Jennifer Dowker was scuba diving(水肺潜水) in the Cheboygan River in Michigan last Friday when she found a message in a bottle written in 1926. Dowker is the owner of Nautical North Family Adventures, a glass bottom boat tour company. She said she was cleaning the bottom of her vessel(轮船), the Yankee Sunshine, when she made the discovery.

She was able to fish out the note and unrolled it to read the message. It read: “Will the person who finds this bottle return this paper to George Morrow Cheboygan, Michigan and tell where it was found?” The note was dated November 1926.

She posted pictures on her company’s Facebook page where it quickly went viral. On Father’s Day she received a call from George Morrow’s daughter, Michele Primeau. Primeau said that she’s not on Facebook, but she got a call out of nowhere from a complete stranger, who had seen Dowker’s post.

Primeau said her dad’s birthday was in November and would have been 17 or 18 when he wrote the note and threw the bottle in the river. “I can just see him going out and doing that because it was his birthday,” Primeau said. “I don’t know for sure. But it just sounds like something that he would have done.” George passed away in 1995.

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1.What can we know about Jennifer Dowker?

A She is a scuba diver.

B She runs a tour company.

C She often does some cleaning.

D She likes discover new things.

解析：选B。B 细节理解题。根据第一段Dowker is the owner of Nautical North Family Adventures, a glass bottom boat tour company.可知，道克是一家玻璃底船旅游公司“航海北家庭探险”的老板。故选B。

2.The message was probably left by_____.

A a stranger

B Jennifer Dowker

C Michele Primeau

D George Morrow

解析：选D。D 推理判断题。根据最后一段可知，普里莫表示，她仅仅能看到他出去做那样的事情，她尚不确定。但这听起来像是她父亲会做的事。由此推断藏在瓶里的纸条是普里莫的父亲乔治·莫罗所为，故选D。

3.Why was the message written and kept in the bottle?

A To make fun.

B To keep a secret.

C To send best wishes to someone.

D It is not mentioned.

解析：选D。D 细节理解题。根据第二段可知，纸条显示：希望找到这个瓶子的人会把这张纸还给密歇根州切博伊根的乔治·莫罗，告诉他在哪里找到的。文中并未提及把纸条藏在瓶中的具体目的，故选D。

4.What did Dowker do after she found the message?

A She posted it to Michele Primeau.

B She returned it to George Morrow.

C She put up a post on social media.

D She called George Morrow’s daughter about it.

解析：选C。C 细节理解题。根据第三段She posted pictures on her company’s Facebook page where it quickly went viral.可知，道克在自己公司的脸书页面上发布了一些照片。故选C。

5.What surely happened in November according to the passage?

A George was born.

B George passed away.

C George’s bottle was found.

D George’s daughter called Dowker.

解析：选A。A 细节理解题。根据最后一段Primeau said her dad’s birthday was in November可知，普里莫父亲乔治·莫罗的生日是在十一月。故选A。