内容正文:
模块检测卷B
[范围:必修第一册]
(时间:100分钟满分:120分)
第一部分阅读(共州节,满分50分)
第一节(共15小题:每小题2.5分,满分37.5分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
The first men and women came to Britain over two and a half million years ago.As the
climate got warmer at the end of the second ice age,tribes of hunters and gatherers of food,who
used simple stone tools and weapons,made their way into Britain.It was normal for them to
move from place to place so they could find new resources.But the British Isles only became
islands separated from the rest of Europe about 8,500 years ago,when melting ice formed the
English Channel!
3,000 years after Britain became an island,new tribes who came by boat from the mainland
iniroduced farming.These tribes built earthworks for protection and as tombs for their dead.
Many of thesc man made hills can still be seen.
Later on,people learned to build stone monuments.The most amazing is Stonehenge,a circle
of huge stones about 4,500 years ago.Stonehenge is the world's most famous prehistoric(
)monument.We don't know what it meant or what it was used for,though many different
suggestions have been made.
3,000 years ago the climate in Britain became colder and wetter than before,and people had
to move down from high ground.A bit later iron started to be used for tools and weapons instead
of bronze.Knowledge of iron working may have been brought by the Celts,a new wave of
immigrants()who started to arrive from southern Europe in about 500 BC.
What we know about the first people in Britain has been worked out by archacologists(
from the rcmains they left bchind them.Pythcas,a Greck,was the first person who could
read and write to come to Britain.His visit was in about 330 BC,over 2,000 years after
Stonehenge was set up.Unfortunately,what Pytheas wrote has been lost,so we don't have any
written record of Britain until the Romans came,almost 300 years after he did!
1.Why did people move to low ground 3,000 years ago?
A.Because iron tools were used for farming.
B.Because the climate m