Unit3 Back to the past单元检测6（牛津版必修3）.docVIP

Unit 3 Back to the past Ⅰ.课文缩写填空 I felt lucky to be picked to  represent China to go on a cultural expedition to sites of lost civilizations. We visited Pompeii in Italy and Loulan in China. Pompeii was founded in the 8th century BC, then taken_over_by the Romans in 89 BC. Later, Pompeii was destroyed by a volcano. It erupted and covered Pompeii with ash. Unfortunately, all the people were buried alive. Differently,_Loulan disappeared under the sand. There were just a few ruins left. They both were important commercial cities about 2,000 years ago. It was so pity! Ⅱ.阅读理解 The people who built Stonehenge in southern England thousands of years ago had wild parties, eating barbecued pigs and breaking pottery. This is according to recent work by archaeologists — history experts who investigate how human beings lived in the past. Archaeologists digging near Stonehenge last year discovered the remains of a large prehistoric village where they think the builders of the mysterious stone circle used to live. The village is about 4,600 years old, the same age as Stonehenge and as old as the pyramids in Egypt. It is less than two miles from the famous ancient landmark and lies inside a massive man-made circular dirt wall, or “henge”，known as the Durrington Walls. Remains found at the site included jewellery, stone arrowheads, tools made of deer antlers, wooden spears and huge amounts of animal bones and broken pottery. “These finds suggest Stone Age people went to the village at special times of the year to feast and party，” says Mike Parker-Pearson from Sheffield University in England. He said many of the pig bones they found had been thrown away half-eaten. He also said the party-goers appeared to have shot some of the farm pigs with arrows, possibly as a kind of sport before barbecuing them. An ancient road which led from the village to the River Avon was also found. Here, the experts think, people came after their parties to throw dead relatives in the water so the