Question

Visitors from space may have landed on our planet from time to time, maybe hundreds of times during the long, empty ages while Man was still a dream of the far future. Indeed, they could have landed on 90% of the earth as recently as two or three hundreds years ago, and we could never have heard of it. If one searches through old newspapers and records from some certain places, one can find many reports of strange events that could be some explanations about visiting from outer space. A writer, Charles Fort, has made a collection of UFO sightings in his book Lo! One is tempted(引誘) to believe them more than any modern reports, for the simple reason that they happened long before anyone had ever thought of space travel. Yet at the same time, one cannot take them too seriously, for before education on science was popular, even sightings of meteors(流星) and comets(彗星) made people believe the most unbelievable stories, as they still do today.

56.According to the passage, visitors from outer space may have landed on the earth       .

A. long before man had dreamed of it    B. long before there were human beings

C. in the last few hundred years        D. after the space travel began

57.Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A. Charles Fort sighted a lot of UFOs himself.  B. All sightings of UFOs are believable.

C. There may be living things on other planets.  D. People have seen visitors from other planets everywhere.

58.According to the passage,            .

A. UFOs are only seen in recent years   B. UFOs sightings are not new

C. UFOs are just meteors and comets     D. UFOs are invented by people

Answer 1

【小題1】B

【小題2】C

【小題3】B

解析:

【小題1】細節題。文章的第一句話說道: Man was still a dream of the far future.意思是說人類還沒產生，還只是未來的一個夢想。

【小題2】細節推理題。通過排除，Charles Fort只是做了一個現象的收集；文章的最后一句話告訴我們也不要全信；文章中沒有提到世界各地都看到了外星人。C選項是一個推測，是作者承認的。

【小題3】主旨推理。根據文章，作者還是承認了外星人來訪的可能性，所以選B。