文化、历史、地理类 考题1)(NMET 典型例题 Treasure hunts (寻宝) have excited peoples imagination for hundreds of years both in real life and in books such as Robert Louis Stevensons Treasure Island. Kit William, 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 childrens 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 imlportant 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 VIIIs six wives. Even here, how- ever, 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 Bedforshire, 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 3000 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 huntsC. Henry VIIIs six wives D. readers of Masquerade2. What is the most important clue in the story to help Ken Roberts find the hare? A. Two stone crosses in Ampthill. B. Stevensons 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 VIIIs 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 VIIIs six wives b. Katherines burial place at Kimbohon c. Williams childhood in Ampthill d. Katherine of Aragon e. Stone crosses in Amphill 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. 解析 1.D.本题测试考生根据上下文信息推断代词含义的能力。解这首题主要依据文章的第一段最后一句话：句中misled意为：“误导”，通常后接人作宾语，故C、D两面三刀项中选择。而代词通常指代前面出现过的名词，故选择前半句中出现过的名词readers。 2C本题考查考生综合概括的能力。本题主要依据文章第二段看出中心线索为 Katherine Aragon。 3B本题检测考生依据文中信息确定事情性质的能力。文中第二段最后一句话中的 her就是指上句中出现的Katherine of Aragon。根据上文介绍Katherine of Aragon，the first of Henrys six wives。因此确定B项为正确答案。 4C本题考查考生给事件发生时间排序的能力。本题的主要信息来自于文章第二段，不难排出正确答案。 5B本题的命题意图是检测考生对全篇主旨的概括能力。文章的第一句涉及treasure hunts；接下来又讲到had the idea of combining the real excitementwith clues found in a book when he wrote a childrens story文章第二段、第三段具体介绍了Ken Roberts的trea sure hunt过程。由此可能看出文章的主题为a modem treasure hunt。 考题2(北京典型例题 The tower of Big Ben, Londons most famous building, has always leaned (倾斜) slightly, but construction work on a new line for the London Underground seemed likely to give the tower a real lean. Engineers have had to prop up (支撑) its base to prevent it from damaging the rest of the Houses of Parliament. To control the towers movement, engineers pumped grout (水泥浆) into the soil under the tower. The tower now leans an extra few centimetres, but the lean can only be seen by the most sharp-eyed observer. Between 1995 and 1997, to lengthen the Jubilee line of the Underground, builders dug a 40-metre-deep hole just 31 meters north of the clock tower. And the new tube (underground) tunnels were even nearer to the tower. John Burland, who recently helped stop the increasing lean in the Leaning Tower of Pisa and was an adviser to the JubiLee line project, believed the work would affect the tower.