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( ) 5. Now everything is all right! The balloon is flying across the sky. Where are you going? A. Towards the sun. B. To the seaside. C. Where the wind blows you. D. To the nearest mountains. C 由第六段的敘述可知。 ( ) 3. You want the balloon to go up. So you will _____________. A. jump out if the balloon B. let the air out of the balloon C. make the air inside the balloon hotter D. let the air inside the balloon cool down C 由第二段的敘述可知。氣球下面是一個大籃子,飛行員或乘客在此處,燃燒器在籃子上方。 ( ) 2. Where will you sit if you want to fly in the balloon? A. Inside the basket. B. On top of the balloon C. Under the basket D. Inside the balloon A 這是一篇有關熱氣球的科普文章,需要考生熟知有關熱氣球的基本常識。 Have you ever held a toy balloon (氣球 )? They are very light. But there are much bigger balloons. These balloons can fly very high up in the sky. They are big enough to carry people. They are called hotair balloons. To make a hotair balloon go up, turn on the burner (燃燒器 ). That will make the air inside the balloon hotter. Then the balloon will go up. To make the balloon go down, turn off the burner. The air inside the balloon will get cooler. Then the balloon will go down. Underneath (在 … 下面 ) the balloon there is a large basket. That is where the pilot (飛行員 ) and the passengers (乘客 ) go. The burner is just above the basket. You can stand in the basket and turn the burner on and off. The balloon will go where the wind blows it. Do you want the balloon to go somewhere special? First make sure the wind is blowing the right way! People have been flying in hotair balloons for over two hundred years. Before planes it was the only way of flying. Today people fly in hot air balloons for fun. Some people like to race hotair balloons. The first HotAir Balloon World Championship (錦標賽 ) was held in 1973. ( ) 1. A hotair balloon is ____________. A. smaller than a toy balloon B. bigger than a toy balloon C. the same as a toy balloon D. lighter than a toy balloon B 由 “ But they are much bigger balloons.”可知。 ( ) 5. Which of the following is not true according to the passage? A. There are more men scientists, engineers than women ones. B. Women are second—class people, so they shouldn’t live a better life. C. Women do the same jobs as men, but get paid less than men. D. There are some best Jobs that women have few chances to take. B 選題 B的觀點在文中沒有出現(xiàn)。該題是一考查細節(jié)的題,答案在最后一段。這也正是文章的中心思想的寫作意圖 爭取人權平等,婦女自由,男女平等??梢?,不少男士認為婦女的主要職責是在家料理家務。 Sociologists(社會學家 ), working in western countries, have found that a large number of women wished they had been born men. The number is said to be as high as 60% in Germany. “Women often wish they had the same chances as men have, and think it is still men’s world,” said Dr James Helen, one of the sociologists who did the study. Many men say that they have more duties than women. A man has to make money to support(養(yǎng)活 )his family and to make