Can you believe everything that you read? It seems as if every day, some new articles come out about a new discovery about this or that. For example, water is bad for you, or good for you. The answer depends on which scientific study has just come out. People cannot decide which food items are healthy, how pyramids were constructed, and why dinosaurs disappeared. When we look for answers we sometimes can believe persuasive researches and scientists. But how trustworthy are they really? Here are two examples of scientific hoaxes (騙局).
As far back as 1726, Johann Beringer was fooled by his fellow scientists into thinking he had made an amazing discovery. The fossils of spiders, lizards, and even birds with the name of God written on them in Hebrew were unlike anything that had been found before. He wrote several papers on them and was famous for those only to have it revealed that they were planted by jealous colleagues to ruin his reputation.
When an early human being was discovered in 1912, scientists at this time were wild with excitement over the meaning it had for the theory of evolution. There were hundreds of papers about this Piltdown man over the next fifty years until it was finally discovered to be a complex hoax. The skull (頭骨) of a man had been mixed with the jawbone of an orangutan (猩猩) to make the ape (猿) man.
The next time you read the exciting new findings of a study of the best scientist, do not automatically assume that it is true. Even qualified people can get it wrong. While we certainly should not ignore scientific research, we do need to take it with a grain of salt. Just because it is accepted as the truth today does not mean it will still be trustworthy tomorrow.
小題1:What does Paragraph 1 want to say?
A．Researchers and scientists are not perfect.
B．Something that we read may not be true.
C．Researchers and scientists know everything.
D．People don’t know whether water is good or bad.
小題2:What is the reason why Johann Beringer was fooled?
A．His fellow scientists wanted to make fun of him.
B．His workmates are eager to become famous too.
C．These scientists made a mistake because of carelessness.
D．His colleagues envied him and did so to destroy his fame.
小題3:The excited scientists thought that this Piltdown man ______.
A．was in fact a complex hoax
B．was a great scientific invention
C．contributed to the theory of evolution
D．had the skull like that of an ape
小題4:What does the underlined phrase “with a grain of salt” in Paragraph 4 mean?
A．Happily.B．Generally.C．Doubtfully.D．Completely.
小題5:What can we learn from the passage?
A．Hebrew is probably a kind of language.
B．Truths of science will never be out of time.
C．People believe scientists because they are persuasive.
D．We are advised to believe famous scientists.

小題1:B
小題2:D
小題3:C
小題4:C
小題5:A

試題分析: 每天報紙上都會出現(xiàn)一些關(guān)于科學(xué)新發(fā)現(xiàn)的文章，那么這些文章的可信度究竟是多少呢？在文中作者通過幾個例子向讀者說明：新發(fā)現(xiàn)有時候只是一種騙局，或者是一種假象，所以我們對待任何事情都要持有一種懷疑的態(tài)度。
小題1:B推理判斷題。文章開頭提出問題Can you believe everything that you read?然后列舉生活中的例子，最后揭示中心話題But how trustworthy are they really? Here are two examples of scientific hoaxes (騙局).由此推斷對于我們每天所讀到的東西不可能都是對的。故選B。
小題2:D細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第二段的末句……only to have it revealed that they were planted by jealous colleagues to ruin his reputation.可以判斷他被嫉妒他的同事們愚弄了。故選D。
小題3:C細節(jié)理解題。從文章第三段scientists at this time were wild with excitement over the meaning it had for the theory of evolution.可知當時的科學(xué)家認為the Piltdown man 的發(fā)現(xiàn)對人類的進化理論有著很大的貢獻，選C。
小題4:C詞義猜測題。從前句的讓步狀語從句While we certainly should not ignore scientific research,可以判斷后面句子和前面內(nèi)容構(gòu)成轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系，應(yīng)該是建議人們不要過分看重科學(xué)發(fā)現(xiàn)，由此推斷該短語指對某件事情或某人說的話有所保留，將信將疑，持懷疑態(tài)度，答案選C。
小題5:A推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章第二段The fossils of spiders, lizards, and even birds with the name of God written on them in Hebrew可知在這些蜘蛛，鳥的化石上寫著God字樣，由此推斷Hebrew是一種語言，選A。
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She writes: “The clothes you choose to wear provide important information about you as a person: your approximate education level, your income, social status and even your level of self-esteem (自信).” When I started work as an undercover crime reporter, I had to shop for jeans and a hoodie (連帽衫) in order to fit in with a rough and ready (世故的) social group.
I bought the hoodie in a charity shop. My daughters were shocked. They thought I looked bad, but I knew my disguise was perfect.
Elizabeth L. Cline thinks she knows best when it comes to cheap clothes in her book Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion. She expresses sadness that clothing has been turned into a good that is thrown away after being used once or twice.
She looks down her nose at cheap fashion and longs for the good old days when department stores sold quality clothes at high prices.
I don’t agree. At least people now can choose what to wear without breaking the bank.
小題1:The underlined sentence in the article meant that         .
A．I don’t mind spending money on clothes
B．there’s not much point spending money on clothes
C．it is too much trouble to spend money on clothes
D．I never spend money on clothes
小題2:From the text we can infer that the author’s disguise         .
A．immediately won the admiration of his daughters
B．turned out unsuited to his plan
C．proved that clothes can’t show a person’s true personality
D．had something to do with his income
小題3:The author mentions Elizabeth L. Cline’s book to         .
A．express his anger at the poor quality of clothes
B．show his disagreement with her idea
C．show his dislike for how people treat their clothes
D．support her attitude toward spending money on clothes
小題4:Which of the following might be the best title for the story?
A．The variety of clothesB．You are what you wear
C．High cost of cheap fashionD．You get what you pay for

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