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课时作业(十五)

Ⅰ.阅读理解[2023·全国乙卷]Ifyouwanttotellthehistoryofthewholeworld，ahistory

thatdoesnotprivilegeonepartofhumanity，youcannotdoit

throughtextsalone，becauseonlysomeoftheworldhasever

hadtexts，whilemostoftheworld，formostofthetime，has

not.Writingisoneofhumanity’slaterachievements，anduntil

fairlyrecentlyevenmanyliterate(有文字的)societiesrecorded

theirconcernsnotonlyinwritingbutinthings.

Ideallyahistorywouldbringtogethertextsandobjects，

andsomechaptersofthisbookareabletodojustthat，butin

manycaseswesimplycan’t.Theclearestexampleofthis

betweenliterateandnon-literatehistoryisperhapsthefirst

conflict，atBotanyBay，betweenCaptainCook’svoyageand

theAustralianAboriginals.FromtheEnglishside，wehave

scientificreportsandthecaptain’srecordofthatterrible

day.FromtheAustralianside，wehaveonlyawooden

shield(盾)droppedbyamaninflightafterhisfirstexperienceof

gunshot.Ifwewanttoreconstructwhatwasactuallygoingon

thatday，theshieldmustbequestionedandinterpretedasdeeply

andstrictlyasthewrittenreports.

Inadditiontotheproblemofmiscomprehensionfromboth

sides，therearevictoriesaccidentallyordeliberatelytwisted，

especiallywhenonlythevictorsknowhowtowrite.Thosewho

areonthelosingsideoftenhaveonlytheirthingstotelltheir

stories.TheCaribbeanTaino，theAustralianAboriginals，the

AfricanpeopleofBeninandtheIncas，allofwhomappearin

thisbook，canspeaktousnowoftheirpastachievementsmost

powerfullythroughtheobjectstheymade；ahistorytold

throughthingsgivesthembackavoice.

Whenweconsidercontact(联系)betweenliterateandnon-literate

societiessuchasthese，allourfirst-handaccountsare

necessarilytwisted，onlyonehalfofadialogue.Ifwearetofind

theotherhalfofthatconversation，wehavetoreadnotjustthe

texts，buttheobjects.

（A）1.Whatisthefirstparagraphmain