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【題目】Halloween is the one night of the year where being scared is supposed to be good fun. However, amid all the harmless activities like trick-or-treating, sometimes genuinely frightening and disturbing things can happen. October 31 has been the date of some horrific murders and unexplained disappearances, which are far more terrifying than any ghosts, goblins, or witches. Because they happened to take place on Halloween, the following mysteries have an extra aura of creepiness to them, and they remain unsolved to this day.

1

Hyun Jong was a 21-year-old South Korean student attending Pennsylvania State University. In 2001, after leaving the Halloween party in a club, she was dropped off at her apartment by her friends at 4:00 AM. This was the last anyone ever saw of her. A search was conducted of her apartment. There was no sign of any struggle, but many of her belongings were there, indicating that she had gone inside after being dropped off. But what happened to her afterward? Although some evidence indicated her death, her body has never been found.

2

On Halloween night in 1977, the parents of 19-month-old Nima Louise Carter placed their child inside her crib. The next morning, Nima’s parents were shocked to discover that she was missing. Since the windows were locked, it’s theorized that someone must have been hiding in the closet and took the child out of the house while her parents were asleep. The police took it as child abduction. A month later, a group of kids were playing in an abandoned house four blocks away. When they opened up the house’s refrigerator, they received a horrifying shock when the body of an infant came tumbling out. The child was identified as Nima Louise Carter, who died of suffocation(窒息).

3

Chris Jenkins was a 21-year-old student who visited a bar on Halloween night in 2002. After leaving the bar around midnight, Chris disappeared without a trace. He remained a missing person for four months until his body was discovered in the Mississippi River. Since Chris was still wearing his Halloween costume, all indications were that he died shortly after he disappeared. Since his cause of death was determined to be drowning, authorities initially(初步的) believed it was an accident or suicide. His parents refused to believe this and appealed for a more careful investigation. Finally, in 2006, the death was reclassified as a murder case.

4

Sometime during the early morning Halloween hours of 1981, a Manhattan couple named Ronald Sisman and Elizabeth Platzman were murdered in their apartment. The couple was severely beaten before being shot in the head, execution-style, and the apartment was in a complete mess. Sisman was rumored to be involved in drugs, so authorities initially believed that to be the motive for the killings. However, the case took a turn when a prisoner claimed that one of his fellow inmates(獄友) had somehow predicted the crime weeks before it actually happened. The police then questioned the inmate, yet no insightful information was brought out.

【1】Whose body was found inside a fridge?

A. Chris Jenkins B. Hyun Jong

C. Nima Louise Carter D. Sisman Platzman

【2】What does the underlined “this” refer to in the third case?

A. the authorities’ initial conclusion

B. the cause of their son’s death

C. their son’s death

D. the investigation

【3】Of the four cases, at first the police had wrong conclusions except in _______

A. the Hyun Jong case B. the Nima Louis Carter case

C. the Chris Jenkins case D. the Platzmans case

【4】Which of the following facts is mentioned in the passage?

A. Chris Jenkins’ parents persuaded the police to dig deeper into their son’s death.

B. Ronald and Elizabeth were beaten to death in their apartment.

C. Someone must have hidden inside Hyun Jong’s apartment and took her away.

D. Nima Louis Carter was frozen to death in a fridge.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】A

【3】A

【4】A

【解析】

試題分析：：本文以好萊塢未解殺人之謎為標(biāo)題，詳細(xì)的講述了四個(gè)發(fā)生在好萊塢的殺人事件，包括時(shí)間地點(diǎn)人物、警方對(duì)于案件推測(cè)以及相關(guān)的后續(xù)發(fā)展等。

【1】C細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段倒數(shù)第二句When they opened up the house’s refrigerator, they received a horrifying shock when the body of an infant came tumbling out可知Nima Louise Carter的尸體在冰箱中被發(fā)現(xiàn)，故選C

【2】A細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第四段倒數(shù)第二句authorities initially(初步的) believed it was an accident or suicide. His parents refused to believe this當(dāng)局初步認(rèn)為這屬于意外或自殺。他的父母拒絕相信，可知this就是指當(dāng)局的初步認(rèn)定，故選A

【3】A細(xì)節(jié)理解題。只有Hyun Jong案，她進(jìn)入公寓后就失蹤了，警察并未作出錯(cuò)誤的初步認(rèn)定，而其他的案件，警察的初步認(rèn)定都是錯(cuò)誤的，故選A

【4】A細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第四段倒數(shù)第二句His parents refused to believe this and appealed for a more careful investigation. Chris Jenkin的父母拒絕相信，要求深入調(diào)查，故選A