1、Unit 5 Meeting your ancestorsSection Warming Up,Pre-reading,Reading cut off“切断,中断”;cut up“切碎”;cut down“削减,缩短,砍倒”。their water supply 是被切断,应选择 cut off。2Some cyclists make the that traffic laws do not them.It is not true, . A.assumption;apply to;thoughB.thought;apply to;howeverC.assuming;apply for;thou
2、ghD.idea;apply for;however答案:A解析:make the assumption“做出假想”;apply to“ 适用 ,应用”;though“ 然而,可是” 。句意: 有些骑自行车的人做出这样的假想:交通法规不适用于他们。然而 ,这不是真的。3I doubt the of his statement because it doesnt agree with the fact. A.right B.alternativeC.accuracy D.household答案:C解析:句意:我怀疑他说的话,因为与事实不一致。accuracy“精确性,准确性”。4He didnt
3、 his studying in the college though he had to suffer starvation. A.interrupt B.scrapeC.preserve D.arrest答案:A解析:句意:尽管他不得不遭受饥饿,但没有中断大学里的学习。interrupt“中断” 。5It was botany that her daughter still determined to study her objection. A.in favour of B.by means ofC.regardless of D.in need of答案:C解析:句意:尽管她反对,她女
4、儿还是下决心去研究植物学。这是一个强调句,强调宾语botany。in favour of “支持”;by means of “通过方法”;regardless of “不管”;in need of “需要”。四、词语替换1We have no choice but to do it.答案:alternative2The workmen dug a hole in the wall to let the sewage pipe pass through.答案:excavated3Hes not such a fool as you considered him to be. 答案:assumed
5、4The natives of that region still live in ancient straw huts.答案:primitive五、单句改错1There was no alternative but fight till the victory.答案:but 后加 to2The more interruption you must deal with while you are reading,the harder it will be to keep your attention on the task at hand.答案:interruptioninterruption
6、s3This leaves her ample of time to prepare three meals a day.答案:去掉 of4You should be encouraged to go on working hard regardless past failures.答案:regardless 后加 of5Her voice sharpenered as she became impatient.答案:sharpeneredsharpened六、阅读理解The discovery of a dwarfed(矮个的) “human being” who lived in Flor
7、es,Indonesia(印尼),up to 18,000 years ago is changing the way we think about the human family.This “Flores Human” was three feet tall and her brain was smaller than that of the average chimp(黑猩猩),yet she and her relatives apparently lived fully human lives.They seemed to have made tools,worked togethe
8、r to find food and cook it,and perhaps even buried their dead with ceremony.It was a major surprise to find tools associated with the new human family member.The tools are like those formerly seen only with European fossils (化石)from our own species,Homo sapiens (智人),and the oldest of them were made
9、94,000 years ago.Homo sapiens is thought to have arrived in the island about 40,000 years ago,much too late to be responsible for the tools.If this tiny human made the tools,then the inside structure (结构)of its brain must have been more like our own than a chimps,despite being just a third the size
10、of ours.This “new human” was suspected to be a dwarfed branch of Homo erectus (直立人).When creatures are separated in regions with rare resources but few enemies,being big is a disadvantage,and evolution tends to shrink them,a process known as island dwarfing.Could natural selection make a human small
11、er while keepingeven improvingmental ability?Quite possibly,believes Christopher Wills of the University of California.Has the “Flores Human” even shown the ability of language?“I find it difficult to imagine that people could make tools,use fire,and kill large animals without fairly advanced commun
12、ication.”Wills says.Did “Flores Human” possess the basic components of human culturesuch as the burying of the dead with ceremony?Emiliano Bruner of the Italian Institute points out that Indonesias hot,wet environment is bad for fossilization.It is reasonable to assume,he says,that the 18,000-year-o
13、ld bones of the most complete Flores woman were well-preserved because she was buried with special care.1What did the dwarfed “human beings” look like?A.They were not small.B.They were very tall.C.They were 30 inches tall.D.They were 36 inches tall.答案:D解析:根据“This Flores Human was three feet tall and
14、 her brain was smaller.”看出这些矮人有三英尺高,一英尺等于 12 英寸。2According to the passage,“Flores Human” . A.lived a partly human lifeB.was a branch of Homo sapiensC.used tools before Homo sapiens arrivedD.had a brain as a common chimps答案:C解析:由“It was a major surprise to find tools associated with the new human fam
15、ily member.The tools.ago”推出 C 项正确。3The underlined part “this tiny human” in Paragraph 2 refers to . A.a chimp B.Flores HumanC.Homo sapiens D.Homo erectus答案:B解析:词义猜测题。从“a dwarfed (矮个的) human being.This Flores Human.,If this tiny human made the tools,then the inside structure (结构)of its brain must hav
16、e been more like our own than a chimps”,以及第三段的“This new human was.”看出,this tiny human 意指“Flores Human”。4This passage mainly talks about . A.the tools made by “Flores Human”B.the language used by “Flores Human”C.the evolution of “Flores Human”D.the major surprising findings about “Flores Human”答案:D解析
17、:主旨大意题。本文主要论述了关于“Flores Human”的主要发现。A 、B、C 项均为D 项的一个方面。5According to the passage,it is believed that “Flores Human” . A.was dwarfed by its enemiesB.could use languageC.left a lot of fossils in hot and wet environmentD.reached Flores 40,000 years ago答案:B解析:由文章最后一段“I find it difficult to imagine that people could make tools,use fire,and kill large animals without fairly advanced communication.”看出,没有高级交流很难做到上述行为,说明 “Flores Human”能够使用语言。
