Caral: an ancient South American city

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题目与答案

1. Questions 1-6

   Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage ?

   In boxes 1-6 on your answer sheet, write

   1 Caral was built at the same time as the construction of the Egyptian pyramids.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
   • NOT GIVEN

   答案：FALSE

   原文定位：Research undertaken by Peruvian archaeologist Ruth Shady suggests that the 150-acre complex of pyramids, plazas and residential buildings was a thriving metropolis when Egypt's great pyramids were still being built

2. Clues to farming around Caral

   ·10_____ still in existence today indicate water diverted from rivers

   答案：canals

   原文定位：Shady theorized that Caral's early farmers diverted the area's rivers into canals, which still cross the Supe Valley today, to irrigate their fields

3. ·11 no evidence that _____ was grown

   答案：maize

   原文定位：But because she found no traces of maize, which can be traded or stored and used in times of crop failure, she concluded that Caral's trade leverage was not based on stockpiling food supplies

4. Evidence of relationship with fishing communities

   ·12 the excavation findings and fishing nets found on the coast suggest Caral farmers traded _____ .

   答案：cotton

   原文定位：The farmers of Caral grew the cotton that the fishermen needed to make their nets, Shady speculates. And the fishermen gave them shellfish and dried fish in exchange for these nets

5. ·13 dried squash may have been used to aid _____ .

   答案：flotation

   原文定位：and the fishermen probably used dried squash grown by the Caral people as flotation devices for their nets

6. 2 The absence of pottery at the archaeological dig gave Shady a significant clue to the age of the site.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
   • NOT GIVEN

   答案：TRUE

   原文定位：Shady and her crew searched for broken remains of the pots and containers that most such sites contain. Not finding any only made her more excited it meant Caral could be what archaeologists term pre-ceramic, that is, existing before the advent in the area of pot-firing techniques

7. 2 The absence of pottery at the archaeological dig gave Shady a significant clue to the age of the site.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
   • NOT GIVEN

   答案：TRUE

   原文定位：Shady and her crew searched for broken remains of the pots and containers that most such sites contain. Not finding any only made her more excited: it meant Caral could be what archaeologists term pre-ceramic, that is, existing before the advent in the area of pot-firing techniques

8. 2 The absence of pottery at the archaeological dig gave Shady a significant clue to the age of the site.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
   • NOT GIVEN

   答案：FALSE

   原文定位：Research undertaken by Peruvian archaeologist Ruth Shady suggests that the 150-acre complex of pyramids, plazas and residential buildings was a thriving metropolis when Egypt's great pyramids were still being built

9. 3 The stones used to build Piramide Mayor came from a location far away.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
   • NOT GIVEN

   答案：FALSE

   原文定位：The original workers, she surmised, must have filled these bags with stones from a nearby quarry and laid them atop one another inside retaining walls, gradually giving rise to the pyramid's immense structure

10. 4 The huge and complicated structures of Piramide Mayor suggest that its construction required an organised team of builders.
    • TRUE
    • FALSE
    • NOT GIVEN

    答案：TRUE

    原文定位：Thousands of manual laborers would have been needed to build such a project, not counting the many architects, craftsmen, and managers

11. 5 Archaeological evidence shows that the residents of Caral were highly skilled musicians.
    • TRUE
    • FALSE
    • NOT GIVEN

    答案：NOT GIVEN

    原文定位：Shady's team found the remains of a large amphitheater, containing almost 70 musical instruments made of bird and deer bones. Clearly music played an important role in Caral's society

12. 6 The remains of housing areas at Caral suggest that there were no class distinctions in residential areas.
    • TRUE
    • FALSE
    • NOT GIVEN

    答案：FALSE

    原文定位：These indicate a hierarchy of living arrangements: large, well-kept rooms atop pyramids for the elite, ground-level quarters for shabbier outlying dwellings for workers

13. Questions 7-13

    Complete the notes below.

    Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer.

    Write your answers in boxes 7-13 on your answer sheet.

    Caral as a trading centre

    Items discovered at Caral but not naturally occurring in the area

    ·7 the _____ of a certain plant

    答案：seeds

    原文定位：Shady found evidence of a rich trading environment, including seeds of the cocoa bush and necklaces of shells, neither of which was native to the immediate Caral area

14. 8_____ used to make jewellery

    答案：shells

    原文定位：Shady found evidence of a rich trading environment, including seeds of the cocoa bush and necklaces of shells, neither of which was native to the immediate Caral area

15. 9 the remains of certain food such as _____

    答案：fish

    原文定位：Shady and her team found the bones of small edible fish, which must have come from the Pacific coast to the west, in the excavations