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【題目】Answer the questions （根據(jù)以下內(nèi)容回答問題）

Some people are standing at a group of low hills in West Texas. Suddenly, they observe glowing reddish - orange lights. Are they the headlights of cars on the highway? Are they the lights of campfires? The people shout and point because the lights are moving! But they aren’t moving the way cars move. They shoot up in the air. They fall back to the earth. And then ... they simply disappear!

Every night, people go to observe the famous Marfa lights. The lights are named for the town of Marfa, Texas, where these lights can be seen in the distant hills east of the town. Over the years there have been many beliefs about these strange lights. One theory is that the lights are the headlights of cars driving down the road.

But that could not be true. Settlers in the 1880s wrote about the lights long before there were cars with headlights. At that time, pioneers thought the Marfa lights were the campfires of Apaches2 in the hills. When the pioneers would ride into the hills, they could find no evidence3 of campsites of fires. Later, the settlers learned that the Apaches, too, could see the lights. They thought the lights were stars that had come down the earth.

Some people say that the lights are moonlight shining on metal in the hills. Others say they are made by gases from swamps4. Some scientists have tried to prove that lights from planets or starts reflect5 in a strange way on the hills. That doesn’t help us understand why the lights “dance”. They move up and down, slow down and speed up. These dancing “stars”, the Marfa lights, stay a mystery.

Word Box

1theory:thoughts or beliefs about a set of facts

2 Apache: a member of a Native American people

3evidence:something that shows proof

4 swamp: land that is always very wet or covered with a layer of water

5 reflect: to return light

【1】What colour are the Marfa lights?

【2】How do the Marfa lights get the name?

【3】Why do many people go to observe Marfa lights every night?

【4】Were the strange lights seen earlier or later than the invention of cars with headlights?

【5】What does the underlined word THAT in Paragraph 4 refer to?

【6】Why does the writer say “the Marfa lights, stay a mystery?” Give your opinions.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】Reddish-orange

【2】The lights are named after the town of Marfa, Texas.

【3】Because people are curious about the cause of the lights.

【4】The strange lights were seen earlier than the invention of cars with headlights.

【5】That refers to what some scientists have tried to prove.

【6】Because people still don’t know why the Marfa lights dance and how they form.

【解析】

本文主要向我們介紹了仍然是個謎的瑪法之燈。它是以得克薩斯州馬法鎮(zhèn)命名的。

【1】題干問：瑪法之燈是什么顏色的？根據(jù)文中“Suddenly, they observe glowing reddish-orange lights”可知，瑪法之燈是橘紅色的，故填Reddish-orange.

【2】題干問：瑪法之燈是如何得名的？根據(jù)文中“The lights are named for the town of Marfa, Texas”可知，這些燈是以德克薩斯州的馬爾法鎮(zhèn)命名的，故填The lights are named after the town of Marfa, Texas.

【3】題干問：為什么很多人每天晚上都去看燈？根據(jù)前文“Are they the headlights of cars on the highway? Are they...And then...they simply disappear!”可知，人們對這些光的成因很好奇，所以每晚來看，故填Because people are curious about the cause of the lights.

【4】題干問：這些奇怪的燈是在有前燈的汽車發(fā)明之前還是之后出現(xiàn)的？根據(jù)文中“the lights long before there were cars with headlights.”可知在有前燈的汽車發(fā)明之前，人們就看到了這種奇怪的燈，故填The strange lights were seen earlier than the invention of cars with headlights.

【5】題干問：第4段劃下劃線的That指的是什么？根據(jù)前一句“Some scientists have tried to prove that lights ...”可知，That指的是一些科學(xué)家試圖證明的東西，故填That refers to what some scientists have tried to prove.

【6】題干問：為什么作者說“瑪法之燈，仍然是一個謎”？說出你的觀點。根據(jù)文中“Some people say that the lights are moonlight shining on metal in the hills. Others say they are made by gases from swamps.”和“They move up and down, slow down and speed up. These dancing ‘stars’”可知，人們?nèi)匀徊恢�道它們是如何形成的以及為什么瑪法之燈會跳舞，故�?/span>Because people still don't know why the Marfa lights dance and how they form.