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全品网年全国高考英语试题阅读理解分类汇编之新闻报道类（精校版有答案解析） 2012 年全国高考英语试题阅读理解分类汇编之新闻报道类 【2012 全国 II 】 (D) ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – One of the world’s most famous fossils (化石) – the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy skeleton (骨骼) unearthed in Ethiopia in 1974 – will go on an exhibition tour abroad for the first time in the United States, officials said Tuesday. Even the Ethiopian public has only seen Lucy twice. The Lucy on exhibition at the Ethiopian National Museum in the capital, Addis Ababa, is a replica while the real remains are usually locked in a secret storeroom. A team from the Museum of National Science in Houston, Texas, spent four years discussing with the Ethiopians for the U.S. tour, which will start in Houston next September. “Ethiopia’s rich culture of both the past and today, is one of the best kept secrets in the world,” said Joel Bartsch, director of the Houston museum. The six-year tour will also go to Washington, New York, Denver and Chicago. Officials said six other U.S. cities may be on the tour. But they said plans had not been worked out. Travelling with Lucy will be 190 other fossils. Lucy, her name taken from a Beatles song that played in a camp the night of her discovery, is 1 part of the skeleton of what was once a 3 -foot-tall ape-man (猿人). 2 【文章大意】 本文是一篇新闻报道。文章讲述了埃塞尔比亚的古老化石去美国展出的事件安排。 53. The author writes this text mainly to ___ . A. introduce a few U.S. museums B. describe some research work C. discuss the value of an ape-man D. report a coming event 【答案】D 【解析】这是一篇新闻报道，作者写这篇报道的目的就是：报道埃塞尔比亚的古老化石去美 国展出的事件。故选 D 。 【考点定位】考查作者的写作意图。 全品网年全国高考英语试题阅读理解分类汇编之新闻报道类（精校版有答案解析） 54. What does the words “a replica” in Paragraph 2 refer to? A. A painting of the skeleton. B. A photograph of Lucy C. A