Passage 2
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage.
On the night of May 7, 1942, during World War Ⅱ , a plane took off from an Air Force base in England to stop German fighters over the English Channel. Pilot of the plane was Captain Thomas Nash. Looking eastward, Nash saw twelve orange lights in a row, moving at a fantastic rate of speed. As a sophisticated flyer, he had never seen anything like them. Thinking that they might be a new German weapon, he decided to chase them. (78)But when he swung the plane around and headed directly for the lights, they vanished.
Captain Nash may have been the first to see such orange lights but he wasn’t the last. His experience was repeated several times by pilots during World War II in Europe and the Far East.What were they? No one knows for sure, but there is an interesting theory to explain them.According to this theory, the orange lights are space animals—animals specially adapted to life in the upper atmosphere just as some creatures are adapted to life at the bottom of the sea. These space animals, the theory says, live so far up in the atmosphere that they are invisible from earth.They feed in part on the air and partly on energy from sunlight. Being almost pure energy themselves, they can adjust their bodies to glow at night. During the day they become invisible.
Before World War II, continues the theory, there was little radiated energy available on the earth’s surface. Then came the development of rockets, atomic reactors, and hydroelectric plants.(79)The space creatures are attracted by these sources ofenergy. At night when no energy emitted from sunlight, they go down into the lower levels to search a meal. They may even drift into the scope of human eyesight. This explains the fact that they have been sighted periodically from the earth since 1942.
The best statement ofthe main idea ofthis passage is that ________.
本文介绍了一种理论， 该理论认为大气层中的桔色灯是一种空间生物。
The strange orange lights were first seen ________.
文中第二段第一句话提到 Nash 有可能是看到这种桔色灯的第一人， 他的这次经历发生在二战期间。
The theory says that during the daytime the space animals ________.
参见第二段最后一句话。
Ifthe space animal theory is true, the creatures go down to the lower regions in order to ________.
参见第三段第三句话， 这种生物下降到较低的层面是为了寻找饭食”。
The space animal theory would seem to indicate that ________.
根据第二段第五句可以看出， 空间动物具有极强的适应性。