浙江省2016高考英语二轮复习专题训练阅读理解（2）_高考复习指南

浙江省2016高考英语二轮复习专题训练阅读理解（2）

　　C. may be larger than the Chicago “L” in the future

　　D. is the busiest in the world

　　4. How many subways carry more than 5 million people per day?

　　A. 2

　　B. 3

　　C. 4

　　D. 5

　　Archaeology, like many academic words, comes from Greek and means, more or less, “the study of old things”. So, it is really a part of the study of history. However, most historians use paper evidence, such as letters, paintings and photographs, but archaeologists(考古学家)learn from the objects left behind by the humans of long ago. Normally, these are the hard materials that don’t break down or disappear very quickly—things like human bones and objects made from stone and metal.

　　It is very unusual to find anything more than the hard evidence of history—normally, the bacteria in the air eat away at soft materials, like bodies, clothes and things made of wood. Occasionally, things are different.

　　In 1984, two men made an amazing discovery while working in a bog called Lindow Moss, in the north of England. A bog is a very wet area of earth, with a lot of plants growing in it. It can be like a very big and very thick vegetable soup梬alk in the wroang place and you can sink and disappear forever. The men were working when one of them saw something sticking out梐 human foot! Naturally, the men called the police, who then found the rest of the body. Was it a case of murder? Possibly梑uy it was a death ronearly two thousand years old. The two men had found a body from the time of the Roman invasion of Britain. Despite being so old, this body had skin, muscles, hair and internal organs—the scientists who examined him were able to look inside the man’s stomach and find the food that he had eaten for his last meal!