阅读理解;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。
Mr. Harris taught sixth-grade science. On the first day of class, he gave us a talk about an animal called “birdcat”, which died out during the Ice Age. He passed around a skull as he talked. We all took notes carefully and later we had a test.
When he returned my paper the next day, there was a big red “X” through each of my answers. I had failed! There had to be some mistake! I had written down exactly what Mr. Harris said. Then I learned that everyone in the class had failed. What had happened?
“Very simple,” Mr. Harris said. He had made up all that “birdcat” “There had never been any such animal. The information in our notes was therefore incorrect. Did you think you would get good marks for incorrect answers?”
Needless to say, we felt that was unfair. What kind of a test was this? And what kind of a teacher?
“We should have figured it out.” Mr. Harris said. After all, at the very moment he was passing around the “birdcat” skull, in truth a cat’s, hadn’t he been telling us no other findings about this animal except the skull? He had told us many unbelievable things about the animal, such as the size, the color, the strength… but none of us had questioned.
Mr Harris said he hoped we would learn something from this lesson. Teachers and textbooks are not always correct. In fact no one is. He told us not to let our minds go to sleep and to speak up if we ever thought he or the textbook was wrong.
Up to now I haven’t made any great scientific discoveries, but Mr. Harris’s class gave me and my classmates something just as important: To look people in the eye and tell them they are wrong.
1. “Figure it out” should mean “__________”.
A. think and find it out B. answer it
C. draw it out D. learn and turn it out
2. I failed in the science test because_________.
A. I didn’t answer all the questions
B. I didn’t answer the paper according to what Mr. Harris said.
C. the information in my answers was wrong.
D. Mr. Harris made some mistake.
3. Which of the following statements is WRONG?
A. There is no an animal called “birdcat”, which died out during the Ice Age.
B. The information that Mr. Harris gave in the class was incorrect.
C. Mr. Harris told us many amazing things about “birdcat”.
D. Mr. Harris showed the class a skull of a cat’s.
4. We can learn from this passage that__________.
A. Mr. Harris was the only person who found the animal ‘birdcat’
B. Mr. Harris used a cat’s skull instead of a birdcat’s because they were the same.
C. We should be brave to speak out against what we don’t believe.
D. Teachers and textbooks are usually incorrect.
5. Which would be the best title for this passage?
A. An unforgettable Test. B. A strange Animal Called “Birdcat”
C. An Unfair Test D. Incorrect Information
1A 2C 3D 4C 5A
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