The world-famous Belgian has arrived in Britain with his equally famous dog for a five-month stay—nearly 70 years after his first visit. Tintin, the eternally youthful reporter who only was ever known to file one story in all his adventures, is celebrating his 75th birthday this year with a new exhibition at London's National Maritime Museum.
Tintin at Sea is a collection of original drawings by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi—more commonly known as Herge which was the French-speaking pronunciation of his reversed initial RG— and some of the artifacts and models that inspired him.
"Herge had a lifelong fascination with the sea and was above all a person who insisted on detail," the museum's director Roy Clare told reporters at a preview of the exhibition which opens to the public on Wednesday and runs to September 5.
Tintin, with his trademark quiff and plus-four trousers, traveled all over the world on adventures that took him and his white terrier known as Snowy in English and Milou in French from Tibet to America and Iceland to Africa.
Books of his adventures have been translated into 60 languages and have sold 200 million copies since the comic strip character first saw the light of day in 1929.
Although the stories took Tintin and his irascible companion Captain Haddock as far as the moon, the sea is a recurring theme, in stories such as The Crab with the Golden Claws, Red Rackham's Treasure and The Secrets of the Unicorn.
Herge, who only traveled widely after the success of his creation, was a self-taught artist. He stayed in Belgium through World War Two and was accused and cleared of collaboration immediately afterwards, although he suffered a period of being an exile as a result. He was also accused of racism in some of Tintin's earlier adventures.
The reporter only once travelled to Britain, in the story The Black Isle, published in 1938. "Here you have four famous Belgians," Joren Vandeweyer, the country's cultural attache(大使随员)to Britain, told reporters. "Tintin, Snowy, Captain Haddock and of course Herge himself, back after 66 years."

单选题 What can we learn about the exhibition in London?

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】首段第2句中的celebrating his 75th birthday表明伦敦的展览是为了纪念Remi在75年前创造了Tintin这个人物的，因此选项A为正确的说法。第2段首句中的original drawings表明《丁丁历险记》并非最新创作，因此B不正确；从第1段和第4段可知，小狗的主人是漫画的主角丁丁，并非该漫画书的作者，因此C不正确；首句中的for a five-month stay表明这个展览还没开始，D与此相反，显然不正确。

单选题 Being a reporter, Tintin can best be described as a(n)_____ one.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】首段第2句中定语从句里的file one story表明Tintin只发表过一篇报道，可见，他的记者工作做得不够好，因此B为本题答案。原文关于Tintin作为记者身份的信息只在首段第2句中的定语从句中提到，选项A没有原文依据；撇开Tintin记者的身份，选项C和D可以用来形容他的个性，但不能说明Tintin作为记者的特点，因此均不正确。

单选题 Which of the following is true about Tintin's adventures?

单选题 What happened to Herge during World War Two?

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】倒数第3段第2句中的让步从句表明埃尔热曾经被放逐，即被迫离开比利时一段时间，因此选项C为本题答案。本题最具干扰性的是选项A，事实上，原文表明埃尔热被放逐是因为二战期间被控通敌卖国，而他曾经被控种族歧视，这是被放逐后发生的事了，从原文也不能看出他被放逐的时候同时被控这两个罪名，因此A不正确。

单选题 Tintin made his earliest visit to Britain _____.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】倒数第2段开头的reporter指的就是丁丁，表明在此次展览之前，丁丁唯一的一次英国之旅发生在一个埃尔热创作的故事里，故选项D正确。选项A和C均没有原文依据；末段末句虽有提及66年前的信息，但没有提及丁丁66年前到英国是为了参加展览，事实上，原文该处的“66年后重返英国”是针对上一段提及的丁丁在1938年在故事《黑岛》中首次访问英国而言的，因此，选项B是不正确的。