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考试日期：6 月 16 日Reading Passage 1 Title:Green Sahara TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN Question types: Short-answer questions Summary Completion 先是 T/F/NG 题，第一个是说那个男博士是偶然间在那个沙漠发现人类残骸的，是True, 因为原文里说她是被那个骨头绊倒(stumbled) 才发现的。另外有一题是问那个人和另一个人之前就已经合作了，是False, 因为是从这次发现那个骨头才开始合作的。之后就是问 答题，先问她们在那个沙漠的前几个星期produce 了什么，是a map 。然后说那个女博士 文章内容回顾 把什么送去检查，是teeth 。第三个是问检查以后，骨骼比较大的那个多少岁，是9000 。剩下的一组是填空题，说打鱼和另一种生活状态人们体格之类的区别。先是peaceful life 是从没有 injuries 看出来的，然后从她们肌肉的attachment看出生活很strenuous, 另外她们的食物里的protein 很高，因为常吃鱼。然后是另一部分人，说她们是饲养畜牧 的生活，可是只发现了牛的骨骼，因此答案是cow, 然后说可能是她们处在一个转化状态，答案是transition 。 Paleontologist Paul Sereno and his team were scouring the rocks between harsh dunes in northern Niger in when they stumbled across the graveyard, on the shores of a long-gone lake. The scientists eventually uncovered 200 burials of two vastly different cultures that span five thousand years—the first time such a site has been found in one place. Called Gobero, the area is a uniquely preserved record of human habitation and burials from the Kiffian (7700 to 6200 B.C.) and the Tenerian (5200 to 2500 B.C.) cultures, says a new study led by Sereno of the University of Chicago. 英文原文阅读 The watershed find also offers a new window into how these tribes lived and buried their dead during the extreme Holocene period, when a grassy Sahara dried up in the worlds largest desert. Coming across such a site sends a tingle up your spine, said Sereno, a National Geographic explorer-in-residence. (The National Geographic Society owns National Geographic News.) Youre not looking at [dinosaurs], youre looking at your own species. One of the most striking discoveries was what the research team calls the Stone Age Embrace: A woman, possibly a mother, and two children laid to rest holding hands, arms outstretched toward each other, on a bed of flowers. Sereno and colleagues have also made several dinosaur discoveries in the