2018年5月真题
Part I. Reading Comprehension (30%)
Passage 1
In 1866, sailors on a German ship called Paula threw a bottle with a message into waters hundreds of miles off the western coast of Australia. One hundred and thirty-one years later, (76) the bottle was found on an Australia island.
It's believed to be the oldest-known message in a bottle, in terms of the amount of time that has passed between when it was written and when it was found. Before this discovery, Guinness(吉尼斯) World Records said that the oldest was 108 years old, found in Germany in 2015.Aus-tralian and German researchers worked together to check whether the note is real or not.
Tonya IIlman was walking on the beach in January when she spotted the old bottle. “I picked it up thinking it might look nice on display in my home, " Illman says, according to an account on her husband's website. (77)The bottle was partially filled with wet sand. Shortly after, Illman's son's girlfriend poured out the contents and found a tightly rolled note covered in a piece of string.
Too damp to open initially, according to the account, the group waited for it to dry and were amazed to see that it was carefully handwritten in German. "The first thing that caught my eye was the year 1866,” said Illman's husband Kym. "It seemed totally unlikely to us that the note and bottle could have lasted that long."
The pair reached out to the Western Australia Museum, which set out to study the document, "Extraordinary finds need extraordinary evidence to support them, so we contacted colleagues in Germany for help to find more information, “Ross Anderson, who is in charge of words of art in the museum, said in a statement.
But this message is no SOS or love letter.
1. According to Guinness World Records, the second oldest message was found ___.
A. in 2014
B. in 2015
C. in 2017
D. in 2016
2. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. A sailor named Paula threw the old bottle into waters in 1866.
B. Kym found the old bottle first.
time in a bottleC. This oldest message was found in Germany.
D. The oldest message was 131 years old.
3. From the passage, we learn that ___.
A. Tonya found the bottle first
B. Tonya and Kym contacted researchers in Germany for help
C. Illman 's son broke the bottle to take out what was inside
D. the note was written in English
4. The word damp in Paragraph 4 is closet in meaning to
A. wet B. dry C. cool D. hot
5. Which of the following is probably the best title for this passage?
A. The Oldest-Known Message Found in Australia
B. The Oldest-Known Message Found in Germany
C. An Extraordinary Evidence of History
D. A Guinness beer bottle
Passage 2
A handwritten note from Albert Einstein sold for more than $1. 5 million at an auction(拍卖会).He gave the note to a hotel porter in Japan in 1922. Einstein was not carrying money when the porter came to his room. (78) He was unable to give a cash tip, as a guest normally would. in-stead he gave a tip on how to live life.
“A calm and modest life brings more happiness than pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness,” Einstein wrote. The note was written in German. It was written on notepaper from the Imperial Hotel in Ginza, Tokyo, where Einstein was delivering a series of lectures.
He was traveling to Asia when news that he had won the Nobel Prize for Physics reached him via telegraph. Einstein was unable to attend the prize-giving ceremony in Stockholm
Gal wiener is head of the auction house in Jerusalem Israel where the note was sold. He Said Einstein told the hotel porter to keep the note since it "will probably be worth more than a regular tip”.
Bidding(拍卖中的出价) on the note began at$2,000. It was expected to sell for no more than $8, 000. But 25 minutes later, the auction house made the major sale.
(79)A second Einstein note was also sold at the auction. It went for more than $200, 000. “Where there’s a will, there’s a way,” the note says.
The identity of the person or group that sold the notes has not been made public. Nor has that of the buyer or buyers.
6. The word tip in Line 4, Paragraph 1 probably means ___.
A. advice
B. trick
C. news
D. trend
7. The note was written in ___.
A. English
B. Japanese
C. German
D. French
8. Albert Einstein went to Japan to
A. visit some friends
B. do some sightseeing
C. receive the Nobel Prize
D. give a series of lectures
9. The estimated sale value of the first note is about ___.
A. S2,000
B. $8,000
C. $200,000
D. 1.5 million
10. According to the passage, which of the following statement is NOT TRUE?
A. Einstein gave the porter the note instead of a tip
B. The buyer of the second note was a Japanese businessman
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