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On Easter Day 1722, some European explorers found a lonely island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. They 1 it Easter Island. The explorers found that the island had good soil 2 the 200 natives living there survived with little food. Even more 3 , these people also lived among the ruins of what might have been a once great civilization. All that is left of it are around 800 giant stone statues 4 human heads. They 5 up to 270 tons and the tallest measures over 11 meters. The stone men face 6 , rather than out to sea, and their eyes are focused upon the sky. They are all carved from 7 volcanic rock （火山岩） and some have hats on their heads and eyes made from white coral. Since their 8 , these huge stone men 9 one of the greatest mysteries of all time. Who built them? Why did they do it? Some experts believe the stone men are 10 to Inca stonework, and suggest the figures were created by people of Peruvian descent （血统）。 11 have even gone so far as to say that they came from outer space. The latest suggestion 12 the idea that Easter Island represents one of the worst cases of resource abuse in human history. It is said that a small group of Asians settled on Easter Island 13 between 400 and 700 AD. They developed a great civilization with huge forests and 14 food. At the peak of their civilization, the people began to build the giant 15 men. Why they did this is still 16 , but it is possible the figures represent the settlers’ gods or ancestors. 17 the statues grew larger, the people’s lifestyles became more and more wasteful. The forest began to disappear, which 18 all the animals dying out. 19 couldn’t get food and were forced to eat other humans. Society began to 20 and the islanders themselves finally destroyed the stone men.
1. A. saidB. were calledC. namedD. spoke
2. A. andB. but C. howeverD. still
3. A. surpriseB. surprised C. surprisingD. surprisingly
4. A. lookingB. resembling C. likingD. standing for
5. A. weighB. liftC. getD. measure
6. A. forwardB. outwardC. onwardD. inward
7. A. brokenB. softC. hardD. burnt
8. A. lookingB. invention C. discoveryD. covering
9. A. have happenedB. have led to C. have taken placeD. have created
10. A. usualB. commonC. familiarD. similar
11. A. AnotherB. Other C. Others D. Many
12. A. is focused onB. is based on C. is depended onD. is concentrated on
13. A. some dayB. one dayC. sometimeD. once
14. A. plenty ofB. number ofC. much ofD. amount of
15. A. cleverB. stoneC. woodenD. iron
16. A. welcomeB. knownC. unimportantD. unknown
17. A. WhileB. AfterC. WithD. As
18. A. resulted inB. resulted fromC. createdD. lay in
19. A. The islandsB. The peopleC. The animalsD. The Europeans
20. A. break outB. break inC. break intoD. break down
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X-rays were first discovered by a German scientist, Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen, in 1895, almost by accident. He and several other scientists were experimenting with passing electric currents through certain gases in a special glass tube from which the air had been moved. One day Rontgen noticed that, even when the tube was covered with black paper, some strange kind of radiation was coming through and making a screen nearby glow. Rontgen could not see anything coming out of the tube, but then he discovered that if he put the screen in the next room on the other side of a closed door, the rays could pass not only through black paper but also through wood.
The next thing he found out was that if he put his hand between the rays and a photographic plate, the rays would print a shadow of the bony framework of his hand on the plate .In fact, the rays could pass as easily through the fleshy part of his hand as through the black paper, but hardly at all through the bone. So Rontgen made the first X-ray picture of a hand, showing just how the bones in the hand fit together.
1.What puzzled Rontgen one day during his experiment was __________.
A.some passing electric current
B.some radiation coming through the covered tube
C.the black-paper-covered tube
D.the screen nearby