Bungee jumping is not a new activity. Men on Pentecost Island in the South Pacific have been doing land jumping for hundreds of years. The men tie long vines(藤) from plants around their ankles（踝關(guān)節(jié)）. They spend days building tall towers out of vines and logs(圓木). Then they jump off them.
According to their beliefs, the first land diver was a woman. She decided to run away from her rude husband. So she climbed up a tall tree and tied some vines around her feet. Her husband also climbed up the tree and tried to catch her, but the woman jumped and the man followed. The vines saved her life, but her husband died.
This ancient custom caught the interest of some students at Oxford University in England. In the late 1970s, they formed a group called the Dangerous Sports Club. They were some of the first people to test several of what are now called extreme sports. They are said to have invented modern bungee jumping.
In the spring of 1979, members of the group jumped off the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, England. They were attached to the bridge by a bungee cord, a long elastic rope that stretches. The group soon received even more attention when they organized a bungee jump off the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California.
A man named A. J. Hackett of New Zealand decided to make the sport into a business. He started developing bungee ropes and material with a friend. They held a major jump in 1987 off the famous Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. They later got permission to open the first bungee jumping operation on the Kawarau Bridge in Queenstown, New Zealand. Many people paid 75 dollars to jump off the bridge with a bungee cord attached to their ankles.
小題1:The second paragraph tries to tell us________________.
A．a(chǎn) story about a woman land diver
B．the beginning of modern bungee jumping
C．the beginning of land jumping on Pentecost Island
D．a(chǎn) story about a brave woman and her rude husband
小題2:The underlined word them in the first paragraph refers to__________.
A．plantsB．tall towersC．vinesD．logs
小題3: The Dangerous Sports Club first caught people’s attention when they jumped off_________.
A．the Eiffel TowerB．the Kawarau Bridge
C．the Golden Gate BridgeD．the Clifton Suspension Bridge

小題1:A
小題2:B
小題3:D

試題分析：文章介紹了蹦極跳的起源和一些和蹦極跳相關(guān)的活動(dòng)。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題：從文章第二段的句子：According to their beliefs, the first land diver was a woman.可知這段講的是A
小題2:猜詞題：從前面的句子：They spend days building tall towers out of vines and logs(圓木).可知them指的是高塔。選B
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)題：從第三段的句子：In the spring of 1979, members of the group jumped off the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, England. They were attached to the bridge by a bungee cord, a long elastic rope that stretches.可知危險(xiǎn)俱樂(lè)部的成員從 the Clifton Suspension Bridge 跳下來(lái)時(shí)吸引很多人的注意力。選D
點(diǎn)評(píng)：文章介紹了蹦極跳的起源和一些和蹦極跳相關(guān)的活動(dòng)。本文所設(shè)試題主要考察細(xì)節(jié)查找，對(duì)于文章中的細(xì)節(jié)題，要注意文本內(nèi)容的理解。關(guān)鍵是找出原文的根據(jù)，認(rèn)真核查題支和原文的異同，常犯錯(cuò)誤有：絕對(duì)化語(yǔ)言，范圍擴(kuò)大或縮小，以偏概全，張冠李戴等。帶著問(wèn)題，再讀全文，找出答題所需要的依據(jù)，完成閱讀。
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A．only appear glorious in history books
B．a(chǎn)re greater than any other people
C．a(chǎn)re not as great as described in history books
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