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Snakes and Jewels

Tokyo: Three snakes,whose poison could kill a person in ten minutes,are guarding a blue star sapphire(蓝宝石) worth nearly six hundred thousand dollars at a Japanese exhibition of jewels sent from an Indan museum.

Usually it would be forbidden(禁止) to let these poisonous snakes guard exhibition objects,but it’s different this time because the jewels are being exhibited at a hotel, a policeman said.

Exhibition official said that a person bitten by one of these snakes would need at least 80 ml of an anti—poison medicine to be saved. Medicine was being kept ready at a nearly hospital.

Star sapphire and other valuable jewels worth a total of one million dollars are on show behind glass.Hundreds of visitors came to see the special blue star sapphire and were surprised when they said the sixty centimeters(厘米) long brown guards.

( ) 5. Using snakes at exhibition of valuable objects is ________.

A quite normal B usually forbbiden C often necessary D never allowed

( ) 6. The jewels were being shown in________.

A an Indian hotel B. an Indian museum

C a Japanese museum D a Japanese hotel

( ) 7.Why were the snakes and jewels at the same exhibition?

A They were both special things from Indai

B The organizers wanted to do something unusual.

C The snakes were there to keep the jewels safe.

D People like to visit an exhibition guarded by snakes.

( ) 8 Many visitors came to the exibition because______.

A the snakes were on show

B they were interested in seeing a famous jewels.

C so many jewels were being exhibited

D exhibition officiajs said it was special

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