阅读理解。阅读理解。阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C 和 D) 中, 选出最佳选项。The Western has been the favorite type for American adventure story since the nineteenth century. While the American West was being settled, newspapers and “dime novels“ could depend on stories of the frontier settlements and tell tales about living in the untamed wilderness to sell. The public back East was eager to read about the West, even if the stories were more fiction than fact.In 1902, Owen Wister published his novel The Virginian, which was one of the first novels to treat the Western as a serious literary form; the novel still sold well and had inspired several movies and a television series. In 1905, Bertha H. Bower and Zane Grey published their first novels, and the popular Western novels had continued to flourish from that day on, with current novels by Luke Short, Max Brand, and Louis L Amour carrying on the tradition.The first Western movie appeared even earlier than these serious Western novels. Before the turn of the century, an associate of Edisons had filmed Cripple Creek Barroom Scene, a few seconds of film showing the inside of a saloon, to help publicize the invention of the movie camera. In 1903 the Edison company filmed the first “full-length“ Western The Great Train Robbery. The film lasts less than fifteen minutes, but a story is told its entirety. In the movie, bandits (强盗) rob a train and its passengers, killing the engineer, and find themselves tracked down by a posse. Audiences loved the movie. Some theaters were actually opened for the single purpose of showing The Great Train Robbery and only later realized that they could do equally well showing other movies. The film was so successful that other companies, and finally even the Edison company itself, began producing copies and other versions of The Great Train Robbery. Ironically, in“ an era when the West was still very real -Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma were all territories rather than states in 1903 The Great Train Robbery was filmed in New Jersey. 1. The purpose of this passage is to_.A. discuss the making of the movie The Great Train RobberyB. discuss the early Western novelsC. discuss the art of movie makingD. trace the development of the Western as an American adventure story tradition2. We can conclude from this passage that_.A. people lost interest in the West after 1903B. Owen Wister was an ex-cowboyC. New Jersey was still “untamed wilderness“ in 1903D. films were fairly uncommon at the time The Great Train Robbery was made3. The passage suggests that_.A. Edisons invention of the movie camera happened;by accidentB. movie houses didnt make much-money in the early daysC. Easterners were fascinated by the “ wild West“D. The Great Train Robbery was poorly received by the public because it lacked a plot4. As used in this passage, the word “literary” means_.A. humorous B. financial C. appropriate to literature D. amateur 【答案解析答案解析】1. D 推断题。从 1902 年出版的小说，1903 年拍的一部电影，到 1905 年的第一批小说等，作者如此不吝惜笔墨，是为了追溯具有冒险故事传统的美国西部发展史。故 D 项是正确答案。2. D 推断题。第三段，通过 The Great Train Robbery 影片的成功放映，人们才开始认识到在影剧院也可以同样放映一些其它影片,于是其它制片公司甚至于 the Edison 公司本身便开始生产其副本及 The Great Train Robbery 的其它译本。通过以上信息，我们得出的结论应是 D 项所表达的内容，那一时期的电影并非相当普及。3. C 推断题。第一段最后一句的 was eager to read about the West(渴望看一些有关西部的书)，与题中 were fascinated by the wild West (对荒芜的西部着了迷)表达了同样的信息，故 C 项为正确答案。4. C 词义题。根据上下文关系以及关键词语 novels 和 form 可推知 literary 的词义。因为“小说”与“形式”应属于“文学”范围。阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出最佳选项。TOKYO Lonely astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) may soon be getting a robot friend from Japan. Japans space agency is considering putting a talking humanoid (有人的特点的) robot on the ISS to watch the work while astronauts are asleep, monitor their health and stress levels and communicate to Earth through the micro-blogging site Twitter. Japans space agency JAXA announced this week that it is looking at a plan to send a humanoid robot to the space station in 2013 that could communicate with the ground through Twitter primarily feeding photos, rather than original ideas and provide astronauts with “comfort and companionship”. Following up on US NASAs “Robonaut” R-2 program, which is set for launch on the Discovery shuttle next week, the Japanese robot would be part of a larger effort to create and refine robots that can be used by the elderly, JAXA said in a statement. Japan is one of the leading countries in robotics and has a rapidly aging society with one of the worlds longest life expectancies. Improving robot communication capabilities could help elderly people on Earth by providing a nonintrusive (无干扰的) means of monitoring the robot owners health and vital signs and sending information to emergency responders if there is an abnormality, JAXA said. “We are thinking in terms of a very human-like robot that would have facial expressions and be able to talk with the astronauts,” said JAXAs Satoshi Sano. The robot was being developed with the advertisin