语篇理解
John J．Audubon was an American artist and scientist who studied birds. He was born of French parents in 1785 in Haiti, and received his education in France. He came to the United states in 1804 and developed him self to watching, studying and painting wild birds. To make a living he also had to do portraits.
Having completed his books, Audubon went to England in 1826 to get it published. The beauty of his pictures of Kentucky birds made his books, BIRDS OF AMERICA, a big success and brought him fame（名声）. Audubon returned to America in 1842 and lived in New York city until his death in 1851. In honor of Audubon, people in America have set up hundreds of Audubon societies to protect and study wild birds and animals.
(1) Audubon was born ____.
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A．French and became American later
B．Haitain and became English later
C．French and remained French
D．American and remained American
(2)Kentucky is a place in ____.
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A．Haiti B．France
C．America D．England
(3)What do you think Audubon enjoyed doing most?
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A．Writing about science.
B．Painting portraits of people.
C．Keeping birds as pets
D．Studying nature.
(4)Audubon published his book when____.
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A．he was in Kentucky
B．he was in his forties
C．he got his fame
D．he lived in New York
(5)What do you think has been the most important achievement of Audubon's book? ____.
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A．It brought Audubon fame and success.
B．It shows how beautiful pictures of birds can be done.
C．It has taught many people to love nature and birds.
D．It gives people a great deal of scientific knowledge.
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In the old days divers used to go down into the sea looking for ships that had sunk, because they hoped to find gold and jewels. Now divers still search for valuable things in sunken ships, but they also try to bring to the surface the ships themselves, or parts of them. The value of different kinds of metals has increased greatly over the last twenty or thirty years and even though a ship has been under the sea for many years, it may be worth a great deal.
One famous sunken ship is the “Lusitania”, which sank off the southern coast of Ireland in 1915 with a loss of nearly 1,500 lives. It had four huge propellers(螺旋桨) made of expensive metal. Today each of those propellers is worth $ 1,200,000 for the whole ship. He hopes to bring up those propellers and sell them. He also hopes to sell other parts of the ship, when he has brought them to the surface, for about $600,000.
(1)Divers today try to bring to the surface ______.
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A．gold and jewels B．parts of ships
C．whole ships D．all of the above
(2)Divers try to bring up metals because ______.
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A．they have been in the sea for a long time
B．gold and jewels are not valuable things
C．some kinds of metals are worth a lot of money today
D．metals become better after they have been in the sea
(3)The word “surface” in the passage means the ______.
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A．market B．sea
C．top D．light
(4)John Light thinks that he may be able to sell all the parts of the “Lusitania” for about ______.
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A．$ 12,000 B．$ 300,000
C．$ 1,200,000 D．$ 1,800,000
(5)John Light bought the “Lusitania” ______.
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A．before it sank
B．after it sank
C．after it had been brought to the surface
D．after he had brought up the propellers
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