Question

Nine 1700­year­old brick tombs have been discovered in northwest China’s Xinjiang. Experts say that they can   1   valuable clues for the research of exchanges(交換；交流) between the central Chinese government at that time and    ___2   Western Regions.

It is the    3   time ancient tombs with typical characteristics of China's main Han nationality have been found in the Uygur ethnic region(自治區(qū))．

    4    from Beijing，Shanxi and Xinjiang concluded that the tombs were  ___5___ between the middle and late third century and fourth century.

The tombs were unearthed during the   6   of a road earlier this year in Kuqa county,740 km from Xinjiang's capital Urumqi and part of the   7   Qiuci State. Qiuci State，which   8   between the second century BC and 860 AD，was one of the 36 states in the Western Regions.

The tombs would help archaeologists with research into the political，economic and cultural   9    between the Central Plains government and states in the west，and on the cultural     10   of the Central Plains on the Western Regions.

Archaeologists from the Xinjiang institute have dug nine tombs since August 22， ___11    bodies of more than 30 people，some ancient   12   and more than 60 pottery(陶器)jars. It is thought there are another three tombs to be    13   .

The people buried in the tombs were    14   either people from the western regions deeply influenced by the Han culture or the Han residents(居民)in the    ___15   .

 

1.	A.	tell	B.	provide	C.	show	D.	represent
2.	A.	nearby	B.	middle	C.	faraway	D.	few
3.	A.	second	B.	last	C.	first	D.	near
4.	A.	Scientists	B.	People	C.	Officials	D.	Archaeologists
5.	A.	built	B.	found	C.	buried	D.	studied
6.	A.	construction	B.	destruction	C.	digging	D.	repair
7.	A.	ancient	B.	big	C.	far	D.	near
8.	A.	appeared	B.	disappeared	C.	lies	D.	existed
9.	A.	exchanges	B.	businesses	C.	development	D.	studies
10.	A.	model	B.	atmosphere	C.	influence	D.	change
11.	A.	finding	B.	destroying	C.	studying	D.	protecting
12.	A.	paper	B.	silk	C.	pearls	D.	coins
13.	A.	moved	B.	dug	C.	studied	D.	picked
14.	A.	surely	B.	probably	C.	certainly	D.	nearly
15.	A.	west	B.	country	C.	region	D.	tomb

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.B

2.C

3.C

4.D

5.A

6.A

7.A

8.D

9.A

10.C

11.A

12.D

13.B

14.B

15.C

【解析】

1.古墓的挖掘能為研究“提供”線索，而不是“告知、展示、代表”線索。

2.當(dāng)時的中原政府the central Chinese government 相對西部地區(qū)Western Regions從距離上看是faraway，因為當(dāng)時的交通等原因。

3.前文沒有交代任何有類似的發(fā)現(xiàn)，所以是the first。

4.能對該發(fā)現(xiàn)做出conclude的應(yīng)該是“考古學(xué)家archaeologists”。

5.從后面是時間推斷這里說的是古墓“建造”的時間。

6.能發(fā)現(xiàn)古墓，肯定這地方是第一次被挖掘，那repair “修路”是不可能的，應(yīng)該是“建路”時被挖掘。B和C也不太合情理或者說沒有A那么適合。

7.根據(jù)后句：Qiuci State，存在于公元前2世紀(jì)和公元860年，是西部36區(qū)之一。來看，Quici State應(yīng)該是古代才存在的地名。

8.根據(jù)后面的時間狀語，以及one of the 36 states來看，這里是介紹Qiuci State的存在的時間。如果是appear那時間狀語就只需要the second century BC。時間跨度不會那么大。

9.本文一開始已經(jīng)說明該古墓的挖掘?qū)ρ芯恐性�和西方地區(qū)的交流“exchanges”有幫助。

10.根據(jù)后面on the Western Regions知道這里意思是“中原文化對西部地區(qū)的影響”。 固定搭配influence on sth。

11.古墓被挖出來后，自然是“找到”一些尸體。

12.一般古墓發(fā)現(xiàn)的都是錢幣，陶器等不容易腐爛的東西，A、B和C三項都是不容易在墓里保存的。

13.語境暗示法。前面說到“挖了”9座古墓了，那么人們認(rèn)為是還要“再挖”3座。

14.后文用了either…or，說明存在不確定性，用probably最合適。

15.要理清這里的意思：墓里的人或者是受漢文化影響的西部人或者是本地區(qū)的人。用country范圍太大。