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厦门大学网络教育2014-2015学年第二学期
《英语2》课程复习题
I. Reading Comprehension:
Passage 1
Millions of stars are traveling about in space. A few form groups which journey
together, but most of them travel alone. And they travel through a universe so
large that one star seldom comes near to another. For the most part each star
makes its journey in complete loneliness, like a ship on an empty ocean. The ship
will be well over a million miles from its nearest neighbor. From this it is easy to
understand why a star seldom finds another anywhere near it.
We believe, however, that some two thousand million years ago, another star
wandering through space happened to come near our sun. Just as the sun and the
moon raise tides on the earth, so this star must have raised tides on the surface of
the sun. But they were very different from the small tides that are raised in our
oceans; a large tidal wave must have traveled over the surface of the sun, at last
forming a mountain so high that we cannot imagine it. As the cause of the
disturbance came nearer, so the mountain rose higher and higher. And before the
star began to move away again, its tidal pull had become so powerful that this
mountain was torn to pieces and threw off small parts of itself into space. These
small pieces have been going round the sun ever since. They are the planets.
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1. Millions of stars are _______.
A. following their own paths in space
B. moving about without a fixed course
C. seldom wandering about in the universe
D. always traveling together
2. Some two thousand million years ago, the mountain on the sun was raised
probably because _______.
A. a large tidal wave of a star traveled over the surface of the sun
B. another star happened to come near the sun
C. the sun and the moon raised the tides on the earth
D. the star moved away from the sun
3. The article suggests that _______.
A. our earth exists before the sun
B. how space formed
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