Reading Comprehension. （每小题2分，共30分

Reading Comprehension. （每小题2分，共30分 ）Directions: Choose the best answer according to the passages.Passage One Kings and queens might spend their whole lives getting a strong tomb ready. After they died, their bodies were placed there. As the years went by, many of these tombs were forgotten untilthey were found and opened by archaeologists(考古学家).The kings and queens of Old Egypt were rich and powerful. Their tombs tell much abouttheir lives. Archaeologists have looked for these tombs for many years. They have been verymuch interested in the way people lived in Egypt long ago. One of them was from Englandnamed Howard Carter. In 1917 he began his work of digging for some of the old tombs in a place called the Valley of the kings. For more than five years he worked there with some other people. But he didn t find much of great value. He had almost been disappointed. But he kept on with the work.Then one day in the autumn of 1922, one of his men uncovered something that looked like adoorstep(门前台阶). There was a second step below. They dug on. Soon the lop of doorwayshowed up. An important discovery was made! This was the tomb of a young king, namedTutankhamen.There were four rooms in the tomb. Three of them were piled high with boxes, jewelsdiamonds and many other beautiful things. There was a golden chair, several golden chariots (战车), the king ’s hunting bows, and event his shoes. All these things had been put near the king for him to use in the next world.The fourth room held a huge coffin( 棺材). In it there were three more coffins, one inside the other. The last one was made of gold. In it was the body of Tutankhamen. The body had beenprepared with chemicals and was wrapped in cloth, A body that is protected in this way is called a mummy.