(全国通用)2019版高考英语一轮复习 提分单元加餐练 第八辑 Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors 新人教版选修8.doc
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1、【 精品教育资源文库 】 Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors 单元加餐练 . 阅读理解 A Just in time for National Popcorn Day, a new study shows that people in whats now Peru were eating the snack about 2,000 years earlier than we thought. Coastal peoples were preparing corn based foods up to 6,700 years ago, according to analy
2、sis of remains of the ancient corn recently discovered at the Paredones and Huaca Prieta archaeological sites on Perus northern coast. Previously, evidence of corn as a food about 5,000 years ago had mostly come from what are called microfossils microscopic remains that do not offer information on t
3、he size and shape of the corncobs (玉米棒 ). But the newly found corn remains revealed a lot, via radiocarbon dating and other tests. The people who lived in Paredones and Huaca Prieta probably cooked corn in several ways: Wrapping a corncob and resting it on coals, roasting a corncob directly over a f
4、lame, or cooking a corncob in an earthen oven. In this culture, corn was a delicious food or a minor supplement to the dietarchaeological evidence shows they did not eat it in large amounts. Corn was first grown in Mexico about 9,000 years ago from a wild grass called teosinte, according to Piperno,
5、 whose research has been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A few thousand years later, corn was brought to South America, where farmers bred the plant crop into hundreds of varieties. Indeed, what surprised Piperno most about the new research was the diversity
6、 of corn from corncob shapes to kernel (玉 米粒 ) colors discovered in the newfound remains. “Farmers like to experiment and grow cool things , ” she said. 篇章导读:本文是一篇说明文。一项新的考古研究发现人类在距今约 6, 700 年前已开始食用玉米,比之前所认为的时间提前了约两千年。 1 What would be the best title for the passage? A Ancient popcorn was eaten about
7、 2,000 years earlier than thought in Peru B A new discovery revealed the mystery about corn C How was corn cooked in ancient Peru and South America? D National Popcorn Day and the new found corn remains in Peru 答案: A 标题判断题。由文章主旨段第一段并纵观全文可知,文章讲的是新的研究发现,人类开始食用玉 米的时间比我们认为的还要早大约 2,000 年,故选 A。 2 From the
8、 passage we can learn that microfossils of corn _ . A showed that people began cooking corn about 5,000 years ago B offered detailed information on the size of the ancient corncobs 【 精品教育资源文库 】 C showed the specific shape of the ancient corncobs D were analyzed by scientists via radiocarbon dating
9、答案: A 细节理解题。根据第三段第一句话中的 “Previously, evidence of corn as a food about 5,000 years ago had mostly come from what are called microfossils”可知,玉米微化石显示人们在大约 5,000 年前已开始以玉米为食物。 3 What can we know about the newly found corn remains? A They revealed people in Paredones and Huaca Prieta never roasted a cornc
10、ob directly over a flame. B They revealed people in Paredones and Huaca Prieta lived mainly on cornbased foods. C They showed us how ancient farmers bred corn from a wild grass. D They offered more information on ancient corn than microfossils of corn. 答案: D 推理判断题。根据第三段第一句话中的 “. microscopic remains
11、that do not offer information on the size and shape of the corncobs” 和第二句话 “But the newly found corn remains revealed a lot .” 可知,新发现的玉米遗迹能够比玉米微化石提供更多的关于古代玉米的信息。 4 What can we know from the last paragraph? A Remains of ancient corn were found in different places of the world. B Various kinds of corn
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