the stars and planets. They also wondered why some of them changed their positions,while others did not.

  ②他们也思考地球的形状。

Most early people believed the earth was flat.

 ③In different parts of the world,there were different ideas about the universe. The ancient Greeks were the first people to study the universe more scientifically. In the sixth century B   C. Pythagoras put forward the idea that the world was round.However,he could not explain why people at the bottom of the world did not fall down.

  It was not until the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that scientists found the answers to some important questions. ④With the help of Galileo’s telescope,people could see the sky more clearly,and find the positions of the stars and planets.Finally in 1665,Isaac Newton explained to the world what gravity (重力) was and people at last understood why they did not fall off the earth.

2. 根据文章内容回答问题。

What questions did early men ask themselves when they looked at the night sky? Write down one of them.

                                      

3. 将文中②句翻译成英语。

                                       

4. 将文中③句翻译成汉语。

                                       

5. 写出文中④句的同义句，每空限填一词。

Galileo’s telescope made             for people to see the sky more clearly,and to find the positions of the stars and planets.

Answer 1

IV. 1. sky

2. They asked what this strange bright object in the sky was./What is the strange bright object in the sky? /They asked why the strange bright object changed its shape from night to night./Why does the strange bright object change its shape from night to night? /They asked why some of the stars and planets changed their positions,while others did not./Why do some of the stars and planets change their positions,while others do not?

3. They also thought about the shape of the earth.

4. 世界的不同地方存在着对宇宙的不同想法。

5. it possible