题目内容
Conan Doyle became famous for writing stories about Detective Holmes. So he was often asked to settle puzzling problems.
One day, a woman told him a strange story. Her husband had died 5 years before, and grave had been built for him. The grave was built like this: on the huge stone base was a big stone ball, in the front of which a cross was cut. The ball would move in winter and the cross in the stone ball could hardly be seen.
Conan Doyle decided to see how matters stood with the woman. The grave was just like what the woman had told him. And nobody could move the stone ball, which was put in a very shallow(浅的)hole in the stone base to roll(滚)off. There was water in the hole, too. He thought for a minute and then said to the woman,“The problem is easy to explain. It’s very cold and often rains or snows here. So there is always water in the hole. The water turns into ice at night. During the day, the southern part of the ice in the hole turns into water again while the northern part of it still remains ice, so the stone ball leans(倾斜)southward little by little and the cross in the stone ball moves downwards with the ball.”
1.Which of the following can take the place of the word “grave”?
A. box B.tomb C.bed D.hall
2.Why did the woman have her husband’s grave built like that?
A. Conan Doyle told her to do so.
B.Holmes told her to do so.
C.Her husband told her to do so before he died.
D.The story didn’t tell us the reason.
3.From the story we can see that Conan Doyle was a man.
A.who was always ready to help others
B.who wrote a lot of funny stories
C.who was careful and thoughtful
D.who always explained funny problems
4.On hearing what Conan Doyle had said, perhaps the woman would.
A. think what Conan Doyle said was reasonable
B.feel that she might be fooled by him
C.feel that she was too silly to explain it
D.think what Conan Doyle said was without reason
5.From the following cutaway views(剖视图)choose the correct one which shows the positional relation between the stone base and the stone ball.
(sl=stone ball se=stone base)
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解析:
1、该题为词义猜测题。根据Her husband had died 5 years before and a grave had been built for him来分析,给死人建造的是坟墓,故grave的意思即tomb。 2、该题为语篇辨别题,通读全文,文章并没涉及该问题,故答案为D。 3、该题为推理判断题。从Conan Doyle对her husband’s grave的透彻分析看,他必须经过仔细观察,细心思考才能得到如此准确细微的解释,故答案为C。 4、该题为推理判断题。因为Conan Doyle因写推理小说而闻名,所以人们肯定以为的话有道理。 5、该题为识图题,细读原文对其描述,能判断出B为其正确答案。
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New Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Publication Date: 30/11/2006
Publisher’s description:
Collect Doyle’s fifty-six classic short stories, arranged in the order in which they appeared in late-nineteenth-and-early-twentieth-century book editions, in a set complemented by four novels, editor biographies of Doyle, Holmes, and Watson as well as literary and cultural details about Victorian society.
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Publication Date:11/10/2006
Brief description:
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Publication Date:02/09/2006
Brief description:
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Publication Date:07/10/2006
Publisher’s description:
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Brief description:
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【小题1】Who is the writer of the latest book published among the four books?
A.Arthur Conan Doyle | B.Daniel Libeskind |
C.Art Spiegelman | D.Anita Shreve |
A.Light on Snow | B.In the Shadow of No Towers |
C.Breaking Ground | D.New Annotated Sherlock Holmes |
A.Light on Snow & Breaking Ground |
B.Light on Snow & In the Shadow of No Towers |
C.In the Shadow of No Towers & Breaking Ground |
D.New Annotated Sherlock Holmes & In the Shadow of No Towers |
A.Breaking Ground | B.In the Shadow of No Towers |
C.Light on Snow | D.Last Child in The Woods |
A.Arthur Conan Doyle. | B.Daniel Libeskind |
C.Art Spiegelman | D.Richard Louv |