阅读理解 A small robot sent to solve one of history''s mysteries only succeeded in presenting scientists and TV viewers with yet another mystery yesterday. With its (47) peering through a hole in a small sealed door in Egypt''s Great Pyramid to see what was beyond, it (48) yet another door. "It''s another sealed door. This is very important," said an (49) Zahi Hawass, director of Egypt''s Supreme Council of Antiquities. The robot took two hours to (50) along a narrow shaft, drill through a door, then push through its camera. Dr Harass said the (51) job for researchers was to study the video tape and plan for further inspections, which could take up to 12 months. His council, engineers from the Boston firm iRobot and researchers from National Geographic, had spent a year (52) planning yesterday''s event. American TV stations went (53) showing the robot creeping along the 20-centimetre-square 60-metre-long shaft. As the robot inched along the (54) surfaced shaft toward the limestone door equipped with two copper handles, its path was lit by a blue beam. During the broadcast, Dr Hawass (55) a stone coffin found in a tomb near the Great Pyramid containing the skeleton of a man thought to have died at the time of the pyramid''s (56) some 4500 years ago. WORD BANK A) revealed I) excited B) live J) rush C) camera K) rough D) discovered L) instruction E) construction M) increasingly F) crawl N) film G) last O) specially H) next
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】此处需要一个名词做宾语,而后面的see表明前面伸进去的这个东西应该是望远镜或镜头一类的东西,选项中的camera符合题意。
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】根据题意,这里机器人应该是发现了另外…一个门,选择discovered填入空格。
【正确答案】 I
【答案解析】此处需要一个形容人做定语的形容词,只有excited符合要求。
【正确答案】 F
【答案解析】此处表示机器人是沿着一个很狭窄的通道运动,那么最合题意的表达应该是爬行,选择 crawl。
【正确答案】 H
【答案解析】此处需要一个形容词,在所剩下的三个形容词里,只有next符合题意。
【正确答案】 E、O
【答案解析】根据分析,此处需要一个副词作状语,在所给的两个副词里,只有specially,表示专门、特地,符合题意。
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】本空前面的went表示进行,此处需要一个名词,修饰showing,只有live表示同步,实况,符合题意。
【正确答案】 A、K
【答案解析】这里根据构词法需要一个形容词,形容地下通道表面的形状,只有rough表示粗糙,可以符合要求。
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】此处需要一个动词作谓语,而根据题意,这里表示“展示,揭示”因此只有reveal符合要求。
【正确答案】 E
【答案解析】根据前面的所属格推测这里需要名词,而根据pyramid可以推测应该是construction。