题目内容
18．Last July a German doctoral student named Matthias Weβel made a remarkable discovery．He was examining are papers of the late Swiss publisher Emil Oprecht for an essay on Arthur Koestler's switch from writing in German to writing in English at the end of the 1930s．Oprecht was a 1eft-wing know traveler who had founded his famous publishing house Europa Verlag in Zurich in 1933．and was well known for his anti-Nazi views and support for writes who were forced to flee their homes，including the young Arthur Koestler．Weβel once said，"I was looking for letters and royalty reports，because I wanted to know how many copies were printed of the first German edition of Koestkr's Spanish Testament．"He failed to find the answer to his question，but while 1ooking over the Europa holdings in the Zurich Central Library he came across a puzzling entry："Koestler，Arthur．Rubaschow：Roman．Typescript，March 1940，326pages．"This was extremely strange Weβel knew of no such novel（Roman）in Koestler's German writings．but the name Rubaschow rang a bell．Rubasehow is the hero of Koestler's novel，Darkness at Noon．weβel hardly dared think about what he had found，suspecting a sequel（续集）or perhaps a false entry，for it was well known that the original text of the novel-the last one Koesder wrote in German before he switched to English-was lost during his flight from France at the start of World War II．That was seventy-five years ago and it has never been seen since．With unease，Weβel ordered a scan，which showed a typed carbon copy，with corrections in Koestle's handwriting．The date on the title page，March 1940，was the date on which Koestler is known to have finished the novel．There was no doubt Weβel had come across a copy of the German manuscript（手稿）of Koestler's masterpiece．
32．What is Weβel's main field of research？C
A．A Swiss publisher's papers
B．The left-wing writers．
C．Arthur Koestlefs works
D．The publishing house．
33．How dld Weβel feel about his discovery at first？D
A．Cheerful．
B．Nervous
C．Satisfied．
D．Doubtfu1．
34．What do we know about Rubasehow？C
A．The title of a book
B．A Swiss publisher．
C．A character of a novel
D．A left-wing fellow writer．
35．Weβel ordered a scan toB．
A．find out the date of the copy
B．make out the copy's real identity
C．cheek the errors of the copy
D．examine Koestler's handwriting．
分析 本文属于说明文阅读，作者通过这篇文章主要向我们描述了β-EL的主要研究领域是Arthur Koestlefs的作品，他们又有了新的发现．
解答 32．C．细节理解题．根据第一段，"I was looking for letters and royalty reports，because I wanted to know how many copies were printed of the first German edition of Koestkr's Spanish Testament可知β-EL的主要研究领域是Arthur Koestlefs的作品；故选C．
33．D．细节理解题．根据文章weβel hardly dared think about what he had found，suspecting a sequel（续集）or perhaps a false entry可知βEL对他的发现一开始是怀疑的；故选D．
34．C．细节理解题．根据文章Rubasehow is the hero of Koestler's novel，Darkness at Noon．weβel hardly dared think about what he had found，suspecting a sequel（续集）or perhaps a false entry可知Rubasehow是小说的人物；故选C．
35．B．细节理解题．根据文章Weβel ordered a scan，which showed a typed carbon copy，with corrections in Koestle's handwriting可知βEL扫描是为了确定打印副本的真实信息；故选B．
点评 考察学生的细节理解和推理判断能力，做细节理解题时一定要找到文章中的原句，和题干进行比较，再做出正确的选择．在做推理判断题不要以个人的主观想象代替文章的事实，要根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理判断．
