Question

 From Daban, we move to another ancient small town,Loulan. Daban town is famous for girls and windmills, while Loulan is a myth(神话)in the desert.

  Two thousand years ago,beside the beautiful and rich Luobu Lake,there lay Loulan ancient city of the Silk Road. Businessmen from every country gathered here and there were dancing parties. Everything showed that people in Loulan lived a rich life then.

  However, two thousand years later, this rich land suddenly disappeared from the map of China. Then it became an area covered with sand and dead tree trunks.

  Loulan was first "discovered" by a Swedish man in 1900. People from America, Britain, Japan and Sweden, all set foot here. Then in the 1930s, a Chinese named Huang Wenbi came to Loulan for the first time. He visited and studied this area and found many relics that were beautifully and carefully made.

  It is recorded that the ancient city of Loulan was the capital of Loulan Kingdom during the Han and Jin Dynasties(朝代），and covered an area of some 100 ，000 square metres. Inside the city,there are the ruins of government offices, temples and other old buildings. Outside the city,there are some dried rivers and much farmland. In the past century many things have been dug out there including Han Dynasty coins，mirrors and many things from Greek and Roman. All these things show that a lot of business between East and West once took place there.

  Lying on the northwest of the Lop Nur area,the Loulan Kingdom is now a lifeless area with endless "forests" of mounds(小丘)which aren't easily seen in other parts of the world. Its mystery has been attracting so many people from so many countries.

(   ) 5. The first person who set foot in Loulan in the 20th century is      

A. a European    B. an American

C. an Englishman    D. a Japanese

(   ) 6.Before Loulan disappeared,      

A.     a lot of business between East and West had taken place there

B.     people from America and Japan had set foot there

C.     a lifeless area with lots of mounds could easily be seen there

D.     no Europeans had visited the ancient country
(   ) 7. We can infer from the passage that      

A.     Loulan was destroyed by the terrible weather there

B.     wars made Loulan disappear

C.     foreigners came to Loulan and destroyed it

D.     how Loulan disappeared is still unknown to us
(   ) 8. A good title for this passage might be      

A.     Famous Town, Daban

B.     Business in Ancient Loulan

C.     Ancient City in the Desert

D.     Cities in Old Times of China

Answer 1

    5-8 AADC

B篇讲述了楼兰古城的相关情况。

5. A逻辑推理题从第四段第一句可知，楼兰古城是在1900年被一个瑞典人发现的，而瑞典位于欧洲，故选A。

6. A细节理解题从第四段可知，美国、英国、日本和瑞典人都曾踏上楼兰古国，但是是在1900年瑞典人首先发现消失后的楼兰古国遗迹以后，所以B项错误;从全文可知，楼兰古国在消失以前人们过着富有的生活，并曾是汉朝时期中西贸易聚集地,所以C项错误;从倒数第二段最后两句可知，上世纪有许多汉朝的钱币、镜子和希腊、罗马的物品在楼兰古城被挖掘出来，所以在楼兰消失前欧洲人就曾去过，因此D项有误。

7. D细节理解题从第三段和最后一段看来，文章只提及楼兰的突然消失，并未提及消失的原因。

8. C主旨大意题文章虽提及Daban但并非完全介绍它，所以A项错误;B项仅为全文内容的一个方面，不全面;D项意为文章介绍的是一些城市，实际上本文只介绍了楼兰这一个古城;C项高度概括了楼兰的特征，并且通过"沙漠里的古城"这一标题吸引读者的兴趣,是最佳标题。