Question

Howard Carter was a famous explorer(探险家). He loved to visit new places. During his life, he discovered many important and exciting things.

Howard Carter did not go to school. But he was smart and wanted to learn the world outside his hometown. In 1891， at the age of 17， he went to Egypt(埃及)by ship. By the 1920s, he had become an explorer, looking for the tombs (坟墓)of the Egyptian kings.

He found several important ones. Inside the tombs, he found jewels, gold and 10 bodies of dead kings. These bodies are known as mummies (木乃伊).In 1922, Howard Carter made his most important discovery of all. When Carter's team was working at a place near a city called Luxor, they found the tomb of King Tutankhamun.

Not long after the tomb was opened, people in Carter's team began to get ill and die strangely.

Within seven years, 21 people who had something to do with the opening of the tomb died. However, Howard Carter lived on and died at the age of 65.

(       ) 1. Howard Carter liked to visit new places.

(         ) 2. Howard Carter was born in 1877.

(       ) 3. Carter's team found the tomb of Kng Uitankhamun in 1922.

(       ) 4. In 1922 twenty-one people died in the tomb of King Tutankhamun.

(       ) 5. The passage tells us Carter's school life.

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