He was the baby with no name. Found and taken from the north Atlantic 6 days after the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, his tiny body so moved the salvage (救援) workers that they called him “our baby.” In their home port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, people collected money for a headstone in front of the baby's grave (墓), carved with the words: “To the memory of an unknown child.” He has rested there ever since.
But history has a way of uncovering its secrets. On Nov. 5, this year, three members of a family from Finland arrived at Halifax and laid fresh flowers at the grave. “This is our baby,” says Magda Schleifer, 68, a banker. She grew up hearing stories about a great-aunt named Maria Panula,42, who had sailed on the Titanic for America to be reunited with her husband. According to the information Mrs. Schleifer had gathered, Panula gave up her seat on a lifeboat to search for her five children -- including a 13-month-old boy named Eino from whom she had become separated during the final minutes of the crossing. "We thought they were all lost in the sea," says Schleifer.
Now, using teeth and bone pieces taken from the baby's grave, scientists have compared the
DNA from the Unknown Child with those collected from members of five families who lost relatives on the Titanic and never recovered the bodies. The result of the test points only to one possible person: young Eino. Now, the family sees: no need for a new grave. "He belongs to the people of Halifax," says Schleifer. "They've taken care of him for 90 years."
Adapted from People, November 25, 2002
小題1:The baby travelled on the Titanic with his___________.
A．motherB．parentsC．a(chǎn)untD．relatives
小題2:What is probably the boy's last name?
A．SchleiferiB．Eino.C．Magda.D．Panula.
小題3: Some members of the family went to Halifax and put flowers at the child's grave on Nov. 5__.
A． 1912B．1954C．2002D．2004
小題4:This text is mainly about  how______________.
A．the unknown baby's body was taken from the north Atlantic
B．the unknown baby was buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia
C．people found out who the unknown baby was
D．people took care of the unknown baby for 90 years

小題1:A
小題2:D
小題3:C
小題4:C
本篇講述死于“泰坦尼克號”沉船事件的一名嬰兒最終被認(rèn)定身份的故事。
小題1:從第二段第四句之后可知：這個嬰兒叫Eina，它的母親叫Maria Panula。Maria帶著孩子們?nèi)ヅc丈夫團(tuán)聚。
小題2:本題問孩子的姓氏（Last name），孩子的姓氏與父親相同，在西方多數(shù)國家，婦女結(jié)婚后將姓氏改為夫姓，那么孩子也就與母親婚后的姓氏相同，這個嬰兒的母親叫Maria Panula（即姓Panula），嬰兒也就姓Panula。
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)理解題，第一段提到1912年這個嬰兒被埋葬。全文最后一句“They（the people of Halifax）have taken care of him for 90 years”可知：1912＋90=2002。
小題4:歸納推理題，全文從嬰兒被打撈、埋葬、親屬祭奠、科學(xué)檢驗(yàn)，最終證明嬰兒的身份，所以選C。
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