雅思2012年6月16号阅读机经回顾（A类）Passage 1

　　TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN

　　Short-answer questions

　　Summary Completion

　　先是T/F/NG题，第一个是说那个男博士是偶然间在那个沙漠发现人类残骸的，是 True, 因为原文里说他是被那个骨头绊倒(stumbled) 才发现的。另外有一题是问那个人和另一个人之前就已经合作了，是False, 因为是从这次发现那个骨头才开始合作的。之后就是问答题，先问他们在那个沙漠的前几个星期produce了什么，是a map。然后说那个女博士把什么送去检查，是teeth。第三个是问检查以后，骨骼比较大的那个多少岁，是9000。剩下的一组是填空题，说打鱼和另一种 生活状态人们体格之类的区别。先是peaceful life是从没有injuries看出来的，然后从他们肌肉的attachment看出生活很strenuous, 另外他们的食物里的protein很高，因为常吃鱼。然后是另一部分人，说他们是饲养畜牧的生活，可是只发现了牛的骨骼，所以答案是cow, 然后说可能是他们处在一个转化状态，答案是transition。

　　Paleontologist Paul Sereno and his team were scouring the rocks between harsh dunes in northern Niger in 2000 when they stumbled across the graveyard, on the shores of a long-gone lake.

　　The scientists eventually uncovered 200 burials of two vastly different cultures that span five thousand years—the first time such a site has been found in one place.

　　Called Gobero, the area is a uniquely preserved record of human habitation and burials from the Kiffian (7700 to 6200 B.C.) and the Tenerian (5200 to 2500 B.C.) cultures, says a new study led by Sereno of the University of Chicago.

　　The "watershed" find also offers a new window into how these tribes lived and buried their dead during the extreme Holocene period, when a grassy Sahara dried up in the world’s largest desert.

　　Coming across such a site "sends a tingle up your spine," said Sereno, a National Geographic explorer-in-residence. (The National Geographic Society owns National Geographic News.)

　　"You’re not looking at [dinosaurs], you’re looking at your own species."

　　One of the most striking discoveries was what the research team calls the "Stone Age Embrace": A woman, possibly a mother, and two children laid to rest holding hands, arms outstretched toward each other, on a bed of flowers.

　　Sereno and colleagues have also made several dinosaur discoveries in the region, including the bizarre cow-like dino Nigersaurus and the bus-size SuperCroc.

　　A wobble in Earth’s orbit—along with other environmental factors that occurred about 12,000 years ago—brought intense monsoons to the Sahara, greening the desert and attracting a wave of human inhabitants, according to Sereno and colleagues.

　　第一篇的题型包括是非无判断，简答题和填空题。从难度而言，简答题为送分题型，填空题相对而言我们称之为零智商题，也比较简单，文章定位也比较容易，总体而言，第一篇文章难度较小。

　　TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN

　　YES/NO/NOT GIVEN

　　1. 答案写法 全部大写，如：若要求写TRUE 却写成：T ( × ) true ( × ) True ( × ) YES (×)

　　2. 题目在原文出现的位置： 顺序原则

　　3. 考点：即题目中可能说错的部分

　　4. 定位词(排除考点)：www.Examw.com

　　专有名词、术语、物质名词

　　时间、数字

　　归纳句子是关于哪方面信息的(即为定位词或短语)

　　5. 判断T/Y的情况：1) 同义、近义替换

　　2) 归纳总结

　　6. 判断F/N的情况：100%否认原文

　　7. 判断NG的情况：根据原文无法100%判断题目T/F(不可利用常识)