Question

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 Is-land. Kit Williams, a modern writer, had the idea of combining the real excitement of a treasure hunt with clues 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，not by luck. His success came from the fact that he had gaine4d 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 in Cambridgeshire in 1536 and 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 3000 in the beginning, but the excitement it had caused since its burial made it much more valuable.

Which of the following describes Roberts’ logic in searching for the hare?

 A.Henry VIII’s six wives

B.Katherine’s burial place at Kimbolton

C.Williams’ childhood in Ampthill

D.Katherine of Argon

What is the subject discussed in the text?

A.An exciting historical event.

B.A modern treasure hunt.

C.The attraction of Masquerade.

D.The importance of logical thinking.

Answer 1

【小题1】C

【小题2】B

解析:

【小题1】 文中提到Ken Roberts 寻宝的逻辑顺序为：1.确定宝物小金兔的埋葬地与亨利八世第一个妻子有关；2.他这位妻子的名字是Ketherine of Aragon; 3. Ketherine 的墓地在Kimbolton; 4. 而埋葬小金兔的作者一定把这一宝藏埋在他熟悉的地方而不是Ketherine的墓地；5. 果然，Kit Williams 的家乡Ampthill公园内有两个石头制成的十字架，这是1773年为表达对Ketherine 的敬意而修造的。照此逻辑顺序，故应选C.

【小题2】 先排除A项，因为寻得一件宝藏并非属重大历史事件；再排除C项，因为文中没有涉及到Masquerade这本书对人们的吸引力；最后再排除D项，因为文中并未对逻辑思维的重要性进行理论上的阐述。文中只是叙述了一个叫Kit Williams 的作者于1979写了一本叫Masquerade关于指导人们寻宝的书，以及一个Ken Roberts 的人通过去伪存真、反复实践与思考的过程，于1982年发现了这一宝物，故应选B项，意为当代寻宝。