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课时检测训练7必修第二册
UNIT 1 CULTURAL HERITAGE
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(2023·产州一模)Discoveries at the famous
One notable feature of the recent discoveries
Sanxingdui ruins in Southwest China show that the
at Sanxingdui was the cross-subject work and
region's ancient Shu Kingdom Civilization shared
technology applied by teams of Chinese
similarities with the Maya.
archaeologists,which allowed the unearthing of
The Sanxingdui ruins belonged to the Shu
artifacts as fragile as silk remains.which other
Kingdom that existed at least 4,800 years ago and
types of less careful digging methods would not
lasted more than 2,000 years,while the Mayan
have been able to register.
civilization built its city-states around 200 AD.
Cooperation between Chinese and Mexican
The bronze-made remains of tress unearthed
archaeologists could benefit projects in the Mayan
at the ruins of the Shu Kingdom resemble the
world,where the rainy climate and humidity are
sacred ceiba tree,which symbolized the union of
problematic for the conservation of ruins.
heaven.earth and the underworld in the Mayan
"Every time our cultural knowledge
civilization."They are very
important
increases,regardless of whether we speak one
similarities,"says Santos,a Mexican archaeologist
language or another,what it shows us is that we
(考古学家)stressing that“the representations of
continue to be sister cultures and.therefore,the
trees in both cultures provide a symbolism that is
exchange of such knowledge is fundamental,"says
very similar'”.
Santos.
The findings at the Sanxingdui ruins.
1.What is a similarity between the Shu Kingdom
considered one of the greatest archaeological
and Maya civilization?
discoveries of the 20th century,also show a new
A.Their starting time.
aspect of Bronze Age culture,indicating the
B.Their historical origins.
ancient civilization already had technologies that
C.Their cultural symbols.
were thought to have been developed much later.
D.Their ceremony tradit