2016职称英语理工C教材文章教材完形填空试题与译文.docx

第一篇 ? Captain Cook Arrow Legend It was a great legend while it lasted, but DNA testing has ____1____ ended a two-century_old story of the Hawaiian arrow carved from the bone of British explorer Captain James Cook ____2____ died in the Sandwich Islands1?in 1779. “There is ____3____ Cook2?in the Australian Museum, museum collection manager Jude Philip said not long ago in announcing the DNA evidence that the arrow was not made of Cook’s bone. But that will not stop the museum from continuing to display the arrow in its ____4____, “Uncovered: Treasures of the Australian Museum,3” which ____5____ include a feather cape presented to Cook by Hawaiian King Kalani, opu, u in 1778. Cook was one of Britain’s great explorers and is credited with ____6____ the “Great South Land,” ____7____ Australia, in 1770. He was clubbed to death in the Sandwich Islands, now Hawaii. The legend of Cook’s arrow began in 1824 ____8____ Hawaiian King Kamehameha on his deathbed gave the arrow to William Adams, a London surgeon and relative of Cook’s wife, saying it was made of Cook’s bone after the fatal ____9____ with islanders. In the 1890s the arrow was given to the Australian Museum and the legend continued____10____?it came face-to-face with science. DNA testing by laboratories in Australia and New Zealand revealed the arrow was not made of Cook’s bone but was more?____11____?made of animal bone, said Philp. However, Cook’s fans?____12____?to give up hope that one Cook legend will prove true and that part of his remains will still be uncovered, as they say there is evidence not all of Cook’s body was____13____?at sea in 1779. “On this occasion technology has won,4” said Cliff Thornton, president of the Captain Cook Society, in a?____14____?from Britain. “But I am?____15____?that one of these days ... one of the Cook legends will prove to be true and it will happen one day.” 1．A　finally?????????????????? B　firstly??????????????????? C　lately???????????????????? D　usually 2．A　whose????????????