For more than two days in September 1974, the people of Honduras shut their windows, locked their doors and covered in their homes. Fifi was outside, and they were frightened.
By the time Fifi had left, 8,000 people were dead, Fifi wasn't a pet dog as the name suggests. It was a hurricane, one of the most destructive natural phenomena in the world.
Why do we give human names to storms and hurricanes?
We didn't always. Two hundred years ago, many hurricanes in the Caribbean were named after the saint's(基督徒的)day on which the storm occurred. Later, storms were known by the name of the city where they came ashore.
Meteorologists (气象学家) then tried naming storms after the latitude (纬度) and longitude (经度) where they occurred.
Finally, in 1953, hurricanes started getting people's names —specifically, female names. Male names were added in 1979.
There are six sets of names for what the experts call “Atlantic tropical cyclones”( 热带风暴)．
Each list is used every six years and consists of 21 names, starting with every letter but Q, U, X, Y ，Z. the names alternate (交替)between male and female.
A storm won't get a name until its winds reach 39 mph or about 62.4 kph, at which point it becomes a tropical storm. At 74 mph or 118.4 kph it's declared a hurricane.
The 126 names on the list are used only for storms that form off the Atlantic coast of the US. There are separate lists for the Pacific.
So what happens if a hurricane should cross from the Atlantic to the Pacific? It's happened before. The storm just gets a new name and sometimes a new sex.
Max Mayfield is the director of the National Hurricane Centre, headquartered in Miami, Florida. He is in charge of picking new names for storms off the Atlantic coast.
He doesn't do it alone, though. His counterparts in two dozen other countries in the Caribbean, Central America and North America vote on what names will replace retired names.
1.From the first paragraph we can find that ________.
A．Honduras is a country which was destroyed by Fifi
B．Honduras is a country which has no mountains
C．Honduras is a country which faces the ocean
D．Honduras is a country which lies at high latitude
2.Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A．There were no hurricanes two centuries ago.
B．The Caribbean is a state of the United States.
C．The Caribbean is a place where hurricanes occur often.
D．Fifi was formed off the Pacific.
3.The names for storms and hurricanes, as this passage shows，________.
A．are set for use.
B．are all from American English
C．are difficult to spell
D．are easy to fix
4.The underlined word “counterparts” in the last paragraph means ________.
A．citizens holding the same opinion
B．people with a similar position or function
C．passengers traveling by sea
D．assistants working abroad
A person may have an idea about himself that will prevent him from doing good work. He may have the belief that he is not capable (有能力的) of it. A child may think he is ___ because he doesn't understand how to make the ____ of his mental faculties (才能). Older people may be mistaken that they are incapable of learning new things because of their ____.
A person who believes that he is incapable will not make a real ____ because he feels that it would be useless. He won't go at a job with the confidence necessary for ___， and he won't work his hardest way, even though he may think he is doing so. He is ____ likely to fail, and the failure will ____ his belief in his incompetence (无能)．
Alfred Alder, a famous doctor, had ____ like this. When he was a small boy, he had a poor ___ in maths. His teacher told his parents he had no ability in maths in order that they would not ____ too much of him. In his way, they two ____ the idea. He accepted ____ mistaken thinking of his ability, felt that it was useless ____ and was very poor at maths, ____ as they expected.
One day he worked at a problem which ____ of the other students had been able to solve.
Alder ___ in solving the problem. This gave him confidence. He now ___ with interest, determination and purpose, and he soon became especially good at maths. He not only ____ that he could learn maths well, but luckily he learnt ____ in his life from his own experience that if a person goes at a job with determination and purpose, he may ____himself as well as others by his ability.
1.A.clever B．shy C．useless D．stupid
2.A.biggest B．most C．highest D．deepest
3.A.ability B．age C．brain D．knowledge
4.A.decision B．success C．effort D．trouble
5.A.work B．study C．improvement D．success
6.A.truly B．really C．however D．therefore
7.A.lead to B．strengthen C．increase D．add to
8.A.an experience B．an example C．a thought D．a story
9.A.state B．mind C．start D．ending
10.．A.blame B．expect C．get D．win
11.A.developed B．organized C．discovered D. found
12.A.his B．her C．its D．their
13.A.managing B．succeeding C．trying D．acting
14.A.only B．almost C．just D．then
15.A.none B．no C．no one D．nobody
16.A.gave B．succeeded C．failed D．believed
17.A. lived B．worked C．played D．graduated
18.A.made B．took C．expected D．proved
19.A.early B．deeply C．late D．simple
20.A.encourage B．love C．astonish D．disappoint
— I'm sorry I've lost your software. Let me buy a new one.
—________.
A. Thank you just the same
B. Never mind. I've got another one
C. Of course. You may
D. I don't need it
There used to be a temple in your village，________？
A．used there B．usedn't there
C．did there D．didn't it
The new bridge is ________ the one built last year.
A．three times width of B．three times that of
C．three times the width D．three times the width of
________knowledge a man has，________it is for him to get a good job.
A．The more; more difficult B．The more; the easier
C．The more; easier D．The less; more difficult
