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阅读理解提升练(八) A (2018·浙江绍兴一中高考冲刺) This week,a mammoth(猛犸象)possibly killed by humans 10,000 to 15,000 years ago was found in soy fields about 15 miles west of Detroit.It was found by farmer James Bristle and his neighbor Trent Satterthwaite,who were reportedly digging in the fields.At first,they couldn’t figure out what they were seeing. “It was probably a rib bone that came up,”Bristle told The Ann Arbor News.“We thought it was a bent fence post.Upon closer inspection,however,it became clear even to the untrained eye;this was no fence post.We knew it was something special.” Then they sped up the dig. After finding the bones on Monday night,Bristle called the University of Michigan on Tuesday morning to report his find.Scientist Daniel Fisher arrived to inspect it on Wednesday,and by Thursday morning he had confirmed it’s a woolly mammoth.He concluded the animal was about 5 years old when it died.It was hunted by humans,he said,who killed it and stored the remains in a pond as a way of preserving the meat for future use.“It’s still too early to tell exactly how it died,” Fisher told Detroit’s WWJ-TV,“but the skeleton(骨架) shows signs of humans’ butchering.” The bones are being temporarily stored nearby,according to the Detroit Free Press,and it remains unclear where they’ll eventually end up.Their research value will be determined once they’ve been cleaned and dried. Woolly mammoths once lived in Eurasia and North America,and most disappeared 10,000 years ago—demise(死亡)that has been linked not only to humans,but also to changing climate.It’s now believed that warming weather weakened their populations before humans dealt the final blows.? 1.What can we know about the mammoth according to the passage? A.It might die in its 5s. B.It was native to Eurasia. C.It preferred wandering in the fields. D.It mainly died from climate change. 2.Daniel Fisher may hold the opinion that 　　　.? A.the bones are well worth researching B.the mammoth was killed by the butcher C.identifying t