1994年高考英语全国卷 - 阅读理解A

Tokyo: Three snakes, whose poison could kill a person in ten minutes, are guarding a blue star sapphire worth nearly six hundred thousand dollars at a Japanese exhibition of jewels sent from an Indian museum.
东京：在一次日本珠宝展上，一颗来自印度博物馆，价值近60万美元的蓝星宝石由三条毒蛇守护，它们的毒液可以在十分钟内杀死一个人。

“Normally it would be forbidden to let these poisonous snakes guard exhibition objects, but it's different this time because the jewels are being exhibited at a hotel, ”a police official said.
一名警方官员表示：“通常情况下，不允许毒蛇守护展览物品，但这次不同，因为珠宝是在酒店展出的”。

Exhibition officials said that a person bitten by one of these snakes would need at least 80 mls of an anti-poison medicine to be saved.
展览官方表示，如果有人被这些蛇咬伤，至少需要80毫升的抗毒药才能获救。

Medicine was being kept ready at a nearby hospital. The star sapphire and other valuable jewels worth a total of one million dollars are on show behind glass. Hundreds of visitors came to see the special blue star sapphire and were surprised when they saw the sixty-centimetre-long brown guards.
附近一家医院正在准备药物。这颗蓝星宝石和其他总计价值一百万美元的贵重珠宝在橱窗内展出。数百名游客前来观看这颗特殊的蓝星宝石，当他们看到这些60厘米长的棕色护卫时非常吃惊。