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UNIT 3
课时跟踪检测(二)
语言运用综合练
I.阅读理解
Yellowstone.A thoughtful official passed on some of
In the 1960s,while studying the volcanic the copies to the park authorities on the assumption
history of Yellowstone National Park,Bob that they might make a nice blow-up for one of the
Christiansen became puzzled about something that,visitors'centers.As soon as Christiansen saw the
oddly,had not troubled anyone before:he couldn't photos,he realized why he had failed to spot the
find the park's volcano.It had been known for a long caldera:almost the whole park-2.2 million acres
time that Yellowstone was volcanic in nature was caldera.The explosion had left a hole more than
that's what accounted for all its hot springs and forty miles across-much too huge to be seen from
other steamy features.But Christiansen couldn't find anywhere at ground level.At some time in the past
the Yellowstone volcano anywhere.
Yellowstone must have blown up with a violence far
Most of us,when we talk about volcanoes,beyond the scale of anything known to humans.
think of the classic cone (shapes of a Fuji or 1.What puzzled Christiansen when he was studying
Kilimanjaro,which are created when erupting Yellowstone?
magma (piles up.These can form remarkably
A.Its complicated geographical features.
quickly.In 1943,a Mexican farmer was surprised to
B.Its ever-lasting influence on tourism.
see smoke rising from a small part of his land.In one
C.The mysterious history of the park.
week he was the confused owner of a cone five D.The exact location of the volcano
hundred feet high.Within two years it had topped;2.What does the second paragraph mainly talk
out at almost fourteen hundred feet and was more
about?
than half a mile across.Altogether there are some
A.The shapes of volcanoes.
ten thousand of these volcanoes on Earth,all but a
B.The impacts of volcanoes.
few hundred of them extinct.There is,however,a
C.The activities of volcanoes.
second less known type of volcano that doesn't
D.The heights of v