河南省新蔡县第一高级中学2021-2022学年高二上学期11月月考英语试题

新蔡县第一高级中学2021-2022学年高二上学期11月月考英语试题 第二部分：阅读理解（共两节；满分40分） 第一节（共15小题：每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Archaeology (考古学) originated from man's desire to uncover buried wealth.Today, it has developed into a discipline, leading to an unprecedented era of discovery that influenced the understanding of our species’ rich diversity, as well as our common humanity. As far back as the last king of Babylon, more than 2,500 years ago, rulers and the rich loved collecting antiques,reflecting the beauty and glory of previous times. Roman emperors transported Egyptian pillars across the Mediterranean to their capital. During the Renaissance Venetians erected (竖立) many monuments in memory of the Ancient Civilization. Throughout the 18th century,on both sides of the Atlantic, ancient sites were frequently dug out. However, few of these diggers were dedicated scholars. More often than not, they were diplomats or wealthy businessmen intimately tied to colonial expansion. It was not until the mid-twentieth century that the educated professionals realized that the most valuable materials lay not in the gold retrieved(重新获取), but in the data locked within broken pottery and discarded bones. New methods of recording fine layers of soil provided new ways to reconstruct day-to-day life. Starting in the 1950s, measuring the radioactive decay of organic matter enabled researchers to date artifacts (人工制品). Nowadays, archeology is done much less in the fields than in the lab Revolutionary technology in DNA analysis,satellite images and X-ray fluorescence (荧光)allow scientists to probe sites and artifacts without putting a spade into soil or cutting a sample from a valued museum object. Nowadays, however, the destructed ancient sites across the Middle East and Central Asia are all the more terrible because impoverished (贫穷的) villagers have little resources to protect them Threats to the heritage come from terrorists, as well as buyers and sellers of the artifacts