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  3. 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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问题     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.
What can be inferred from the passage?
选项 A、Howard Carter died soon after he opened the tomb.
B、Lord Carvarvon’s right cheek was actually bitten by an insect.
C、A total number of 21 deaths were closely related to the curse.
D、Mold might be the scientific explanation for the strange deaths.
答案D
解析 推断题。根据第四段最后一句话“Indeed，Howard Catter，the man who actually opened thetomb，lived to almost 65 before dying of natural causes．”可知Carter是多年后死于自然原因，故A错误；根据第三段可知Lord Carvarvon是left cheek而不是right cheek被咬了，故B错误；根据第四段中“only eight peopledirectly connected to the tomb had died”可知C项错误；根据最后一段中“the deaths were possibly caused bymold”可知D项表述正确。故选D。
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