Question

【題目】 The first men and women came to Britain over two and a half million years ago. 【1】 But the British Isles only became islands separated from the rest of Europe about 8, 500 years ago, when melting ice formed the English Channel!

3,000 years after Britain became an island, new tribes who came by boat from the mainland introduced farming.【2】Many of these man-made hills can still be seen.

Later on, people learned to build stone monuments. The most amazing is Stonehenge, a circle of huge stones begun about 4,500 years ago. Stonehenge is the world's most famous prehistoric monument. 【3】

3,000 years ago the climate in Britain became colder and wetter than before. 【4】 A bit later iron started to be used for tools and weapons instead of bronze. Knowledge of ironworking may have been brought by the Celts, a new wave of immigrants who started to arrive from southern Europe in about 500 BC.

What we know about the first people in Britain has been worked out by archaeologists from the remains they left behind them. Pytheas, a Greek, was the first person who could read and write to come to Britain. His visit was in about 330 BC, over 2, 000 years after Stonehenge was begun. Unfortunately, what Pytheas wrote has been lost, so we don't have any written record of Britain until the Romans came. 【5】

A. That was almost 300 years after he did!

B. As a result, people had to move down from high ground.

C. Because of the climate change, much of the ice has melted.

D. Many archaeologists believe that Britain was once covered by ice.

E. These tribes built earthworks for protection and as tombs for their dead bodies.

F. They were hunters and gatherers of food, who used stone tools and weapons.

G. We don't know what it was used for, though many different suggestions have been made.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】F

【2】E

【3】G

【4】B

【5】A

【解析】

本文是一篇說明文。主要介紹了從史前開始大不列顛的移民史。

【1】根據(jù)空前內(nèi)容可知，第一批男人和女人們在250萬年前來到英國。故F選項(xiàng)中的they指代前文的men and women，且此處主要闡述250萬年前英國發(fā)展史，故選F。

【2】根據(jù)前文的內(nèi)容可知，從大陸乘船而來的新部落引進(jìn)了農(nóng)業(yè)。故E選項(xiàng)中的these tribes和前文的tribes相呼應(yīng)，“這些部落修建的土方”和下文的man-made的相呼應(yīng)，故E選項(xiàng)呼應(yīng)上下文，故選E。

【3】根據(jù)前文和常識可知，巨石陣是世界上最著名的史前遺跡，但它的用途仍然不被人們所知，故G項(xiàng)能承接上文，故選G。

【4】根據(jù)前文內(nèi)容和常識可知，3000年前，英國的氣候比以前更冷更濕，因此，低海拔溫度更高，故人們不得不從高處往下走，故B項(xiàng)和前文是因果關(guān)系，故選B。

【5】根據(jù)前文內(nèi)容可知，Pytheas寫的東西不幸丟失，羅馬人來到之后留下的記錄比他的記錄晚300年，故A項(xiàng)承接上文，故選A。

英語表達(dá)中，代詞出現(xiàn)的頻率極高。代詞主要用于指代前面提到的人或物，有時也是為了區(qū)別前面提到的名詞或概念。巧妙利用這樣的指代關(guān)系及差異可以準(zhǔn)確而快速地解題。本文的第1題，可以借助上文的men and women對應(yīng)選項(xiàng)中的they，可以迅速解題。