Question

Treasure hunts（寻宝）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（线索）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（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 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 ￡ 3,000 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's burial place at Kimbolton c．Williams' childhood in Ampthill d．Katherine of Aragone．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．

Answer 1

答案：1．D;2．C;3．B;4．C;5．B;
解析：

(1)	解析：根据第一段最后一句话可以判断出 them 所指的是 readers of Masquerade。Williams 在这本书里既提供了大量线索帮助读者找到野兔，同时又提供了许多虚假的线索使读者误入歧途。
(2)	解析：这是一道细节题。根据第二段中第三、四句可以判断出，Katherine of Aragon 是一条最重要的线索，没有这条线索，其它线索就没有任何用处。
(3)	解析：这是一道细节题。第二段最后两行告诉了我们。in one's honor 的意思是“为了纪念或表示敬意而举行的某种活动”，与show respect for同义。
(4)	解析：这是一道排序题。通读全篇短文可以看出，Robert找到野兔的逻辑思维的正确顺序是C项。
(5)	解析：这是一道主旨题。这篇短文主要讲述了1979年作家 kit Williams 写了一本名为Masquerade的书，并把一只金野兔埋在了一个公园里的故事。书中提供了大量找到这个野兔的线索，同时也提供了许多使读者误人歧途的线索。一个名叫 ken Roberts 的读者根据书中提供的线索，通过逻辑思维，终于在1982年2月24日找到了这只野兔。所以这篇短文是关于现代人寻宝的故事。