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Sometime in the middle of the 15th century, a well-to-do merchant from Londo

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问题     Sometime in the middle of the 15th century, a well-to-do merchant from London buried more than 6, 700 gold and silver coins on a sloping hillside in Surrey. He was fleeing the War of the Roses and planned to return during better times. But he never did. The coins lay undisturbed until one September evening in 1990,when local resident Roger Mintey chanced upon them with a metal detector, a device used to determine the presence of metals. Mintey’s find—much of which now sits in the British Museum—earned him roughly $ 350,000, enough to quit his job with a small manufacturer and spend more time pursuing lost treasure.
    But digging up the past is controversial in Britain. In many European countries, metal detectorists, or people using metal detectors, face tough regulations. In the U. K., however, officials introduced a scheme in 1997 encouraging hobbyists to report their discoveries(except for those falling under the definition of treasure, like Mintey’s find, which they are required to report)—but allowing them to keep what they find, or receive a reward. Last year, a hidden store was uncovered in a field outside Birmingham. It consists of more than 1,500 gold and silver objects from the seventh century and was valued at more than $ 4.5 million. While local museums hurry to raise enough money to keep the find off the open market, it sits in limbo, owned by the Crown but facing claims by the landowner and the metal detectorist who found it.
    The find marks the latest battleground in the increasingly heated conflict between the country’s 10, 000-20,000 metal detectorists and the museum workers determined to protect its precious old objects.
    Supporters say the scheme stems the loss of valuable information about precious old objects, while opponents argue that metal detectorists don’t report everything.
    The debate centers on the larger question of who owns the past. "There’s been a slow move over the centuries that precious old things belong to us all," says Professor Christopher Chippindale of Cambridge University. But in Britain at least, the temptation of buried treasure could change all that. [br] According to the first paragraph, the coins in Surrey were( ).
选项 A、worth roughly $ 350,000
B、possessed by a local resident
C、unearthed about 500 years ago
D、left by a merchant during a war
答案 D
解析 事实细节题。题干大意：通过第一段可以得知萨里郡的钱币( )。文章第一段前两句讲到：15世纪中期的某一天，一名来自伦敦的很有成就的商人将超过6700枚金币和银币埋在了萨里郡的一个斜坡上。他是为了躲避玫瑰战争，并打算在形势好转的时候再来取回他的钱币的。这些内容表明，这些钱币是在战争期间被一个商人留下的，即选项D的内容。
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