Question

Miss Gogers taught physics in a New York school. Last month she explained to one of her classes about sound, and she decided to test them to see how successful she had been in her explanation. She said to them, “Now I have a brother in Los Angeles. If I was calling him on the phone and at the same time you were 75 feet away, listening to me from across the street, which of you would hear what I said earlier, my brother or you and for what reason?”
Tom at once answered, “Your brother. Because electricity travels faster than sound waves.” “That's every good,” Miss Gogers answered; but then one of the girls raised her hand, and Miss Gogers said. “Yes, Kate.”
“I disagree,” Kate said. “Your brother would hear you earlier because when it's 11 o'clock here it's only 8 o'clock in Los Angeles.”
【小題1】Miss Gogers was teaching her class_________.

A．how to telephone	B．about electricity
C．about time zone(時區)	D．about sound

【小題2】Miss Gogers raised this question because she wanted to know whether______.

A．it was easy to phone to Los Angeles	B．her student could hear her from 75 feet away
C．her students had grasped（理解）her lesson.	D．sound waves were slower than electricity

【小題3】Tom thought that electricity was _________.

A．slower than sound waves	B．faster than sound waves
C．not so fast as sound waves	D．as fast as sound waves

【小題4】Kate thought Tom was wrong because _______.

A．clocks in Los Angeles showed a different time from those in New York

B．electricity was slower than sound waves

C．Tom was not good at physics at all

D．Tom's answer had nothing to do with sound waves

【小題5】Whose answer do you think is correct according to the law of physics?

A．Tom's

B．Kate's

C．Bath A and B

D．Neither A nor B

Answer 1

【小題1】D
【小題2】C
【小題3】B
【小題4】A
【小題5】A

解析試題分析：文章講述Miss Gogers向同學們講解聲音的知識，為了學生是否理解了她的課程，她提出了一個問題，但得到的答案出乎老師的預料。
【小題1】細節題：根據Last month she explained to one of her classes about sound,可知選D
【小題2】細節題：根據and she decided to test them to see how successful she had been in her explanation.及下文描述，可知她想知道她的學生是否理解了她的課程，故選C
【小題3】細節題：根據Tom at once answered, “Your brother. Because electricity travels faster than sound waves.”可知選B
【小題4】細節題：根據“Your brother would hear you earlier because when it’s 11 o’clock here it’s only 8 o’clock in Los Angeles.”可知選A
【小題5】推理題：僅僅按照物理學原理湯姆的答案是對的，但是考慮實際情況凱特的答案是正確的，故選A
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