英语习题21.ThefollowingisapieceofinternationalnewsinChinaDaily,March13th,1994.Atrainderailmentyesterdayinthistownjustsouthofthecapital,Brussels(布鲁塞尔),killedonepassengerandhurtmorethantwodozen,someseri

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21.The following is a piece of international news in China Daily, March 13th, 1994. A train derailment yesterday in this town just south of the capital, Brussels (布鲁塞尔), killed one passenger and hurt more than two dozen, some seriously, The officials said the cause of the derailment was being looked into. 1)、The accident happened in ______ .
选项:
a、 Holland
b、 Beigium
c、 France
d、 Germany
22 2)、According to the passage ______.
选项:
a、 the accident was caused by the fact that on passenger was killed
b、 the officials announced the cause of the accident
c、 why the derailment happened was obvious
d、 the cause of the accident was yet to be found out
:23 3)、The underlined word derailment in this passage probably means _______.
选项:
a、 a train going off the rail
b、 two trains running into each other
c、 a train fire
d、 a train running over a passenger
24 4)、The news tells us that ______ passengers suffered from the accident.
选项:
a、 20
b、 24
c、 more than a score of
d、 no more than twenty-one
:25 5)、The derailment happened______ .
选项:
a、 on March 13th, 1994
b、 on March 12th, 1994
c、 quite often
d、 more terrible than it was reported
27 2)、The underlined phrase out of the question means _______.
选项:
a、 impossible
b、 no problem
c、 no doubt
d、 without difficulty
28 3)、Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
选项:
a、 Neville and Jack lived in the same house
b、 Neville thought that Jack had fallen ill
c、 Neville really believed that Jack was not making a joke
d、 Neville refused to argue or to make an apology for coming late
:29、The reason why Neville thought that Jack must be ill is that Jack _______.
选项:
a、 asked Neville to take off his shoes
b、 made a gesture to show the presence of the snake
c、 was afraid to upset the snake sleeping between the sheets
d、 behaved strangely as if he was badly hurt
30.5)、According to the passage, Neville should have been home at _______.
选项:
a、7p. m
b、8p. m
c、9p. m
d、midnight
32 2)、The doctors came to visit Herpin , expecting to ______.
选项:
a、 cure him of his sleeplessness
b、 find that his sleeplessness was not really true
c、 find a way to free people from the need of sleeping
d、 find out why some old people didn’t need any sleep
33 3)、After watching him closely, the doctors came to believe that AL Herpin ______.
选项:
a、 was too old to need any sleep
b、 often slept in a chair
c、 needed no sleep at all
34 4)、One reason that might explain Herpin’s sleeplessness was ________.
选项:
a、 that he hadn’t got a bed
b、 that he had gradually got rid of the sleeping habit
c、 his mother’s injury before he was born
d、 his magnificent physical condition
d、 needed some kind of sleep

Answer 1

21.B 常识题22.D 原文 cause was being looked into.即对应 the cause was yet to be found (起因有待找到)23.A 根据构词法可猜词义：rail 指“路轨”,前缀“de”意为“脱离、去.化等”,ment为名词后缀.故可推测,此...