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Dutch beachcomber (海滩拾荒者) Wim Kruiswijk has accumulated a collection of 1,200 messages-in-bottles over the course of nearly 4 decades and has responded to almost all of them,

68-year-old Kruiswijk says that his unusual hobby began in 1983 when he found three drift bottles (漂流瓶) on his local beach, each containing letters and return addresses. He wrote to all three addresses and was surprised to receive responses from each one. It was this experience that aroused his interest in hunting and collecting messages in bottles, and he hasn’t stopped looking for them since.

“I find my messages in bottles on the beach of Zandvoort, where I live, and on the Dutch Islands,” Kruiswijk recently told Great Big Story. “Messages in bottles is slow mail. It takes you days, or weeks, or months to find a bottle. ”

In the early years, Kruiswijk would find as many as 50 bottles a year, but since 2000 that has slowed to around 20-30 finds, mainly due to beach cleaning efforts. He believes that the rise of the Internet has also played a role in the diminishing number of messages in bottles, telling Dutch news site PZC, “I used to get a response at half the bottle messages that I answered. Now that’s less; many people want ‘instant satisfaction’.”

Throwing a message in a bottle out into the sea is a longstanding human tradition dating back to the time of the Greek philosopher Theophrastus, about 310 BC，who used the bottles to study water currents. Scientists still apply the method to this day, as a means to help researchers develop ocean circulation maps, and to crowdsource scientific studies of ocean currents.

In the past bottles have also been used to send distress messages from sailors in trouble. They also have been used for memorial tributes, or to send loved ones’ ashes on a final journey. One of the more common uses though is just to send invitations out to prospective pen pals, a quaint notion in these modern times, but, as Kruiswijk so clearly shows, an effective one.

1.What does Paragraph 2 mainly tell us?

A. Kruiswijk found secrets hidden in drift bottles.

B. What made Kruiswijk become a beachcomber.

C. How Kruiswijk formed the hobby of collecting drift bottles.

D. Kruiswijk liked to do some research on bottles thrown into the sea.

2.How did Kruiswijk feel the first time he received response from drift bottles?

A. Satisfied.

B. Asionished.

C. Frightened.

D. Disappointed.

3.Why do Kruiswijk find fewer drift bottles than before?

A. People hate to receive messages from strangers.

B. Many drift bottles have not been washed up onto the beaches.

C. Drift bottles appearing on the beach are cleared up rapidly.

D. Fewer people are interested in Kruiswijk’s message in bottles.

4.What’s the purpose of Theophrastus using the bottles?

A. To ask for rescue.

B. To look for a pen pal.

C. To study ocean currents.

D. To send a message to his loved person.

Answer

1.C

2.B

3.C

4.C

【解析】本文为一篇新闻报道。文章以海滩拾荒者Wim Kruiswijk的特殊爱好收集漂流瓶引起了话题。把信息放在瓶子里扔进大海是一个长期存在的人类传统，过去一直被用于发送遇险信息，纪念亲人或发邀请函，还用于帮助研究人员进行洋流的研究。

1.主旨大意题。第二段主要讲述了68岁的Kruiswijk的不寻常的爱好始于1983，当他在当地的海滩发现三个有信件和回信地址的漂流瓶，他给每个漂流瓶留的地址都写了回信，却惊讶地收到了每个人的回复。所以这种经历激起了他对瓶装的信息的搜集。由此可知本段主要描写了Kruiswijk如何养成了收集漂流瓶的嗜好。故选C项。

2.【解题剖析】此题属于细节理解中的（1）一一对应型。答案与题目在表达形式和意义上直接吻合。

【答案定位】根据第二段中的“He … was surprised to receive responses from each one”可知，当他收到回信后他是非常惊讶的。surprised惊讶的，与asionished是同义词

【推理关系】题干How did Kruiswijk feel the first time he received response from drift bottles? ☞文章内容… was surprised to receive responses from each one”

was surprised ☞B选项was asionished.

【点睛】细节理解中的（1）一一对应型。答案与题目在表达形式和意义上直接吻合。

这类细节理解题的答案与题目在表达形式和意义上直接吻合，一一对应，一目了然。解答此类试题时，不必通篇细看原文，而应采取“带着问题找答案”的方法，先从问题中抓住关键性词语（题眼），然后以此为线索，运用略读及查读的技巧快速在文章中寻找与此问题相关的：段落、语句，仔细品味，对照比较，确定答案。

3.推理判断题。根据第四段but since 2000 that has slowed to around 20-30 finds, mainly due to beach cleaning efforts. He believes that the rise of the Internet has also played a role in the diminishing number of messages in bottles可知，主要是由于清洁海滩的努力，以及互联网的兴起也对漂流瓶数量的减少起到了作用。分析选项可知，C项（出现在海滩上的漂流瓶很快就被清理干净了。）正确，故选C项。

4.细节理解题。根据第五段的内容the time of the Greek philosopher Theophrastus, about 310 BC, who used the bottles to study water currents. Scientists still apply the method to this day, as a means to help researchers develop ocean circulation maps, and to crowdsource scientific studies of ocean currents.可知，在公元前310年的希腊哲学家西奥弗拉特斯时期，用瓶子来研究海洋水流，而且科学家现在仍在用。故选C项。