Treasure hunts（寻宝）have excited people's imagination for hundreds of years both in real life and in books such as Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Kit Williams, a modern writer, had the idea of combining the real excitement of a treasure hunt with clues（线索）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（逻辑）, not by luck. His success came from the fact that he had gained 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 Cambridge shire in 1536and 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.

67. The underlined word "them"（Paragraph 1）refers to ____.

　　A. red herrings                    B. treasure hunts

　　C. Henry VIII's six wives     D. readers of Masquerade

68. What is the most important clue in the story to help Ken Roberts find the hare？

　　A. Two stone crosses in Ampthill.

　　B. Stevenson's Treasure Island.

　　C. Katherine of Aragon.

　　D. Williams’ home town.

69. The stone crosses in Ampthill were built ____.

　　A. to tell about what happened in 1773

　　B. to show respect for Henry VIII's first wife

　　C. to serve as a road sign in Ampthill Park

　　D. to inform people where the gold hare was

70. 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 Aragon

　　e. stone crosses in Ampthill Park

　　A. a-b-c-e-d       B. d-b-c-e-a

　　C. a-d-b-c-e       D. b-a-e-c-d

71. 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.

Some“doctors”use magic(魔术);others use needles and others use pills. Who are they?

Among the Indians of North America the medicine man was a very important person. He could cure illnesses, and he could speak to the spirits(神灵)—the supernatural forces that controlled the world.

The Indian believed that bad spirit made people ill. So, when people were ill, the medicine man tried to help them by using magic; he spoke to the good spirits and asked for their help. Many people were cured because they thought that the spirits were helping them. But really these people cured themselves. Sometimes your own mind is the best doctor for you.

The medicine men were often successful for another reason, too. They knew about plants that really can cure illness. A lot of modern medicine are made from plants that were used by medicine men hundreds of years ago.

For more than five thousand years Chinese doctors have used needles to fight illness. This kind of medicine is called acupuncture(针灸).The doctors study the sick person carefully. Then he puts needles into that person’s body at the right places for his illness. Chinese doctors believe that they can control the body’s natural force in this way. At first, doctors in the West thought that this was just another kind of magic. Recently, however, they have found out that it is possible to cure many illnesses like this because the needles help the body to produce its own medicines. In this way the body cures itself.

1.The Indians of North America enjoyed ______.

A. a modern medical treatment　　　　　　　　    B.an old medical treatment

C.an advanced medical treatment　　　　　　    D.a secret medical treatment

2.Which is the best title?

A. Medical Equipment(仪器)　　　　　　　　　　  B.Medicine Men

C.Medicine　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　    D.Medicine Is Important

3.According to this passage modern medicines have nothing to do with ______.

A.the old traditional medicines　　　　　　　　　　 B.the supernatural forces

C.plants　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　  D.the Indians

4.Using needles to fight illnesses ______.

A.was popular over the world　　　　　　　　　　 B.is another kind of magic

C.is easy to learn by anyone　　　　　　　　　　   D.was first used by the Chinese

5.Acupuncture, in fact, is ______.

A. the only way to cure many dangerous illnesses

B.used to cure all kinds of illnesses

C.effective(有效的) to many illnesses

D.popular among the Western people

阅读理解

Some“doctors”use magic(魔术);others use needles and others use pills. Who are they?

Among the Indians of North America the medicine man was a very important person. He could cure illnesses, and he could speak to the spirits(神灵)—the supernatural forces that controlled the world.

The Indian believed that bad spirit made people ill. So, when people were ill, the medicine man tried to help them by using magic; he spoke to the good spirits and asked for their help. Many people were cured because they thought that the spirits were helping them. But really these people cured themselves. Sometimes your own mind is the best doctor for you.

The medicine men were often successful for another reason, too. They knew about plants that really can cure illness. A lot of modern medicine are made from plants that were used by medicine men hundreds of years ago.

For more than five thousand years Chinese doctors have used needles to fight illness. This kind of medicine is called acupuncture(针灸).The doctors study the sick person carefully. Then he puts needles into that person’s body at the right places for his illness. Chinese doctors believe that they can control the body’s natural force in this way. At first, doctors in the West thought that this was just another kind of magic. Recently, however, they have found out that it is possible to cure many illnesses like this because the needles help the body to produce its own medicines. In this way the body cures itself.

1.The Indians of North America enjoyed ______.

A. a modern medical treatment　　　　　　　　    B.an old medical treatment

C.an advanced medical treatment　　　　　　    D.a secret medical treatment

2.Which is the best title?

A. Medical Equipment(仪器)　　　　　　　　　　  B.Medicine Men

C.Medicine　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　    D.Medicine Is Important

3.According to this passage modern medicines have nothing to do with ______.

A.the old traditional medicines　　　　　　　　　　 B.the supernatural forces

C.plants　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　  D.the Indians

4.Using needles to fight illnesses ______.

A.was popular over the world　　　　　　　　　　 B.is another kind of magic

C.is easy to learn by anyone　　　　　　　　　　   D.was first used by the Chinese

5.Acupuncture, in fact, is ______.

A. the only way to cure many dangerous illnesses

B.used to cure all kinds of illnesses

C.effective(有效的) to many illnesses

D.popular among the Western people