問題詳情
36-40
If you want to see a roomful of people roll their eyes, just walk into a gathering of astronomersand shout, “Mayan apocalypse!” For years now, the idea that the earth will be destroyed in a terriblecataclysm on Dec. 21, 2012, has been bouncing around the internet and showing up in articles, booksand even movies. But despite what the tinfoil-hat crowd insists, an asteroid is not about to hit theearth. Neither is there an imaginary planet called Nibiru. Our world isn’t going to be abruptly flippedupside down like a burger on a griddle. What’s more, Mayan astrologers never said any of that stuffwould actually happen. Yes, the Maya had what’s known as a Long Count calendar, and yes, thatcalendar ends on Dec. 21, 2012. But the nice thing about calendars, including the one the Maya used,is that they always start over again from zero. All the same, some folks at NASA are worried—notabout the end of the world but about the harm all the loose talk may be doing. “I get a tremendousnumber of e-mails about it,” says a scientist at the NASA. “A large fraction are from people asking ifthe world will end. A few even talk about suicide.” In an attempt to stop the hysteria, NASA conveneda Google+ hangout during which people could ask astronomers anything they wanted to about therumors. For nearly an hour, the scientists soothed nerves, patiently explaining, for example, that anasteroid en route to earth would have been spotted by telescopes long ago and that Nibiru, if it existed,would now be the brightest object in the sky after the sun and moon.
【題組】36. What emotion or attitude does “to roll one’s eyes” refer to in this context?
(A) Angry confusion
(B) Deep bewilderment
(C) Cold detachment
(D) Despising disagreement
(E) Acute curiosity
參考答案
答案：D
難度：適中0.424242
統計：A(3),B(5),C(1),D(14),E(6)