单选题

(A)

Some years ago, an American policeman found a woman lying near a lonely road. She did not appear to have had an accident, but she was trembling, and clearly in a state of shock, so he rushed her to the nearest hospital. She began to tell the doctors on duty a story which was astonishing. She had been driving along a country road when she had been stopped by a flying saucer (飞碟) landing in front of her. She had been forced to leave the car and enter the flying saucer by creatures which looked like human beings and which could easily make themselves understood although they could not speak. It was as though they could read her thoughts and she theirs. They treated her politely and allowed her to leave after carrying out a number of tests on her. As she otherwise seemed to be normal, the doctor decided that she was probably suffering from the side effects of some drug. The woman insisted on being allowed to go home, but when she gave her address it was in a town over a thousand miles from the hospital. The police then started to look into the matter and soon discovered that there was already a search going on for the woman, whose husband had reported that she had disappeared. Her car had been found with the driver"s door open and the engine running. In front of the car the surface of the road had been completely destroyed not by an explosion or anything of that kind, but as though a large, circular, white-hot object had burnt through it.

单选题 When the policeman found the woman, he sent her immediately to the hospital because the woman ______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] (见原文第2行)
题目要求的选项应为表示原因的状语从句(because…)选项B)“was greatly frightened”，表示那位妇女受到了极度的惊吓。同原文“trembling”(发抖，哆嗦)和“in a state of shock”(处于休克状态)，都表示必须把她火速送往医院的原因。故B)项为答案。
说明：C)项“shivering”和原文中的“trembling”都表示“哆嗦，颤抖”。但“shivering with cold all over”意为“冷得浑身发抖”。不符合原文事实。

单选题 The creatures in the flying saucer ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] (见原文第7行)
在“It was as though they could read her thoughts…”中“they”指代前面句子中出现过的“creatures from the flying saucer”．
“as though”等于“as if”(好像，仿佛)与C)项中的动词seem(好像，似乎)所表意思相近。
“read her thoughts”中的动词“read”系比喻用法，与动词understand同义，作“看懂、辨认”解。如可用“read sb．"s mind”来表示“看出某人的心思”。名词“thought”是指“想法、意图、观念”，可用复数形式。所以， “read her thoughts”意同“。know what she was thinking about”，故C)项为答案。

单选题 After listening to the woman"s story, the doctor thought the woman ______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] (见原文第9—10行)
动词decide在此意为“give a judgment”，表示经过考虑后，作出了判断或认定。
从原文“suffering from the side effect of some drug”意为“．正遭受着某种药物副作用所带来的痛苦”可知医生已断定她服了某种药物，D)项中的“had taken some drug”即为“服药”之意。故D)项为答案。

单选题 The police looked into the matter and found .

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 选择答案时应注意：
1)原文第12行里的动词“discovered”与题目中的动词“found”同义。
2)需把警方调查后发现的情况与女事主在4—8行中的自述进行比较，方能确定她有关飞碟之说有真无假。

单选题 Which of the following about the flying saucer is NOT mentioned in this article?

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] (见最后1句)
可用排除法选择答案。原文分别用了形容词“large”(大的)，“circular”(圆形的)和“white hot”(白热的)分别说明飞碟的体积、形状和温度。
而C)项的“Its function”是指飞碟的功能，在原文中无处可寻，故为答案。