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Captain Cook Arrow Legend

It was a great legend while it lasted, but DNA testing has ____1_____ ended a two-century-old story of the Hawiian arrow 箭头carved from the bone of British explorer Captain James Cook ___2___ died in the Sandwich Islands1 in 1779.

“There is _____3____ Cook2 in the Australian Museum,” museum collection manager Jude Philip said not long ago in announcing the DNA evidence that the arrow was not made of Cook’s bone. But that will not stop the museum from continuing to display the arrow in its _____4___, “Uncovered: Treasures of the Australian Museum3,” which ____5____include a feather cape presented to Cook by Hawaiian King Kalani’opu’u in 1778.

Cook was one of Britain’s great explorers and is credited with ____6____ the “Great South Land,” _____7_____ Australia, in 1770. He was clubbed棍打 to death in the Sandwich Islands, now Hawaii. 夏威夷, 夏威夷岛

The legend of Cook’s arrow began in 1824 ____8___ Hawaiian King Kamehameha on his deathbed临死所卧之床, 临终之时 gave the arrow to William Adams, a London surgeon and relative of Cook’s wife, saying it was made of Cook’s bone after the fatal ____9____ with islanders.

In the 1890s the arrow was given to the Australian Museum and the legend continued ____10_____ it came face-to-face with science.

DNA testing by laboratories in Australia and New Zealand revealed the arrow was not made of Cook’s bone but was more _____11____ made of animal bone, said Philp.

However, Cook’s fans ____12___ to give up hope that one Cook legend will prove true and that part of his remains will still be uncovered, as they say there is evidence not all of Cook’s body was___13___ at sea in 1779. “On this occasion technology has won,4” said Cliff Thornton, president of the Captain Cook Society, in a ____14_____ from Britain. “But I am ____15___ that one of these days…one of the Cook legends will prove to be true and it will happen one day.”

1. A) finally B) firstly C) lately D) usually

2. A) whose B) who C) which D) what

3. A) some B) none C) neither D) no

4. A) cinema B) exhibition C) shop D) market

5. A) must B) did C) has to D) does

6. A) discovering B) visiting C) traveling D) using

7. A) then B) now C) past D) previously

8. A) how B) where C) when D) that

9. A) conversation B) fight C) meal D) dance

10. A) however B) until C) after D) whenever

11. A) helpfully B) usefully C) likely D) readily

12. A) refuse B) return C) regain D) reply

13. A) collected B) washed C) stored D) buried

14. A) statement B) suggestion C) proposal D) guess

15. A) safe B) weak C) sure D) lucky

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