Howard
Carter was a famous explorer(探险家).He loved to visit new places. During his life, he discovered many
important and exciting things.
Howard Carter did not go to school. But he was smart and wanted to learn the world outside his hometown. In 1891,at the age of 17,he went to Egypt(埃及) by ship. By the 1920s,he had become an explorer, looking for the tombs(坟墓) of the Egyptian kings.
He found several important ones. Inside the tombs, he found jewels, gold and 10 bodies of dead kings. These bodies are known as mummies(木乃伊).In 1922,Howard Carter made his most important discovery of all. When Carter’s team was working at a place near a city called Luxor, they found the tomb of King Tutankhamun.
Not long after the tomb was opened, people in Carter’s team began to get ill and die strangely.
Within seven years,21 people who had something to do with the opening of the tomb died However, Howard Carter lived on and died at the age of 65.
1. Howard Carter liked to visit new places.
2.Howard Carter was born in 1877.
3.Carter’s team found the tomb of King Tutankhamun in 1922.
4.The passage tells us Carter’s school life.
One very cold morning, my, father and I were working on the farm. I asked him how long I must stay in the ____31____.
“About an hour.”he answered.
“I wish I could go hone now—my __32__ aches.”
“I am sorry, but can’t you stay till lunch time?”said my father.
“But my headache is getting __33__.”
“Well,” said he,“you may go home. I don’t want you to work if you are sick. Go straight home __34__ tell your mother to give you some rhubarb(大黄，一种苦药).It will __35__ you a lot.”
I went back home. However, I told my mother that my head was better, hoping not to __36__ the terrible medicine. But it was too __37__.She understood my __38__ as well as my father. So she prepared the rhubarb.
I had to swallow(吞) all of the rhubarb. Dear me! How bitter it was! I would rather __39__ all day in the field. But it cured(治愈) my laziness, and I learned that it is important to be __40__.
Friends, keep it, though there is another and a better reason.
1.A. field B. hospital C. factory
2.A. tooth B. head C. stomach
3.A. better B. worse C. less
4. A. but B. or C. and
5.A. hurt B. worry C. help
6.A. take B. buy C. make
7. A. early B. late C. easy
8.A. joke B. duty C. problem
9.A. work B. play C. study
10. A. kind B. honest C, helpful
Gina loves singers _______ write their own music.
A. which B. who C. has worked
Jim _________ in Zhuzhou since he finished his college.
A. works B. is working C. has worked
He knows _________ about computer than me.
A. much B. more C. most
Mary didn’t go to John’s birthday party because she ________.
A. wasn’t invited B. didn’t invite C. isn’t invited
