綜合類考試：補(bǔ)全短文Crop Circle Mysteries
They are giant geometric patterns，which appear over-night in a field of crops.Many people believe that they are made by aliens.______(1)______ “Crop circle”，as the mysterious patterns arc called，became a hot phrase this month.
______(2)______ It’s believed to be the world’s first three-dimensional crop circle1.The giant crop circle gives an impression of looking down on skyscrapers from above.______。(3)______ Crop circles were first widely noticed in the late 1970s as many mysterious circles began appearing in crop fields throughout the English countryside.People were intrigued by these giant patterns.They were huge (at least tens of metres in diameters) and popped up over-night2.______(4)______
Various scientific and pseudo-scientific explanations were put forward to explain the phenomenon.Some hold that they were left by alien spaceships.Others say that they are simply an elaborate prank3.______(5)______ To date，thousands of circles have been discovered all over the globe，from the former Soviet Union to Japan to Canada.
詞匯：
hoax/hEuks/n.騙局 pop/pCp/v.突然冒出
prank/prANk/n.惡作劇
練習(xí)：
A A strange pattern 360 feet (110 metres) in diameter was discovered earlier this month in a wheat field in Oxfordshire，England.
B Others call them hoaxes.
C No one knew how or by whom they were made.
D The design’s discovery immediately generated a new tide of public interest in this mysterious phenomenon.
E Farmers often make crop circles for fun.
F But rather than discovering the truth，people saw increasingly complicated circles appear worldwide.
答案與題解：
1. B 選項(xiàng)B是：Others call them hoaxes.其他人把他們叫做騙局。前面一句話是：Many people believe that they are made by aliens.許多人相信它們是外星人搞的。many和others有一定的關(guān)聯(lián)性。因此選B.
2. A 緊隨其后的句子是：It’s believed to be the world’s first three-dimensional crop circle.它被認(rèn)為是世界上第一個(gè)三維的作物圈。代詞在這里是一個(gè)照應(yīng)詞，它從前面的先行詞獲得它的指稱意義。這個(gè)先行詞是哪個(gè)呢？看一看提供的幾個(gè)選項(xiàng)，只有Astrange pattern 360 feet(110 metres)in diameter是合適的。因此A是正確的。
3. D 上文是：The giant crop circle gives an impression of looking down on Skyscrapers fromabove.這個(gè)巨大的作物圈給人以一種從上向下看摩天大樓的印象。這是在講作物圈的造型或設(shè)計(jì)。因此填入D是最合適的。D說的是：The design’s discovery immediately generated a new tide of public interest in this mysterious phenomenon.這一設(shè)計(jì)的發(fā)現(xiàn)即刻生成了一個(gè)大家關(guān)注這一神秘現(xiàn)象的新浪潮。
4. C 上文是：They were huge(at least tens of metres in diameters)and popped up over-night.它們巨大(直徑至少有幾十米)并且是一夜之間突然冒出來的。這個(gè)句子實(shí)際上已經(jīng)蘊(yùn)涵著不知道是誰弄的以及是怎么制造出來的。因此C是合適的。C是這么說的：No one knew how or by whom they were made.沒有人知道它們是如何制造出來的，也不知道是誰弄的。
5. F 上文是：Various scientific and pseudo-scientific explanations were put forward to explain the phenomenon.Some hold that they were left by alien spaceships.Others say that they are simply an elaborate prank.各種各樣的科學(xué)的和偽科學(xué)解釋都提了出來解釋這一現(xiàn)象。有的說是外星人的太空飛船留下的。有的說它們只是些精美的騙局。從主題的發(fā)展來說，還可以繼續(xù)爭(zhēng)論下去，當(dāng)然也可以把爭(zhēng)論擱置起來。選項(xiàng)F表達(dá)的是擱置爭(zhēng)論。從主題發(fā)展來說也是連貫的。