Early last Tuesday, six men carrying machine guns, a pistol and a hunting rifle
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Early last Tuesday, six men carryingmachine guns, a pistol and a hunting rifle got on a four—car electric “ milktrain” at the Dutch town of Assen. Shortly after it left Beilen, ten milesaway, the terrorists stopped the train and seized the passenger as hostages. Aspolice and Dutch soldiers ringed the train, another group of terrorists stuckin Amsterdam, forcing their way into the Indonesian consulate and taking 41more hostages, including 16 children. By week’s end the terrorists had murderedthree people aboard the train, and four more had been wounded in the raid onthe consulate.
The kidnapping, and the subsequentcold—blooded murders, virtually rocked the Netherlands. While the Cabinet metin emergency sessions, television and radio station paused normal programmingin favor of solemn music and news bulletins.
The terrorists were Indonesians from theSouth Moluccan Islands in the Pacific Ocean, and they were demanding that theDutch help them gain independence from the Jakarta regime.(雅加达政权)
The twin acts of violence were not thefirst signs of South Molucca anger. Just before a 1970 visit to the Netherlandsby Indonesia’s President Suharto, they attacked the Indonesian embassy in theHague, killing a Dutch policeman. Last week’s kidnappings are two days before theDutch Appeals Court was to trial 16 South Moluccan’s who were implicated in aplot last April to kidnap Queen Juliana and other members of the Royal family.They planned to storm the palace at Soestdijk after attacking the gates with anarmoured car(装甲车).
The Moluccan headache is a heritage(遗留问题) of the old days of empire.A chain of islands at the eastern of the Indonesian archipelago, the Moluccaswere once known as the Spice Islands. When the Netherlands gave up its EastIndies colonies in 1949, the Moluccans wanted to set up a South MoluccanRepublic, some 12,000 islanders were allowed to settle to the Netherlands.Their number swollen by Dutch—born children now reached 35,000. the youngMoluccans here are demanding that the Dutch help them gain independence fromthe Jakarta regime.
1.Which of the following is not mentionedin the passage?
| A．Dozens of people were seized by the terrorist as hostages. |
| B．The Indonesian consulate was located in Amsterdam. |
| C．The terrorists were Indonesians living in the Netherlands. |
| D．The terrorists all surrendered(投降) to the police and soldiers. |
2.Why did television and radio stationspause normal programming?
| A．The acts of violence shocked the whole country. |
| B．The terrorists destroyed necessary equipment. |
| C．the Cabinet needed to think quietly. |
| D．Their men were too sad to produce good program. |
3.The last paragraph __________.
| A．is mainly about the history of Indonesia |
| B．tells us how Indonesia won its independence |
| C．tell us how the Netherlands gave up its rule |
| D．briefly accounts for the acts of violence |
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【答案】
1.D
2.A
3.D
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