解题指导:把 握 细 节
把 握 细 节
解题指导（一）
此类试题要求学生利用文章所提供的具体信息来回答问题，答题依据可以在阅读材料中直接找到。
细节性问题的命题方法是，选出原文中的一句话或片语，然后用同义词表达作为正确选项来提问。虽然答案有时与原文出处在文字表达上不相一致，但所用词语意义非常接近，有时甚至原文的话就出现在选项中。细节性问题有两种基本形式：完全式和不完全式。例如：
（1） What were things like in the 1980s when accidents happened?
（2） The Sun’s light travels slowly when __________.
实例1
During the summer holidays there will be a revised （修改过的）schedule （时刻表）of services for the students. Changes for dining-room and library service hours and for bus schedules will be posted on the wall outside of the dining-hall. Weekly film and concert schedules, which are being arranged（安排）, will be posted each Wednesday outside of the student club.
In the summer holidays, buses going to the town center will leave the main hall every hour on the half hour during the day. The dining-room will serve three meals a day from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. during week and two meals from noon to 7:00 p.m. on weekends. The library will continue its usual hours during the week, but have shorter hours on Saturdays and Sundays. The weekend hours are from noon to 5:00 p.m.
All students who want to use the library borrowing services must have a new summer card. This announcement will also appear in the next week’s student newspaper.
1. Which of the following times will the buses leave the main hall?
A. 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 B. 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30
C. 8:30, 9:00, 9:30, 10:00 D. 8:00, 9:30, 11:00, 12:30
实例2
Emma Hart Willard (1787-1879) was an American pioneer educator. In her time college and universities were for men, and women were not permitted to attend. Emma received advanced education at home from her father and became a school teacher at twenty. She continued to teach at school for several years after her marriage, then began offering college lessons in her home to women students. Later she found a school in New York State, which was the first school of higher education in the US for women. Emma Willard also tried to persuade New York State to pass a law to allow women to attend public colleges and universities, though that did not come about until after her death. Some years later people remembered her for her life-long efforts and elected her to the US Hall of Fame in 1905.
2. Choose the right order of the events given in the passage.
a. New York State granted women the right to attend public colleges and universities.
b. The first women’s school of higher education was set up.
c. Emma Willard died.
d. Emma Willard ran classes in her home.
e. Emma Willard was elected to the Hall of Fame.
A. e, d, c, b, f, a B. d, e, a, c, b, f
C. d, d, a, b, f, c D. e, d, b, c, a, f
解题指导（二）
做细节性问题时需要注意以下几个方面：
（1） 每篇文章不论长短都有其中心思想，用以支持和发展中心思想的具体信息就是命题时的重要依据。答题时，学生要围绕中心思想，特别留意阅读材料中的有关数字、时间、专有名词、原因和特点等具体信息。
（2） 干中的标识语是从阅读材料中快速寻找答题依据的“路标”。最常见的就是用引号所标识的关键词或标明的标识语所在的具体行数。例如：The author’s attitude toward “most economists in the United States” (line 1) can best be describe as ____. 另外，题干中的地名、人名、数字、日期、专有名词等也是寻找正确答案的路标。
技能训练
Passage 1
NANJING (Xinhua) ---- Farmers in East China’s Jiangsu Province enjoy the best health among Chinese farmer, with an average life expectancy of 71 year, doubling the figure in 1949 when New China was founded.
1. According to the above report, the average life expectancy of people in Jiangsu by the end of the 1940s was around _________.
A. 40 B. 50 C. 45 D. 35
Passage 2
Five hundred test-tube babies have been born in China since the first was born in Beijing in 1988.
Forty-eight research institutes in China have been doing research in assisted reproductive (繁殖) technology. Zhongshan Medical University and Beijing Medical University took the lead in the field, reporting the birth of more than 180 and 100 test-tube babies each.
The country’s youngest test-tube babies was born on April 10 in Southwest China’s Chongqing. The research institute under Chongqing Woman’s and Baby’s hospital has used the new technology for 67 women, 27 per cent of whom became mothers.
1. According to the report, China’s 500th test-tube baby was born in ________.
A. Beijing B. Chongqing
C. Zhongshan Medical University D. Beijing Medical University
2. Which institution in China has the largest number of successful test-tube births?
A. Chongqing Woman’s and Baby’s Hospital
B. A research institute in Chongqing
C. Zhongshan Medical University
D. Beijing Medical University
Passage 3
Suppose you work in a big firm and find English very important for your job because you often deal with foreign businessmen. Now you are looking for a place where you can improve your English, especially your spoken English.
Global English Center
General English in all four skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing
3-month (700 yuan), 6-month(1200 yuan) and one-year(2000 yuan) courses.
Choice of morning or evening classes, 3 hours per day, Mon-Fri.
Experienced college English teachers.
Close to city center and bus stops.
Tel: 67605272 Add: 105 Zhong shan Road, 100082
Modern Language School
Special courses in English for business, travel, banking, hotel management and offices skills.
Small classes (12-16 students) on Sat. & Sun. from 2:00-5:00 pm.
Native English teachers from Canada and USA.
Language lab and computers supplied.
3-month course: 1050 yuna; 6-month course: 1850 yuan
Write or phone: Modern Language school, 675 Park road, 100056
Tel: 67353019
The 21st Century English Training Center
We specialize in effective teaching at all levels.
We offer morning or afternoon classes, both of which last three months and a half at a cost of 800 yuan.
We also have a six-week TOEFL preparation class during winter and summer holidays.
Entrance exams: June 1 and Dec. 1.
Only 15-minutes walk from city center.
Call 67801642 for more information
The International House of English
Three/six-month English courses for students of all levels at very low cost: 60 yuan for 12 hours per week; convenient class hours: 9:00-12:00 am and 2:00-5:00 pm.
A four-month evening program for developing speaking skills( same cost a day classes)
Well-trained Chinese and foreign teachers experienced in teaching English as a second /foreign language.
Free sightseeing and social activities.
For further information call 67432308
You will probably prefer to go to the International House because it ________.
A. offers free sightseeing and social activities
B. has a special course in spoken English
C. costs less than the other schools
D. has native English teachers
解题指导（三）
做这种题型往往需要运用检索阅读方法(scanning)，即要注意题干中的标识语，带着问题有的放矢地在阅读材料中寻找某一个特定信息（日期、数字、专有名词等）的具体位置。学生不必逐行阅读，也不必考虑文章的结构布局。Scanning的具体步骤为：1）要时刻记住所要寻找的特定信息；2）应该快速沿纸页或栏目自上而下扫视，时刻期待着相关信息的出现；3）必要时可适当停留，辨别是否找到了特定信息。
强化训练
During the fourth China Beijing High-tech Industries Week, exhibitions, feature presentations, technological exchanges and trade talks, and other events are organized.
Exhibitions
China International Exhibition Center
* Section for China's key science and technology achievements of the Ninth Five-Year Plan( 1996-2000)
* Environmental protection and energy section
* Section for exhibitors from other provinces and municipalities(自治县) and regions of China
China World Trade Center
* Exchange and Trade Fair for Science and Technology Books and Sports Information Media
* The Trade Fair for Modern Intelligent Houses and Beijing Urban Real Estate
China Millennium Monument
* Forum(论坛) and Exhibition of Foreign Sci-tech Universities
China Agricultural Culture Center
* High-tech Construction Products Exhibition Feature Presentation
Science and Education
* Scientists Forum on the New Century
High-tech Industry
* Forum on Environmental Protection
* 2001 Forum on Bio-technology on Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Medicine
Technical Exchanges and Trade Talks
Trade talks on financial capital transformation
Sino-Italian Forum and Trade Fair for the Development of IT and Communications Technology
64. If you want to know more about the high-tech achievements of different parts of China, you should go to ___.
A. China World Trade Center
B. China Millennium Monument
C. China International Exhibition Center
D. China Agricultural Cultural Center
65. These sessions mark the achievements of mankind in the fields of ___.
A. electronic communications, energy and education
B. sports technology, film-industry and environmental protection
C. network technology, high-tech industries and traffic
D. medicine, weather broadcast and finance
(B)
BEIJING - Set off by the April 1 Sino-US plane collision and US official agreement of the biggest arms sale to Taiwan in a decade (ten years) as well as remarks by US President Bush on defending Taiwan, there have been increasing hacker attacks on websites of the two countries in the past weeks.
An American group of hackers which calls itself Poizon Box had begun ruining Chinese web-sites after the April 1 spy plane incident, top Chinese portal . said.
The Chinese soon attacked back.
On April 29, Chinese hackers invaded two US Government websites over the weekend, forcing the Department of Labour and the Department of Health and Human Services to shut down their sites for a short time.
The US Department of Labour went offline for a few hours after a page in its website was changed to display a picture of Wang Wei, the Chinese pilot who died in the collision.
The page was titled "China hack!" and read, in English, "The whole country is sorry for losing the best son of China -- Wang Wei forever, we will miss you until the end of the day."
On May 1, hackers exchanged bad remarks in which the official White House website was defaced by a huge amount of e-mail garbage. On May 5, the White House website fell victim (受害者) to a denial of service attack that blocked access（通道）to the site for more than two hour.
The Computer Network and Information Security Management Office told web operators an average of 100 sites a day had seen "some more form of attack. "
61. What is the correct order of the events?
a. Wang Wei's picture appeared on a US website.
b. Poizon Box destroyed some Chinese websites.
c. The access to White House website was blocked for over two hours.
d. Hackers exchanged bad remarks.
A. a, b, c, d B. a, c, b, d
C. b, a, d, c D. b, a, c, d
C
Lecture for English Language Teaching(ELT) Teachers
Topic: Learning a Language Through Texts of “New Concept Einglish”.
Co–organizers: the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, Longman and 21st Century.
Date: 4th November , 2000(Wednesday)
Time: 3:00pm
Speaker: Alexander, the author of “New Concept English”
Place: Beijing Foreign Studies University
(This lecture is open to all ELT teachers, especially New Concept English teachers of middle schools and part–time vocational training schools. 21st Century has offered 300 seats for English teacher among its readers.)
Workshop（讲座）for “New Concept English” Teachers
Date: 5th November, 2000（Thursday）
Time: 2:30pm
Speaker: Alexander, the author of “New Concept English”
Place: Beijing Foreign Studies University
(This workshop is open to New Concept English teachers of middle schools and sparetime vocational training schools only. Seating offered for 21st Century readers is 20, but a further 30 sittings（旁听）are allowed.)
64. According to the text we can infer that 21st Century is .
A. a kind of newspaper in Chinese B. a kind of newspaper in English
C. a name of a middle school D. a name of a press
65. From the text we know in China use New Concept English as their English textbooks.
A. some middle schools
B. all the middle schools
C. none of the middle schools
D. some middle schools and sparetime vocational training schools
66. The tickets of the lecture that the 21st Century offered will be given to those who are .
A. ELT teachers B. the 21st Century readers
C. middle school teachers D. ELT teachers at the same time the 21st Century readers
67. The persons who are allowed to attend the workshop are .
A. New Concept English teachers of middle schools and part–time vocational training schools only
B. All ELT teachers
C. Only the 21st Century readers
D. The students who are learning New Concept English
（A）
Once there was no zero．To write the number sixty-three，people wrote 63．To writes hundred and three，people wrote 6 3．The space was there to mean“not any” tens．Sometimes people did not remember the space．It was hard to see and to read．
Later people used a dot（点）to hold the space．Six hundred and three looked like this6．3． But the dot was hard to see．So people put a circle around It．Then people could see the dot．They remembered the space．
At last，only the circle around the dot was used．It was like a zero．This is one story of how the zero came to be used．
Now zero has many important uses．Zero tells how many．Can you tell some other ways zero is used？
51．Long，long ago，people didn't know how to＿＿＿．
A．write 603 B．write zero C．write numbers D．write sixty-three
52．Long，long ago，if they wrote two hundred and eight，people wrote
A．28 B．2 8 C．280 D．208
53．Later was used to mean space＿＿＿．
A．“not any” B．letter“o” C．zero D．a dot
（C）
Agnes Miller was one of the earliest leaders of the women's liberation movement in th6 United States．She was born on a farm in Missouri in 1892． Strangely enough she had a very happy life as a child．She was the only daughter and the youngest child of five．Her parents and her brothers always treated her as their favorite．
In 1896 the family moved to Chicago．Three years later they moved back to St．Louis where Agnes spent the rest of her childhood．She enjoyed her years in school and was an excellent student of mathematics．She also was quite skillful as a painter．
It was when Agnes went off to college that she first learned that women were not treated as equals．She didn't like being treated unequally but she tried not to notice it． After graduating from college she tried to get a job in her major field--physics．She soon found it was almost impossible for a woman．
Agnes spent a full year looking for a job．Finally she gave up in anger．She began writing letters of anger to various newspapers．An editor in New York liked her ideas very much．He specially liked her style（风格）．He asked her to do a series of stories on the difficulties that women had in finding a job．And there she began her great fight for equal rights for women．
59．How many children did Mr Miller and Mrs Miller have？
A．1 B．3 C．4 D．5
60．Where did Agnes spend her childhood？
A．Missouri B．Chicago C．New York D．St．Louts and Chicago
61．At school，Agnes was good at＿＿＿．
A．physics and painting B．maths and painting
C．writing and maths D．physics and writing
（E）
Beijing World Hotel
BRAUHAUS
Here we opened an excellent German bar. Guests will feel the atmosphere (气氛) of a bar in Berlin, enjoy real German beers and meals. Nightly live band performance from 21:00 hours onwards.
Location: Ground Level, West Wing Building, Beijing World Trade Center
Operating hours: 12:00 to 03:00 hours (Sun-Thu)
12:00 to 05:00 hours (Fri-Sat)
LOST HORIZON
You are the star at the Lost Horizon karaoke room. Over 7,000 selections of Mandarin, Japanese, Cantonese, Korean, Taiwanese and English songs are all for your singing pleasure.
Location: Ground Level West Wing Building, Beijing World Trade Center
Operating hours: 19:00 to 01:00 hours (Sun-Thu)
19:00 to 03:00 hours (Fri-Sat)
GOURMET
It is so simple to prepare a great meal at home now that you can buy the best meats, milk products, wines, breads, cakes and more …all under one roof.
Location: Basement 1, Beijing World Trade Center
Operating hours: 19:00 to 21: 00 hours
67．Beijing World Hotel is a place .
A．where you can live comfortably
B．which seems to be divided into 3 parts
C．you can visit anytime by day or at night
D．which looks likes a big hotel in Berlin
68．The word “Location” in the three passages all means “ ”
A．The place that fits you is this.
B．Where is it?
C．Where can you enjoy yourself?
D．The place that sells good food and drinks is here.
69．One of the signs here shows that Brauhaus is a place where one can .
A．buy the best beers
B．enjoy living at night from 9:00 p.m. on ward
C．drink beers made in Germany
D．enjoy a good night drinking beers and listening to music only after 9:00 p.m.
70．LOST HORIZON is a place where one can .
A．listen to over 7, 000 songs sung in several languages
B．sing over 7, 000 songs sung in several languages
C．sing and listen to songs sung in several languages
D．enjoy singing and listening to over 7, 000 songs sung in several languages
C
THEATRE
City Varieties
The Headrow, Leeds, Tel. 430808
Oct 10 –11 only A Night at the Varieties. All the fun of an old music hall with Barry Cryez, Duggle Brown, 6 dancers, mystina, Jon Barker, Anne Duval and the Tony Harrison Trio. Laugh again at the old jokes and listen to your favourite songs.
Performances: 8 pm nightly.
Admission: ￡5; under 16 or over 60 ￡4 .
York Theatre Royal
St Leonard’s Place, York. Tel. 223568
Sept 23- Oct 17 Groping for Words – a comedy by Sue Townsend. Best known for her Adrian Mole Diaries. Townsend now writes about an evening class which two men and a woman attend. A gentle comedy.
Admission: First night, Mon; ￡2; Tues- Fri: ￡3.25-5.50; Sat: ￡3.50-5.75.
Halifax Playhouse
King’s Cross Street, Halifax. Tel. 365998
Oct 10- 17 On Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson. This is a magical comedy about real people. A beautifully produced, well-seted play for everyone. Don’t miss it.
Performances: 7:30 p.m.
Admission: ￡2. Mon; 2 seats for the price of one.
Grand Theatre
Oxford Street, Leeds. Tel. 502116
Restaurant and Café.
Oct 1-17 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13, Sue Townsend’s musical play, based on her best-selling book.
Performances; Evenings 7:45 October 10-17, at 2:30 p.m. No Monday performances.
Admission: Tues- Thurs; ￡2-5; Fri & Sat; ￡2-6.
64. Which theatre offers the cheapest seat?
A. Halifax Playhouse. B. City Varieties. C. Grand Theatre D. York Theatre Royal
you want to see a play with old jokes and songs, which phone number will you ring to book a seat?
A. 502116 B. 223568 C. 365998 D. 430808
66. We may learn from the text that Sue Townsend is .
A. a writer B. an actress C. a musician D. a director
高考试题选辑
D ( 2002 NMET)
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 Bedlordshire. 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(选择) , 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 alter 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.
67. The underlined word “them”(paragraph 1) refers to .
A. red herrings B. treasure hunts C. Henry VIII’s six wives D. readers of masquerade
68. 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.
69. 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
70. 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 Aragon
e. 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
71. What is the subject discussed in the text?
A. An exciting historical event B. A modern treasure hunt
C. The attraction of Masqurrade D. The importance of logical thinking.
A
Shanghai: Car rentals(出租) are becoming more and more popular as an inexpensive way of taking to the roads. Business people, foreigners and families alike are making good use of the growing industry.
The first car rental firm opened in Shanghai in 1992 and now 12 car rental players are in the game, with more than 11,500 cars in their books.
The largest player - Shanghai Bashi Tourism Car Rental Center offers a wide variety of choices - deluxe sedans, minivans, station wagons, coaches. Santana sedans are the big favorite.
Firms can attract enough customers for 70 percent of their cars every month. This figure shoots up during holiday seasons like National Day, Labor Day and New Year’s Day, with some recording 100 percent rental.
The major market force rests in the growing population of white-collar employees (白领雇员), can afford the new service, said Zhuang Yu, marketing manager of Shanghai Angel Car Rental Co.
56. The words “deluxe sedans, minivans” and “station wagons” used in the text refer to ______
A. cars in the making B. car rental firms
C. cars for rent D. car makers
57. Which of the following statements is true according to the text?
A.70% of the cars can be rented out on holiday.
B. 70% of the customers are white-collar employees.
C. More firms are open for service during holiday seasons.
D. Some firms rent out all their cars during holiday seasons.
58. Shanghai’s car rental industry is growing so fast mainly due to ______
A. better cars supplied by producers B. fast service offered by car rental firms
D. the increasing number of white-collar employees D. People’s growing interest in travelling during holidays
B
Holidaymakers who are bored with baking beaches and overheated hotel rooms head for a big igloo. Swedish businessman Nile Bergqvist is delighted with his new hotel, the world’s first igloo hotel. Built in a small town in Lapland, it has been attracting lots of visitors, but soon the fun will be over.
In two weeks’time Bergqvist’s ice creation(作品)will be nothing more than a pool of water. “We don’t see it as a big problem,” he says. “We just look forward to replacing it.”
Bergqvist built his first igloo in 1991 for an art exhibition. It was so successful that he designed the present one, which measures roughly 200 square meters. Six workmen spent more than eight weeks piling 1,000 tons of snow onto a wooden base; when the snow froze, the base was removed. “The only wooden thing we have left in the igloo is the front door,” he says.
After their stay, all visitors receive a survival certificate recording their success. With no windows, nowhere to hang clothes and temperatures below 0℃, it may seem more like a survival test than a relaxing( 轻松的) hotel break. “It’s great fun,” Bergqvist explains, “as well as a good start in survival training.”
The popularity of the igloo is beyond doubt: it is now attracting tourists from all over the world. At least 800 people have stayed at the igloo this season even though there are only 10 rooms. “You can get a lot of people in,” explains Bergqvist. “The beds are three meters wide by two meters long, and can fit at least four at one time.”
63. Which of the four pictures below is the closest to the igloo hotel as described in the text?
D
If you ask people to name the one person who had the greatest effect on the English language, you will get answers like “Shakespeare,” “Samuel Johnson,” and “Webster,” but none of these men had any effect at all compared to a man who didn’t even speak English-William the Conqueror.
Before 1066, in the land we now call Great Britain lived peoples belonging to two major language groups. In the west-central region lived the Welsh, who spoke a Celtic language, and in the north lived the Scots, whose language, though not the same as Welsh, was also Celtic. In the rest of the country lived the Saxons, actually a mixture of Anglos, Saxons, and other Germanic and Nordic peoples, who spoke what we now call Anglo-Saxon(or Old English), a Germanic language. If this state of affairs had lasted, English today would be close to German.
But this state of affairs did not last. In 1066 the Normans led by William defeated the Saxons and began their rule over England. For about a century, French became the official language of England while Old English became the language of peasants. As a result, English words of politics and the law come from French rather than German. In some cases, modem English even shows a distinction(区别) between upper-class French and lower-class Anglo-Saxon in its words. We even have different words for some foods, meat in particular, depending on whether it is still Out in the fields or at home ready to be cooked, which shows the fact that the Saxon peasants were doing the farming, while the upper-class Normans were doing most of the eating.
When Americans visit Europe for the first time, they usually find Germany more “foreign” than France because the German they see on signs and advertisements seems much more different from English than French does. Few realize that the English language is actually Germanic in its beginning and that the French influences are all the result of one man’s ambition.
67. The two major languages spoken in what is now called Great Britain before 1066 were _____
A. Welsh and Scottish B. Nordic and Germanic
C. Celtic and Old English D. Anglo-Saxon and Germanic
68. Which of the following groups of words are, by inference, rooted in French?
A. president, lawyer, beef B. president, bread, water
C. bread, field, sheep D. folk, field, cow
A
New York , 10 November 5：27pm , yesterday . Biggest power failure in the city's history . *Thousands of people got stuck in lifts . Martin Saltzman spent three hours between the 21st and 22nd floors of the Empire State Building . "There were twelve of us . But no one panicked . We passed the time telling stories and playing word games . One man wanted to smoke but we didn't let him . Firemen finally got us out."
* "It was the best night we've ever had.," said Angela Carraro . who runs an Italian restaurant on 42nd Street . "We had lots candles on the tables and the waiters were carrying candles on their trays . The place was full and all night , in fact , for after we had closed , we let the people stay on and spend the night here."
* The zoos had their problems like everyone else . Keepers worked through the right . They used blankets to keep flying squirrels and small monkeys warm . While zoos had problems keeping warm , supermarkets had problems keeping cool . "All of our ice cream and frozen foods melted," said the manger of a store in downtown Manhattan . "They were worth $50,0000."
* The big electric clock in the lobby(大厅) of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in downtown Manhattan started(滴答) again at 5：25 this morning . It was almost on time.
53．How long did the power failure last?
A．Nearly 12 hours. B．More than 12 hours.
C．Nearly 24 hours. D．More than 24 hours.
A
Tom Brennan was working in a Philadelphia office building when he noticed a black bag. The bag contained a book.
This chance discovery ended a 12-day search by the Library Company of Philadelphia for a historical treasure-a 120-page diary kept 190 years age by Deborah Logan, "a woman who knew everybody in her day," James Green ,the librarian told the magazine American Libraries.
Most of the diary is a record of big events in Philadelphia ,It also includes a description of British soldiers burning Washington .D. C in the war of describes President James Madison on horseback as "perfectly shaking with fear" during the troubled days. George Washington, she writes, mistook her for the wife of a French man. and praised her excellent English ．
The adventure of the lost book began September 4 when Cory Luxmoore arrived from Eng- land to deliver the diary of his ancestor(祖先)to the Library Company, which he and his wife considered to be the best home for the diary.
Green told American Libraries he had the diary in his possession "a bout five minutes" when Luxmoore took it back because he had promised to show it to one other person. On returning to his hotel after showing the precious book to Green, Luxmoore was shocked to realize that he had left it in the taxi.
Without any delay, Green began calling every taxi company in the city, with no luck, "I've felt sick since then," Luxmoore told reporters.
According to Green, no one has yet learned how the diary came to the office building .
Tom Brennan received a reward(奖励)of 1,000,Philadelphia gained another treasure for its history, and Luxmoore told reporters, "It's wonderful news. I'm on high".
article mainly tells about the story of ＿＿＿＿＿
A. a lost diary B. Deborah Logan C. Cory Luxmoore D. the Library Company
the text,we learn that the diary is now owned by＿＿＿＿＿
A. Tom Brennan B. an unknown person
C. a Philadelphia magazine D. the Library Company of Philadelphia
adelphia is thought to be the best home for the diary because＿＿＿＿＿.
A. it was written in Philadelphia
B. it tells stories about Philadelphia
C. people in the city are interested in old things
D. the British and the Americans once fought in Philadelphia
h of the following shows the right order of what happened to the diary?
a-Tom Brennan found the book in an office building.
b-The book was shown to James Green.
c-Cory Luxmoore arrived from England.
d-The book was left behind in a taxi.
A. a. b. c. d B. c. b. d. a C. a. c. d. b D. c. a. b. d
