C
Helen Foster Snow, former wife of the late （已故） Edgar Snow (the world-famous writer of Red Star Over China), died in the United States on January 11, 1997, at the age of 89. With roots deep among her own American people, she was a lifelong friend of the Chinese people and a bridge-builder between China and America.
A small-town girl born and schooled in the southwestern U.S. State of Utah, Helen Foster came to China in 1931 when she was 23. Clever, attractive, eager to be a writer, she first worked as a secretary in Shanghai. There she met and married Edgar Snow, still a young and little-know journalist. Together they began to observe, study and write.
In 1936, Snow made his first-ever foreign journalistic visit to China’s then tiny Communist-led areas, which resulted in his world famous work, Red Star Over China. Within a few months, Helen followed with an equally dangerous trip alone, producing Inside Red China. Both books reflected (expressed) their belief that they had seen the most important center of China’s future.
Helen’s interest in industrial cooperative （合作） in China was lifelong. Her study of Chinese history, society, culture and women’s movements was also of good value. In celebrating Helen’s life, Chinese leaders sang high praise for her contribution to the friendship and understanding between Chinese and American people. For all these reasons, the new China conferred （授予） on her the title of Friendship Ambassador.
68. In this passage it mainly ___________.
A. describes Edgar Snow in China
B. shows great sorry for Helen’s death
C. writes about Helen’s life and her contribution
D. writes about Helen’s personal friendship with a Chinese
69. When was Helen Foster Snow born?
A. In 1908.B. In 1906.C. In 1907.D. In 1911.
70. Red Star Over China and Inside Red China were written by ___________.
A. Edgar SnowB. Helen Foster Snow
C. the SnowsD. Snow and Helen respectively
71. When Edgar Snow came to China, He was ___________.
A. a famous writerB. only a common journalist
C. a first-ever foreign journalistD. a secretary
D
Fifty people died, over 11,000 were injured, and 100,000 houses were heavily damaged or destroyed in an earthquake that struck Shangyi and Zhangbei counties in North China’s Hebei Province.
The quake, measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale （里氏6.2級(jí)）, hit the area 220 km northwest of Beijing at 11:50 a.m. on January 10, 1998.
Geng Qingguo, a researcher with the State Seismological Bureau （SSB國(guó)家地震局） Earthquake Date and Information Center, made a report of the recent quake in November 1993. Geng said that the area of northwestern Beijing, the joint of Shanxi and Hebei Provinces and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region are most easily attacked by earthquakes measuring 6 to a bit over 7 on the Richter scale.
However, scientists did not see the recent earthquake earlier. Clouds covered a large area in the northern part of North China before the earthquake and experts say that this prevented satellites from correctly watching the temperature at the correct altitude （緯度）.
SSB experts say that China may face a major earthquake from now through early next century. In the last ten years, about 305 earthquakes have occurred in China with 9 measuring over 7 on the Richter scale, 60 measuring over 6, and 236 measuring over 5. Tens of thousands of people died or were injured. Losses valued at over 10 billion yuan have resulted.
72. This news report is mainly about ___________.
A. a heavy damage to people
B. a number of earthquakes
C. an earthquake striking North China
D. earthquakes measuring on the Richter scale
73. When the earthquake attacked the area, the majority of people there were most unlikely to ___________.
A. sleep in bedB. work in the fields
C. walk in the streetsD. stay at home
74. The report shows that over two thirds of earthquakes in the past ten years are measured over ___________ on the Richter scale.
A. 7B. 5C. 9D. 6來(lái)源：www.examda.com
75. It can be inferred from the report that the damage caused by the earthquake could be less heavier if ___________.
A. all the people stayed outside
B. the earthquake happened at midninght
C. the people had been warned earlier
D. the earthquake scale was lower than 6.2 only
Helen Foster Snow, former wife of the late （已故） Edgar Snow (the world-famous writer of Red Star Over China), died in the United States on January 11, 1997, at the age of 89. With roots deep among her own American people, she was a lifelong friend of the Chinese people and a bridge-builder between China and America.
A small-town girl born and schooled in the southwestern U.S. State of Utah, Helen Foster came to China in 1931 when she was 23. Clever, attractive, eager to be a writer, she first worked as a secretary in Shanghai. There she met and married Edgar Snow, still a young and little-know journalist. Together they began to observe, study and write.
In 1936, Snow made his first-ever foreign journalistic visit to China’s then tiny Communist-led areas, which resulted in his world famous work, Red Star Over China. Within a few months, Helen followed with an equally dangerous trip alone, producing Inside Red China. Both books reflected (expressed) their belief that they had seen the most important center of China’s future.
Helen’s interest in industrial cooperative （合作） in China was lifelong. Her study of Chinese history, society, culture and women’s movements was also of good value. In celebrating Helen’s life, Chinese leaders sang high praise for her contribution to the friendship and understanding between Chinese and American people. For all these reasons, the new China conferred （授予） on her the title of Friendship Ambassador.
68. In this passage it mainly ___________.
A. describes Edgar Snow in China
B. shows great sorry for Helen’s death
C. writes about Helen’s life and her contribution
D. writes about Helen’s personal friendship with a Chinese
69. When was Helen Foster Snow born?
A. In 1908.B. In 1906.C. In 1907.D. In 1911.
70. Red Star Over China and Inside Red China were written by ___________.
A. Edgar SnowB. Helen Foster Snow
C. the SnowsD. Snow and Helen respectively
71. When Edgar Snow came to China, He was ___________.
A. a famous writerB. only a common journalist
C. a first-ever foreign journalistD. a secretary
D
Fifty people died, over 11,000 were injured, and 100,000 houses were heavily damaged or destroyed in an earthquake that struck Shangyi and Zhangbei counties in North China’s Hebei Province.
The quake, measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale （里氏6.2級(jí)）, hit the area 220 km northwest of Beijing at 11:50 a.m. on January 10, 1998.
Geng Qingguo, a researcher with the State Seismological Bureau （SSB國(guó)家地震局） Earthquake Date and Information Center, made a report of the recent quake in November 1993. Geng said that the area of northwestern Beijing, the joint of Shanxi and Hebei Provinces and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region are most easily attacked by earthquakes measuring 6 to a bit over 7 on the Richter scale.
However, scientists did not see the recent earthquake earlier. Clouds covered a large area in the northern part of North China before the earthquake and experts say that this prevented satellites from correctly watching the temperature at the correct altitude （緯度）.
SSB experts say that China may face a major earthquake from now through early next century. In the last ten years, about 305 earthquakes have occurred in China with 9 measuring over 7 on the Richter scale, 60 measuring over 6, and 236 measuring over 5. Tens of thousands of people died or were injured. Losses valued at over 10 billion yuan have resulted.
72. This news report is mainly about ___________.
A. a heavy damage to people
B. a number of earthquakes
C. an earthquake striking North China
D. earthquakes measuring on the Richter scale
73. When the earthquake attacked the area, the majority of people there were most unlikely to ___________.
A. sleep in bedB. work in the fields
C. walk in the streetsD. stay at home
74. The report shows that over two thirds of earthquakes in the past ten years are measured over ___________ on the Richter scale.
A. 7B. 5C. 9D. 6來(lái)源：www.examda.com
75. It can be inferred from the report that the damage caused by the earthquake could be less heavier if ___________.
A. all the people stayed outside
B. the earthquake happened at midninght
C. the people had been warned earlier
D. the earthquake scale was lower than 6.2 only