学位英语2016真题模拟及解析.pdf

PartI ReadingComprension (40Points) Directions:There are four passages in this part.Each passage is followed by five questions or unfinished statements.For each of them there are four choices markedA,B,C,and D,You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on theAnswer Sheet with a single linethrough the center.(划线部分为第四部分的 翻译题。) Passage 1 Questionslto5arebasedonthefollowingpassage: In the 1920s,scientists found a collection of bones near beijing,China. They believed that the bones were human and that they were about 500,000yearsold. They alsobelievedtheboneswere important becausethey were from alittle-known stageintheevolution ofhumanbeings. TheboneswereinBeijinguntil 1941. Then,because the Japanese army was advancing towards the city,the scientists decided to send the bones to the United States for safety.Sincethennobodyheardanythingabout them at all. Dr.Harry L.Shapiro,Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University,has been searching for them ever since.He believes that they were stolen by theAmerican army whosejob was to take them totheU.S.A. He could be right.After the war,a Chicago businessman offered $5,000 to anybody with information about the bones.A woman phonedhim andtoldhim sheknewwheretheboneswere. nd He arranged to meet her on the 102 floor of the Empire State Building in New York.They met and she told him that her husband had come home from China with fossils of a prehistoric man.She showed him a photograph of them.Then she walked away and was neverheardfrom again. A few years later,however,a Sydney businessman reported that he had the bones and that he had buried them in a forest in Tasmania.He offered to say where for a large sum of money.Then he,too,wasneverheardfrom again. Someone,somewhere,has these bones,but nobody seems to knowwhoorwhere. 1 How oldwerethebonesthoughttobe ? 、 A