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1、智 课 网 托 福 备 考 资 料老托福阅读真题PASSAGE 10-智课教育旗下智课教育本文和大家分享的是老托福阅读真题PASSAGE 10，练习真题是最 重要也最有效的复习方法，大家在复习托福阅读考试的时候一定要对真 题重视起来。 托福阅读 的思维方式就是托福阅读的出题方式，只有掌握了这种思 维方式，才有可能在做题之前，预测到新托福阅读题的出题形式和特点 ，为找答案节省时间。老托福阅读试题的核心价值，在于其最贴近真题 的阅读思维方式。此外老托福阅读真题比新托福IBT阅读文章要短，比 较容易适应。这也是大家在备考托福的时候非常重要的一点。因为前期 的入手如果能从容易的开始，就会形成一个循序渐
2、进的过程方式，让大 家的练习有一个提高的过程。 既然老托福阅读试题有这样的效果，那我们如何利用那有限的真题 来达到锻炼自己的目的呢？事实上这就一个办法，就是坚持。本期为大 家推荐老托福阅读的真题PASSAGE 10，附有原文及答案，希望对托福考生备考有所帮助。One area of paleoanthropological study involves the eating and dietary habits of hominids, erect bipedal primates including early humans. It is clear that at some stage o
3、f history, humans began to carry their food to central places, called home bases, where it was shared and consumed with the young and other adults. The use of home bases is a fundamental component of human social behavior; the common meal served at a common hearth is a powerful symbol, a mark of soc
4、ial unity. Home base behavior does not occur among nonhuman primates and is rare among mammals. It is unclear when humans began to use home bases, what kind of communications and social relations were involved, and what the ecological and food-choice contexts of the shift were. Work on early tools,
5、surveys of paleoanthropological sites, development and testing of broad ecological theories, and advances in comparative primatology are contributing to knowledge about this central chapter inhuman prehistory. One innovative approach to these issues involves studying damage and wear on stone tools.
6、Researchers make tools that replicate excavated specimens as closely as possible and then try to use them as the originals might have been used, in woodcutting, hunting, or cultivation. Depending on how the tool is used, characteristic chippage patterns and microscopically distinguishable polishes d
7、evelop near the edges. The first application of this method of analysis to stone tools that are 1.5 million to 2 million years old indicates that, from the start, an important function of early stone tools was to extract highly nutritious food meat and marrow from large animal carcasses. Fossil bone
8、s with cut marks caused by stone tools have been discovered lying in the same 2-million-year-old layers that yielded the oldest such tools and the oldest hominid specimens (including humans) with larger than ape-sized brains. This discovery increases scientists certainty about when human ancestors b
9、egan to eat more meat than present-day nonhuman primates. But several questions remain unanswered: how frequently meat eating occurred; what the social implications of meat eating were; and whether the increased use of meat coincides with the beginnings of the use of home bases. 1. The passage mainl
10、y discusses which of the following aspects of hominid behavior? (A) Changes in eating and dietary practices (B) The creation of stone hunting tools (C) Social interactions at home bases (D) Methods of extracting nutritious food from carcasses 2. According to the passage , bringing a meal to a locati
11、on to be shared by many individuals is (A) an activity typical of nonhuman primates (B) a common practice among animals that eat meat(C) an indication of social unity (D) a behavior that encourages better dietary habits 3. The word “consumed“ in line 4 is closest in meaning to (A) prepared (B) store
12、d (C) distributed (D) eaten 4. According to paragraph 2, researchers make copies of old stone tools in order to (A) protect the old tools from being worn out (B) display examples of the old tools in museums (C) test theories about how old tools were used (D) learn how to improve the design of modern
13、 tools 5. In paragraph 2, the author mentions all of the following as examples of ways in which early stone tools were used EXCEPT to (A) build home bases (B) obtain food (C) make weapons (D) shape wood 6. The word “innovative“ in line 13 is closest in meaning to(A) good (B) new (C) simple (D) costl
14、y 7. The word “them“ in line 15 refers to (A) issues (B) researchers (C) tools (D) specimens 8. The author mentions “characteristic chippage patterns“ in line 16 as an example of (A) decorations cut into wooden objects(B) differences among tools made of various substances (C) impressions left on pre
15、historic animal bones (D) indications of wear on stone tools 9. The word “extract“ in line 19 is closest in meaning to (A) identify (B) remove (C) destroy (D) compare 10. The word “whether“ in line 26 is closest in meaning to (A) if (B) how (C) why (D) when 正确答案： ACDCA BCDBA 以上就是智课教育考试为大家整理的老托福阅读真题，考生可进行 参考训练以提高自己的考试水平。若您想了解托福考试更多相关信息请 关注智课教育出国考试。
