Question

  How could we tell time if there were no watches or clocks anywhere in the world?
The sun is probably the world’s first “clock”, except in the far north, where the Eskimos(愛斯基摩人) live. There, it’s dark most of the winter, and light most of the summer. But in most of the world, people have used the sun as a clock. Even today, if you don’t have a clock, you can still know that when the sun shines, it’s day and when it’s dark, it’s night. The sun can also tell you if it’s morning, noon, or afternoon.
Some people live near the sea from the tides. In the daytime, for about six hours, water rises higher and higher on the beach. And then it goes down and down for about six hours. The same thing happens again at night. There are two high tides and two low tides every 24 hours. Seamen on the ship learn how to tell time by looking at the moon and the stars. The whole sky is their clock.
In some places in the world the wind comes up at about the same time every day or changes direction or stops blowing. In these places the wind can be the clock.
A sand clock is an even better clock. If you had fine dry sand in a glass shaped like the one in the picture, you would have what is called an hourglass. The sand in the hourglass goes from the top part to the bottom in exactly one hour. When the hourglass is turned over, the sand will take another hour to go back again
小題1: From the passage we can know there are _______ways to tell time besides the clock and watch.

A．3

B．4

C．5

D．7

小題2:. The Eskimos in the far north can’t use the sun for a clock because________

A．they know very little about the sun

B．the sun there never goes down in winter

C．it’s too cold for them to go out to watch the sun

D．it has long dark winters and long light summers

小題3:. What does the underlined word “tides” mean in the passage?

A．洋流

B．潮汐

C．海嘯

D．波浪

小題4: In which page of newspaper can you probably read this passage?

A．News

B．Science

C．Advertisement

D．Sports

小題5: What is the best title for the passage?

A．Different Ways to Tell Time	B．How the Clock Was Invented
C．The Development of the Clock	D．A Useful Machine to Tell Time

Answer 1

小題1:C
小題2:D
小題3:B
小題4:B
小題5:A

試題分析：這篇短文主要介紹了沒有手表和鐘表,其他的方式也可以給人們指示時間。如太陽的轉動，大海的潮汐，風的變化，以及沙漏等。
小題1:細節理解題。根據短文描述太陽的轉動，大海的潮汐，月亮和星星，風的變化，以及沙漏可以指示時間，故選C
小題2:細節理解題。根據第二段There, it’s dark most of the winter, and light most of the summer描述可知冬天的夜太長，夏天的日太長，故選D
小題3:推理判斷題。根據第三段In the daytime, for about six hours, water rises higher and higher on the beach. And then it goes down and down for about six hours.的解釋漲潮六個小時，落潮六個小時，可知是指潮汐，故選B
小題4:歸納理解題。根據短文描述可知這是一段科普文章，故選B。
小題5:標題歸納題。根據短文的主旨大意，可知主要介紹了除了鐘表之外人們辨別時間的方式。故選A。