Question

A powerful earthquake struck the northeastern coast of Japan at two forty-six p.m. local time on March eleventh.2011. Japan's Meteorological Agency released its first tsunami（海嘯） warnings just three minutes later. The country has one of the best earthquake early warning systems in the world.
There are more than four thousand Seismic Intensity Meters in place throughout Japan to measure earthquake activity. These meters provide information within two minutes of an earthquake happening. Information about the strength and the center of the earthquake can be learned within three minutes.
There are also concrete(混凝土) sea walls around much of the Japanese coastline. But these measures proved no match for the powerful earthquake and tsunami.
Costas Synolakis ，a tsunami expert at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles said，"Japan is one of those most well-prepared countries on earth in terms of tsunami warning. They had a warning. I think what went wrong is that they had not expected the size of this event."
He says there are two reasons for this. Japan has not had any event anywhere near as big as this one in the last one hundred fifty years. And scientists had not expected such a large earthquake happening off the coast of Japan.
The nine point zero magnitude earthquake was the fourth most powerful earthquake ever recorded worldwide. It was also the worst earthquake ever to hit Japan. The tsunami waves that followed were reported to have reached as high as thirteen meters in some areas.
Costas Synolakis says Japan's concrete sea walls were not built to handle such high waves.
Experts say early warning systems will continue to be limited by these facts until earthquakes and tsunamis can be predicted
【小題1】Where can this passage probably be adapted from?

A．A magazine on science	B．A fairy Tale
C．A scientific fantasy book	D．A newspaper

【小題2】Which of the following statements NOT true ?

A．A terrible earthquake hit the northeastern coast of Japan

B．It was also the worst earthquake in Japan

C．The 9.0 earthquake was the fourth most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan

D．Japan's concrete sea walls was unable to handle such high waves.

【小題3】According to Costas Synolakis, why did Japan suffer such a loss?

A．The country has never experienced any event as big as this one over the past 150 years

B．Japan has the best earthquake early warning systems in the world.

C．There are not concrete sea walls around all of the Japanese coastline

D．The government didn’t announce its first tsunami warnings three minutes earlier.

Answer 1

【小題1】D
【小題2】C
【小題3】A

解析試題分析：本文介紹了日本出現(xiàn)的地震引起的海嘯對(duì)日本產(chǎn)生的巨大破壞以及日本對(duì)于地震的預(yù)防等方面的信息。
【小題1】D 推理題。本文屬于新聞報(bào)道類短文閱讀，介紹了日本出現(xiàn)的地震引起的海嘯對(duì)日本產(chǎn)生的巨大破壞以及日本對(duì)于地震的預(yù)防等方面的信息，故最可能是來(lái)自報(bào)紙。故D正確。
【小題2】C 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章是倒數(shù)第三段1,2行The nine point zero magnitude earthquake was the fourth most powerful earthquake ever recorded worldwide.可知9.0級(jí)地震是全世界范圍里第四大的地震，而不是日本。故C項(xiàng)說(shuō)法是錯(cuò)誤的。
【小題3】A 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第四段1,2行Japan has not had any event anywhere near as big as this one in the last one hundred fifty years.說(shuō)明破壞性如此之大是因?yàn)槿毡救藳]有預(yù)料到有如此嚴(yán)重的地震會(huì)襲擊日本。故A正確。
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點(diǎn)評(píng)：本文屬于新聞報(bào)道類短文閱讀，介紹了日本出現(xiàn)的地震引起的海嘯對(duì)日本產(chǎn)生的巨大破壞以及日本對(duì)于地震的預(yù)防等方面的信息。本文細(xì)節(jié)題居多，答題時(shí)在文章找到對(duì)應(yīng)的地方，用筆進(jìn)行標(biāo)記，這有利于后期有時(shí)間檢查時(shí)可以立刻找到答案的位置。仔細(xì)理解作者所講的意思，再結(jié)合選項(xiàng)，通過(guò)排除法和自己對(duì)全文的把握，選出正確答案。