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高二英语基础阅读材料 Lesson 55 Not a gold mine 并非金矿What did the team find? Dreams of finding lost treasure almost came true recently. A new machine called‘The Revealer’has been invented and it has been used to detect gold which has been buried in the ground. The machine was used in a cave near the seashore where----it is said----pirates used to hide gold. The pirates would often bury gold in the cave and then fail to collect it. Armed with the new machine, a search party went into the cave hoping to find buried treasure. The leader of the party was examining the soil near the entrance to the cave when the machine showed that there was gold under the ground. Very excited, the party dug a hole two feet deep. They finally found a small gold coin which was almost worthless. The party then searched the whole cave thoroughly but did not find anything except an empty tin trunk. In spite of this, many people are confident that‘The Revealer’may reveal something of value fairly soon. New words and expressions 生词和短语old [ɡ??ld] n. 金子arm /a:m/ v.武装mine /main/ n.矿soil [s??l] n．泥土treasure [tre??(r)] n. 财宝entrance [entr?ns] n.入口revealer /rivi:l/ n. 探测器finally [?fa?n?li] adv.最后invent /Invent/ v.发明worthless [w?:θl?s] adj. 毫无价值的detect /ditekt/ v.探测thoroughly [?θ?r?li] adv.彻底地bury/beri/ v.埋藏trunk [tr??k] n.行李箱cave /keiv/ n.山洞confident [?k?nf?d?nt] adj.有信心的seashore [si:??:(r)] n. 海岸value [v?lju:] n.价值pirate [pa?r?t] n.海盗回答下列问题1 Is‘The Revealer’a new machine or an old machine?Is it used for detecting buried gold or not? 2 Did a search party use this machine or not? Where did they try to find gold recently? 3 Did they examine the cave thoroughly or not? Did they only find a small gold coin?Was it valuable or was it practically worthless? 4 Do many people believe that the machine may reveal something of value soon or not? Exercises 练习 在课文中划出表示一般过去时，过去进行时和过去习惯性动作的动词： 用正确的时态填空，完成练习后再对照课文核对你的答案：The machine______(use)in a cave near the seashore where----it is said----pirates______(hide) g