Question

 From Daban, we move to another ancient small town,Loulan. Daban town is famous for girls and windmills, while Loulan is a myth(神話)in the desert.

  Two thousand years ago,beside the beautiful and rich Luobu Lake,there lay Loulan ancient city of the Silk Road. Businessmen from every country gathered here and there were dancing parties. Everything showed that people in Loulan lived a rich life then.

  However, two thousand years later, this rich land suddenly disappeared from the map of China. Then it became an area covered with sand and dead tree trunks.

  Loulan was first "discovered" by a Swedish man in 1900. People from America, Britain, Japan and Sweden, all set foot here. Then in the 1930s, a Chinese named Huang Wenbi came to Loulan for the first time. He visited and studied this area and found many relics that were beautifully and carefully made.

  It is recorded that the ancient city of Loulan was the capital of Loulan Kingdom during the Han and Jin Dynasties(朝代），and covered an area of some 100 ，000 square metres. Inside the city,there are the ruins of government offices, temples and other old buildings. Outside the city,there are some dried rivers and much farmland. In the past century many things have been dug out there including Han Dynasty coins，mirrors and many things from Greek and Roman. All these things show that a lot of business between East and West once took place there.

  Lying on the northwest of the Lop Nur area,the Loulan Kingdom is now a lifeless area with endless "forests" of mounds(小丘)which aren't easily seen in other parts of the world. Its mystery has been attracting so many people from so many countries.

(   ) 5. The first person who set foot in Loulan in the 20th century is      

A. a European    B. an American

C. an Englishman    D. a Japanese

(   ) 6.Before Loulan disappeared,      

A.     a lot of business between East and West had taken place there

B.     people from America and Japan had set foot there

C.     a lifeless area with lots of mounds could easily be seen there

D.     no Europeans had visited the ancient country
(   ) 7. We can infer from the passage that      

A.     Loulan was destroyed by the terrible weather there

B.     wars made Loulan disappear

C.     foreigners came to Loulan and destroyed it

D.     how Loulan disappeared is still unknown to us
(   ) 8. A good title for this passage might be      

A.     Famous Town, Daban

B.     Business in Ancient Loulan

C.     Ancient City in the Desert

D.     Cities in Old Times of China

Answer 1

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B篇講述了樓蘭古城的相關(guān)情況。

5. A邏輯推理題從第四段第一句可知，樓蘭古城是在1900年被一個(gè)瑞典人發(fā)現(xiàn)的，而瑞典位于歐洲，故選A。

6. A細(xì)節(jié)理解題從第四段可知，美國(guó)、英國(guó)、日本和瑞典人都曾踏上樓蘭古國(guó)，但是是在1900年瑞典人首先發(fā)現(xiàn)消失后的樓蘭古國(guó)遺跡以后，所以B項(xiàng)錯(cuò)誤;從全文可知，樓蘭古國(guó)在消失以前人們過(guò)著富有的生活，并曾是漢朝時(shí)期中西貿(mào)易聚集地,所以C項(xiàng)錯(cuò)誤;從倒數(shù)第二段最后兩句可知，上世紀(jì)有許多漢朝的錢(qián)幣、鏡子和希臘、羅馬的物品在樓蘭古城被挖掘出來(lái)，所以在樓蘭消失前歐洲人就曾去過(guò)，因此D項(xiàng)有誤。

7. D細(xì)節(jié)理解題從第三段和最后一段看來(lái)，文章只提及樓蘭的突然消失，并未提及消失的原因。

8. C主旨大意題文章雖提及Daban但并非完全介紹它，所以A項(xiàng)錯(cuò)誤;B項(xiàng)僅為全文內(nèi)容的一個(gè)方面，不全面;D項(xiàng)意為文章介紹的是一些城市，實(shí)際上本文只介紹了樓蘭這一個(gè)古城;C項(xiàng)高度概括了樓蘭的特征，并且通過(guò)"沙漠里的古城"這一標(biāo)題吸引讀者的興趣,是最佳標(biāo)題。