2.Treasure hunts 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 (線索) 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 (邏輯),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 n Cambridgeshire 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 3,000in the beginning,but the excitement it had caused since its burial made it much more valuable.
24.The underlined word"them"in Paragraph 1refers toC.
A.red herrings
B.treasure hunts
C.readers of Masquerade
D.Henry VIII's six wives
25.What is the most important clue in the story to help Ken Roberts find the hare?A
A.Katherine of Aragon.
B.Two stone crosses in Ampthill.
C.Williams'hometown.
D.Stevenson's Treasure Island.
26.Which of the following describes Roberts'logic in searching for the hare?C
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(chǎn)-b-c-e-d
B.d-b-c-e-a
C.a(chǎn)-d-b-c-e
D.b-a-e-c-d
27.What is the subject discussed in the text?D
A.An exciting historical event.
B.The importance of logical thinking.
C.The attraction of Masquerade.
D.A modern treasure hunt.
分析 尋寶一直以來都刺激著人們豐富的想象力,不管在生活中還是在小說中.作者介紹了一部尋寶小說Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.
解答 CACD
24.C 猜測詞意題.找到畫線處的them,然后將上文(…book contained…clues to help readers…Williams put in a lot of"red herrings")中出現(xiàn)的復(fù)數(shù)名詞逐一比較,最重要的線索為them之前的動詞 mislead(=to give false or confusing information to),由其語義可以斷定,其后為"人"而非"物"--答案為C項
25.A 細節(jié)題.四個選項涉及的人或物都在短文中先后提及,可有的并不是出現(xiàn)在Kit Williams的story里,例如:Stevenson's Treasure Island,因此可以盡快排除(例如選項B),故選A.
26.C 細節(jié)題.這類細節(jié)排序問題的答題也有一定技巧:首先比較A、B、C、D四個選項中排序的異同,確認開頭兩項為a、b,d、b,a、d還是b、a.從短文中確認a(HenryⅧ's six wives;來自"one of six to Eight")在前;縮小范圍看第二步,比較b,d,應(yīng)該是d(=Katherine of Aragon=first of HenryⅧ's six wives);至此答案為C項:a,d,b,c,e.可以對照短文內(nèi)容再來驗證一下,對其他選項則不必一一細究了.
27.D 主旨大意題.通觀全文,開頭點題后,通篇在談作家Kit Williams為其作品Masquerade設(shè)計了一項現(xiàn)代尋寶的活動,讀者Ken Roberts如何追根溯源,獲得成功.因此,答案為 D.其余三個選項在文中均有不同程度的涉及,但都只是一個環(huán)節(jié)或某一方面,不能成為貫穿始終的subject,應(yīng)予舍棄.
點評 本文是一篇新聞報道類閱讀,題目涉及多道細節(jié)理解題.推理判斷題,主旨大意題.做題時學(xué)生應(yīng)仔細閱讀原文,把握文章主要內(nèi)容,聯(lián)系文章上下文內(nèi)容并結(jié)合所給選項含義,從中選出正確答案,一定要做到有理有據(jù),切忌胡亂猜測.