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五、阅读理解
This is a story of two Chinese bowls, one old and one new, and how they became famous.
A man in Connecticut went to a yard sale and saw a small bowl. It was blue and white and had pretty flowers on it. It also looked very old. The man paid 35 for it and decided to do some research. He found that the bowl was one of the first examples of blue - and - white clay art made in Jingdezhen, China’s “porcelain capital(瓷都)”. It belonged to the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Museum experts say the emperor’s little rice bowl is an important historical artifact(文物). It is worth as much as 500,000.
The other bowl is bigger and has a less interesting story. It is red and white, and also has pretty flowers on it. It is for sale online in America for 60. The seller says it can be filled with fruit or flowers and used as a pretty home object. However, when Chinese netizens were surfing online, they found that the bowl was something once very common in every home—a toilet. Several years ago, you could see people carrying these pretty bowls to the neighborhood toilet early in the morning and emptying them. You can still buy these bowls today in small shops for about 4 dollars each.
The story of the two bowls tells us that the value of something isn’t always related to its use. A bowl, after all, is just a bowl. Perhaps the seller of the toilet bowl could ask for an even higher price if he said it had once been used by an emperor.
(C)1. What do we know about the small bowl?
A. An American paid four dollars for it.
B. It could be filled with fruit and flowers.
C. It was one of the emperor’s rice bowls.
D. It was red and white with pretty flowers on it.
(B)2. Why is the small bowl so valuable today?
A. Because it has pretty flowers on it.
B. Because it’s an important historical artifact.
C. Because museum experts offer a high price.
D. Because it was made in China’s “porcelain capital”.
(A)3. What does the underlined word “netizens” in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. People who use the Internet a lot.
B. People who usually do housework.
C. Young people who like modern things.
D. People who like collecting emperors’ things.
读后词汇拓展
猜出画波浪线短语的中文意思,并收入自己的小词典。
1. roll down 滚落
2. carry out 实施

答案： 1—3 CBA 读后词汇拓展 1. 滚落 2. 实施