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1、2013 高考英语阅读理解（ 4 月）训练（ 15）及答案阅读下列材料，从每题所给的四个选项(A 、 B、 C 和 D)中，选出最佳选项。AA three-year independent investigation into the September 11, 2001 attack on thePentagon hasyieldednew eyewitnessevidencewhich,accordingtotheSouthernCalifornia-basedresearcherswho conductedtheinvestigationconclusively(andunfortuna
2、tely), establishes as a historical fact that the violence which took placein Arlington that day was not the result of a surprise attack by suicide hijackers,but rather a military black operation involving a carefully planned and skillfullyexecuted deception.A CNNReporterat thescene states thatthere
3、is no evidencethat a 757 hitthePentagon.What hit the Pentagon? A Boeing 757 loaded with passengers and fuel right? Whowas on Flight 757? According to the Flight Information there were No Arabs on it.That makes me wonder if Flight 757 actually existed at all.From the picturesand thevideos,peoplecan f
4、ind thatthereareseveraldoubtfulpoints that need to be taken into consideration, for example the marker line on thegrass in the satellite and ground pictures, the different colors of the smoke, thehole which the plane impacted, and the standing pylons (架线塔 ).Also, from the comparison of the different
5、 pictures, people can find some otherstrange points. For example, the gear (齿轮 ) is not the matching one. The wreckageof the plane is not the one from the American Airlines. The glass on the pavementof the pole is another doubtful point. The last thing that need considering is aboutthe collapse. One
6、 of the gif video shows the plane impacting the Pentagon. The onlyproblem with this video footage is that it has been altered (改变 ) and can not befully trusted.These crash photos and videos shown here clearly have been doctored (篡改 ) anddont even match the physics of what happened. So where is the r
7、eal video? It leavesme many questions. Is this a missile? It is a real enigma.- 1 -1. Where can you possibly read this article?A. In a newspaper. B. In a book. C. In a magazine. D. On a website2.What the word “yielded” mean in the first sentence?A. given inB. surrenderedC. producedD. given away3.Whi
8、ch of the following doubtful points is not mentioned in the passage?A. the colors of the smokeB. the marker line on the grassC. the standing pylonsD. the model of the plane4.What is the authors attitude towards the 911 investigation?A. Positive.B. Skeptical.C. Neutral.D. NG.参考答案1-4DCDB*结束BThere isin
9、creasingevidencethatthe impactsof meteorites( 陨星 ) have had importanteffects on Earth, particularly in the field of biological evolution. Such impactscontinue to pose a natural hazard to life on Earth. If an impact is large enough,itcan disturbthe environmentof the entireEarth and cause an ecologica
10、lcatastrophe.The best-documented such impact took place 65 million years ago at the end of theCretaceous period (白垩纪期 ) of geological history. This break in Earths historyismarked by a mass extinction,when as many as halfthe specieson the planetbecameextinct. While there are a dozen or more mass ext
11、inctions in the geological record,the Cretaceous mass extinction has always intrigued paleontologists (古生物学者 )because it marks the end of the age of the dinosaurs. For tens of millions of years,those great creatures had flourished. Then, suddenly, they disappeared.The body thatimpactedEarthat the en
12、d ofthe Cretaceousperiodwas a meteorite witha mass ofmore than a trilliontonsand a diameterof atleast10 kilometers.Scientistsfirst identified this impact in 1980 from the worldwide layer of sediment (沉积物 )depositedfromthedustcloudthatenvelopedtheplanetaftertheimpact.This sedimentlayer isenrichedin t
13、heraremetaliridium( 铱)and otherelements that are relatively- 2 -abundant in a meteorite but very rare in the crust (地壳 ) of Earth. Even diluted (稀释 ) by the terrestrial (地球的 ) material excavated (挖掘 ) from the crater, thiscomponent of meteorites is easily identified. By 1990 geologists had located theimpact site itself in the Yucat region of Mexico. The crater, now deeply buried insediment, was originally about 200 kilometers in diameter.This impact released an enormous amount of energy, excavating a crater about twiceas large as the lunar crater Tycho. The explosion
