Question

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 Is-land. Kit Williams, a modern writer, had the idea of combining the real excitement of a treasure hunt with clues 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，not by luck. His success came from the fact that he had gaine4d 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 3000 in the beginning, but the excitement it had caused since its burial made it much more valuable.

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 Argon

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

【小題1】C

【小題2】B

解析:

【小題1】 文中提到Ken Roberts 尋寶的邏輯順序?yàn)椋?.確定寶物小金兔的埋葬地與亨利八世第一個(gè)妻子有關(guān)；2.他這位妻子的名字是Ketherine of Aragon; 3. Ketherine 的墓地在Kimbolton; 4. 而埋葬小金兔的作者一定把這一寶藏埋在他熟悉的地方而不是Ketherine的墓地；5. 果然，Kit Williams 的家鄉(xiāng)Ampthill公園內(nèi)有兩個(gè)石頭制成的十字架，這是1773年為表達(dá)對(duì)Ketherine 的敬意而修造的。照此邏輯順序，故應(yīng)選C.

【小題2】 先排除A項(xiàng)，因?yàn)閷さ靡患�寶藏并非屬重大歷史事件；再排除C項(xiàng)，因?yàn)槲闹袥]有涉及到Masquerade這本書對(duì)人們的吸引力；最后再排除D項(xiàng)，因?yàn)槲闹胁⑽磳?duì)邏輯思維的重要性進(jìn)行理論上的闡述。文中只是敘述了一個(gè)叫Kit Williams 的作者于1979寫了一本叫Masquerade關(guān)于指導(dǎo)人們尋寶的書，以及一個(gè)Ken Roberts 的人通過去偽存真、反復(fù)實(shí)踐與思考的過程，于1982年發(fā)現(xiàn)了這一寶物，故應(yīng)選B項(xiàng)，意為當(dāng)代尋寶。