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LONDON — Britain awoke on Easter Monday to a period of mourning for the Queen Mother, who died over the weekend after a life spanning a century of noisy and evident change. The 101-year-old royal matriarch died in her sleep last Saturday with Queen Elizabeth, her elder and only surviving daughter, at her bedside. For a woman who was one of the best-known figures in Britain for more than 80 years — from the era of tinted portraits on tin biscuit boxes and cigarette cards to the age of the Internet, the Queen Mother remained an enigmatic(不可思議的) and elusive(躲避的) figure.

She achieved such a respect through aeons(永世, 億萬年) of, first, fawning and, later, intrusive media fascination, by remaining almost entirely silent. Her private thoughts were never paraded(炫耀) in public. What the public saw was a charming and benign elderly lady, adept at winning the admiration of press photographers, whom she always favoured with a particular smile.

CHINA’s third unmanned spacecraft, Shenzhou Ⅲ, landed safely in central Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Monday afternoon, after orbiting the earth 108 times in slightly less than a week. The craft, which lifted off from Jiuquan in Gansu Province last Monday night, landed after successfully conducting a chain of flight and scientific experiments over a period of 162 hours.

A powerful earthquake jolted Taiwan, killing five construction workers, authorities(官方) said. Over 200 injuries ware reported across the island, mostly minor, as a result of Sunday’s 7.5-magnitude quake. The quake was centred off Hualien, 180 kilometres east of Taipei. It struck at 2:53 pm and lasted for nearly a minute.

1. Which of the following statements is true according to the news?

　　A. The Queen Mother died on Easter Monday alone.

　　B. The Queen Mother was an attractive person in her political life.

　　C. The British people felt sorry for the death of the Queen Mother.

　　D. The Queen Mother was suffering a lot when she was dying.

　　2. It can be inferred that _______.

　　A. the craft landed in central Inner Mongolia unexpectedly

　　B. it took the craft at least 2 hours to orbit the earth once

　　C. the Chinese scientists did a lot of experiments in space

　　D. China was successful in sending an unmanned spacecraft into space

3. The third news mainly talks about the _______ in Taiwan.

    A. political matters                         B. social problems

　　C. unexpected damage                     D. construction workers

Answer 1

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解析:

這是 3 篇新聞報道。第 1 篇是關于英國皇太后死亡的消息；第 2 篇是關于中國發射神舟三號無人飛船的消息；第 3 篇是關于臺灣發生 7.5 級強烈地震的消息。

1. C。判斷題。皇太后死的時候有其女兒伊利莎白皇后在身邊，排除A項；皇太后沒有從政，排除B項；皇太后是在睡覺的時候死去的，D項也排除。所以答案選C。

2. D。判斷題。從第3段的幾個關鍵詞safely…successful 可知A項錯誤；B項內容在文中沒有提及，可排除；而神舟三號為無人飛船，故不會有科學家在太空中做實驗，可排除C；既然神舟三號無人飛船已安全著陸，那肯定是已成功發射了。

3. C。主旨題。既然臺灣發生了地震，那當然是沒有預料到的災害。A、B、D三項內容離題太遠。