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In April 2014， the world's oldest known message in a bottle was dis?covered floating in the Baltic Sea. It had spent 101 years lost in the ocean! The message was finally sent to the author's granddaughter.

A German fisherman named Konrad Fischer found the brown boltle near Kiel* Germany. He said he nearly threw the bottle back into the water after pulling it out of a fishing net. Then he noticed something inside.

The bottle in good condition contained a Danish postcard with two Ger?man stamps dated May 17， 1913. Although dampness had made most of the writing illegible(字迹模糊的)，the readable part of the message asked whoever found it to return it to an address in Berlin. It even contained two stamps lo pay for postage.

From the address researchers found that the postcard was written by a man named Richard Platz who was 20 years old when he wrote the mes?sage. While he was hiking on the Baltic coast with a nature appreciation group he threw the bottle into the sea. Then the researchers began a re?search for any living relatives of his. Sure enough they were able to find his 62-year-old granddaughter Angela Erdmann who still lives in Berlin.

"It was almost unbelievable*" Erdmann said upon being presented with her grandfather's bottle and message. "That was a pretty moving moment. Tears rolled down my face."

Erdmann never knew her grandfather who died in 1946， but says that the discovery of the bottle has made her want to learn more about him.

The bottle remained on display at the International Maritime Museum in Hamburg until May 1. After that the researchers examined the postcard and tried to figure out the meaning of the rest of the message. Previously the oldest message found in a bottle spent nearly 98 years at sea and was dis?covered in April 2012， according to Guinness World Records.

9. When Konrad picked up the bottle from the sea ___________

A.  he thought it would bring him good luck

B.  he noticed the postcard inside immediately

C.  he decided to uncover the secret of the bottle

D.  he wanted to throw it back into the sea at first

 10.  Why did Richard Platz throw the bottle with the message into the sea?

  A.  He expected his grandfather could find the postcard.

B.  He wished the finder would send the postcard to his home.

C.  He believed his postcard would be kept secret at sea forever.

D.  He thought he could make friends with the finder of the bottle.

11.  Which can be the best title for this passage?

  A.  The finding of a floating bottle at the sea

B.  A one-century-old letter to a grandfather

C.  The world's oldest message in a floating bottle

D.  The oldest Danish postcard in a floating bottle

Answer 1

C

[文章大意]本文是一篇新闻报道。本文是对最古老的瓶中信被发现这一事件的时间、地点、经过以及后续发展的描述。

9.D 细节理解题。根据第二段的"...he nearly threw the bottle back into the water..."可知，Konrad Fischer原本打算把瓶子扔掉。故选D。

 10.B 细节理解题。根据文章第三段"…the readable part of the message asked whoever found it to return..."可知选B。

  11.C主旨大意题。通读全文可知文章主要叙述了漂流瓶中的信息，故选C。