（全国通用）2019版高考英语一轮复习 提分单元加餐练 第八辑 Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors 新人教版选修8.docVIP

Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors 单元加餐练 Ⅰ.阅读理解 A Just in time for National Popcorn Day, a new study shows that people in whats now Peru were eating the snack about 2,000 years earlier than we thought. Coastal peoples were preparing corn－based foods up to 6,700 years ago, according to analysis of remains of the ancient corn recently discovered at the Paredones and Huaca Prieta archaeological sites on Perus northern coast. Previously, evidence of corn as a food about 5,000 years ago had mostly come from what are called microfossils—microscopic remains that do not offer information on the size and