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An ancient Egyptian mummy thought to be that of Pharaoh Ramses Ⅰ has returned home after more than 140 years in North American museums. The body was carried off the plane in Cairo in a box covered with Egypt's flag.
The Michael Carlos Museum gave it back after tests showed it was probably that of the man who ruled 3,000 years ago. The US museum acquired it three years ago from a Canadian museum, which in turn is thought to have bought it from Egyptian grave robbers in 1860. The mummy was welcomed back home with songs and military band music during a ceremony at the national museum in Cairo.
Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (文物最高委员会), traveled from the US with the body and said it would be moved next year to the Luxor Museum in southern Egypt. “We are not 100% sure that the mummy is that of Ramses Ⅰ.” said Mr Hawass. “But we are 100% sure that it is of a king.”
Atlanta's Michael Carlos Museum acquired the mummy in 1999, but offered to return it after hitech scanning (扫描) equipment indicated it was likely to be that of Ramses Ⅰ. The museum website said it had been acquired from the Niagara Falls Museum. It is thought a Canadian collector bought the mummy for the Niagara Falls Museum around 1860 from an Egyptian family which had stumbled on (偶然发现) a tomb filled with royal mummies at a site near Luxor. Mr Hawass praised the handover as “a great civilized gesture”. And he appealed to other world museums to return Egypt's antiquities, particularly the Rosetta Stone in the British Museum and the Bust of Nefertiti in the Berlin Museum.
1．Just before the handover, Ramses mummy was kept in ________.
A．the Luxor Museum
B．the Michael Carlos Museum
C．the Niagara Falls Museum
D．a Canadian museum
解析：选B 细节理解题。从第二段的第一句“The Michael Carlos Museum gave it back after tests showed it was probably that of the man who ruled 3,000 years ago.”可知答案为B。
2．Which is the correct order of the following events according to the passage?
a．The mummy returned home.
b．The mummy was kept in the Niagara Falls Museum.
c．Egyptian grave robber sold the mummy.
d．A Canadian collector bought the mummy.
e．The mummy was kept in the Michael Carlos Museum.
A．cdeba B．cbeda
C．adcbe D．cdbea
解析：选D 细节理解题。通读全文可得出事件的来龙去脉和先后次序，因此答案选D。
3．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A．All the Egypt's antiquities have returned home after the handover.
B．Niagara Falls Museum is an American museum.
C．Buying the mummy from the Egyptian family was a civilized gesture.
D．Ramses Mummy had been kept in Canada for more than a century.
解析：选D 推理判断题。根据第四段“Atlanta's Michael Carlos Museum acquired the mummy in 1999.”和“a Canadian collector bought the mummy for the Niagara Falls Museum around 1860 from an Egyptian family”可推断答案为D。
4．What would be the best title for the passage?
A．The history of Ramses mummy
B．The handover ceremony of Ramses mummy from Canada
C．The returning of Ramses mummy to its homeland Egypt
D．The history of the royal family of Ramses
解析：选C 标题归纳题。第一段的第一句是说埃及珍贵文物Ramses木乃伊重返埃及，全文主要是围绕这一主题进行阐述的。所以答案选C。
