Question

Some time ago, two navy officers made a journey to the deepest point on the earth. The two men went down seven miles to the__1__of the Pacific Ocean inside a small steel ball to find out if there are any__2__of life.

They set out early so that the ball would come to the surface in the__3__and so be easily found by the mother ship. The divers began__4__at dawn and soon afterwards the ball__5__under the surface of the water.

__6__, the temperature dropped to freezing point and the men trembled inside the ball. They kept in touch with the mother ship by telephone__7__how they felt. At a depth of 3,000 feet, the telephone stopped working and they were quite cut__8__from the outside world. At 30,000 feet, the men were shocked by a sudden loud__9__- even the smallest hole in the ball would have__10__instant death. Luckily, it was only one of the outer windows__11__had broken.

Soon afterwards, the ball__12__the soft ocean floor, raising a big cloud of "dust" made__13__different kinds of small, dead sea animals. Here, powerful lights lit up the __14__water. The men were surprised to see fish swimming just above them, quite__15__ by the very large water pressure. But they did not__16__to leave lights on for long, as the great__17__from them made the water boil. Quite__18__, the telephone began working again and the weak__19__ clear voices of the officers were heard on the mother ship. After a__20__of thirty minutes the men began their journey up, arriving three hours later.

1. A. foot          B. base         C. bottom       D. tip

2. A. marks         B. signs        C. signals       D. messages

3. A. evening        B. night       C. secret        D. daytime

4. A. diving         B. rising       C. traveling      D. preparations

5. A. disappeared    B. floated       C. threw        D. flew

6. A. In time        B. On time      C. At times      D. At one time

7. A. guiding       B. realizing      C. describing     D. imagining

8. A. down         B. over         C. off           D. out

9. A. voice         B. noise         C. explosion     D. shout

10. resulted         B. suggested     C. meant        D. saved

11. A. where        B. that          C. which        D. whose

12. A. touched      B. visited        C. attacked      D. landed

13. A. of           B. from         C. up of         D. into

14. A. green        B. blue          C. dark         D. hot

15. A. unbelieved    B. unchanged    C. uncovered     D. untroubled

16. A. use          B. need         C. dare          D. think

17. A. light         B. heat         C. pressure       D. sound

18. A. unexpected    B. uncovered    C. unknown      D. uncontrolled

19. A. or           B. and          C. but           D. either

20. A. living        B. stay          C. rest          D. break

Answer 1

1---20     CBDDA   ACCBC   BACCD   CBACB  

解析:

1. C 2. B。兩名海軍軍官乘坐一個小鋼球船潛入水下七海里至太平洋底部,想發(fā)現(xiàn)那里是否有生命存在的跡象。

3. D。根據(jù)下文可知,此處應該填名詞daytime, in the daytime意為"在白天"。

4. D 5. A。天一亮潛水員們就開始準備,之后不久鋼球船就潛入水下。

6. A。in time在此句中意為"過一段時間",而不是"及時"的意思。

7. C。describing是現(xiàn)在分詞作狀語,意為"描述"。

8. C。cut off是固定詞組,意"隔絕"。

9. B。由下文可知,此處是指"噪音",而不是"爆炸"。

10. C。鋼球船上甚至是微小的一個洞都將意味著(潛水員的)立刻死亡。

11. B。本句中的it was...that...是強調(diào)句型。

12. A。touched相當于landed on或reached。

13. C。鋼球船到達太平洋洋底時,由各種各樣的很小的死亡的海洋動物構成的一大團"塵霧"升騰而起。

14. C。由于洋底很深,陽光照射不到,故稱為dark water。

15. D。完全不受強大的水壓的干擾。

16. C。dare在此處是實義動詞。

17. B。本句中的them是指the lights, 強光發(fā)出的熱量會使海水沸騰。

18. A。unexpected是過去分詞作狀語,意為"完全出乎意料之外"。

19. C。潛水員聽到了從指揮船上傳來指揮官很小但很清晰的聲音。

20. B。在太平洋洋底逗留了三十分鐘后,潛水員開始返程,三小時后浮出水面。