A group of scientists in the Netherlands recently used hightech methods to examine a secret hidden inside an ancient Chinese statue. It was sent to the Drents Museum in the northeastern Netherlands as part of an exhibit. But while working on the statue, researchers took the chance to study the body of a Buddhist monk inside it.
The statue was shipped to a medical center for CT scans, which are tests that produce Xray pictures. Scientists used the technology to find out the statue's hidden secrets. The body of the monk was sitting on top of a roll of cloth marked with Chinese characters. The cloth showed that the monk was named Liuquan and lived around the year 1100.
“On the outside, it looked like a large statue of Buddha，” said Vincent van Vilsteren from the Drents Museum. “What flabbergasted me was that, on the inside, it was the mummy (干尸) of a Buddhist monk. Later we learned that for the first 200 years, the mummy was probably placed in a Buddhist temple. Only in the 14th century did they do all the work to move it into a nice statue.”
Researchers at the Drents Museum still have a lot of questions about the mummy. It is believed to be the only Chinese Buddhist mummy that has been studied outside Asia. Scientists hope that DNA testing on the mummy will help them learn more about it. Further research may dig up more information about the monk in the months to come.
本文是一篇记叙文，介绍了一尊内藏佛僧干尸的古佛像。
1．What is special about the statue?
A．Something unusual is in it.
B．It is a modern Chinese statue.
C．It is made of different kinds of material.
D．Strange characters can be seen on its surface.
答案：A
解析：细节理解题。由第一段中的“researchers took the chance to study the body of a Buddhist monk inside it”可知，这尊雕像内藏一位佛僧的干尸，这正是其特别之处，故选A项。
2．Research showed that the monk ________.
A．died of a terrible disease
B．lived around the 12th century
C．sat on an ancient Chinese book
D．was burned right after his death
答案：B
解析：细节理解题。由第二段中的“the monk...lived around the year 1100”可知，B项说法正确。
3．The underlined word “flabbergasted” in Paragraph 3 probably means “________”．
A．disturbed B．satisfied
C．surprised D．saved
答案：C
解析：词义猜测题。由第三段中的“On the outside, it looked like a large statue of Buddha”和“on the inside, it was the mummy (干尸) of a Buddhist monk”可知，此处表达这让Vincent van Vilsteren十分惊讶，故选C项。
4．What is the text mainly about?
A．Ancient Chinese statues.
B．The Drents Museum.
C．Buddhism in China.
D．A mummified monk.
答案：D
解析：主旨大意题。文章主要介绍了一尊内藏佛僧干尸的古佛像，故选D项。
