TPO26: SUMER AND THE FIRST CITIES OF THE ANCIENT NE
(2014-02-08 09:30:04)Sumer and the First Cities of the Ancient Near East
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解析:段落从第四句话开始并列一些劣势;答案d正确,第四句“There were few natural resources, no timber, stone, or metals.”答案a,b正确第五句“Rainfall was limited and what water there was rushed across the plain in the annual flood of melted snow”答案c错,段落倒数第二句“Once this was done and the silt carried down by the rivers was planted, the rewards were rich:…”淤泥对农作物有好处,而不是坏处。
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解析:根据elite定位到段落最后一句“It was these conditions that allowed an elite to emerge”往前看“Once this was done…”再往前看“It was this that made the organization of irrigation,…essential”可以找到答案D。其他选项都是无中生后。
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解析:sustain有支持维持的意思,所以答案选C。
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解析:段落第二句“The earliest, that of Eridu, …and Uruk, …center on impressive temple complexes…”所以答案选B。
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解析:sovereign有ruler的意思,掌控的意思,master作动词也有同样含义,所以答案选B。
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解析:段落第三句“An increasingly sophisticated system of administration led in about 3300 BCE to the appearance of writing.”答案选A。
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解析:回原文找观点,跳过括号的内容,找到前一句“A more economical approach was to use a sign to express not a whole word but a single syllable.”用标志表达音节而不是整个单词是一种更经济节省的方法。标志的数量减少,能表达的单词数量反而增加了,当然效率更高。答案选D。
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解析:段落最后一句“Texts dealing with economic matters predominated…”处理经济的文字占主导地位,所以答案选C。
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解析:段落第一句“…probably developed first as a more efficient way of making pottery…”所以答案选B。
10. 与单词engraved在文中意思最接近的是
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解析:engrave雕刻的意思,所以答案选A。
11. 以下哪一项能表达出高亮句子的精华核心含义?错误选项改变重要含义或者遗漏精华信息。(Sentence
Simplification Question)
A major development was the discovery, again about 3000 BCE, that if copper, which had been know in Mesopotamia since about 3500 BCE, was mixed with tin, a much harder metal, bronze, would result.
一个主要的发展是发现,如果铜(自从3500BCE就已经为人所知)和锡混合,结果会得到青铜(一种更坚硬的金属)。
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解析:根据句子主干,答案选A。
选项B错,尽管的关系没有
选项C错,更坚硬的金属是青铜
选项D错,没有但是转折的关系
12. 与单词widespread在文中意思最接近的是
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解析:原文说青铜的使用变得广泛,也就是说青铜的使用变得很普遍,很平常。所以答案选D。
13. Look at the four squares ■that indicate where the following sentence could be added to the passage.
City life was diverse, and the population was engaged in a variety of occupations.
城市生活多姿多彩,人们的职业也多种多样。
解析:答案选第一个插口,因为后面的句子罗列了很多不同的职业。
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灌溉使得苏美尔文明5千年BCE在美索不达米亚平原上出现
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解析:
选项c是第三段的概括;选项e是第二段的概括;选项f是第四段的概括。
其他选项都是内容错误选项。

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