单选题
The mystery (悬案) around the disappearance of the famous crime writer Agatha Christie in 1926 was almost as
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as any of her exciting stories. At about 11 o"clock on the evening of Friday, December 3rd, Mrs. Christie got into her car and took a drive without saying
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she was going. She didn"t return.
The next morning her car was found without
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at Newlands Corner, Surrey. It was
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put on record that the Surrey Police did not find
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until 11:00 that morning. People
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that she might have killed herself.
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as the days went by, it was suggested that she was
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The press and the public naturally took great interest in the
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, with at least one newspaper offering a reward (悬赏) to anyone who could find the
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writer.
Of course the police did their best to
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her. But, sadly, after a week"s
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they had made no progress. In the end they decided that Agatha must
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the area.
Agatha finally made
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on Tuesday, December 14th, when she was reunited with
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at a hotel in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. It was said she had been staying at the hotel for the past 10
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under the name of "Mrs. Theresa Neele". Her husband said, "She has suffered from the most complete loss of
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and I do not think she knows who she is."
Agatha Christie hated
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She seldom met reporters and made no
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this time. The only
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she made was that she had lost her memory, although with the help of a doctor she did manage to remember some of what she had done during her disappearance.
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查动词词义。leave意为“离开,动身,剩下,遗忘,委托,遗弃”;dislike意为“讨厌,不喜欢”;visit意为“拜访,访问,参观,视察,降临”;find意为“找到,发现,感到,查明,得到,认为,见到……的存在”。这里的动作发生在过去,而must have done是对过去发生的事情作出较为肯定的推测。根据文意,警察搜查一周未果后,认为女作家肯定离开了这个地方。所以本题正确答案选A。