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模块检测(二)时间：100分钟　分数：120分第一部分　阅读理解(共两节满分40分)第一节(共15小题；每小题2分满分30分)阅读下列短文从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项。A “Around 500，000 years ago，at the Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian in Beijings suburban Fangshan district，which is about 50 km from the city of Beijing，there lived early human beings，” says a China history textbook. The textbook now has to be revised.New dating techniques suggest the remains of Peking Man—found in the 1920s—are over 200，000 years older than previously thought.Whats important about that date，about 770，000 years ago，is that this was an ice age on Earth. Over Earths long history，there have been a number of times when ice and snow covered a large part of its surface.Such periods are known as ice ages. Earth is in an ice age now.It started about 2 million years ago.Despite the many warm periods since then，scientists regard the whole time as one ice age because of the continuous existence of at least one large ice sheet—the one over Antarctica. The new discovery was made by Chinese and US scientists.It suggests Peking Man is probably our oldest cold weather human being，said Darryl Granger，an atmospheric scientist at Purdue University whose research appears in Thursdays edition of the journal Nature. “The average yearly temperature at the time in that part of China was around the freezing mark，but it was too dry for an ice sheet，” Granger said. This raises a question.How did Peking Man survive the cold weather? Rick Potts，a Smithsonian Institution human origins expert who wasnt involved in the research，raised three possibilities：ut whether the fire was accidental or controlled. Second，fur.There is no evidence that Peking Man used simple tools to make more form－fitting clothes.Its more likely he wore animal fur.Peking Man may have experienced physiological changes that allowed more blood to flow to his hands and legs，Ports said.“People in general who live in colder climates tend to be shorter and wider，”he explained. Unlike the times of Peking Man，today the glob