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Getting close to active or erupting volcanoes can be dangerous. But for Michael Rampino, it’s all in a day’s work. Rampino is a volcanologist, a scientist who studies volcanoes and how they affect our planet. Rampino has been close to red-hot lava flows (熔巖流) in Hawaii and explosive volcanoes in Indonesia. He knows when to get close to an active volcano and when to back away.
Rampino wasn’t always a volcanologist. He worked for NASA for seven years. He studied rocks until he began to research climate change and the effects that volcanoes have on climate. He became interested in the subject. “Once I started working with volcanoes,” Rampino said, “I was hooked.”
Rampino is a professor at New York University. As part of his job, he travels to areas where volcanoes have been active. “Active” means they have erupted within the past few centuries and probably will erupt again. Rampino studies the deposits (沉積物) of ash and other materials from the eruptions. The ash may hold clues to what happened to the Earth in the distant past. It may also help scientists predict what could happen to Earth’s climate in the future.
Rampino doesn’t work alone. He works with a team of scientists who use computers to stimulate (模擬) the effects volcanoes have on Earth’s atmosphere.
Being a volcanologist may be hard work, but it’s also fun. “It’s cool traveling the world studying volcanoes,” Rampino says. When he talks to students about his work, he tells them that his goal is “to understand the events that have shaped Earth’s history.”

  1. 1.

    To Rampino, being close to active volcanoes is _____.

    1. A.
      adventurous but meaningful
    2. B.
      scary but necessary
    3. C.
      impossible and unnecessary
    4. D.
      dangerous but urgent
  2. 2.

    The underlined word “hooked” in Paragraph 2 probably means “_____”.

    1. A.
      trapped
    2. B.
      touched
    3. C.
      frightened
    4. D.
      attracted
  3. 3.

    Rampino’s study on volcanoes might help _____.

    1. A.
      warn people to protect the environment
    2. B.
      support the study of Earth’s future climate
    3. C.
      tell the future eruption time of the volcanoes
    4. D.
      reduce the possibility of the volcanoes’ eruptions
  4. 4.

    In which part of a newspaper could we find this text?

    1. A.
      Climate.
    2. B.
      History.
    3. C.
      People.
    4. D.
      Business.
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文章主要講述的是一個癡迷于活火山研究的科學家從事的研究，及其意義
1.推理判斷題，根據(jù)第一段Getting close to active or erupting volcanoes can be dangerous. But for Michael Rampino, it’s all in a day’s work可知，雖然很危險，但這就是他的工作，對他來說是由意義的事情
2.猜測詞義題，根據(jù)第二段He became interested in the subject. “Once I started working with volcanoes,” Rampino said, “I was hooked可知，他對此非常感興趣，非常癡迷，被它吸引了
3.事實細節(jié)題，根據(jù)第三段 It may also help scientists predict what could happen to Earth’s climate in the future可知，
4.推理判斷題，該文章主要講述的是一個癡迷于活火山研究的科學家，所以是一本關于人物的雜志上出現(xiàn)的
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