【正文】 interesting but harmless to the eyes D. amusing and satisfying（科技類） (8)Experiments aboard the spaceship Columbia have disproved a theory on the human nervous system which won an Austrian professor a Nobel prize 79 years ago.West German astronaut Ulf Merbold disproved the theory during tests aboard the spaceship yesterday. His discovery is connected with the workings of the inner ear, the body’s balance mechanism(機制).In l914 Professor Robert Barany won the Nobel prize for Physiology(生理學(xué)) and Medicine when he announced that temperature differences affected the inner ear and caused the eyes to blink(眨眼). His theory was accepted by scientists.But Merbold carried out tests to find if the theory was correct and shocked himself and space officials when he proved it wrong. According to Barany’s theory the eyes would blink when cold air was blown into one ear and hot air blown into the other. But if this theory was correct such a movement would be impossible in zero gravity.Both Merbold’s eyes continually blinked when the test was carried out.1. Tests were carried out in outer space in order to _______. A. find what causes the eyes to blink　　B. shock the world C. prove the theory 　　　　D. disprove the theory2. Barany’s theory declared to prove _______.A. how our hearing mechanism works　 B. why we constantly move our eyesC. that eye movement is affected by temperature　　D. how hearing reacts(反應(yīng))3. Barany’s theory was proved incorrect in space by the effects of _______.A. having no weight B. having no air　　 C. the pull of gravity D. hot and cold air streams（科技類） (9)Scientists are developing a new kind of machine to take the place of humans. These machines can do jobs in places that are too dangerous for humans. For example, they are being developed to work in nuclear power center, deep under the oceans and in outer space.John Marrit, a psychologist(心理學(xué)家) in Williamsburg Massachusetts, helped develop the new machine. This is how they work. A machine is placed in an area far away from the person who operates it. The person wears special hard hat with television screens and sound equipment. The screens and sound equipment let the person see and hear exactly what the machine is seeing and hearing. Mr. Marrit says this gives the person the feeling of being in the same place as the machine. The idea, he says, is being there without going there. The person uses an electronic control to make the machine move. The machine copies the person’s movements exactly. If the person raises his right arm, the machine raises the right arm, too. This means an expert can do a dangerous job while staying in the safe place. For example, a person can direct the machine to destroy a bomb without going near the bomb himself.1. The new kind of machine being introduced in the passage is _______.A. in existence 高中英語閱讀理解試題（科技類） (1)The puter is a useful machine. It is the most important invention in many years. The oldest kind of puter is the abacus(算盤), used in China centuries ago, but the first large, modern puter was built in 1946. A puter then could do maths problems quite fast.Today puters are used in many ways and can do many kinds of work. In a few years the puter may touch the life of everyone, even people in faraway villages.In the last few years, there have been great changes in puters. They are getting smaller and smaller, and puting faster and faster, Many scientists agree that puters can now do many things, but they cannot do everything. Who knows what the puters of tomorrow will be like? Will puters bring good things or bad things to people? The scientists of today will have to decide how to use the puters of tomorrow.1. The puter is a _______ machine. A. helpful B. strange C. large D. dangerous2. The first large, modern puter was built about _______ years ago. A. a few B. forty C. sixty D. eighty3. The puters of today are _______ than before. A. bigger B. fewer C. smaller D. taller4. Computers can do _______. A. everything B. anything C. nothing D. lots of things5. The scientists of today _______ how to use the puters of tomorrow. A. may decide B. must decide C. can make D. needn’t make（科技類）(2)Warm water freezes more quickly than cold water. Sir Francis Bacon said that almost four hundred years ago. But few people believed him until 1970. In that year a Canadian scientist George Kill proved the English professor was right. Dr Kill filled an open oil pail(桶) with cold water. He filled another with warm water. He put both in the same low temperature. The warm water froze first. The lack of covers on the pails is the secret. Some of the warm water changed into vapor. This meant that less of the warm water was left to be frozen. And so the warm water froze faster than the cold water even though it had a greater temperature drop to make.1. Hundreds of years ago, Sir Francis Bacon found _______. A. the temperature of warm water drops faster than that of cold water B. warm water is heavier than cold waterC. warm water has the same temperature as cold water D. warm water is not as useful as cold water2. What Sir Francis Bacon said was right, but people didn39。根據(jù)文章第1段倒數(shù)第2句fixed his little eyes brightly on the screen及第2段第1句I found him still watching TV by himself可推知此題答案為A。細節(jié)題。通過閱讀全文和平時的常識可知對于你感興趣的材料一定會讀得仔細，所以 D 的說法是錯誤的，因此此題答案為 D。判斷題。2. B。 （教育類） (3)If you wish to bee a better reader, here are four important things to remember about reading rate:● Knowing why you are reading or what you are reading to find out will often help you to know whether to read rapidly or slowly.● Some things should be read slowly throughout. Examples are directions for making or doing something, arithmetic problems, science and history books, which are full of important information. You must read such things slowly to remember each important step and understand each important ideas