02：【好题精选】阅读单选-2023年九年级英语名校试题专题集训

02：【好题精选】阅读单选-2023年九年级英语名校试题专题集训 （2020·广东·深圳中学九年级单元测试） [Paragraph 1] Researchers have found the world’s oldest example of bread. A research team from the universities of Cambridge, Copenhagen and London found ancient breadcrumbs (面包屑) while on a dig in Jordan (约旦). The breadcrumbs were well-cooked and burnt, which is how they survived for so long. The researchers dated the crumbs and found they were roughly 14, 400 years old. This means that people in the Stone Age (石器时代) were baking bread. [Paragraph 2] The researchers said humans were making bread 4,000 years earlier than scientists thought. The people who baked the bread lived in Jordan from around 12.500 to 9,500 B C．They were hunters who lived thousands of years before humans settled down to become farmers. [Paragraph 3] According to Guarino, researchers earlier thought that ancient farmers learned to plant cereal (谷物) plants, which bakers then turned into bread. The new finding, however, changes the timeline, showing that at least some people were making bread from wild grain. [Paragraph 4l The researchers discovered 24 burnt breadcrumbs. They analyzed them and found they were made from cereal plants such as barley, wheat and oats. Lead researcher, Dr Amaia Otaegui, said the bread took a long time to make. The ancient Jordanians(约旦人) began by grinding (磨) cereals into a fine flour. They then mixed the flour with water to make dough. After that, they baked it in the hot ashes of a fireplace or on a hot stone. The bread looked like the flat bread still made across the middle East (中东) today. [Paragraph 5] Another researcher said the bread could be one reason for the agricultural revolution (农业革命) starting. Stone Age people realized it was easier and more convenient to farm the wheat for bread instead of gathering it from the wild. 1．What did the people who baked the bread in Jordan do? A．Hunters. B．Farmers. C．Fishermen. D．Businessmen. 2．When did scientists use to think hunters began to make bread? A．About 14,