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The Northern Lights
The sun is stormy and has it own kind of weather. It is so hot and active that even the Sun’s gravity cannot hold its atmosphere in check!Energy flows away from the Sun toward theEarth in a stream of electrified particles that move at speeds around a million miles per hour. These particles are called plasma, and the stream of plasma coming from the Sun is called the solar winD、The more active the Sun, the stronger the solar winD、
The solar wind constantly streams toward theEarth, but don’t worry because a protective magnetic fields surrounds our planet. The same magnetic field that makes your compass point north also steers the particles from the Sun to the north and south poles. The charged particles become trapped in magnetic belts around theEarth. When a large blast of solar wind crashes into theEarth’s magnetic field first gets squeezed and then the magnetic field lines break and reconnect.
The breaking and reconnecting of the magnetic field lines can cause atomic particles called electrons trapped in the belts to fall into theEarth’s atmosphere at the poles.As the electrons fall into theEarth, they collide with gas molecules in the atmosphere, creating flashes of light in the sky.Each atmospheric gas glows a different color. Oxygen and nitrogen glows red and green and nitrogen glows violet-purple.As these various colors glow and dance in the night sky, they create the Northern Lights and the Southern Lights.
Watching auroras is fun and exciting, but normally you can only see them in places far north likeAlaska andCanadA、The movement of the aurora across the sky is usually slow enough to easily follow with your eyes but they can also pulsate, flicker, or even move like waves.During solar maximum, auroras are seen as far south as Florida, even Mexico!
Auroras often seem to be very close to the ground, but the lowest aurora is still about 100 kilometers above the ground, a distance much higher than clouds are formed or airplanes can fly.A、typical aurora band can be thousands of kilometers long, a few hundred kilometers high, but only a few hundred meters thick.
We hope you are able to travel to far-north places like theArcticCircle and see the Northern Lights at least once during your lifetime. We know you will never forget it!
TheEarth is quite safe with a magnetic field surrounding it to protect it from the attack by the solar winD、A．right
B．wrong
C．not mentioned
网考网参考答案：A
网考网解析：
细节题。问题句说“四周带有磁场的地球是十分安全的，这个磁场能防止地球受到太阳风的攻击”。利用问题句中的特征词(Earth)及细节信息词(magnetic field, solar wind)共同作为答案线索，在文章中查找答案相关句——第二段第一句。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
The sun is stormy and has it own kind of weather. It is so hot and active that even the Sun’s gravity cannot hold its atmosphere in check!Energy flows away from the Sun toward theEarth in a stream of electrified particles that move at speeds around a million miles per hour. These particles are called plasma, and the stream of plasma coming from the Sun is called the solar winD、The more active the Sun, the stronger the solar winD、
The solar wind constantly streams toward theEarth, but don’t worry because a protective magnetic fields surrounds our planet. The same magnetic field that makes your compass point north also steers the particles from the Sun to the north and south poles. The charged particles become trapped in magnetic belts around theEarth. When a large blast of solar wind crashes into theEarth’s magnetic field first gets squeezed and then the magnetic field lines break and reconnect.
The breaking and reconnecting of the magnetic field lines can cause atomic particles called electrons trapped in the belts to fall into theEarth’s atmosphere at the poles.As the electrons fall into theEarth, they collide with gas molecules in the atmosphere, creating flashes of light in the sky.Each atmospheric gas glows a different color. Oxygen and nitrogen glows red and green and nitrogen glows violet-purple.As these various colors glow and dance in the night sky, they create the Northern Lights and the Southern Lights.
Watching auroras is fun and exciting, but normally you can only see them in places far north likeAlaska andCanadA、The movement of the aurora across the sky is usually slow enough to easily follow with your eyes but they can also pulsate, flicker, or even move like waves.During solar maximum, auroras are seen as far south as Florida, even Mexico!
Auroras often seem to be very close to the ground, but the lowest aurora is still about 100 kilometers above the ground, a distance much higher than clouds are formed or airplanes can fly.A、typical aurora band can be thousands of kilometers long, a few hundred kilometers high, but only a few hundred meters thick.
We hope you are able to travel to far-north places like theArcticCircle and see the Northern Lights at least once during your lifetime. We know you will never forget it!
TheEarth is quite safe with a magnetic field surrounding it to protect it from the attack by the solar winD、A．right
B．wrong
C．not mentioned
网考网参考答案：A
网考网解析：
细节题。问题句说“四周带有磁场的地球是十分安全的，这个磁场能防止地球受到太阳风的攻击”。利用问题句中的特征词(Earth)及细节信息词(magnetic field, solar wind)共同作为答案线索，在文章中查找答案相关句——第二段第一句。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
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