Howard Carter was a famous explorer(探險家).He loved to visit new places. During his life, he discovered many important and exciting things.

  Howard Carter did not go to school. But he was smart and wanted to learn the world outside his hometown. In 1891,at the age of 17,he went to Egypt(埃及) by ship. By the 1920s,he had become an explorer, looking for the tombs(墳?zāi)? of the Egyptian kings.

  He found several important ones. Inside the tombs, he found jewels, gold and 10 bodies of dead kings. These bodies are known as mummies(木乃伊).In 1922,Howard Carter made his most important discovery of all. When Carter’s team was working at a place near a city called Luxor, they found the tomb of King Tutankhamun.

  Not long after the tomb was opened, people in Carter’s team began to get ill and die strangely.

Within seven years,21 people who had something to do with the opening of the tomb died However, Howard Carter lived on and died at the age of 65.

1. Howard Carter liked to visit new places.

2.Howard Carter was born in 1877.

3.Carter’s team found the tomb of King Tutankhamun in 1922.

4.The passage tells us Carter’s school life.

 

【答案】

 

1.T

2.F

3.T

4.F

【解析】【主旨大意】本文介紹了探險家Howard Carter探險墳?zāi)沟娜松?jīng)歷。

1. 細(xì)節(jié)題  由第一段第二句“He loved to visit new places.”可知。

2. 細(xì)節(jié)題  由第二段“In 1891,at the age of 17”可以算得出他的出生時間。

3. 細(xì)節(jié)題  由第三段最后一句“In 1922,Howard Carter made his most important discovery of all. When Carter’s team was working at a place near a city called Luxor, they found the tomb of King Tutankhamun.”可知。

4. 細(xì)節(jié)題/主旨大意題  由第二段第一句“Howard Carter did not go to school.”可知。

 

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