阅读理解。 Stephen Hawking's book A Brief History of Time was a huge commercial success. Its achievements inbringing difficult scientific ideas to a wide audie-高中英语-n多题

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阅读理解。

     Stephen Hawking's book A Brief History of Time was a huge commercial success. Its achievements in
bringing difficult scientific ideas to a wide audience are not so clear. Now the distinguished physicist has
teamed up with his daughter Lucy to produce a children's book designed to communicate contemporary
physics. Will it capture the attention of young minds and teach them some real science?Will it be boring and
over the heads of the prospective readers?
     George's Secret Key to the Universe is an adventure story complete with villains (反面人物) and hero and
is illustrated with enjoyable line-drawings. It involves a lost pig,a humorously portrayed (描写) intelligent
computer,school bulies and a trip through the Solar System. Didactic discussions on aspects of modern
physics,such as supernova explosions and black-hole physics are hung on this set-up.There are also fact boxes
on physics and astronomy,and some photographs of astronomical phenomena:planets,comets,galaxies (星系)
and so on. Overall, the book is a serious effort to convey facts and ideas in present day astronomy and
astrophysics,within a science-fiction adventure story.
     The mixture is great. Children love facts and adventure stories. The combination will catch their interest
and keep them occupied for hours. After ten minutes of leafing through the book,my granddaughter Ruby
was deeply absorbed and I had to promise to bring it back for her to read after I had completed my review.
Like any educational tool,it will succeed for some and not for others. I suppose there should be more of the
former.

1. Where do you think this passage is taken?

A. From a news story.
B. From a textbook.
C. From a book review.
D. From an advertisement.

2. Which of the following books is mainly reviewed in this passage?

A. George's Secret Key to the Universe.
B. A Brief History of Time.
C. The Nature of Space and Time.
D. Hawking's fact and fiction.

3. What is the author's attitude towards the book being reviewed?

A. It will be less successful.
B. It will be more successful.
C. It will be a complete failure.
D. It all depends on Ruby.

4. The underlined word "leafing" (in the last paragraph) probably means _______.

A. adding leaves to a book
B. throwing away a book
C. tearing up a book
D. turning pages of a book

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