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Some archaeologists speculate that the Americas might have been initially colonized between 40,000 and 25,000 years ago. However, to support this theory it is necessary to explain the absence of generally accepted habitation sites for that time interval in what is now the United States. Australia, which has a smaller land area than the United States, has many such sites, supporting the generally accepted claim that the continent was colonized by humans at least 40,000 years ago. Australia is less densely populated (resulting in lower chances of discovering sites) and with its overall greater aridity would have presented conditions less favorable for hunter-gatherer occupation. Proportionally, at least as much land area has been lost from the coastal regions of Australia because of postglacial sea-level rise as in the United States, so any coastal archaeological record in Australia should have been depleted about as much as a coastal record in the United States. Since there are so many resource-rich rivers leading inland from the United States coastlines, it seems implausible that a growing population of humans would have confined itself to coasts for thousands of years. If inhabitants were present 25,000 years ago, the chances of their appearing in the archaeological record would seem to be greater than for Australia.
1. The passage is primarily concerned with doing which of the following?
A. Presenting an objection to a claim
B. Accounting for an apparent anomaly
C. Outlining an alternative interpretation
D. Correcting a particular misconception
E. Questioning the validity of a comparison
2. The author of the passage implies which of the following about 25,000 years ago?
A. The coastline of the region that is now the United States is longer than it was 40,000 years ago.
B. Rivers in what is now the United States were numerous than they are now.
C. Australia was less densely populated at that time than was the region that is now the United States.
D. Australia’s climate was significantly drier than it is now.
E. Global sea level was lower than it is now.
3. The author of the passage implies that, in what is now the United States, archaeological evidence of inhabitation in the period from 40,000 to 25,000 years ago is lacking because that region is
A. had its oldest habitation sites inundated following a postglacial rise in sea level
B. has many resource-rich rivers that facilitated the dispersal of early inhabitants from an initial concentration in coastal areas
C. was sparsely populated until about 25,000 years ago
D. was colonized less than 25,000 years ago
E. was inhabited only by hunter-gatherers until 25,000 years ago
解析：答案A E D
文章一开始给的是引用观点：考古学家认为如今的美国最初被人类所居住是在4万到2万5千年前。但是，作者说，考古学家需要解释为什么找不到那个时期人类居住的痕迹。接着，一系列细节，根据逻辑词判断可以先不看因为明确知道，一个观点后只要没有表反驳的词，通常是观点的具体化。细节之后，作者得到一个判断：即假如考古学家的观点为真的话，他们理应能够找到考古遗迹(但实际上没有遗迹)。这个时候，作者已经在暗示：考古学家的观点是不靠谱的。这个观点从头到尾作者都没有直接说出，而需要由我们自己从文章信息中推断出来。论证过程是：考古学家观点是4万到2.5万年前美洲有人，那就应该有遗迹。但是，现在的情况是，没遗迹，于是按照作者之前给的逻辑，没遗迹，那就很有可能美洲没人住。即，P à q, 那么~P à ~q.
In the 1920s, Gerstmann described a set of problems found in people who have suffered damage to the brain’s left parietal lobe, problems that include being unable to understand arithmetic and having difficulty identifying one’s fingers. There is still no agreement on whether the symptoms Gerstmann noticed constitute a syndrome, but the parts of the brain used for storing facts about numbers and for representing the fingers are close to each other. Mental representations of numbers and of fingers may therefore be functionally connected. A 2005 experiment had people perform some tasks requiring dexterity and others involving matching pairs of numbers, while an area of their parietal lobes—the left angular gyrus—was stimulated by a magnetic field. Facility at both sets of tasks was impaired.
1. The author of the passage would most likely agree that the highlighted statement suggests
A. a flaw in the experiment conducted in 2005
B. a means by which dexterity might compensate for a loss of arithmetic ability
C. an explanation for some of Gerstmann’s observations
D. an anomaly in some of Gerstmann’s results
E. a reason to doubt damage to the left parietal lobe as a causal factor in certain symptoms
2. The author of the passage describes the “2005 experiment” and its results primarily in order to
A. establish the proximity between the part of the brain used for storing numerical information and the part used for representing the fingers
B. illustrate the implications that Gerstmann’s work may have for experimental research
C. cast doubt on the idea that damage to the left parietal lobe causes the set of problems that Gerstmann described
D. support a hypothesis about a significant association between parts of the brain related to fingers and to numbers
E. suggest that the problems Gerstmann noted in relation to numbers and fingers have a different cause than the other problems associated with parietal lobe damage
解析：答案 C D
文章首先说G这个人在1920年描述一个现象是：有人脑子的左半边的啥受伤之后会有各种问题，包括不识数和搞不清楚什么是手指。然后，作者说这事还没统一，但是黑体字加粗：脑子里管数学的部分和分清楚手指的部分还是离得挺近的。然后，后面又给了个05年的实验支持G的观点。于是整篇文章，作者对于G是正态度。例子存在在意义是支持，证明，或解释观点，第一题选C。作者给05年的实验也是为了支持G，于是选D。
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