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Information from the pioneer spacecraft of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) obviously proves the theory that the burning 900-degree Fahrenheit surface temperature of Venus (金星) is due to an atmospheric greenhouse effect caused mainly by a blanket of carbon dioxide. Such a greenhouse effect is created when energy in the form of sunlight easily passes through a planet’s atmosphere, warms is surface, and becomes heat radiation that is then held in by the atmosphere. The orbiting spacecraft has collected Venus’s atmosphere from top to bottom so that NASA’s scientists are able to prove the exact amount of sunlight received at various places in the planet’s atmosphere and on its surface. Measurements of atmosphere, temperature, and radiative heating foresee Venus’s surface temperature very exactly. The planet is closer to the Sun than it is to the Earth, and it has a thin atmosphere like the Earth’s but Venus atmosphere is made up of more than ninety percent carbon dioxide, compared to less than four percent in that of the Earth. Because of its higher percentage of carbon dioxide, Venus’s atmosphere receives much more heat radiation than the Earth’s does. Thus the Venus studies are believed to be important to the understanding of possible bad effects on Earth’s agriculture and sea levels that could result from the long-term use of fuels, which add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere

Notes

1. atmospheric adj.大氣()

2. carbon dioxide 二氧化碳

3orbit vt.使(人造衛(wèi)星、宇宙飛船等)進(jìn)入空間軌道;繞軌道運行

4amount n.總數(shù),總額

5compare vt.把……比作(to)

1Which of the following would be the most suitable title for the passage?

AA New Theory

BMeasuring Planetary Temperatures

CThe Journey of Pioneer Spacecraft

DThe Greenhouse Effect on Venus

2According to the passage, what happens to heat radiation on Venus?

AIt disappears at the planet’s surface

BIt is received by the atmosphere

CIt creates energy

DIt is changed into other kind of energy

 (丟失三道題)

 

答案:1D2B3A4D5B
解析:

1.D本文談到了宇宙探測器對金星探測的一些情況,從而了解到金星也存在著溫室效應(yīng),故選D。

2.B文章第二句已說明金星大氣層吸收了熱輻射。

3.A  從“The planet is closer…but Venus atmosphere is made up of more than…,comparedお to…of the Earth”可以看出,金星大氣層中二氧化碳的含量要比地球大氣層中的二氧化碳的含量高許多。

4.D 溫室效應(yīng)的后果是地球的氣溫發(fā)生了變化。

5.B 通過對金星的確定,人們可以從中獲得一些有用的信息來預(yù)報地球上農(nóng)業(yè)生產(chǎn)可能會出現(xiàn)的問題。

 


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