Question

Early last Tuesday, six men carrying machine guns, a pistol and a hunting rifle got on a four—car electric “ milk train” at the Dutch town of Assen. Shortly after it left Beilen, ten miles away, the terrorists stopped the train and seized the passenger as hostages. As police and Dutch soldiers ringed the train, another group of terrorists stuck in Amsterdam, forcing their way into the Indonesian consulate and taking 41 more hostages, including 16 children. By week’s end the terrorists had murdered three people aboard the train, and four more had been wounded in the raid on the consulate.

The kidnapping, and the subsequent cold—blooded murders, virtually rocked the Netherlands. While the Cabinet met in emergency sessions, television and radio station paused normal programming in favor of solemn music and news bulletins.

The terrorists were Indonesians from the South Moluccan Islands in the Pacific Ocean, and they were demanding that the Dutch help them gain independence from the Jakarta regime.(雅加達政權)

The twin acts of violence were not the first signs of South Molucca anger. Just before a 1970 visit to the Netherlands by Indonesia’s President Suharto, they attacked the Indonesian embassy in the Hague, killing a Dutch policeman. Last week’s kidnappings are two days before the Dutch Appeals Court was to trial 16 South Moluccan’s who were implicated in a plot last April to kidnap Queen Juliana and other members of the Royal family. They planned to storm the palace at Soestdijk after attacking the gates with an armoured car(裝甲車).

The Moluccan headache is a heritage(遺留問題) of the old days of empire. A chain of islands at the eastern of the Indonesian archipelago, the Moluccas were once known as the Spice Islands. When the Netherlands gave up its East Indies colonies in 1949, the Moluccans wanted to set up a South Moluccan Republic, some 12,000 islanders were allowed to settle to the Netherlands. Their number swollen by Dutch—born children now reached 35,000. the young Moluccans here are demanding that the Dutch help them gain independence from the Jakarta regime.

1.Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage?

A．Dozens of people were seized by the terrorist as hostages.

B．The Indonesian consulate was located in Amsterdam.

C．The terrorists were Indonesians living in the Netherlands.

D．The terrorists all surrendered(投降) to the police and soldiers.

2.Why did television and radio stations pause normal programming?

A．The acts of violence shocked the whole country.

B．The terrorists destroyed necessary equipment.

C．the Cabinet needed to think quietly.

D．Their men were too sad to produce good program.

3.The last paragraph __________.

A．is mainly about the history of Indonesia

B．tells us how Indonesia won its independence

C．tell us how the Netherlands gave up its rule

D．briefly accounts for the acts of violence

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.D

2.A

3.D

【解析】

試題分析：

1.細節題，由第一段可以推出A和B，由第三段的第一句話The terrorists were Indonesians from the South Moluccan Islands in the Pacific Ocean,可以推出C，所以選D

2.細節題，由第二段The kidnapping, and the subsequent cold—blooded murders, virtually rocked the Netherlands. While the Cabinet met in emergency sessions,可以推出答案，所以選A

3.推理題，由最后一段的主要意思“怎樣引起暴力行為”，可以知道主要解釋暴力行為，所以選D

考點：本文為一篇記敘文。

點評：本文記敘了一群恐怖分子挾持人質要求取得獨立從雅佳達政權的故事，先通讀全文，然后帶著問題，再讀全文，找出答題所需要的依據，完成閱讀。本文主要考查細節題，要求學生有很強的細節分析能力。