2016考研英语阅读暑期训练：理学类(7)
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2016考研英语阅读暑期训练：理学类(7)
For 30 years， Smithsonian Institution archeologist Dennis Stanford searched
in vain for the origins of the first Americans. Every textbook described how
mammoth-hunters from Siberia had migrated across the Bering land bridge about
12，000 years ago and had slowly wandered south and east until they filled the
New World. In each of their settlements， this theory held， the original
Americans left their calling cards： distinctively shaped spear points named
after the site in Clovis， N.M.， where the stone tips were first unearthed. If
this account was right， Stanford reasoned， then Siberia should be littered with
similar points. But not a single Clovis point has turned up in Siberia. And now
Stanford has a radical new proposal to explain why. Clovis people， he thinks，
came from Europe——arriving 15，000 years before Columbus， and by boat. “They were
from Iberia， not Siberia，” Stanford told startled colleagues at an archeology
conference last month.
Debate over a European connection has dogged anthropology in recent months，
though until now no one of Stanford's stature had stated it so un-equivocally
and publicly. But the similarities between the oddly shaped stone points of
Clovis and the European culture called Solutrean strongly suggest this
conclusion， say Stanford and colleague Bruce Bradley. Moreover， tools recently
found beneath Clovis-era layers at a dig in Cactus Hill， Va.——about where
European itinerants could have first landed——also resemble Solutrean artifacts.
The Solutrean theory poses similar questions to those raised by Kennewick Man，
the 8，400-year-old skeleton found in Washington state in 1996 and initially
called European by an anthropologist. A new federal study to help determine
whether K-Man's remains should be turned over to local tribes just concluded
that the body looked more Asian than European， though not Siberian. But it
didn't match any modern Indian tribe， a finding that Indians see as the latest
scheme to deny tribes the right to repatriate and rebury such remains.
Native Americans aren't the only ones dismayed by the Euro theory.
Solutrean expert Lawrence Straus， an anthropology professor at the University of
New Mexico， dismisses the resemblance between the spear points as an instance of
two cultures' arriving at a similar idea independently. “This is a classic case
of convergence，” says Straus. “And it's not even a tricky case.” Moreover，
Solutrean culture ended 17，000 years ago， at least 5，000 years before the first
evidence of Clovis culture. And there is no evidence that Solutreans had the
requisite boats to paddle across the North Atlantic.
Many scientists grumble that Stanford should publish his findings in
peer-reviewed journals be-fore talking in public. Stanford promises to publish
soon， but in the meantime， he says， “I'm trying to get people to think more
broadly.” No argument there.
注(1)：本文选自Newsweek; 11/15/99， p71;
注(2)：本文习题命题模仿对象2004年真题Text 4
1. What does Stanford think of the origins of the first Americans?
He thinks that the first Americans came from Clovis， N.M.
He agrees with the common idea that the first Americans came from
Siberia.
He thinks that the first Americans came from Europe.
He thinks that it was people from Iberia who first invented the boat and
came to America.
2. We can learn from the text that Indian tribes regard the results of the
federal study as _______.
a tricky scheme
convincing enough
a cute trap
unreasonable
3. The views of Lawrence Straus and Stanford are _________.
identical
similar
complementary
opposite
4. According to Lawrence Straus， the spear points __________.
show the products makers came from the same culture
do not show any connection between the two cultures
are not the products of the different inhabitants
show the resemblance of the two different cultures
5. Which of the following statement is true?
K-Man's remains helped to certify Stanford‘s assertion.
The first Americans came from Europe by boat.
Anthropologists fail to make such a certain statement as Stanford.
It was the Indian tribes‘ rights to rebury the K-Man's remains.
答案：CADBC
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