Question

Nine 1700­year­old brick tombs have been discovered in northwest China’s Xinjiang. Experts say that they can   1   valuable clues for the research of exchanges(交换；交流) between the central Chinese government at that time and    ___2   Western Regions.

It is the    3   time ancient tombs with typical characteristics of China's main Han nationality have been found in the Uygur ethnic region(自治区)．

    4    from Beijing，Shanxi and Xinjiang concluded that the tombs were  ___5___ between the middle and late third century and fourth century.

The tombs were unearthed during the   6   of a road earlier this year in Kuqa county,740 km from Xinjiang's capital Urumqi and part of the   7   Qiuci State. Qiuci State，which   8   between the second century BC and 860 AD，was one of the 36 states in the Western Regions.

The tombs would help archaeologists with research into the political，economic and cultural   9    between the Central Plains government and states in the west，and on the cultural     10   of the Central Plains on the Western Regions.

Archaeologists from the Xinjiang institute have dug nine tombs since August 22， ___11    bodies of more than 30 people，some ancient   12   and more than 60 pottery(陶器)jars. It is thought there are another three tombs to be    13   .

The people buried in the tombs were    14   either people from the western regions deeply influenced by the Han culture or the Han residents(居民)in the    ___15   .

1.	A.	tell	B.	provide	C.	show	D.	represent
2.	A.	nearby	B.	middle	C.	faraway	D.	few
3.	A.	second	B.	last	C.	first	D.	near
4.	A.	Scientists	B.	People	C.	Officials	D.	Archaeologists
5.	A.	built	B.	found	C.	buried	D.	studied
6.	A.	construction	B.	destruction	C.	digging	D.	repair
7.	A.	ancient	B.	big	C.	far	D.	near
8.	A.	appeared	B.	disappeared	C.	lies	D.	existed
9.	A.	exchanges	B.	businesses	C.	development	D.	studies
10.	A.	model	B.	atmosphere	C.	influence	D.	change
11.	A.	finding	B.	destroying	C.	studying	D.	protecting
12.	A.	paper	B.	silk	C.	pearls	D.	coins
13.	A.	moved	B.	dug	C.	studied	D.	picked
14.	A.	surely	B.	probably	C.	certainly	D.	nearly
15.	A.	west	B.	country	C.	region	D.	tomb

Answer

1.B

2.C

3.C

4.D

5.A

6.A

7.A

8.D

9.A

10.C

11.A

12.D

13.B

14.B

15.C

【解析】

1.古墓的挖掘能为研究“提供”线索，而不是“告知、展示、代表”线索。

2.当时的中原政府the central Chinese government 相对西部地区Western Regions从距离上看是faraway，因为当时的交通等原因。

3.前文没有交代任何有类似的发现，所以是the first。

4.能对该发现做出conclude的应该是“考古学家archaeologists”。

5.从后面是时间推断这里说的是古墓“建造”的时间。

6.能发现古墓，肯定这地方是第一次被挖掘，那repair “修路”是不可能的，应该是“建路”时被挖掘。B和C也不太合情理或者说没有A那么适合。

7.根据后句：Qiuci State，存在于公元前2世纪和公元860年，是西部36区之一。来看，Quici State应该是古代才存在的地名。

8.根据后面的时间状语，以及one of the 36 states来看，这里是介绍Qiuci State的存在的时间。如果是appear那时间状语就只需要the second century BC。时间跨度不会那么大。

9.本文一开始已经说明该古墓的挖掘对研究中原和西方地区的交流“exchanges”有帮助。

10.根据后面on the Western Regions知道这里意思是“中原文化对西部地区的影响”。 固定搭配influence on sth。

11.古墓被挖出来后，自然是“找到”一些尸体。

12.一般古墓发现的都是钱币，陶器等不容易腐烂的东西，A、B和C三项都是不容易在墓里保存的。

13.语境暗示法。前面说到“挖了”9座古墓了，那么人们认为是还要“再挖”3座。

14.后文用了either…or，说明存在不确定性，用probably最合适。

15.要理清这里的意思：墓里的人或者是受汉文化影响的西部人或者是本地区的人。用country范围太大。