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　Castles and palaces are found throughout Europe．They are visited by large numbers of travellers with cameras who show pictures of them to their families and friends at home．The great stone palace is very different in most ways from the homes most of us live in．In a palace there are miles of long halls through which the wind blows in winter．In 1958, Queen Victoria of England wrote to her daughter Vicki, who had recently married and gone to live in the German palaces, to put on a warm coat when she walked in the halls．

　The two most famous “castles”in the world are not in Europe．One was the “Mausoleum”, a burial（殡葬的）castle for King Mausolus, who died in 353 B．C．It is now in ruins （废墟）．The other is the Great Pyramid, the burial place for Pharaoh（法老）Chopes, built in Egypt about five thousand years ago．

　The Greek writer of history, Herodotus, saw the pyramids about 500 B．C．They were then more than two thousand years old．They were huge in size, built of great stone blocks about 30 feet long．These blocks had been pulled into their places by hand．Herodotus had his guide read the writing on the wall of the Great Pyramid．It said that the building took 100,000 workers 20 years and cost a great sum（数目）of money．

(1) The great stone palace is ________．

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A．usually quite different from our houses today

B．very beautiful with a lot of pictures in it

C．usually a very long, very beautiful hall

D．now a place for travellers to show their pictures to their friends

(2) Queen Victoria told her daughter Vicki, who lived in a German palace, to put on a warm coat when she walked in the halls of the palace, because ________．

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A．it was usually very cold in Germany in winter

B．she was newly married to the Prince（王子）of Germany

C．the Queen wanted to make her duaghter more beautiful

D．in winter, the wind blew hard through the palace halls

(3) From the text, we know that there were once two great“castles”in the world,　　but today, we can find only one of them in good condition．

　How is the other one?　

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A．The other one was burnt down during the First World War．

B．The other suddenly disappeared many years ago．

C．The other is in ruins now．

D．The other was buried by people about 2, 00 years ago．

(4) When Herodotus, the Greek writer of history went to visit the pyramids in Egypt about 500 B．C．, he ______．

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A．found the people were building the Great Pyramid with their hands

B．said that the pyramids had all had a history of about 5, 000 years

C．found some writing on the wall and he asked his guide to read it for him

D．told the people there that the Great Pyramid cost them a lot of money