Antarctica (南極洲) is Earth's southernmost and coldest continent. It is home to lovely penguins. Penguins are birds in black and white. They look funny when they are walking. But unlike most birds,penguins are not able to fly in the air. Penguins spend as much as 75% of their time underwater,looking for food.

  A Russian man first found Antarctica in 1820. Later humans went there to explore. They wanted to know more about the beautiful land. They found there is ice and snow all through the year. The air is very clear and clean. It is very interesting that in summer the sun still shines even at nights.

  However,Antarctica is a very cold place and the coldest temperature was once - 89. 2^. If you put a basin of water in the open air,it will become ice in a few seconds. So there are few people living there.

   Although the weather is bad,many scientists show great interest in Antarctica. Every summer,they go to Antarctica. They usually look for resources under the ice and study climate changes carefully there.

1. Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 1 ?

   A. Antarctica is the biggest of all the continents.

   B. Antarctica is cold,but penguins like to live there.

   C. Penguins like to find food on land.

   D. 75% of the land in Antarctica is covered with ice.

2. If a penguin is 11 years old,he has spent about 3 years .

   A. in the air   B. underwater

   C. underground   D. on land

3. The underlined word “explore ” here means”“

   A. to travel to or around an area to learn about it

   B. to go and find someone

   C. to buy something from a place

   D. to go to a cold place to hike

4. According to Paragraph 3 ,there are few people living in Antarctica because of .

   A. the penguins   B. the water

   C. the cold weather   D. the bad air

5. Although the weather is bad in Antarctica,scientists still go there to .

   A. know more about it   B. catch the penguins  

    C. get the ice   D. change theclimate 

1. B 2. D 3. A 4. C 5. A

  導(dǎo)讀南極洲是位于地球最南端的大洲，常年冰雪覆蓋，是企 鵝的快樂家園。由于氣候條件極差，很少有人住在那里，但 是科學(xué)家每年都去進(jìn)行科考。

詳析

1. B細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由文章第一段的第二句可知，企鵝喜歡居住在南極洲。

2. D推理判斷題。一只企鵝花75%的時間在水下尋找食物，所以一只11歲的企鵝應(yīng)當(dāng)花費(fèi)大約3年的時間在陸地上。

3. A詞義猜測題。由下一句可知，這個詞應(yīng)當(dāng)表示“去了解更多的有關(guān)情況”，即“探險;探索”。

4. C細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由第三段的第一、二句可知，南極幾乎沒有人居住，是因?yàn)闇囟忍汀?/p>

5. A細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由最后一句可知，每年的夏天科學(xué)家們 都要去南極科考。

southernmost adj.最南的 continent n.大陸 resource n.資源 climate n.氣候

障礙句分析

It is very interesting that in summer the sun still shines even at nights.夏季甚至夜晚時太陽仍然照射，這真是太有 趣了。

這是一個含有主語從句的復(fù)合句。

It是句子的主語，代 替主語從句 that in... at nights。

題目來源：2016一本英語閱讀理解與完形填空150篇八年級 > TEST5

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