Howard Carter is one of the most famous explorers the world has ever known. He was brave and loved to visit and explore new places. During his life, he discovered many amazing things.【小题1】他天资聪颖，对家乡之外的世界充满了好奇心when he was very young.
Howard Carter never went to school, but learnt to draw from his father. 【小题2】By the 1920s, he had become an explorer, searching for the tombs of the Egyptian kings. He discovered a great fortune in jewels and gold, along with the preserved bodies of dead kings. 【小题3】这些经过处理的遗体就是为人所知的木乃伊. In 1922, Howard Carter made his most amazing discovery of all, in the Valley of the Kings, in Egypt, where he found the tomb of King Tutankhamun.
However, not long after the tomb had been opened, people in Carter’s team began to fall ill and die strangely.【小题4】Within seven years, 21 people who had something to do with the opening of the tomb died.
Some people say the deaths were just coincidence. 【小题5】Others believe that they were in connection with a mummy’s curse. However, still others believe that there is a scientific explanation, because inside the tombs there are many viruses.
