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Modem cowboy seem to be giving up the bandanna (印花大手帕) handkerchief; yet there was a time when this article was almost as necessary to a cowboy’s equipment as a rope, and it served for purposes almost as varied.
The bandanna made a good sling for a broken arm; it made a good bandage for a blood wound. Early Irish settlers on the Nueces River used to believe that a bandanna handkerchief that had been worn by a drowned man would, if cast into a stream above the sunken body, float until it came over the body and then sink, thus locating the body. Many a cowboy out on the lonely plains has been buried with a clean bandanna spread over his face to keep the dirt, or the coarse blanket on which the dirt was poured, from touching him. The bandanna has been used to hang men. Rustlers used to "wave" strangers around with it as a warning against nearer approach, though the hat was more commonly used for signaling. Like the Mexican sombrero (阔边帽) or the fourgallon Stetson, the bandanna could not be made too large. When the cowboys of the Old West make their final parade on the grassy shores of Paradise, the guidon (旗手) that leads them should be a bandanna handkerchief. It deserves to be called the "flag of the range country".

A Stetson is a ______.

A.large bandanna

B.Mexican sombrero

C.tough vaquero

D.wide-brimmed hat

答案

参考答案:D

解析:

[分析]: 细节题型见第二段第六句:Like the Mexican sombrero (阔边帽)or the fourgallon Stetson,the bandanna could not be made too large. (像墨西哥的阔边帽或fourgallon Stetson一样,印花大手帕也不能做得太大);在此the Mexican sombrero和the fourgallon Stetson一样,因此D为答案,Stetson是斯泰森毡帽(一种阔边高顶毡帽)。

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Jenlins was a jeweller, who had made a large diamond(钻石) ring worth 57,000 pounds for the Silkstone Jewellery Shop. When it was ready, he made a copy of it which looked ___1___ like the first one but was worth only 2,000 pounds. This he took to the shop, which ___2___ it without a question.

Jenkins gave the much more ___3___ ring to his wife for her fortieth birthday. Then, the husband and wife ___4___ to Paris for a weekend. As to the ___5___ ring, the shop sold it for 60,000 pounds.

Six months later the buyer ___6___ it back to Silkstone’s office. “It’s a faulty(有瑕疵的) diamond,” he said. “It isn’t worth the high ___7___ I paid.” Then he told them the ___8___. His wife’s car had caught fire in an ___9___. She had escaped(幸免), ___10___ the ring had fallen off and been damaged(损坏) in the great ___11___ of the fire.

The shop had to ___12___. They knew that no fire on earth can ___13___ damage a perfect diamond. Someone had taken the ___14___ diamond and put a faulty one in its place. The question was: who ___15___ it?

A picture of the ring appeared in the ___16___. A reader thought he ___17___ the ring. The next day, another picture appeared in the papers which ___18___ a famous dancer walking out to a plane for Paris. Behind the dancer there was a woman ___19___ a large diamond ring. “Do you know the ___20___ with the lovely diamond ring?” the papers asked their readers. Several months later, Jenkins was sentenced to seven years in prison.

1. A. only       B. surely C. nearly D. exactly

2. A. accepted B. received     C. refused       D. rejected

3. A. real B. modern      C. worthy       D. valuable

4. A. flew       B. drove  C. sailed  D. bicycled

5. A. first       B. second       C. last     D. next

6. A. sold       B. posted C. brought      D. returned

7. A. cost       B. money       C. price   D. value

8. A. facts      B. matters       C. questions    D. results

9. A. affair     B. accident     C. incident      D. experience

11. A. pile      B. heat    C. power D. pressure

12. A. think    B. agree  C. permit D. promise

13. A. almost  B. even   C. just     D. ever

14. A. real      B. pure    C. right   D. exact

15. A. copied  B. made  C. stole   D. did

16. A. notices B. magazines  C. newspapers D. programmes

17. A. saw      B. knew  C. found  D. recognized

18. A. showed       B. drew   C. printed       D. carried

19. A. carrying      B. dressing     C. wearing      D. holding

20. A. dancer  B. woman       C. reader D. jeweler

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