2024届高考英语外刊阅读天天练：阅读理解模拟训练十一

高考英语外刊阅读天天练：阅读理解模拟训练十一

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Mexican senators have heard testimony that“we are not alone”in the universe and been presented with the alleged remains of“non-human”mummies, in the country’s first official event on extraterrestrial life.

At a senate hearing on Tuesday, lawmakers were shown two shriveled bodies with shrunken heads---alongside video footage of“unexplained anomalous phenomena”----by Jaime Maussan, a sports journalist turned UFO enthusiast.

Maussan said the remains were more than 1,000 years old and belonged to“non-human beings that are not part of our terrestrial evolution”.

“It’s the queen of all evidence,”Maussan claimed.“That is, if the DNA is showing us that they are non-human beings and that there is nothing that looks like this in the world, we should take it as such.”

Other studies have suggested the mummies, which were found in Nazca, Peru, in 2017, are fraudulent.Tuesday’s hearing was organised by Sergio Gutiérrez Luna, a lawmaker from the governing Morena party and aspiring governor of the state of Veracruz. It included participants from around the world who made calls for transparency and international cooperation. Maussan suggested that Mexico could become the first country in the world to accept the presence of aliens on the planet. Gutiérrez Luna said that Congress had not taken a position on the theories put forward during the hearing but stressed the important of listening to“all voices, all opinions”.

The event was inspired by the US congressional hearing on the same topic in July, in which the retired major David Grusch alleged that the US was hiding a program to retrieve and reverse engineer UFOs. The Pentagon has denied his claims. In media interviews, Grusch has made even more outlandish claims that the US government has in its possession the bodies of“dead pilots”and a flying saucer found in Italy by Mussolini almost 100 years ago. Nonetheless the congressional hearing was a sign of the increased respectability of a field once seen as the reserve of conspiracy theorists.

Well-known politicians, such as Republican senator Marco Rubio, have pushed for more disclosure, and in 2022 Barack Obama told CBS that the government has“footage and records of objects in the skies, that we don’t know exactly what they are, we can’t explain how they moved, their trajectory”.

【The Guardian(September 15, 2023)】

1. What did Maussan’s words mean by saying“It’s the queen of all evidence”?

1. He had collected various evidence besides the remains
2. He had already proved that the remains were from extraterrestrial life by DNA testing
3. He had shot a video footage of“unexplained anomalous phenomena”
4. Ha had attended other official events to claim the existence of extraterrestrial life

2. Which of the following statements is true according to paragraph 5?

1. The mummies presented by Maussan were fake
2. The hearing was attended only by Mexicans
3. Mexico is the first country to accept the presence of aliens
4. The Mexican congress adopted an open and fair hearing according to Sergio Gutiérrez Luna

3. What did the the US congressional hearing indicate?

1. The extraterrestrial life is the most popular issue around the world
2. The pentagon had hidden lots of documents about UFOs
3. The bodies of“dead pilots”and a flying saucer should be returned to Italy
4. The extraterrestrial life is gaining more and more respect in an international level

4. Why did Barack Obama told CBS the words in the last paragraph?

1. To complain the low-efficiency in government
2. To express his interest in UFOs
3. To encourage more exposure
4. To suggest the future study’s direction

 

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