Question

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C、D中选出最佳选项.

　No man can change the weather. Nobody can control the weather. But if we read the signs correctly we can tell what the more important changes in the weather will be. This way of telling what the weather will be like on the following day or two is called weather forecasting. People who do this are not making the weather. They are merely using their knowledge of the weather today, to tell us what the weather may be like tomorrow.

　　People for many centuries and in all countries have studied the weather and tried to make weather forecasts.

　　Something distant objects such as hills and tall trees seem to be very clear and near. This is a sign of much water vapour in the air, and therefore rain will probably come. When distant sounds are very clearly heard, then wet and stormy weather is on the way. Kings round the sun are a sign of coming rain.

　　Many people feel in their bones the coming of wet weather. Their joints aches. Some birds fly high if fine weather is on the way. This is probably because the insects, which they are hunting, then fly low.

　　If the stars twinkle clearly at night, then fine weather will continue. If a mist appears in the early morning, just about sunrise, then the day will be warm. If the sunset in mostly red in colour, then the following day will be fine.

　　Most of the above sayings have been made up by people who have used their eyes and their brains to forecast the weather. Some of the popular beliefs about the weather, however, are untrue. For example, many people say they can forecast the weather by looking at the noon． the state of the noon has nothing to do with the weather may happen to change with changes in the moon,but that is only chance.

　　Almost everyone listens to what the weatherman says. But he doesn't always tell us what we want, and once in a while he makes a mistake. Still, he probably comes closer to being correct than anyone else.

　　Some men spend their whole lives trying to forecast the weather. Such people collect exact information about the weather from all parts of the world．Each place sends its information at certain times each day to a central office where the weather information from all these places can be examined．The information received is put on to a map of the world, called a weather chart.

　　As scientists discover more and more about the weather in every part of the world, and satellites and computers are used to gather and analyse weather data, weather forecasting will become more and more certain. And we are quite certain sooner or later we will be able to change the weather!

　　Many people think they can tell what the weather is going to be like. But they hardly ever agree with each other. One man may say, “Do you see how cloudy it is in the east? It' s going to have fine weather tomorrow.” Another man will say, “Yes, it's cloudy in the east. We're going to have rain weather tomorrow. ”

　　People often look for the weather they want. When a farmer needs water, he looks for something to tell him it' s going to rain; he won' t believe anything else. When friends have a picnic, they are so sure the weather is going to clear up quickly that they sit eating their lunch while it rains.

(1)People who tell us what weather will be like on the following day or two can ________.

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A．make the weather we like

B．hardly control the weather

C．know when to plant

D．do something about the weather

(2)When distant sounds are very dearly heard we will ________.

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A．have rainy days

B．see swallows flying high

C．perhaps see a rainbow

D．have fine days

(3)People usually believe that ________.

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A．the moon has nothing to do with weather

B．they can forecast weather better than the weatherman

C．they can do something to change the weather data

D．they can read the weather signs correctly

(4)What is not mentioned in the text?

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A．The weatherman can read weather signs.

B．People often look for the weather they want.

C．In many places people are collecting weather data．

D．Weathermen will make mistakes in their weather forecasting.

(5)A weather chart is a map ________.

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A．showing what kind of weather we are going to have

B．drawn by the weatherman

C．marked with weather data

sent to the radio and TV stations

Answer 1

答案：B;A;D;A;C
解析：

(1) B 见文章第一段第一、二句，意为“没有人改变天气，也没有人能控制天气”.第一段最后一句意为“他们只是运用他们的知识和今天天气的信息，来告诉我们明天可能会是什么天气”，故选B． (2) A 细节辨认题.见文章第三段第三句，意为“当我们非常清晰地听到远方的声音时，雷雨天即将来临了”故选A． (3) D 文章第七段意为：许多人认为他们可以判定天气的情况，但他们仍可能会说：“是的，东方有云，明天会下雨.”由此可以推论，人们总是认为自己对天气的判断是正确的.故选D． (4) A 此题可用排除法.选项B可见第八段第一行：People often look for the weather they want；选项C可见第十段第二行：Such people collect exact information about the weather from all parts of the world，选项D可见第九段第一行：Almost everyone listens to what the weatherman says… once in a while he makes a mistake，故可知B、C、D都应排除. (5) C 见文章最后一段最后两句，意为“每天的某一时间各地都会把信息发到中心办公室，所有的信息都在这里检测，这些收到的信息被记录到一张世界地图上，这张地图就被称为气象报图”，故选C．