9．ADDIS ABABA，Ethiopia-One of the world's most famous fossils （化石）-the 3.2million-year-old Lucy skeleton （骨骼） unearthed in Ethiopia in 1974-will go on an exhibition tour abroad for the first time in the United States，officials said Tuesday．
Even the Ethiopian public has only seen Lucy twice．The Lucy on exhibition at the Ethiopian National Museum in the capital，Addis Ababa，is a replicawhile the real remains are usually locked in a secret storeroom．A team from the Museum of National Science in Houston，Texas，spent four years discussing with the Ethiopians for the U．S．tour，which will start in Houston next September．
"Ethiopia's rich culture of both the past and today，is one of the best kept secrets in the world，"said Joel Bartsch，director of the Houston museum．
The six-year tour will also go to Washington，New York，Denver and Chicago．Officials said six other U．S．cities may be on the tour．But they said plans had not been worked out．
Travelling with Lucy will be 190other fossils．
Lucy，her name taken from a Beatles song that played in a camp the night of her discovery，is part of the skeleton of what was once a 3$\frac{1}{2}$-foot-tall ape-man （猿人）．

53．The author writes this text mainly toD．
A．introduce a few U．S．museums
B．describe some research work
C．discuss the value of an ape-man
D．report a coming event
54．What do the words"a replica"in Paragraph 2refer to？C
A．A painting of the skeleton．
B．A photograph of Lucy
C．A copy of the skeleton．
D．A written record of Lucy．
55．How many cities has Lucy's U．S．tour plan already included？B
A．Four．
B．Five．
C．Six．
D．Eleven．
56．What was the skeleton named after？B
A．An ape-man．
B．A song．
C．A singer．
D．A camp．

分析 本文是一篇新聞報(bào)道．文章講述了埃塞爾比亞的古老化石去美國(guó)展出的事件安排．

解答 53．D．主旨大意題．這是一篇新聞報(bào)道，新聞報(bào)道的目的顯然是報(bào)道事實(shí)，讓大眾知曉．這篇報(bào)道的目的就是：報(bào)道埃塞爾比亞的古老化石去美國(guó)展出的事件．故選D．
54．C．詞義猜測(cè)題．根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容可知：the Lucy is a replica，而the Lucy又是skeleton，所以a replica的意思是：A copy of the skeleton．故選C．
55．B．細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)文章中的"the tour will start in Houston next September．和The six-year tour will also go to Washington，New York，Denver and Chicago．"可知是5個(gè)城市．故選B．
56．B．細(xì)節(jié)理解題．．根據(jù)文章中的"Lucy，her name taken from a Beatles song that played in a camp the night of her discovery，"可知，名字來(lái)源于一首歌．故選B．

點(diǎn)評(píng) 本文為人文地理類閱讀中的新聞報(bào)道．新聞報(bào)道類在英語(yǔ)閱讀理解中是一種特點(diǎn)十分鮮明的題材．因?yàn)槲恼峦尸F(xiàn)出"倒金字塔"的特征，此類題的英語(yǔ)閱讀理解技巧是重點(diǎn)看導(dǎo)語(yǔ)．導(dǎo)語(yǔ)位于新聞報(bào)道的首段，高度概括新聞事實(shí)，通過(guò)它點(diǎn)出新聞的主題，其次尋找關(guān)鍵詞，理解題意，做出解答．

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