职称英语综合类补全短文原文真题练习:Crop Circle Mysteries

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Crop Circle Mysteries

They are giant geometric patterns,which appear over-night in a field of crops.Many people believe that they are made by aliens.____________ “Crop circle”,as the mysterious patterns arc called,became a hot phrase this month.

____________ It’s believed to be the world’s first three-dimensional crop circle1.The giant crop circle gives an impression of looking down on skyscrapers from above.______.______ Crop circles were first widely noticed in the late 1970s as many mysterious circles began appearing in crop fields throughout the English countryside.People were intrigued by these giant patterns.They were hugeand popped up over-night2.____________转自环球网校edu24ol.com

Various scientific and pseudo-scientific explanations were put forward to explain the phenomenon.Some hold that they were left by alien spaceships.Others say that they are simply an elaborate prank3.____________ To date,thousands of circles have been discovered all over the globe,from the former Soviet Union to Japan to Canada.

词汇:

hoax/hEuks/n.骗局 pop/pCp/v.突然冒出

prank/prANk/n.恶作剧转自环球网校edu24ol.com

练习:

A A strange pattern 360 feetin diameter was discovered earlier this month in a wheat field in Oxfordshire,England.

B Others call them hoaxes.

C No one knew how or by whom they were made.

D The design’s discovery immediately generated a new tide of public interest in this mysterious phenomenon.

E Farmers often make crop circles for fun.

F But rather than discovering the truth,people saw increasingly complicated circles appear worldwide.转自环球网校edu24ol.com

答案与题解:

1. B

2. A

3. D

4. C

5. F

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