2021年全国研究生入学考试英语押题试卷（一）3

1、XX年全国研究生入学考试英语押题试卷（一）3 Text 2 Archaeology is a sour _ of history, not just a humble auxiliary discipline. Archaeological data are historical documents in their own right, not mere illustrations to written texts. Just as much as any other historian, an archaeologist stu _s and tries to reconstitute t

2、he pro _ss that has created the hu _n world in which we live - and us ourselves in so far as we are each creatures of our age and social enviro _ent. Archaeological data are all changed in the _terial world resulting from hu _n action or, more suinctly, the fossilized results of hu _n behavior. The

3、sum total of these constitutes what _y be called the archaeological record. This record exhibits _rtain peculiarities and deficiencies the consequen _s of which produ _ a rather superficial contrast between archaeological history and the more familiar kind based upon written records. Not all hu _n b

4、ehavior fossilizes. The words I utter and you hear as vibrations in the air are _rtainly hu _n changes in the _terial world any _y be of great historical significan _. Yet they leave no sort of tra _ in the archaeological records unless they are captured by a Dictaphone or written down by a clerk. T

5、he movement of troops on the battlefield _y change the course of history, but this is equally ephemeral from the archaeologists standpoint. What is perhaps worse is that most organic _terials are perishable. Everything _de of wood, hide, wool, linen, grass, hair, and similar _terials will decay and

6、vanish in dust in a few years or _nturies, save under very ex _ptional conditions. In a relatively brief period the archaeological record is redu _d to mere scraps of stone, bone, glass, metal, and earthenware. Still modern by a few lucky finds from peat bogs, deserts, and frozen soils, is able to f

7、ill up a good deal of the gap. 31、Aording to the passage, the archaeological record consists of . （本题分值：1分） 正确答案a aspoken words of great historical significan _ bthe fossilized results of hu _n activity corganic _terials dephemeral ideas 32、The word“they”in line 13 refers to . （本题分值：1分） 正确答案b ascrap

8、sbwordsctroopsdhu _ns 33、Which of the following is not mentioned as an example of an organic _terial? （本题分值：1分） 正确答案a astone.bwool.cgrass.dhair. 34、The author mentions all of the following archaeological discovery sites ex _pt .（本题分值：1分） 正确答案a aurban areas bpet bogs cvery hot and dry lands dearth that has been frozen 35、The paragraph following the passage most probably discusses . （本题分值：1分） 正确答案c atechniques for recording oral histories b _rtain battl