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阅读理解。WHOwouldhavethoughtamanwholivedintheStoneAgewouldbedressedinclothesmadeinChina?Athousand-year-oldmummy(木乃伊)nicknamed(绰号)OtzitheIceman

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     WHO would have thought a man who lived in the Stone Age would be dressed in clothes made in China? A
thousand-year-old mummy (木乃伊) nicknamed (绰号) Otzi the Iceman was wearing a Chinese jacket latest
research has found. But where and how he got the jacket has become a topic of great debate.
     Otzi is the nickname of a well-preserved (保存完好的) mummy from about 3 300 BC. He was found in
1991 in the Otztal Valley in the Alps near the border between Austria and Italy. Two German tourists Helmut
and Erika Simon found him when they were climbing.
     Otzi was thought to be the body of a soldier who fought during WWI but was found to be thousands of years
older. Analyzing Otzi showed that the items with him were all of different ages. His arrows are 7 000 years
old the axe (斧头) belonged to a time hundreds of years later and the skin in which the man was dressed
originally belonged to a goat that lived in China. Otzi's tattoo (纹身) shows that he might have been a wizard
(男巫) according to Prauda the official newspaper in Russia.
     There are still many mysteries surrounding Otzi yet the most famous and frightening one is his curse
(诅咒). It is said that Otzi had mystic powers and those who trouble his dead body will be doomed (注定) to
die. Otzi has claimed seven people so far. With the death of several people who have touched the remains of
the ancient man the "Otzi curse" mystery has snowballed .
1. In this passage the writer suggests that ______.
A. we should not go to the Alps because many people died there
B. many people that have studied Otzi have died
C. Otzi is an Egyptian mummy found on the Alps
D. Otzi is Chinese because of the clothing he was wearing
2. The underlined word "snowballed" in the last sentence means that _____.
A. people pay their respect to the dead by throwing snowballs
B. people who have touched Otzi's body have often died shortly after being hit with snowballs
C. the mystery around the curse gets larger and larger like a snowball rolling down a hill
D. Otzi was found buried with many snowballs that scientists agree may have been used
     as weapons in the time when Otzi was alive
3. In the passage which of the following statements is NOT mentioned?
A. Otzi was wearing a jacket made of the skin of a goat that lived in China.
B. Helmut and Erika Simon discovered Otzi in the Alps in 1991.
C. Helmut was the seventh victim of Otzi's curse.
D. Otzi is said to have mystic powers.
4. What is the best title of the passage?
A. The Curse of the Iceman
B. A Great Discovery
C. A Well-preserved Mummy
D. A Man Who Lived in the Stone Age
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