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　　概括大意与完成句子(第23～30题，每题1分，共8分)

　　阅读下面这篇短文，短文后有2项测试任务：(1)第23～26题要求从所给的6个选项中为第2～5段每段选择1个正确的小标题;(2)第27～30题要求从所给的6个选项中选择4个正确选项，分别完成每个句子。请将答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上.

　　early ideas about the universe

　　1　early man got his ideas about the universe by looking at the stars as you do. he observed carefully, and learned many things about the sun, the moon, and the stars

　　2　suppose you were asked to collect evidence about the sun as early man did. you might go out morning after morning and see it come up in the east. even on cloudy mornings, you would observe that the darkness goes away and the world becomes light. you might not see the sun but would be sure it is there, because you notice that the earth warms up. as you continued, the sun climbs higher in the sky each day during part of the year. it stays in the sky longer. the earth gets warmer. things begin to grow. it is spring and then summer.

　　3　after a while the sun stays in the sky for shorter and shorter periods. many plants begin to die. leaves fall. winter comes. year after year this is repeated and you cannot tell exactly why it happens. but you realize that the sun seems to make the difference. primitive (原始的) man felt that since the sun was so powerful it must be a god. it may seem silly to us now to worship (崇拜) a sun-god, but primitive man was right about the importance of the sun to life on earth.

　　4　you have been told that the world is round. but suppose no one had ever taught you that the world was like a huge ball. would you have ever thought of it yourself? you cannot see the curve (曲线) of the earth at once. you would have no idea of how big it was. that's why early man believed that the earth was small and fiat. such ideas appeared from the evidence they had.

　　5　if you watch the stars night after night, you will see them rise and set. as you look at the sky, it is not difficult to imagine that you are in the center of a vast collection of twinkling (闪烁) lights. some early astronomers (天文学家) believed the sky was a crystal shell or series of crystal shells, one inside the other. they believed this because that is what the night sky looked like. for many centuries, men believed that the earth was the center of the universe and that the sun, the moon, and the stars circled around it.

　　1　paragraph 2 　.

　　2　paragraph 3 　.

　　3　paragraph 4 　.

　　4　paragraph 5 　.

　　a early ideas about the sky and the stars

　　b the importance of the sun to life on earth

　　c primitive knowledge of the moon

　　d the sun in autumn and winter

　　e early ideas about the earth

　　f collecting evidence about the sun

　　5　early man thought the earth was small and flat because 　.

　　6　primitive man believed the sun was a god because 　.

　　7　early man thought the earth was the center of the universe because 　.

　　8　early astronomers believed that the sky was a crystal shell or series of crystal shells because

　　a　he did not observe the sun carefully enough

　　b　he could not see its curve

　　c　the sun, the moon and the stars seemed to move around it

　　d　the earth circles around the sun

　　e　it looked like that at night

　　f　it has power over life on earth

　　参考答案：23.f　24.b　25.e　26.a　27.b　28.f　29.c　30.e