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Everyone knows a stone bounces best on water if it's round and flat, and spun towards the water as fast as possible. Some enthusiasts even travel to international stone-skimming competitions, like world champion Jerdone Coleman-McGhee, who made a stone bounce 38 times on Blanco River, Texas, in 1992. Intuitively, a flat stone works best because a relatively large part of its surface strikes the water, so there's more bounce. Inspired by his eight-year-old son, physicist Lyderic Bocquet wanted to find out more. He tinkered with some simple equations describing a stone bouncing on water in terms of its radius, speed and spin, and taking account of gravity and the water's drag. The equations showed that the faster a spinning stone is travelling, the more times it will bounce. To bounce at least once without sinking, Bocquet found the stone needs to be travelling at a minimum speed of about 1 kilometre per hour. The equations also backed his hunch(直觉)that spin is important because it keeps the stone fairly flat from one bounce to the next. The spin has a gyroscopic(陀螺的)effect, preventing the stone from tipping and falling sideways into the water. To match the world record of 38 bounces using a 10-centimetre-wide stone, Bocquet predicts it would have to be travelling at about 40 kilometres per hour and spinning at 14 revolutions a second. He adds that drilling lots of small pits in the stone would probably help, by reducing water drag in the same way that dim pies on a golf ball reduce air drag.
单选题6.Which of the following could be the best title for this passage?
单选题7.In order to make a stone bounce best on water, one needs to______.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】细节题。根据第一段第一句话“Everyone knows a stone bounces best on water if it’sround and flat,and spun towards the water as fast as possible.”可知,旋转越快,石头弹跳越好。故选C。
单选题8.According to Lyderic Bocquet, which of the following is NOT mentioned as a factor influencing the bounces of a stone on water?
单选题9.Which of the following is not the reason why Lyderic Bocquet supposed that spin is important?
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】推断题。根据第四段可知,为什么Lyderic Bocquet认为石子旋转如此重要,“because itkeeps the stone fairly flat from one bounce to the next.The spin has a gyroscopic effect,preventing the stone from tipping and falling sideways into the water.”所以A、B、C的选项内容都有涉及,而D没有提到,故选D。
单选题10.Lyderic Bocquet drilled lots of small pits in the stone in order to______.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】细节题。根据最后一段最后一句“He adds that drilling lots of small pits in the stonewould probably help,by reducing water drag in the same way that dim pies on a golf ballreduce air drag.”可知,在石头上钻坑是为了减少空气阻力,故选B。