59．The event happening on Oct．30 can be thought of as a ___.

　　A．nightmare

　　B．turning point

　　C．lesson

　　D．disappointment

　　60．The writer likes the new room very much because ______．

　　A．she will have some seniors help with the studies

　　B．she won't have to bear terrible dormitory foods

　　C．she won't have to go a long way to attend lectures

　　D．she will pay less rent than she did living in the dorm

　　【答案解析】

　　C

　　Energy-saving Finns invented the first ice skate more than 5,000 years ago, as a practical method of transport to make getting across frozen lakes less of a struggle.

　　The earliest skates would have been blades made from bones and are one of the oldest means of transport ever discovered —they may even have been essential survival tools.

　　Researchers at Manchester Metropolitan University have calculated that ice skates would have saved energy by 10 percent, and suggest that they were developed for practical use and were not used for recreation, as they are today.

　　They think the most likely birthplace of skating is southern Finland, where there are many icy lakes.

　　The scientists have put their theory to the test and made replica（复制品） skates modeled after examples held at the British Museum and the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

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