托福阅读真题之苏美尔文明.docxVIP

智课网TOEFL备考资料 托福阅读真题之苏美尔文明 摘要： 对于托福阅读的备考，我认为经常做些老托福阅读真题，让同学们了解托福阅读考试的特点和适应托福阅读考试的考试形式，可能帮助同学们提高托福阅读分数。下面我想跟大家分享老托福阅读真题及答案，供大家练习参考。  下面以新 托福 阅读真题苏美尔文明为例，讲解了 新托福 阅读题的答题方法与技巧，希望对大家备考新 托福阅读 有所帮助。  The origin of the Sumerians remains obscure. Their language is unrelated to any other known tongue. Sometimes before 4，000 B.C. they came to southern Mesopotamia， from Persia， and there， within the next thousand years， they founded a number of city-states and developed their distinctive form of writing in cuneiform (wedge-shaped) characters on clay tablets. ？Unfortunately， the tangible remains of Sumerian civilization are extremely scanty compared to those of ancient Egypt. ？Building stone being unavailable in Mesopotamia， the Sumerians used mud brick and wood， so that almost nothing is left of their architecture except the foundation. ？Nor did they share the Egyptians’ concern with the hereafter， although some richly endowed tombs in the shape of vaulted chambers below ground from the early dynastic period have been found in the city of Ur. ？Our knowledge of Sumerian Civilization thus depends very largely on chance fragments brought to light by excavation， including vast numbers of inscribed clay tablets. Yet we have learned enough to form a general picture of this vigorous， inventive， and disciplined people。  根据该词出现的那句话就可以得知这里讲述的是“苏美尔人的起源仍然不清。他们的语言和其他任何已知语言无关。他们大约在公元前4000年从波斯来到美索不达米亚平原南部，从此在那里以后的数千年中，他们建立了许多城邦并且形成了他们与众不同的梭形文字。  如果对于该词不认识的也可以从后文的 unrelated to any other known tongue的否定表达知道，前面的词应该是负向的，后面的unfortunately一段我们可以再次印证这里的表达是负向的，因为文章说我们对苏美尔文明的了解只能靠考古发掘，从而我们也可放心这个单词的理解是正确的。由此可见，本题仍是熟词熟义。  第7题：The word vast in the passage is closest in meaning to_________  (A) random  (B) very large  (C) surprising  (D) relatively small  这题就是很容易的“熟词熟义”，根据上下文就可以判断选B。  第11题仍然是熟词熟义，所以很容易选出答案A。原文：The temple controlled the pooling of labor and resources for communal enterprises， such as the building of