Test 12-【沸腾英语】2024年新高考英语(阅+完+七选五+语法+续写)五项全练

五项全练 高 考 90 Test 12 阅读理解第 部分一 第一节 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出最佳选项。 A Six Neanderthals who lived in what is now France were eaten by their fellow Neanderthals some 100,000 years ago, according to fearful evidence of the cannibalistic ( 食人的 ) event discovered by scientists in a cave in the 1990s. Now, researchers may have fi gured out why the Neanderthals, including two children, became victims of cannibalism: Global warming. Although previous studies have examined, Neanderthal remains to find proof of cannibalistic behavior, this is the first study to offer clues as to what may have led Neanderthals to become cannibals. Scientists found that rapid changes in local ecosystems as the planet warmed may have wiped out the animal species that Neanderthals ate, forcing them to look elsewhere to fill their stomachs. The researchers examined a layer of sediment ( 沉积物 ) in a cave known as Baume Moula- Guercy, in southeastern France. In that layer, charcoal ( 碳 ) and animal bones were so well-preserved that scientists could reconstruct an environmental picture representing 120,000 to 130,000 years ago. They discovered that the climate in the area was likely even warmer than it is today, and that the change from a cold, dry climate to a warmer one happened quickly. “Maybe within a few generations,” study co-author Emmanuel said. “As the animals that once populated the landscape disappeared, some Neanderthals ate what they could fi nd—their neighbors.” “Cannibalism is by no means unique to Neanderthals, and has been practiced by humans and their relatives from the early Palaeolithic to the Bronze Age and beyond,” the study authors reported. The behavior adopted by the starving Neanderthals in the Baume Moula-Guercy should therefore not be viewed as “a mark of bestiality ( 兽性 ) or sub-humanity”, but as an emergency adaptation to a period of severe environmental stress, according to the study. The fi ndings were published in the April issue of the