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No matter how many times you have seen images of the golden mask of boyking Tutankhamen, come face to face with it in Egypt’s Ca

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问题     No matter how many times you have seen images of the golden mask of boyking Tutankhamen, come face to face with it in Egypt’s Cairo museum, and you will suck in your breath.
    It was on Nov. 4, 1923, that British archaeologist Howard Carter stumbled on a stone at the base of the tomb of another pharaoh(法老)in Luxor that eventually led to a sealed doorway.
    Then, on Nov. 23, Carter found a second door and when he stuck his head through it, what he saw was to suck the world. Inside lay the great stone coffin, enclosing three chests of gilded wood.
    A few months later, when a crane lifted its granite cover and one coffin after another was removed; Carter found a solid block of gold weighing 110kg. In it was the mummy(木乃伊)of the 19-year-old Tutankhamen, covered in gold with that splendid funeral mask. And all this lay buried for more than 3, 000 years.
    Months after my trip to Egypt, I can relive the rush of emotion I felt and sense the hush that descended on the crammed Cairo museum’s Tutankhamen gallery.
    Cairo, a dusty city of 20 million people, is a place where time seems to both stand still and rush into utter chaos. It is a place where the ancient and contemporary happily go along on parallel tracks.
    Take the Great Pyramids of Giza, sitting on the western edge of the city. Even as the setting sun silhouettes these gigantic structures against the great desert expanse, a call for prayer floats over semifinished apartment blocks filled with the activity of city life.
    While careful planning for the afterlife may lie buried underground in Cairo, it is noise and confusion on the streets. Donkey carts battle for space with pedestrians and the only operative road rule is " might is right. " But it is a city that is full of life—from the small roadside restaurants to the coffee shops where men and women smoke the shisha(水烟壶).
    Donkey carts piled high with flat-breads magically find their way in and out the maddening traffic; young women in long skirts and headscarves hold hands with young men in open collar shirts, while conversations dwell on Kuwait’s chances at the soccer World Cup.
Which pair of words/phrases indicates contrast?
选项 A、Gigantic structure; great desert expanse.
B、A call for prayer; men and women with the shisha.
C、Chaos; maddening.
D、Coffee shops; pyramids.
答案B
解析 细节推断题。原文第六段尾句提到“在这里，远古与当代和谐并行”，下文开始提到各种对比关系。原文第七段尾句提到“落日让这些宏伟的建筑映衬在苍茫的沙漠上，在充满城市生活的、半完工的公寓楼上空，飘浮着祈祷声。”这里把世俗生活与宗教予以对比。原文第八段尾句以吸水烟壶的人们为例，说明世俗生活的情形。因此祷告声和吸水烟壶的人们构成对照关系。故答案为B。选项A中宏伟的建筑与苍茫的沙漠并不是对照关系，它们与落日一起构成和谐宏伟的画面。选项C“嘈杂”和“喧嚣”是同一关系。选项D中的咖啡店和金字塔，文中没有把它们拿来作对比。
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