Mungo lady and mungo man

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题目与答案

1. 1 Our human ancestors did not originate in only one area.
   • A Jim Bowler
   • B Alan Thorne
   • C Tim Flannery
   • D Rainer Grün
   • E Richard Roberts and Tim Flannery
   • F Judith Field and Richard Fullager

   答案：B Alan Thorne

   原文定位：supported his idea that modern humans developed from archaic humans in several places around the world, rather than emerging from Africa a relatively short time ago

2. 10 Ancient weapons were found in the Lake Mungo area.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
   • NOT GIVEN

   答案：NOT GIVEN

   原文定位：leaving artefacts such as stone tools

3. 11 Scientists agree about the age of Mungo Man.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
   • NOT GIVEN

   答案：FALSE

   原文定位：This is much younger than the 62,000 years Mungo Man was attributed with in 1999 by a team led by Professor Alan Thorne...The revision of Mungo Man's age has refocused attention on academic disputes about mankind's origins

4. 12 Thorne's research involved analysing more than one material.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
   • NOT GIVEN

   答案：TRUE

   原文定位：In the 1999 study, Thorne's team used three techniques to date Mungo Man - bone, tooth enamel and sand

5. 13 Bowler has criticised the research methods used by Thorne.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
   • NOT GIVEN

   答案：TRUE

   原文定位：Bowler has strongly challenged the results ever since. Dating human bones is 'notoriously unreliable', he says. In addition, the sand sample used by Thorne's group was taken hundreds of metres from the burial site

6. 2 The extinction of the megafauna happened within a brief period.
   • A Jim Bowler
   • B Alan Thorne
   • C Tim Flannery
   • D Rainer Grün
   • E Richard Roberts and Tim Flannery
   • F Judith Field and Richard Fullager

   答案：E Richard Roberts and Tim Flannery

   原文定位：They dated 28 sites across the continent, arguing that their analysis showed that the megafauna died out suddenly 46,600 years ago

7. 3 The megafauna died out as a result of human activity.
   • A Jim Bowler
   • B Alan Thorne
   • C Tim Flannery
   • D Rainer Grün
   • E Richard Roberts and Tim Flannery
   • F Judith Field and Richard Fullager

   答案：C Tim Flannery

   原文定位：these animals were wiped out by the extreme hunting practices of humans

8. 4 The similarity of results does not always guarantee their validity.
   • A Jim Bowler
   • B Alan Thorne
   • C Tim Flannery
   • D Rainer Grün
   • E Richard Roberts and Tim Flannery
   • F Judith Field and Richard Fullager

   答案：D Rainer Grün

   原文定位：the fact that the latest results were consistent between laboratories doesn't mean they are correct

9. 5 How old Mungo Man is, is unimportant.
   • A Jim Bowler
   • B Alan Thorne
   • C Tim Flannery
   • D Rainer Grün
   • E Richard Roberts and Tim Flannery
   • F Judith Field and Richard Fullager

   答案：B Alan Thorne

   原文定位：Now, however, Thorne says the age of Mungo Man is irrelevant

10. 6 There is evidence to disprove the theory of mass megafauna extinction.
    • A Jim Bowler
    • B Alan Thorne
    • C Tim Flannery
    • D Rainer Grün
    • E Richard Roberts and Tim Flannery
    • F Judith Field and Richard Fullager

    答案：F Judith Field and Richard Fullager

    原文定位：who point to the presence of megafauna fossils at the 36,000-year-old Cuddie Springs site in NSW

11. 7 An extreme environmental change occurred at the time that humans first moved into the Lake Mungo area.
    • A Jim Bowler
    • B Alan Thorne
    • C Tim Flannery
    • D Rainer Grün
    • E Richard Roberts and Tim Flannery
    • F Judith Field and Richard Fullager

    答案：A Jim Bowler

    原文定位：He argues that climate change 40,000 years ago was more intense than has been previously realised and could have played an important role in their extinction

12. 8 The earliest evidence of advanced human culture is found in Australia.
    • A Jim Bowler
    • B Alan Thorne
    • C Tim Flannery
    • D Rainer Grün
    • E Richard Roberts and Tim Flannery
    • F Judith Field and Richard Fullager

    答案：A Jim Bowler

    原文定位：At 40,000 years old, he argues, Mungo Man and Mungo Lady remain Australia's oldest human burials and the earliest evidence on Earth of cultural sophistication

13. 9 Objects found in the Lake Mungo area were used to date the arrival of humans.
    • TRUE
    • FALSE
    • NOT GIVEN

    答案：TRUE

    原文定位：leaving artefacts such as stone tools, which researchers used to determine that the first wanderers came to the area between 46,000 and 50,000 years ago