题目内容
2.Treasure hunts have excited people's imagination for hundreds of years both in real life and in books such as Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.Kit Williams,a modern writer,had the idea of combining the real excitement of a treasure hunt with clues (线索) found in a book when he wrote a children's story,Masquerade,in 1979.The book was about a hare,and a month before it came out Williams buried a gold hare in a park in Bedfordshire.The book contained a large number of clues to help readers find the hare,but Williams put in a lot of"red herrings",or false clues,to mislead them.Ken Roberts,the man who found the hare,had been looking for it for nearly two years.Although he had been searching in the wrong area most of the time,he found it by logic (逻辑),not by luck.His success came from the fact that he had gained an important clue at the start.He had realized that the words:"One of Six to Eight"under the first picture in the book connected the hare in some way to Katherine of Aragon,the first of Henry VIII's six wives.Even here,however,Williams had succeeded in misleading him.Ken knew that Katherine of Aragon had died at Kimbolton n Cambridgeshire in 1536and thought that Williams had buried the hare there.He had been digging there for over a year before a new idea occurred to him.He found out that Kit Williams had spent his childhood near Ampthill,in Bedfordshire,and thought that he must have buried the hare in a place he knew well,but he still could not see the connection with Katherine of Aragon,until one day he came across two stone crosses in Ampthill Park and learnt that they had been built in her honor in 1773.
Even then his search had not come to an end.It was only after he had spent several nights digging around the cross that he decided to write to Kit Williams to find out if he was wasting his time there.Williams encouraged him to continue,and on February 24th 1982,he found the treasure.It was worth 3,000in the beginning,but the excitement it had caused since its burial made it much more valuable.
24.The underlined word"them"in Paragraph 1refers toC.
A.red herrings
B.treasure hunts
C.readers of Masquerade
D.Henry VIII's six wives
25.What is the most important clue in the story to help Ken Roberts find the hare?A
A.Katherine of Aragon.
B.Two stone crosses in Ampthill.
C.Williams'hometown.
D.Stevenson's Treasure Island.
26.Which of the following describes Roberts'logic in searching for the hare?C
a.Henry VIII's six wives
b.Katherine's burial place at Kimbolton
c.Williams'childhood in Ampthill
d.Katherine of Aragon
e.stone crosses in Ampthill Park
A.a-b-c-e-d
B.d-b-c-e-a
C.a-d-b-c-e
D.b-a-e-c-d
27.What is the subject discussed in the text?D
A.An exciting historical event.
B.The importance of logical thinking.
C.The attraction of Masquerade.
D.A modern treasure hunt.
分析 寻宝一直以来都刺激着人们丰富的想象力,不管在生活中还是在小说中.作者介绍了一部寻宝小说Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.
解答 CACD
24.C 猜测词意题.找到画线处的them,然后将上文(…book contained…clues to help readers…Williams put in a lot of"red herrings")中出现的复数名词逐一比较,最重要的线索为them之前的动词 mislead(=to give false or confusing information to),由其语义可以断定,其后为"人"而非"物"--答案为C项
25.A 细节题.四个选项涉及的人或物都在短文中先后提及,可有的并不是出现在Kit Williams的story里,例如:Stevenson's Treasure Island,因此可以尽快排除(例如选项B),故选A.
26.C 细节题.这类细节排序问题的答题也有一定技巧:首先比较A、B、C、D四个选项中排序的异同,确认开头两项为a、b,d、b,a、d还是b、a.从短文中确认a(HenryⅧ's six wives;来自"one of six to Eight")在前;缩小范围看第二步,比较b,d,应该是d(=Katherine of Aragon=first of HenryⅧ's six wives);至此答案为C项:a,d,b,c,e.可以对照短文内容再来验证一下,对其他选项则不必一一细究了.
27.D 主旨大意题.通观全文,开头点题后,通篇在谈作家Kit Williams为其作品Masquerade设计了一项现代寻宝的活动,读者Ken Roberts如何追根溯源,获得成功.因此,答案为 D.其余三个选项在文中均有不同程度的涉及,但都只是一个环节或某一方面,不能成为贯穿始终的subject,应予舍弃.
点评 本文是一篇新闻报道类阅读,题目涉及多道细节理解题.推理判断题,主旨大意题.做题时学生应仔细阅读原文,把握文章主要内容,联系文章上下文内容并结合所给选项含义,从中选出正确答案,一定要做到有理有据,切忌胡乱猜测.

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