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Find Which Direction Is South
Do you have a good sense of direction? If not, please take with you a compass. But if you forget to take a compass, you can still find your way.
It‟ s never a good idea to imagine that the family member who was entrusted(委托) with the job of mapreading actually knows where the family is. You can tell by the slightly confused look on their faces that nothing on the ground seems to match the map. Never mind. The sun is shining and it‟ s still morning. If you don‟t know the exact time, you can still find out where south is, but you‟ll need to be patient.
①Find a straight stick and put it in the ground in a place where you can mark its shadow. ②Try to position the stick as vertically(垂直) as you can.You can check this by making a simple plumb line (铅锤线)with a piece of string and weight. You haven‟ t got any string?OK,
use a thread from your clothes with a button tied at the end to act as a weight.
③Mark the end of the shadow cast by the stick.
④Wait approximately half an hour and mark the end of the shadow again. ⑤Keep doing this until you have made several marks.
⑥The mark nearest the stick will represent the shortest shadow, which is cast at midday, when the sun is highest in the sky and pointing to the exact south.
⑦Pick a point in the distance along the line between the shortest shadow and the stick. ⑧That point is south of where you are.
⑨Now you can turn the map, like you did before, and find which way you should be travelling.
[语篇解读] 你有好的方向感吗?如果没有，那就要带上指南针。如果没带指南针呢?你仍然可以用其他方法找到方向，本文就是教你如何找到方向的。
1.To find the direction, we ought to be patient probably because________.
A. it is not easy to find a proper stick
B. it is not easy to position the stick
C. it takes hours to make the marks
D. it takes about half an hour to make the marks
[解析] 推理判断题。依据文章中的③⑤可以看出，做阴影的标记最费时间，所以要耐心。
[答案] C
2.The passage would probably be most helpful to________.
A. those who draw maps
B. those who get lost
C. those who make compasses
D. those who do experiments
[解析] 推理判断题。依据文章第二段，“我们发现地图上的标记跟身边的不一致”，可以知道这是迷路时的现象，所以答案为B。
[答案] B
3.Which of the following pictures best shows the way of finding the direction of south?
[解析] 依据文章中⑥的叙述，可知：离树棍最近的那条线代表的阴影最短，证明当时太阳在天空最高，指向的就是最南方，对应的正好是A。
[答案] A
4.The author presents this passage by________.
A. telling an interesting story
B. describing an activity in a lively way
C. testing an idea by reasoning
D. introducing a practical method
[解析] 细节理解题。本文介绍的这种方法切实可行，所以作者是通过讲述一个很实用的方法来阐述这篇文章的。
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