2019学年度人教版选修八Unit5Meeting your ancestorsPeriod1Reading作业

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The people who built Stonehenge in southern England thousands of years ago had wild parties, eating barbecued pigs and breaking pottery. This is according to recent work by archaeologists-history experts who investigate how human beings lived in the past.

Archaeologists' digging near Stonehenge last year discovered the remains of a large prehistoric village where they think the builders of the mysterious stone circle used to live. The village is about 4, 600 years old, the same age as Stonehenge and as old as the pyramids in Egypt. It is less than two miles from the famous ancient landmark and lies inside a massive man-made circular dirt wall, or "henge", known as the Durrington Walls.

Remains found at the site included jewellery, stone arrowheads, tools made of deer antlers, wooden spears and large quantities of animal bones and broken pottery. "These finds suggest Stone Age people went to the village at special times of the year to feast and party, "says Mike Parker-Pearson from Sheffield University in England.

He said many of the pig bones they found had been thrown away half-eaten. He also said the partygoers appeared to have shot some of the farm pigs with arrows, possibly as a kind of sport before barbecuing them.

An ancient road which led from the village to the River Avon was also found. Here, the experts think, people came after their parties to throw dead relatives in the water so the bodies would be washed downstream to Stonehenge.

Parker-Pearson believes Stonehenge was like a cemetery where ancient Britons buried the dead and remembered their ancestors. "The theory is that Stonehenge is a kind of spirit home to the ancestors. "

The recent discovery of the village within the Durrington Walls shows that Stonehenge didn't stand alone but was part of a much bigger religious site, according to Parker-Pearson.

People still come to worship and celebrate at Stonehenge today. They meet there when the sun sets on the shortest day of winter and when it rises on the longest day of summer. But the days of barbecuing whole pigs there and throwing family members into the river are a thing of the past.

【语篇概述】最近考古学家们在巨石阵附近发现了一个古代村庄的遗址, 根据这些古人的遗物, 考古学家们推断和描述了他们当时的生活、生存状况及巨石阵在村民生活中的作用和地位。

1. The underlined word"It"in the second paragraph refers to_______.

A. the village　　　　　　 B. Stonehenge

C. the pyramid D. the dirt wall

【解析】选A。词义猜测题。根据第二段介绍, 可知就是在Stonehenge附近发现了这个村庄, 第二、三句描述the village的年限及位置, 可知"It"指前文中提到的"the village"。

2. From the text we can infer that the people who came to the village_______.

A. liked to drink wine B. knew how to hunt

C. were from Egypt D. lived by the River Avon

【解析】选B。推理判断题。由第四段第二句"the partygoers appeared to have shot some of the farm pigs with arrows, possibly as a kind of sport before barbecuing them. "可判断B项正确