单选题 The police fired tear gas and arrested more than 5,000 passively resisting protestors Friday in an attempt to break up the largest antinuclear demonstration ever staged in the United States. More than 135,000 demonstrators confronted the police on the construction site of a1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant scheduled to provide power to most of Southern New Hampshire. Organizers of the huge demonstration said that the protest was continuing despite the police actions. More demonstrators were arriving to keep up the pressure on state authorities to cancel the project. The demonstrator had charged that the project was unsafe in the densely populated area, would create thermal pollution in the bay, and had no acceptable means for disposing of its radioactive wasters. The demonstrations would go on until the jails and the courts were so overloaded that the state judicial system would collapse.
Governor Stanforth Thumper insisted that there would be no reconsideration of the power project and no delay in its construction set for completion in three years. "This project will begin on time and the people of this state will begin to receive its benefits on schedule. Those who break the law in misguided attempts to sabotage the project will be dealt with according to the law," he said. And the police called in reinforcements from all over the state to handle the disturbances.
The protests began before dawn Friday when several thousand demonstrators broke through the police lines around the cordoned-off construction site. They carried placards that read "No Nukes is Good Nukes," "Sunpower, Not Nuclear Power," and "Stop Private Prof-its from Public Peril. " They defied police order to move from the area. Tear gas canisters fired by the police failed to dislodge the protestors who had been prepared with their own gas masks or facecloths. Finally the gas-masked and helmeted police charged into the crowd to drag off the demonstrators one by one. The protestors did not resist the police, but refused to walk away under their own power. Those arrested would be charged with unlawful assembly, trespassing, and disturbing the peace.

单选题 What were the demonstrators protesting about?
A. Private profits.
B. The nuclear power station.
C. The project of nuclear power construction.
D. Public peril.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 联系全文，由第一段中间“More demonstrators were arriving to keep up the pressure on state authorities to cancel the project．”可知，示威者抗议的是建设核电站的计划，而不是抗议核电站。C项正确。
单选题 Who had gas masks?
A. Everybody.
B. A part of the protestors.
C. The policemen.
D. Both B and C.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 由最后一段中的“Tear gas canisters fired by the police failed to dislodge the protestors who had been prepared with their own gas masks or facecloths．Finally the gas-masked and helmeted police charged into the crowd to drag off the demonstrators one by one．”可以推知双方都有防毒面具，D项正确。
单选题 Which of the following was NOT mentioned as a reason for the demonstration?
A. Public transportation.
B. Public peril.
C. Pollution.
D. Disposal of wastes.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 由第一段中的“The demonstrator had charged that the project was unsafe in the densely populated area，would create thermal pollution in the bay，and had no acceptable means for disposing of its radioactive wasters．”可知B、C、D项是三个抗议的理由，故本题正确答案为A。
单选题 With whom were the jails and courts overloaded?
A. Prisoners.
B. Arrested demonstrators.
C. Criminals.
D. Protestors.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 由第一段末“The demonstrations would go on until the jails and the courts were so overloaded that the state judicial system would collapse．”可以推知警察不可能抓所有示威者，关在牢里的只能是被捕的示威者，B项正确。
单选题 What is the attitude of Governor Stanforth Thumper toward the power project and the demonstration?
A. Stubborn. B. Insistent.
C. Insolvable. D. Remissible.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 通过第二段中的“Governor Stanforth Thumper insisted that there would be no reconsideration of the power project…Those who break the law in misguided attempts to sabotage the project will be dealt with according to the law．”可知，即使核电站计划遭到强烈反对，这位州长也固执己见，A项正确。