57.
It can be
inferred from the passage that_____
A. the role of
hospital environment is being recognized
B. hospital artists
have done more than doctors
C. exhibitions
attract more people in hospitals than in museums
D. the hospitals is
a better place for people than the museum in Britain
E
Before Nicholas
Clapp got there, he had half hoped that he might run into some of Ubar’s ruins sticking(凸出)out of the sand.
But finding the city wasn’t that easy. During the summer, he and his 40 helpers
dug at 35 different spots. The only things they found were ground spiders,
giant ticks, and deadly snakes.
Just before
Thanksgiving says Clapp, “We were within a whisker of total failure. ”
But then Clapp’s
team looked at the high-tech maps again and saw something surprising. Many of
the caravan routes(沙漠商队路线)on the high-tech
maps came together on the same spot marked “Omani Marketplace” on Ptolomy’s map. Two maps, made almost 2000 years apart,
pointed the team toward the same area!
In December 1991,
Clapp arrived at the spot where, according to the maps, the caravans met. Clapp
had a handheld instrument that could detect(探测)objects
below the ground. It showed ruins under the sand! He and his team started
digging. And then they found it! A. tower buried in the sand. They slowly
unearthed a giant, eight-sided fortress(堡垒). It had nine
towers and many rooms. People had lived in this fortress 2000 years ago.
Outside its walls, they had found buried remains of nearly 40 campsites. They
seemed to be camping areas for traders(商人).
More digging found
shards, or pieces of pottery(陶瓷)from ancient Rome,
Greece, China, Egypt, and Syria. Diggers and scientists agree that people were
here for about 5000 years. Clapp and his team were excited as they continued to
discover more pieces of the past that seemed to prove that it was the lost city
of Ubar.
“We started with
this hopeless myth(神秘),” says Clapp, “and
then finally found the truth behind the myth. ” But is this unearthed site
really the once-great Ubar? Experts aren’t totally
persuaded.
Donald Whitcomb is
an archeologist(考古学家)at the University of Chicago. He doubts that Clapp really
discovered Ubar. “There’s probably some truth to this
myth,” he says. “But Ubar is described as a place
with walls all made of gold, and the rubies and emeralds(宝石). ” No gold
or precious stones have been found by Clapp.
“I’m not sure
whether they discovered Ubar because I’m not sure if Ubar really existed,” Whitcomb says.