A.a history textbook
B.a scientific magazine
C.a research report
D.an entertainment newspaper
答案:B 推理判断题。由全文文章大意可推知。
B
Anthropologists are scientists that study people who often lived hundreds or even thousands of years ago. Items those men, women, and children left behind when they died—everything from clothing to jewelry and tools—tells anthropologists a lot. And sometimes even their words survive.
Experts believe that a discovery in Mexico is the oldest example of writing ever found in America. The people who created it probably lived 3 000 years ago, long before Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World.
Workers digging in a rock mine happened to notice a stone block with marks carved onto its surface. They found the large piece of stone near the city of Cascajal, Mexico, which was once the capital of an ancient people called the Olmec.
“There are signs on the block that seem to show objects used by the Olmec during their religious ceremonies,” says Dr Stephen Houston, of Brown University in the US. “There is a sign that looks very similar to a knife and another that looks like the chair of a King,” he explains.
Houston, an expert on the writing systems of ancient cultures, says the discovery is exciting because “it makes clear that the Olmec could read and write. It is like hearing voices from the past.”
【高三英语备考总复习人教版选修8同步练习:8-5】相关文章:
★ 2014年牛津译林版高中英语总复习(第1轮)同步练习 M4《Unit 2 Sports events》
★ 2014年牛津译林版高中英语总复习(第1轮)同步练习 M7《Unit 3 The world online》
★ 2014年牛津译林版高中英语总复习(第1轮)同步练习 M8《Unit 4 Films and film events》
最新
2017-04-24
2017-04-24
2017-04-24
2017-04-24
2017-04-21
2017-04-21