（广东卷）高中英语 Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors综合检测 新人教版选修8.doc

PAGE  Unit 5　Meeting your ancestors (时间：100分钟；满分：120分)Ⅰ.完形填空(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分) When Mt Vesuvius(维苏威火山) erupted in 79 A．D，it __1__ the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The first __2__ were the people of Pompeii，who，returning to their city when the eruption had eased，dug down through the __3__ of their buried homes.The __4__ they drove through the solidified ash can still be seen in places.But a time came when Pompeii and Herculaneum were forgotten.Throughout the Middle Ages these two buried cities were not disturbed，and it was not until 1709 that an Austrian prince sank a shaft at Herculaneum and then, by __5__ of underground tunnels，robbed the city of its treasures. In 1729 systematic excavation began on the __6__ site，but King Charles Ⅲ of Naples merely excavated the site to __7__ archaeological specimens(考古标本)for his collection.A few years later，an accidental find at Pompeii led to excavations there；at first by tunneling，but afterwards by the actual uncovering of the city. From the end of the eighteenth century to the present day，digging has gone on __8__ continuously，though slowly，and often with few resources.Perhaps this slowness has not been entirely a __9__，since it has resulted in large，untouched sections of both cities being left __10__ for modern，scientific excavation.Archaeological techniques have improved so much in the last fifty years that a site can now reveal far more archaeological __11__ than before. Today most of __12__ and a substantial section of Herculaneum have been cleared.They are the best known archaeological sites in __13__，and the most wonderful.For here，and nowhere else on earth，are ancient cities in which life did not die out but was suddenly __14__. “Behind these walls，”as one writer has said，“lies an __15__ Italian town，stilled in a moment of time.To enter the gates of this city is to walk 2,000 years into the past.” 1．A.destroyed　　　　　 B．repaired C．built D．identified 2. A．explanation B．excavations C．pronunciation D．aff