单选题 There has been, in history, a man who was swallowed by a whale and lived to tell the tale. The man's name is James Bartley. The records to prove his unusual experience are in the British Admiralty.
Bartley was making his first trip on the whaling ship Star of the East. Suddenly the lookout sighted a huge sperm whale. The whalers knew it was a huge whale by the size of the spray it blew into the air. They lowered their small boats. James Bartley was in the first longboat. The men rowed until they were close to the whale. A harpoon was thrown and it found its mark. It sank into the whale's flesh. The maddened beast crashed into the boat, snapping its tail at the men and the wreckage of their boats. When the survivors were picked up, James Bartley was missing.
Shortly before sunset, the whale was finally captured. The sailors tied the whale's dead body to the side of the ship. Because of the hot weather it was important that they cut up the whale fight away. Otherwise, the meat would begin to rot and oil would begin to spoil. When they got to the stomach, they felt something moving about wildly. They thought it would be a big fish still alive inside. But when they opened the stomach they found James Bartley. After this trip, Bartley settled in England, and never returned to sea.
单选题 This passage is mainly about ______.
  • A. how to hunt whales for their oil and meat
  • B. The hard and dangerous lives that whalers had to live
  • C. The duties of each man on a whaling ship
  • D. a man who was swallowed by a whale and lived
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 文章讲的是一次事件，人被鲸吞入肚中并活着出来。
单选题 The sailors knew that something was in the whale's stomach because ______.
  • A. they could feel it moving about wildly
  • B. The whale seemed very heavy
  • C. The whale was swelling at one spot
  • D. The captain heard Bartley yelling for help
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 水手们能感受到鲸的胃里有东西在动。
单选题 James Bartley probably never went to sea again because ______.
  • A. he wanted different kinds of adventures
  • B. of fright and shock
  • C. he was crippled by the whale
  • D. he often got seasick
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 参考文章最后一段。
单选题 The author, in telling James Bartley's story, informs us by ______.
  • A. narrating the plain facts
  • B. referring to whaling in general
  • C. comparing whaling to other fishing
  • D. dramatically telling what happened
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 文章讲述了事件的戏剧性过程。