1 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Where are the speakers?| A．In a hotel. | B．In a cave. | C．In a university. |
| A．Around 500 years old. | B．Around 1 ,000 years old. | C．Around 17,000 years old. |
| A．A professor. | B．A painter. | C．A hotel owner. |
2 . Lingjiatan Ancient Cultural Site
Position
Lingjiatan site is located in Lingjiatan village, Hanshan County, Anhui Province.
Status
·With a history of about 5,600 years, it is the largest and best preserved Neolithic settlement site found in Chaohu Lake Basin in the lower reaches of the Changjiang River.
·The unearthed area is 2,200 square meters, including 1 altar in the late Neolithic age, 66 tombs, 1 relic built with large-area red pottery blocks, 1 house site, and 1,300 precious cultural relics such as delicate jade ritual vessels, stone tools and pottery, of which jade accounted for more than half.
Importance
·The “Stonehenge” unearthed at the site is the only site found so far that there are Stonehenge remains in the Neolithic period in China, and its construction age is about 1,000 years earlier than that of Stonehenge in Britain.
·Unearthed “jade dragon”, the flat round jade dragon connected end to end is called “the first dragon in China”.
·The unearthed stone drill is one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the Neolithic Age in China in the 20th century.
Research value
·Studying urban elements
Lingjiatan site is the first settlement site in China with hierarchical architecture based on terrain. It plays a noticeable role in studying the evolution of Chinese ancient society and the exchange and collision of East, West, North and South cultures.
·Moving the history of Chinese cities forward for more than 1,000 years.
Mysteries to be solved
·Did the Youchao people master the metal smelting technology at that time? Have they produced the most primitive text symbols?
·After the discovery of Lingjiatan site, does Youchao’s birthplace lie in Chaohu Lake Basin?
1. How many precious cultural relics were unearthed according to the text?| A．1,000. | B．1,300. | C．2,200. | D．5,600. |
| A．There exists the only Stonehenge in the world. |
| B．The jade dragon is considered as “the first dragon in China”. |
| C．The stone drill is the most important archaeological discovery in history. |
| D．Moving the history of Chinese history forward for more than 1,000 years. |
| A．Youchao’s birthplace lies in Chaohu Lake Basin. |
| B．The Youchao people mastered the metal smelting technology. |
| C．Lingjiatan site was the first settlement site for the ancient people. |
| D．The exchange of four-direction cultures ever happened in Lingjiatan site. |
1. What did the divers do when they found the objects?
| A．They gave them to their company. |
| B．They kept on digging deeper. |
| C．They told a historical expert. |
| A．By doing research in museums. |
| B．By analyzing the goods on the ship. |
| C．By collecting information from a story. |
| A．Looking for gold. |
| B．Delivering big guns. |
| C．Seeking metal. |
The recent opening of a new exhibition building at the Sanxingdui Museum, in Guanghan, in Sichuan province, made the place
For those who cannot make it to Guanghan,
It provides a time-travel experience for both an educational and artistic appeal. The journey begins
On show
Images of these objects found at Sanxingdui and their
5 . A new four-legged whale species was recently discovered by a team of researchers in Egypt. The fossil which was encased in a tomb of rock dates back to over 43 million years ago!
This ancient creature had four functional legs, so it could dwell on both land and in water. Ironically, Egypt’s Fayum Depression, the desert where the fossil was discovered, was an ocean millions of years ago.
Researchers believe this fossil is an example from an era when land animals were adapting to marine life. Modern whales evolved from deer-like land mammals over the course of millions of years, and this unique whale could travel across land and swim in the ocean.
The new species is named Phiomicetus Anubis because the whale’s skull resembles the Egyptian jackal-headed god of death, Anubis. Scientists have also been able to recover the whale’s partial skeleton. They inferred that the ancient whale was about three meters in length and weighed 1,300 pounds. The mammal had a long mouthful of teeth, which indicated that it fed on smaller mammals and other sea life.
After analyzing the remains at Mansoura University in the Nile River Delta, scientists supposed that P. Anubis is the oldest semi-aquatic whale species found in Africa. Although the fossil itself was discovered thirteen years ago, researchers just completed the analysis and made the exciting announcement of a new species. Other whale fossils with legs have been found before, but the P. Anubis is the earliest, of its kind found in Africa.
1. Where did the researchers find the fossil?| A．In the India Ocean. | B．On the Rock Islands. |
| C．In the Fayum Depression. | D．In the Nile River Delta. |
| A．Its weight. | B．Its length. | C．Its teeth. | D．Its legs. |
| A．The study of Phiomicetus Anubis is time-consuming. |
| B．The analysis of Phiomicetus Anubis has a long way to go. |
| C．Phiomicetus Anubis is the oldest mammal found in Africa. |
| D．Phiomicetus Anubis is the world’s largest semi-aquatic whale species. |
More than 500 pieces of relics
Tang Fei, chief of the Sichuan Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute, said, “The new discoveries demonstrate once again that the
Originally discovered in
