2012年6月16日雅思阅读机经考题.pdf

智 课 网 雅 思 备 考 资 料 2012年6月16日雅思阅读机经考题 下面是2012年6月16日雅思阅读机经的内容，包括了这次考试涉及 到的有Green Sahara, Photography and Artists 和Evolutionary Psychology 等非常流行的阅读话题。为了更好的备考雅思阅读考试， 我们一起来看看这三篇雅思阅读考题的内容吧。 Reading Passage 1 Title: Green Sahara Question types: TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN Short-answer questions Summary Completion 文章内容回顾 先是T/F/NG题，第一个是说那个男博士是 偶然间在那个沙漠发现人类残骸的，是True, 因为原文里说他是被那个骨头绊倒(stumbled) 才发现的。另外有一题 是问那个人和另一个人之前就已经合作了，是False, 因为是从这次发现 那个骨头才开始合作的。之后就是问答题，先问他们在那个沙漠的前几 个星期produce了什么，是a map。然后说那个女博士把什么送去检查 ，是teeth。第三个是问检查以后，骨骼比较大的那个多少岁，是9000 。剩下的一组是填空题，说打鱼和另一种生活状态人们体格之类的区别 。先是peaceful life是从没有injuries看出来的，然后从他们肌肉的atta chment看出生活很strenuous, 另外他们的食物里的protein很高 ，因为 常吃鱼。然后是另一部分人，说他们是饲养畜牧的生活，可是只发现了 牛的骨骼，所以答案是cow, 然后说可能是他们处在一个转化状态，答案是transition。 英文原文阅读 Paleontologist Paul Sereno and his team were scouring the rocks between harsh dunes in northern Niger in 2000 when they stumbled across the graveyard, on the shores of a long-gone lake. The scientists eventually uncovered 200 burials of two vastly different cultures that span five thousand years—the first time such a site has been found in one place. Called Gobero, the area is a uniquely preserved record of human habitation and burials from the Kiffian (7700 to 6200 B.C.) and the Tenerian (5200 to 2500 B.C.) cultures, says a new study led by Sereno of the University of Chicago. The watershed find also offers a new window into how these tribes lived and buried their dead during the extreme Holocene period, when a grassy Sahara dried up in the worlds largest desert. Coming across such a site sends a tingle up your spine, said Sereno, a National Geographic explorer-in-residence. (The National Geographic Society owns National Geographic News.) Youre not looking at [dinosaurs], youre looking at your own species. One of the most striking discoveries was what the research team calls the Stone Age Embrace: A woman, possibly a mother, and two children laid to rest holding hands, arms