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Treasure hunts(搜寻) have excited people's imagination for hundreds of years both in real life and in books such as Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Kite Williams,a modern writer,had the idea of combing 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 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 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 Willliams had spent his childhood near Ampthil,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 Ampthil 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.?

1.The underlined word “them”(Paragraph 1) refers to______ .?

A.red herrings?

B.treasure hunts?

C.Henry Ⅷ's six wives?

D.readers of Masquerade?

2.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 hometown.?

3.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 roadsign in Ampthill Park?

D.to inform people where the gold hare was?

4.Which of the following describes Roberts' logic in searching for the hare??

a.Henry Ⅷ's six wives?

b.Katherine burial place at Kitbolton?

c.William's childhood in Ampthil?

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?

5.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?

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  The native people of Australia are called Aborigines. Most of them live in the deserts of Australia, where they neither plant crops nor keep any animals. All the year round they move here and there through the deserts in search of food and water. They must depend on their own skills to track down (搜寻) wild animals for food in order to stay alive. It has been said that an Aborigine has the “eyes of an eagle (鹰)”.

  The following story shows how surprising the Aborigines’ skill at tracking is.

  Once a gold robbery in a small Australian town left the police quite puzzled (困惑的). They had to call on an old Aborigine tracker for help. The tracker found a set of footprints in the dusty street, and said he thought they were the tracks of the thief. Before the tracker could follow the prints very far, a rainstorm broke and washed the tracks away. Some time after that, the Aborigine was in another town, and his sharp eyes picked out the same footprints he had seen days before. The police could hardly believe his story, but they went with him as he followed the tracks through the dirty streets and past the outskirts (市郊) of the town. After about half an hour’s walk, the tracker stopped near a wooden house and simply pointed. Sure enough, the wanted man was hiding inside.

1. What kind of life do you think the Australian Aborigines live?

A. A lazy life.         B. A hard life. 

C. An easy life.      D. A boring life.

2. The old Aborigine lost the first tracks he had found because ______.

A. there was a sudden rainstorm

B. the streets were covered with heavy dust

C. they were mixed with many other people’s footprint

D. he had been too tired to find them after a long walk

3. What can we know about the old Aborigine from the passage?

A. He was a friend of the police’s.

B . He knew the thief before.

C. His tracking skills helped the police find the thief.

D. He made his living by tracking for the police.

4. Which of the following is the best title for this passage?

A. Sharp eyes   

B. What a life Aborigines live

C. Searching for a policeman .

D. Aborigines’ new way of life

 

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