阅读下面的短文，文中有15处空白，每处空白给出了4个选项，请根据短文的内容从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案。 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 Islands in 1779. "There is (3) Cook 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," 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," 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 time
and it will happen one day." DNA n. 脱氧核糖核酸 Hawaiian
adj.夏威夷的 Uncovered adj.被发掘的 cape n.斗篷
credit v.把……归功于 club v.用棍棒打 1. A. finally
B. firstly C. lately
D. usually 2. A. whose
B. who C. which
D. what 3. A. some
B. none C. neither
D. no 4. A. cinema
B. exhibition C. shop D.
market 5. A. must B. did
C. has to D. does
6. A. discovering B. visiting
C. traveling D. using 7. A. then
B. now
C. past D. previously
8. A. how B. where
C. when D. that 9. A.
conversation B. fight C. meal
D. dance 10. A. however
B. until C. after
D. whenever 11. A. helpfully
B. usefully C. likely
D. readily 12. A. refuse
B. return C. regain
D. reply 13. A. collected
B. washed C. stored D.
buried 14. A. statement B. suggestion
C. proposal D. guess15.