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贵州省成人高等教育学士学位课程考试 （英 语） A卷 Part I Reading Comprension (40 Points) Directions: There are four passages in this part.Each passage is followed by five questions or unfinisbed statements.For each of them there are four choices marked A,B,C,and D,You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.(划线部分为第四部分的翻译题。) Passage 1 Questions l to 5 are based on the following passage: In the 1920s,scientists found a collection of bones near beijing,China. They believed that the bones were human and that they were about 500,000 years old. They also believed the bones were important because they were from alittle-known stage in the evolution of human beings. The bones were in Beijing until 1941. Then,because the Japanese army was advancing towards the city,the scientists decided to send the bones to the United States for safety.Since then nobody heard anything about them at all. Dr.Harry L.Shapiro,Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University,has been searching for them ever since.He beoieves that they were stolen by the American army whose job was to take them to the U.S.A. He could be right.After the war,a Chicago businessman offered $5,000 to anybody with information about the bones.A woman phoned him and told him she knew where the bones were. He arranged to meet her on the 102nd floor of the Empire State Building in New York.They met and she told him that her husband had come home from Chind with fossils of a prehistoric man.She showed him a photograph of them.Then she walked away and was never heard from again. A few years later,however,a Sydney businessman reported that he had the bones and that he had buried them in a forest in Tasmania.He offered to say where for a large sum of money.Then he,too,was never heard from again. Someone,somewhere,has these bones,but nobody seems to know who or where. 1、How old were the bones thought to be ? A.Five thousand years old. B.Fifty thousand years old