D．had been put into prison

　　解析：选C。细节理解题。根据第三段第一句的including Queen Elizabeth和poured money 可知，Frobisher 当时得到了很大的支持，故选C项。

　　3．According to the passage, Frobisher died in ________

　　A．Frobisher Bay B．the West Indies

　　C．Brest D．Plymouth

　　解析：选D。细节理解题。根据文章最后一句He lived just long enough to be taken back to Plymouth可知，Frobisher是被送回普利茅斯以后去世的，故选D。

　　4．Which of the following shows the right order of the events relating to Frobisher?

　　a．He arrived in Baffin Island.

　　b．He voyaged to the Guinea Coast.

　　c．He went to the West Indies.

　　d．He discovered the Hudson Strait.

　　A．b，a，d，c B．b，c，d，a

　　C．a，d，c，b D．a，b，c，d

　　解析：选A。事件排序题。根据第一段第三句、第二段最后一句、第三段第三、四句和最后一段第一句可知A项正确。

　　B

　　What would you think if I told you I could eat 40 percent more food than other people-eating boxes of ice cream, bowls of noodles and plates of meat-all while losing weight?

　　You might hate me, thinking I have one of those annoyingly good metabolisms(新陈代谢)that just burn up fat the instant it enters my body. You might wonder if I have an intestinal(肠的)worm, or perhaps an eating disorder. Or maybe you'd just shrug your shoulders and figure I have a rich fantasy life.

　　You'd be wrong.

　　For my body to finish such a surprising task, I would have to be a mouse. Not just any mouse, but one lucky enough to be involved in a new study at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

　　After identifying an enzyme(酶)that allows fat to be stored in the body, scientists fed mice without those enzymes, and found those mice were able to consume far more food than other mice-and still weigh 10 to 15 percent less.

　　Best of all, the mice that had no enzymes were in very good health, producing baby mice with no problem and generally acting like any other mouse. That's great news for obesity researchers, who think that scientists may figure out a way to prevent the fatmetabolizing(脂肪代谢)enzyme in humans and control weight gain. And such a pill would be very exciting for many struggling to get rid of dangerous extra pounds.

　　But don't start planning any big dinner just yet: At this point, of course, any pill for humans is but a twinkle(闪烁) in the eye of every medicine company's CEO. More tests are to be made, and eventually humans will be introduced in the test.

　　But for now，unfortunately，control in diet is still the key.

　　【解题导语】　想品尝美味又害怕体重增加？休斯敦贝勒医学院的一项实验将会帮你消除这个顾虑。

　　5．What does "such a surprising task"in Paragraph 4 refer to?

　　A．Eating a lot of food while losing weight.

　　B．Burning up fat very quickly.

　　C．Controlling the diet.

　　D．Having a rich fantasy life.

　　解析：选A。指代题。此处所说的任务是指第一段中作者指出的大量进食体重还不增加，故选A项。

6．Why did the author say he / she had to be a mouse in Paragraph 4?