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课时枪测训练21选择性必修第一册 UNIT 5 WORKING THE LAND ,对应答案P462 【,阅读理解 for a dry period of history.But importantly,it (2023·深圳一模)Today China is the can be sowed after millet has been harvested. world's biggest consumer of wheat.But it That,we think,is the most likely reason why wasn't always that way. the people across northern China started to grow Wheat only came to the area now known as wheat. northern China towards the end of the Neolithic From more extreme weather to changing period,some 4,600 years ago.Initially,wheat coastlines,climate change has always brought didn't seem to be so delicious and had been unexpected and sometimes dramatic changes to treated as a crop of desperation rather than a societies.In this instance,the consequence of cooking delight.The first farmers of northern the Holocene Event 3 in northern China proved, China primarily grew millet,starting as early as eventually.delicious. 11,500 years ago.By the time of the Tang 1.What can we learn about wheat from the Dynasty,wheat had replaced millet,becoming a second paragraph? major crop.But relatively little was known A.It replaced millet for its great taste. about exactly why this shift occurred. B.It was a poor choice at the beginning. In an attempt to track the answer,I C.It outnumbered millet 4,600 years ago. accumulated a collection of nearly 1,200 data D.It was the earliest crop grown in China. points covering more than 50 sites from the mid- 2.What do the figures in Paragraph 3 show? Neolithic,about 9,000 years ago,to the A.The author found the exact answer. collapse of the Eastern Han Dynasty in 220 AD. B.The author did worldwide research. The sites were across 8 modern provinces, C.The author took the research seriously. ranging from Gansu Province in the northwest D.The author was good at collecting data. to Shandong Province in the east. 3.What was probably the main reason for One possible explanation is a major climate northerners in China to grow wheat? shift,called the Holocene Event 3,whic