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The Man of Many Secrets Harry Houdini was one of the greatest American entertainers(艺人) in the theater this century. He was a man famous for his escapes from prison cells, from wooden boxes floating in rivers, from locked tanks full of water. He appeared in theaters all over Europe and America Crowds came to see the great Housini and his“magic”tricks.
Of course, his secret was not magic, or supernatural powers. It was simply strength. He had the ability romove his toes as well as he moved his fingers. He could move his body into almost any position he wanted.
Houdini started working in the entertainment world when he was 17, in 1891. He and his brother Theo performed card tricks in a club in New York. They called themselves the Houdini Brothers. When harry married in 1894, he and his wife Bess worked together as magician and assistant. But for a long time they were not very successful. Then Harry performed his first prions escape, in Chicago in 1898. Harry persuaded a detective to let him try to escape form the prison, and he invited the local newspapermen to watch.
It was the publicity(宣传) that came from this that started Harry Houdini's success. Harry had fingers trained to escape from handcuffs(手铐) and toes trained to escape from ankle chains. But his biggest secret was how he unlocked the prions doors. Every time he went into the prison cell, Bess gave him a kiss for good luck and a small skeleton key, which is a key that fits many locks, pass quickly from her mouth to his.
Harry used these prison escapes to build his fame. He arranged to escape from the local prison of every town he visited. In the afternoon, the people of the town would read about it in their local newspapers, and in the evening every seat in the local theater would be full. What was the result? World
wide fame and a name remembered today.
1．According to the passage, Housini's success in prison escapes depends on ________.
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A．his special tricks and supernatural powers
B．his unusual ability and a skeleton key
C．his magic tricks and unhuman powers
D．his wisdom and magic tricks
2．In the fourth paragraph, the underlined word“this”refers to ________.
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3．It can be inferred form the passage that Housini became famous ________.
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4．Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
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wide Fame
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