英銘 / 2015-09-26
閱讀測驗是很多考生畏懼的英文題型之一，其實閱讀測驗的解題並不難，記得先從題目看起，再去看文章。如果是與題目無關的句子，不要浪費太多時間去鑽研，這 樣還可以節省作答的時間。此篇文章的第一段中，有提到“language” (語言)、“develop” (發展)，所以文章一定是跟語言的發展有關。
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Linguists subscribe to the belief that the languages of about |
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one-third of the human race all developed from one Indo-European |
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language. But who were the speakers of this ancient language? |
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Linguistic detective work offers some clues: you can deduce a |
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people’s history from the words they use. Study of some fifty ancient |
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vocabularies has led to a reconstruction of the lifestyle of the first |
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Indo-Europeans, a vanished people. From the words they used, it |
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seems likely that they lived a half-settled, half-nomadic existence. |
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They worshipped gods who are clear ancestors of Indian, |
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Mediterranean, and Celtic deities. However, exactly who the original |
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Indo-Europeans were and when they lived remain a hotly debated |
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mystery. According to an early theory, they lived in Mesopotamia, but |
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this idea was exploded by nineteenth-century archaeology. Today, |
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some argue for the Krugan culture of the Russian steppes, others for |
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the farming culture of the Danube valley. The most widely accepted |
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theory locates the Indo-Europeans in a cold, northern climate where |
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common words for snow and wolf were important. None of these |
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prehistoric languages had a word for the sea. From this, and from |
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our knowledge of nature, it is clear that the Indo-Europeans must |
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have lived somewhere in northern central Europe. |
( ) 1. According to the passage, what does the underlined word “exploded” mean?
(A) Disproved (B) Burst (C) Arranged (D) Destroyed
( ) 2. According to the passage, who might have created the Krugan culture?
(A) The original Indo-Europeans
(B) A tribe of Celtic origin
(C) A farming people in ancient Mesopotamia
(D) A tribe that led a settled life
( ) 3. According to the passage, what kind of study plays a major part in helping us understand the history of the Indo-Europeans?
(A) A study of prehistoric plants (B) A study of prehistoric deities
(C) A study of prehistoric climate (D) A study of prehistoric languages
( ) 4. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
(A) None of the prehistoric languages studied had a word for sea.
(B) About two-thirds of human languages stemmed from Latin.
(C) The Indo-Europeans did not worship their gods and goddesses.
(D) There was an explosion in ancient Mesopotamia. |
