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The Vikings, a group of people 【小题1】 ancestors came from Scandinavia, were the first Europeans 【小题2】 (reach) America. In 982 AD, there were 10,000 Vikings 【小题3】 (live) in Iceland. According 【小题4】 the old stories, Eric the Red was forced to leave Iceland because he had committed 【小题5】 murder, for which he got into trouble. He reached Greenland and then returned to Iceland and told people about Greenland. Later, he set sail again, with 25 ships, of which only 14 made 【小题6】 to Greenland. A man called Biarni was hoping to join his father who was with Eric, but he was blown off course and found himself in an 【小题7】 (know) land that no humans seemed to have stepped on, from where he reached Greenland. In 1002, Eric the Red’s son Leif followed Biarni’s directions and sailed to what is believed to be the coast of present-day Canada. He then sailed 【小题8】 (far) south to an island now known as Newfoundland. We know about their deeds through stories which 【小题9】(write) down centuries later in Norway and Iceland. They are the first 【小题10】 (record) we have of Europeans sailing to the America.

   During his years, American author Mark Twain noted that "life would be surely happier if we could only be born at the age of 80 and gradually approach 18". Twain's words were only one of many complaints about aging that have been recorded for as long as humans have feared the downside of a long life. The ancient Greek poet Homer called old age"hateful", and William Shakespeare termed it "terrible winter".
Alexander the Great, who conquered most of the known world before he died around 323 BC, may have been looking for a river that treated the damage of age. During the 12th century AD, a king known as Prester John ruled a land that had a river of gold and a fountain of youth.
But the name linked most closely to the search for a fountain of youth is 16th-century Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León, who thought it would be found in Florida. In St. Augustine, the oldest city in the US, there's a tourist attraction that purports(标榜) to be the fountain of youth that Ponce de León discovered soon after he arrived in what is now Florida in 1513. However,elderly visitors who drink the spring's water don't turn into teenagers.
But the tale of the search for a fountain of youth is so attracting that it survives anyway, says Ryan K. Smith, a professor of history. "People are more interested by the story of looking and not finding it than they are by the idea that the fountain might be out there somewhere."
Still, a few grains of truth have helped the story. Kathleen Deagan, a professor,says a cemetery(墓地) and the remains of a Spanish mission dating back to St. Augustine's founding in 1565 have been discovered near the so-called fountain of youth. Michelle Reyna, a spokesperson for the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park in St. Augustine, says the fountain has been a tourist attraction since at least the 1900s and may have been attracting visitors since the 1860s.
【小题1】Who is the most famous to look for the fountain of youth?

A．A king known as Prester John.

B．Ryan K. Smith,a professor of history.

C．Alexander the Great.

D．Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León.

【小题2】What is the attitude of people towards the fountain of youth?

A．People find much pleasure in looking for it.

B．People believe the existence of it.

C．People have no interest in searching for it.

D．People consider the idea of the fountain of youth to be absurd.

【小题3】The earliest city was built in America in _____.

A．1901	B．1565
C．1860	D．1513

【小题4】The passage is mainly about ______.

A．where the fountain of youth comes from

B．why some famous people hate becoming old

C．how people can remain young forever

D．whether the fountain of youth exists

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Pliny was a Roman writer who 【小题1】（witness）a terrible volcanic eruption as a young man. Then he wrote about the eruption 【小题2】 occurred on August 24th，79 AD in Mount Vesuvius，near Pompeii. The tragedy had left a deep 【小题3】（impress）on Pliny whose uncle died in the event. The 【小题4】（town）were buried by the ashes of Mount Vesuvius. By 1748，archaeologists started to dig out the ancient city Pompeii. It is like a "time capsule" 【小题5】（preserve）a frozen moment in history. Not only are the buildings and objects of Pompeii 【小题6】（attract）to people，but also the forms of the people caught in the disaster have captured the imagination of people across the world. 【小题7】 these victims have been dead in Pompeii for many years，the bodies show their exact shapes，which makes people feel sympathy 【小题8】 them. Today，tourists and archaeologists visit Pompeii every year 【小题9】（learn）more about the ancient world. In this way，the city lives on 【小题10】（near）2，000 years after the eruption.

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The Spanish flu 【小题1】（start）on a small military（军事的）base in central Kansas in 1918，【小题2】 one soldier came down with a fever. Within a few hours，about 100 soldiers were reported 【小题3】（have）the same illness.

By 1919，the flu had spread around the world，【小题4】（kill）up to 50 million people. The flu caused over 600，000 【小题5】（die）in the US，which included 195，000 just in the single month of October 1918.

The flu was 【小题6】（particular）serious because most of the victims were young，healthy people. In fact，more adults 【小题7】 the ages of 20 and 50 got sick and died from the flu than any other group.

What made people especially 【小题8】（terrify）was that the flu made people sick quickly. It was reported that many people who woke up with no flu symptoms got sick in the morning and were dead by nighttime. According to one story，four women played bridge late into the night，three of whom 【小题9】（find）dead the next morning.

It was not until three "waves" of illness later 【小题10】 the flu eventually ended.