单选题According to information given in the passage, which of the following locations would probably yield the highest probability of finding a previously undiscovered papyrus fragment?AThe ship of a royal messenger that sank off the Egyptian coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the third century B. C.BThe charred remnants of an ancient Egyptian palace that was burned by Roman troops in the first century B. C.CThe refuse heap of an ancient Egyptian town that was buried in the desert in the fifth century A. D.DThe private collections of French and British explorers from the nineteenth century A. D. who first uncovered many of the principal sites of Egyptian archeologyEThe library of a Hellenistic fishing village that sank into the marshes of the Nile Delta in the third century A. D.

单选题
According to information given in the passage, which of the following locations would probably yield the highest probability of finding a previously undiscovered papyrus fragment?
A

The ship of a royal messenger that sank off the Egyptian coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the third century B. C.

B

The charred remnants of an ancient Egyptian palace that was burned by Roman troops in the first century B. C.

C

The refuse heap of an ancient Egyptian town that was buried in the desert in the fifth century A. D.

D

The private collections of French and British explorers from the nineteenth century A. D. who first uncovered many of the principal sites of Egyptian archeology

E

The library of a Hellenistic fishing village that sank into the marshes of the Nile Delta in the third century A. D.


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解析:
细节题。第二段第二句提到“Most of the surviving fragments have been found in ancient garbage dumps that were covered over by the desert and preserved in the dry heat.”,故C项是正确的。

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