备战2013四级阅读练习：我们对垃圾的爱——垃圾成堆.docVIP

本篇阅读材料“我们对垃圾的爱——垃圾成堆”选自《经济学人》（原文标题：Our love of garbage Rubbish heaps 2012.4.14）。如果大家觉得比较简单，就当作泛读材料了解了解，认识几个新单词或新表达方式也不错。如果大家觉得这些材料理解上有难度，不妨当做挑战自己的拔高训练，希望大家都有进步^^?　　ALTHOUGH it is the buried tombs and the lost cities that get all the press, one of the most valuable things that an archaeologist can dig up is rubbish. Palace murals and heroic statues record the sanitised, official version of history, but a society’s garbage tells the true story of how its members lived.?　　With that thought in mind, archaeologists of the future are in for a treat. The industrial societies of the world’s develope