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Passage Five Would you like to spend al

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问题 Passage FiveWould you like to spend all evening reading a lovely story with beautifulillustrations and make$35,000 atthe same time?Millions of people all over the world tried to do just that.Only one succeeded.The book is called Masquerade,and was written by Britishpainter Kit Williams.Within its pages are clues to the location of a goldenjewel,and whoever figured out the clues could find and keep the treasure.Some years ago,Williams was asked to write a children′s book.Wanting to do something no one elsehad done before,he decided to bury a golden treasure and tell where it was inthe book.He be-gan painting without a clear idea of what the story would beabout,where he would bury the treasure,or even what the treasure would be.Ashe painted,he decided that in the story a hare,or rabbit,would travel throughearth,air,fire and water to deliver a gift from the moon to the sun.Afterthree years,he finished the paintings and then wrote the story.The treasurebecame an 18-carat gold hare,adorned with preciousstones,and it was made by Kit Williams himself.This beautiful jewel,wortharound$35,000,depending on gold prices,was buried somewhere in Britain,freeto anyone who could decipher the clues.Williams′s book kept people of all agesamused trying to solve the mystery of Masquerade.The rabbit was finallyfound in the spring of 1982,by a 48-year-old design engineer.It was buried ina park about thirty-five miles from London.The function of the firstsentence in this passage is to___.A.give detailB.sum up the storyC.capture the reader's interestD.elaborate upon a point
选项 A.give detail
B.sum up the story
C.capture the reader's interest
D.elaborate upon a point
答案 C
解析 文章的首句并没有给任何细节，也没有阐述任何观点，而是提出了一个问题，排除A、D两项。第一段刚开始.不可能总结，排除选项B。这个问题很有趣，所以，作者以此开篇是为了吸引读者，C项是正确的。
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