THREE CENTURIES OF HOAXES(騙局;惡作劇)!

A THINKING MACHINE

In 1769, long before computers were invented, a man from Hungary(匈牙利)built a wonderful machine that could play chess very well. It made people all over Europe happy and beat nearly everyone it played against .including famous people like French leader Napoleon Bonaparte, and scientist and inventor Yenjamin Franklin. For years, many people believed that it was truly a thinking machine. There were people who said it was a hoax, but could not prove it or explain how it worked. About 85 years later, the secret was finally found. There was a man hiding inside the machine all the time... who was very good at playing chess!

ZOO ESCAPE(逃脫)

On November 9, 1874, New York newspaper, The Herald, ran a terrible story on its front page. It said that all the animals in the Central Park Zoo had escaped and were running around the city. It said the police were working to save people, but 27 people had already been killed, and 200 people hurt. It warned everyone to stay at home to avoid the danger. Many people in New York were terrified, and did as the paper said. If only they had read the final words of the article, which said; "Not one word of it is true. Not a single act described has taken place." It was just a hoax. The story was made up by Thomas Connery, aneditor at The Herald, who wanted to draw attention to the poor condition of cages in the zoo.

ROSIE THE RUNNER

The first woman to cross the finishing line of the 1980 Boston Marathon(馬拉松)was 23-year-old Rosie Ruiz. However, as she climbed the stairs to receive her prize, people started to become suspicious(懷疑的).She didn't seem to be tired at all. Furthermore, none of the other runners remembered seeing her, and her picture never appeared in photos or TV broadcasts of the race. Later, several people said that they had seen her join the race only at the end. It turned out she had run only half a mile(about 805 meters) and taken the train for the rest of the race! Her prize was taken away, of course.

1.Which of the following is mentioned in the passage?

A. The thinking machine used a computer to win games.

B. 200 people were killed by zoo animals in 1874.

C. Rosie Ruiz wasn't tired at the finishing line.

D. Rosie Ruiz didn't appear in TV broadcasts of the race.

2.What is true about all the hoaxes in the passage?

A. They made people scared. B. They fooled a lot of people.

C. They made people suspicious. D. They made people happy.

3.The title of the passage shows us that the writer thinks that hoaxes .

A. are not new B. are easily avoided

C. are always interesting D. are usually unbelievable

1.D 2.B 3.A 【解析】本文講述的是發(fā)生在三個(gè)不同世紀(jì)中的三個(gè)騙局，分別是18世紀(jì)有人“發(fā)明”了一個(gè)下象棋的機(jī)器高手，后來證明是有人藏在機(jī)器中；19世紀(jì)美國(guó)紐約的一家報(bào)紙報(bào)道說，一家動(dòng)物園里的所有動(dòng)物都從園里逃了出來，在大街上踩死踩傷很多人，提醒市民注意安全。最后被告知這是一起惡作��；第三則是20世紀(jì)馬拉松國(guó)際長(zhǎng)跑比賽的“冠軍”獲得者是弄虛作假得來的榮譽(yù)，最后被取消成績(jī)。...
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