雅思阅读真题(Part 1)
Part 1 · 考频:超高频 · 最近考试:2026.2.6西北工业大学
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2,000 years ago the town of Arles, in what is now south-western France, was a busy gateway to the area of the Roman Empire known as Gaul. Goods from all over the Mediterranean were transferred there to barges – long, shallow riverboats – then pulled up the Rhône river to supply the northern half of the great empire. Today, Arles is a small, quiet place, and the Rhône is polluted and mostly ignored.
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答案:FALSE
原文定位:He had already worked on sunken ships all over the Mediterranean when, in 1986, a friend persuaded him to dive for the first time in his home river. Long reluctantly agreed
同义替换:「had been looking for an opportunity」↔「persuaded by friend」
答案:current
原文定位:It hardly snowed in the Alps that winter and that spring it barely rained. The Rhône’s current was so gentle that the team got in the water by early May
答案:week
原文定位:The team worked straight into November, losing only a single week to bad weather – and completed the job
答案:stone
原文定位:When Arles-Rhône 3 sank, it was carrying 33 tons of stone for building work
答案:coin
原文定位:When the restorers were taking the boat apart, they also found a silver coin sealed between two planks of wood; it had been put there to bring good luck
答案:NOT GIVEN
原文定位:He had already worked on sunken ships all over the Mediterranean when, in 1986, a friend persuaded him to dive for the first time in his home river;Within a short time the divers found themselves swimming over a vast field of amphorae
同义替换:「remains」↔「vast field of amphorae」
答案:FALSE
原文定位:For the first 20 years or so, no one paid much attention to what Long was doing
同义替换:「attracted immediate interest」↔「no one paid much attention for the first 20 years」
答案:TRUE
原文定位:The French customs police warned Long that antiquities thieves might be watching his operation. So when his divers found a two-metre statue of the god Neptune, they brought it to the surface at night
同义替换:「would be of interest to thieves」↔「antiquities thieves might be watching his operation」
答案:TRUE
原文定位:We thought the project was doomed to fail,’ said Benoît Poinard, a professional diver and the site foreman. Normally, Poinard explained, the Rhône is safe for diving only from late June to October; otherwise the current is too strong. Only three or four months would not be enough to excavate Arles-Rhône 3
同义替换:「doubted」↔「thought the project was doomed to fail」,「the barge could be raised in one diving season」↔「Only three or four months would not be enough to excavate Arles-Rhône 3」
答案:NOT GIVEN
原文定位:When the restorers were taking the boat apart, they also found a silver coin sealed between two planks of wood; it had been put there to bring good luck
同义替换:「discover」↔「found」
答案:colleagues
原文定位:When, in 2004, one of his colleagues came across a 34-metre-long Roman barge
同义替换:「found」↔「came across」
答案:spongy
原文定位:This was because although the wood of the boat had suffered no microbial decay, water had filled its cells, leaving the whole structure soft and spongy
答案:October
原文定位:Normally, Poinard explained, the Rhône is safe for diving only from late June to October; otherwise the current is too strong