热点26 考古学及中外考古发现等-备战2021年高考英语考前时事热点话题阅读+题型专练

备战2021年高考英语考前时事热点话题阅读 热点26 考古学及中外考古发现等 一、完形填空 Forgotten statue kept in a margarine tub is 2,000-year-old treasure A 2,000-year-old Roman statuette (小雕像) of a silver-eyed goddess Minerva kept in a plastic margarine tub (黄油容器）for more than a decade is among a record number of treasure discoveries. The British Museum on Tuesday revealed the details of 1,267 finds 1 England, Welsh, Northern Ireland, more than what has ever been found since the Treasure Act was 2 in 1996. They include everything from 3 metalwork to a 17th-century pocket watch 4 the goddess with the silver eyes was particularly 5 . It was discovered by a detectorist in a field more than a decade ago but it was 6 to be fake, nothing more than a 7 . The landowner 8 the statuette in a large, empty margarine tub and 9 forgot about it. This year Len Jackman asked the farmer 10 he could search for treasures on his land and was told about the statuette in the tub. The statuette of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, 11 from the first or second century and would most likely have been on a shrine (神殿；神龛). Her head has been removed from the body but to even find her head was 12 , said archaeologists. “It is such an amazing object and it could make an amazing object for a museum 13 if that's what happens to it,” said Michael Lewis, the head at the British Museum. “It really is one of the most 14 pieces of bronze age gold that I've seen.” In the 1970s and 80s there was a(an) 15 by some archaeologists to stop metaldetecting. Lewis said “There was a 16 on both sides about 17 the other was up to. There was an idea that metal detecting was all about finding things for 18 gain and ruining archaeology.” Over the years it has been realized that there are a lot of people 19 in the past, quite happy for the objects to go in to museums. We’re still on a journey, and it is very 20 that the right people are doing metal