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閱讀理解 　　For more than two days in September 1974, the people of Honduras shut their windows, locked their doors and covered in their homes．Fifi was outside, and they were frightened． 　　By the time Fifi had left, 8 000 people were dead．Fifi wasn't a pet dog as the name suggests．It was a hurricane, one of the most destructive natural phenomena in the world． 　　Why do we give human names to storms and hurricanes? 　　We didn't always, Two hundred years ago, many hurricanes in the Caribbean were named after the saint’s(基督教徒的)day on which the storm occurred．Later, storms were known by the name of the city where they came ashore． 　　Meteorologists then tried naming storms after the latitude(緯度)and longitude(經度)where they occurred． 　　Finally, in 1953, hurricanes started getting people's names－specifically, female names．Male names were added in 1979． 　　There are six sets of names for what the experts call “Atlantic tropical cyclones”． 　　Each list is used every six years and consists of 21 names, starting with every letter but Q, U, X, Y and Z．The names alternate(交替)between male and female． 　　A storm won’t get a name until its winds reach 39 mph or about 62.4 kph, at which point it becomes a tropical storm．At 74 mph or 118.4 kph it's declared a hurricane． 　　The 126 names on the list are used only for stormas that form off the Atlantic coast of the US．There are separate lists for the Pacific． 　　So what happens if a hurricane should cross from the Atlantic to the Pacific? It's happened before．The storm just gets a new name and sometimes a new sex． 　　Max Mayfield is the director of the National Hurricane Centre, headquartered in Miami, Florida．He's in charge of picking new names for storms off the Atlantic coast． 　　He doesn't do it alone, though．His counterparts in two dozen other countries in the Caribbean, Central America and North America vote on what names will replace retired names． (1) From the first paragraph we can find that ________． [　　] A． Honduras is a country which was destroyed by Fifi B． Honduras is a country which has no mountains C． Honduras is a country which faces the ocean D． Honduras is a country which lies at high latitude (2) Which of the following is true according to the passage? [　　] A． There were no hurricanes two centuries ago． B． The Caribbean is a state of the United States． C． The Caribbean is a place where hurricanes occur often． D． Fifi was formed off the Pacific． (3) The names for storms and hurricanes, as this passage shows, ________． [　　] A． are set for use B． are all from American English C． are difficult to spell D． are easy to fix (4) The underlined word “counterparts” in the last paragraph means ________． [　　] A． citizens holding the same opinion B． people with a similar position or function C． passengers traveling by sea D． assistants working abroad (5) Which list could be used to name the five storms from the Atlantic in a year? [　　] A． David, Helen, Jack, Mike, Lucy B． Lucy, Mary, Owen, Nina, Peter C． Sam, Tina, Victor, Wanda, Yeats D． Peter, Rose, Sam, Tereasa, Victor

Answer 1

答案：1．C;2．C;3．A;4．B;5．D;
解析：

(1)	考查推理判斷。結合句中的Caribbean(加勒比海)和Atlantic(大西洋)可推測Honduras(洪都拉斯)是一個海洋國家。第二段開頭部分提到8 000人在颶風中死亡，而不是整個國家都毀于一旦，所以A項錯誤；B項在文章中沒有信息支持；文章中間部分是說氣象學家后來用緯度和經度給暴風取名，但這并不意味著洪都拉斯的緯度很高，因此D項不恰當。
(2)	考查推理判斷。洪都拉斯是加勒比海的一個海岸國家，該國1974年遭受了颶風襲擊，第四段中又提到加勒比海過去有很多颶風，由此可推斷此項正確。根據第四段的前半部分可排除A項；根據最后一段中的other countries in the Caribbean可判斷B項錯誤；根據倒數第二段最后一句可知颶風是在大西洋外形成的，因此D項不正確。
(3)	考查細節理解。結合文章中間部分的“There are six sets of names for…”和下一段可知有6套名字可供使用，所以選擇此項。后三項在文章中沒有信息支持。
(4)	考查猜測詞義。上一段提到Max Mayfield負責給大西洋海岸的暴風取名，此處又提到不只是他自己這么做，由此可推斷此項正確。
(5)	[解析]考查細節理解。根據文章的中間部分可知每個名字都以英文中的字母開頭，但字母Q，U，X，Y，Z除外，而且男性和女性交替出現，由此可判斷此項正確。A項中的Jack和Mike是兩個男性連用；B項中的Lucy和Mary是兩個女性連用；C項中出現了以字母Y開頭的名字。 　　[文章大意]威力無比的颶風令人聞風喪膽，可它們卻擁有美麗動聽的人類名字，這其中的奧秘是什么？本文將給你一個圓滿的答復。