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In 1922, Englishman Howard Carter found the tomb of an Egyptian king named Tutankhamen. Some reports say that above the entrance
In 1922, Englishman Howard Carter found the tomb of an Egyptian king named Tutankhamen. Some reports say that above the entrance
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In 1922, Englishman Howard Carter found the tomb of an Egyptian king named Tutankhamen. Some reports say that above the entrance to the tomb, a curse was written: "Death shall come on swift wings to him who disturbs the peace of the king." Carter ignored the curse. He and his friend Lord Carvarvon broke into tomb. They found an amazing collection of treasure and three mummies.
A few months later, Lord Carvarvon, aged 57, got sick and died. The doctor didn’t know the exact cause of his death, but said perhaps it was from an infection started by an insect bite. It’ s said that when he died, there was a short power
outage
and all of the lights throughout Cairo went out. At his home back in England, his favorite dog howled and dropped dead.
Even more strange, when the mummy of Tutankhamen was unwrapped in 1925, it was found to have a wound on the left cheek in exactly the same position as the insect bite on Carvarvon that led to his death.
Reporters quickly developed the story. By 1935, they claimed that 21 deaths were due to the "Mummy’s Curse". However, according to Herbert E. Winlock the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, by 1934, only eight people directly connected to the tomb had died. Indeed, Howard Carter, the man who actually opened the tomb, lived to almost 65 before dying of natural causes.
But perhaps some connection did exist. In 1999, a German scientist suggested that the deaths were possibly caused by mold—extremely small, dangerous growths that can survive for thousands of years, even in a dark, dry tomb. For this reason, archeologists now wear special masks and gloves when unwrapping a mummy.
The best title for the passage is probably______.
选项
A、An Ancient Egyptian King
B、The Mummy’s Curse
C、Egyptian Mummies
D、Unwrapping a Mummy
答案
B
解析
主旨题。整篇文章从埃及国王坟墓入口处的咒语展开,后面讲的是人们猜想某些死亡都与咒语相关以及科学家关于此的研究,全文都与curse相关,故选B。
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