One Saturday afternoon in February, 1943,

题目内容：

One Saturday afternoon in February, 1943, a farmer in Mexico stopped working for a moment and looked across his fields of corn. Suddenly he saw a thin line of white smoke curling up out of his field, about 200 feet from where he stood. As he went toward the smoke to see what it was, he heard a strange noise. The line of smoke became bigger. It looked as if some great force were pushing it up into the sky.

The farmer rushed home to get his wife. While he was urging his wife to hurry from the house, the earth shook violently. When he stood up after the earth stopped shaking, he looked across the field and saw that great flames were rising from his cornfield. A volcano was being born!

They hurried across the shaking earth to the village of Particutin, which was toward their farm. They found the village was seriously destroyed and the road from the village was filled with frightened people hurrying to safety.

Particutin did not become dark that night. The volcano lighted up the sky for miles around. Flames rushed out of the ground. The volcano threw hot stones a thousand feet through the air. Great explosion shook the earth and heavy black ashes fell from the sky, covering the roofs in Mexico city, 180 miles away.

But that was not all. On

the third evening a float of lava（火山岩）began to boil up from the centre of the volcano. It came over the edge in a heavy flow, 2,000 feet wide, and travelled slowly across the valley, bringing certain death to everything that could not move from its path.

小题1:.

. From the passage we can conclude EXCEPT that .

A．the volcano threw out a lot of ashes and hot stones

B．the volcano lasted several days

C．many people had to escape from the village

D．it caused many deaths and great loss小题2:.

. You can find the passage in a .

A．newspaper

B．government report

C．leaflet for travellers

D．handbook小题3:.

. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．At the beginning the farmer heard a strange cry.

B．The farmer was working in the field when the disaster happened.

C．The farmer’s wife was working in the field at that moment.

D．The village was badly damaged.小题4:.

What does the passage mainly tell us?

A．The damage of a volcano.

B．A terrible volcano.

C．An unforgettable memory.

D．A farmer’s experience.

最佳答案：

小题1:.D

小题1:.A

小题1:.D

小题1:.B

答案解析：

略

考点核心：

人物传记类文章的文体特征：

人物传记是记叙文体的一种，主要描写某人的生平事迹、趣闻轶事、生活背景、个性特征、成长奋斗历程等，包含记叙文的时间、地点、人物、事件等要素。其特点是以时间的先后或事件的发展为主线，空间或逻辑线索贯穿文章始终，脉络清楚，可读性较强。