You’re on the school bus. But as soon as you turn the corner, you find yourself at the end of a very long queue. It’s another traffic jam! It is stop-start for the rest of your journey. Meanwhile, at the same time in Antarctica(南極洲), snow covers the land. A group of emperor penguins crowd together to keep warm, using stop-and-go movements to protect themselves from the winds. Can you see the connection?
Emperor penguins move like cars in traffic jams to keep warm, that’s according to new research by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marina Research in Germany. A penguin only needs to move 2cm in any direction for its neighbor to do the same thing. These movements then flow(流動) through the whole group of penguins like a “traveling wave”.
These waves also help smaller crowds join bigger groups, keeping more and more of their friends warm. A single Antarctic “traffic jam” has thousands of penguins. Interestingly, the technology used for studying road traffic jams was used to study the penguins. This included studying time-lapse(延時) videos. Scientists also discovered that unlike on the road, these waves can be made by any penguin and in any direction.
With temperatures usually dropping below –50℃, and winds reaching speeds of up to 200km/h, these traveling waves are very important for penguins to keep warm.
These penguins can also teach us a lesson. In big groups, they learn to be orderly and patient, and to never crash into each other. These are skills we should all learn from them when we are on the road!
小題1:Emperor penguins get together to _____.
A．keep warmB．play gamesC．learn from each otherD．cross the road
小題2:In a traffic jam on the road, __________.
A．drivers can drive fastB．drivers can drive carelessly
C．cars are not moving fastD．cars will stop working
小題3:From the passage, we learn that a “traveling wave” _____.
A．is caused by a traffic jam on the road
B．is caused by the strong wind in Antarctica
C．is formed by the movement of the penguins
D．is made by just one or two penguins
小題4:If a penguin is in a group, it _____.
A．needs to move orderlyB．can move as fast as it likes
C．will not leave others behindD．should move as slowly as it can
小題5:The last paragraph wants to tell us that _____.
A．penguins won’t move together if it is not very cold
B．traffic jams happen probably because people are impatient
C．penguins learn their skills from human beings
D．penguins are likely to crash into each other in a group

小題1:C
小題2:B
小題3:C
小題4:A
小題5:C

試題分析：這篇文章主要講了在大團體,他們學會有序和耐心,不要互相撞擊。這些技能時,在路上時我們都應該向他們學習。
小題1:細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段，A group of emperor penguins crowd together to keep warm，一群帝企鵝擠在一起取暖，可知選C。
小題2:細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段，Emperor penguins move like cars in traffic jams to keep warm，當交通擁堵的時候，開車就像企鵝取暖一樣�？芍獞xB。
小題3:詞義猜測題。根據(jù)第三段，These movements then flow(流動) through the whole group of penguins like a “traveling wave”這些運動然后流經(jīng)整個企鵝群，像行波�！惫蔬xC。
小題4:細節(jié)理解題。第五段中In big groups, they learn to be orderly and patient, and to never crash into each other. These are skills we should all learn from them when we are on the road。在大團體,他們學會有序和耐心,不要互相撞擊。這些技能時,在路上時我們都應該向他們學習。故選A。
小題5:判斷推理題。根據(jù)第五段In big groups, they learn to be orderly and patient, and to never crash into each other. These are skills we should all learn from them when we are on the road。在大團體,他們學會有序和耐心,不要互相撞擊。這些技能時,在路上時我們都應該向他們學習。故選C。
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