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5.The diversity of the original American Indian settlers was not quite as great as that of the 18th,19th and early 20th centuries when waves of European,Asian and unwilling African immigrants arrived on American shores.However,the First Americans did have more far-going origins that were ever suspected.For example,Brace's studies have revealed that the Blackfoot,Iroquois,and other tribes from Minnesota,Michigan,Ontario,and Massachusetts came down from the Jomon,a prehistoric people of Japan.The Inuit in the far north and tribal groups who once lived down the Eastern seaboard into Florida appear to be a later branch from the trunk of the Jomon family tree.The Athabaskan-speaking people from the Yukon and northern-western Canada,who spread as far south as Arizona and northern Mexico,appear to trace their origins to China."Their facial shapes link them more closely to the living Chinese than to any other population in either part of the world,"says Brace.
Johanna Nichols,a Professor of Slavic languages and literature at the University of California at Berkeley,says that new evidence from native languages throughout the New World strongly suggests that humans have been in the Americas since as early as 40,000 BC.She says that it is only along the west coast that languages appear to have come from immigrants who arrived after the ice age,14,000 years ago.
Nichols also has some different ideas about the direction in which the country was settled.Breaking with the traditional view of migrations,she says that the inside of North America was colonized not only from Siberia but also from the south.
To bolster her argument for an early settlement date,Nichols points to findings from the Monte Verde site in southern Chile.It has been dated at 12,500 years old,which means the area was occupied during the last ice age.And,the Monte Verde people would have needed at least 6,500 years to travel from Alaska to Chile.Yet,that only takes us back to about 19,000 years ago.Her research suggests a very high degree of language diversity is something that happens only with time.She insists that the approximately 150 distinct native American language families we know of today must have required at least 35,000 years to develop.

67.In the first paragraph the writer uses the word"unwilling"to show thatC.
A.the Africans came against the will of most Americans
B.the Africans came without the approval of their parents
C.the Africans were taken here against their own will
D.the Europeans who came at the time didn't want the Africans to come together
68.Which of the following statements is TRUE about the Athabaskan-speaking people?

A.They were related to people living in Japan in prehistoric times.
B.They were a branch from the trunk of the Jomon family tree.
C.They have no links to any other people.
D.They were thought to have certain links to the ancestors of the Chinese people.
69.The underlined word bolster in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to 
C.
A.use B.have C.support D.build
70.From the passage we can knowD.
A.people in the Americas today are believed to have probably come down only from the north
B.Nichols strongly suggests that humans have lived in the Americas for about 6,500 years
C.Nichols supports the traditional ideas about the direction in which the country was settled
D.it surely takes a very long time for language diversity to come about.

分析 本文讲述了语言多样性的形成需要一个长期的过程,美国是一个多元文化的国家,其文化的多元性经过了很长的时间形成的.

解答 67-70 CDCD
67.C  推断题.由第一段第一句最后"…immigrants arrived on American shores."可知非洲人移民美国是 unwilling 的,由此可知他们是被强制带到这里的,并不是自愿的,故正确答案为C.
68.D  细节题.由第一段最后一句"'Their facial shapes link them more closely to the living Chinese than to any other population in either part of the world,'says Brace."可知正确答案为D.
69.C  由最后一段第一句"Nichols points to findings from the Monte Verde site in southern Chile."和最后一段最后两句"Her research suggests a very high degree of language diversity is something that happens only with time.She insists that the approximately 150 distinct native American language families we know of today must have required at least 35,000 years to develop."可知 Nichols 指出 Monte Verde site 的发现是为了 bolster 她的论据,由此可推断 bolster 的意思应该为支持,即以各种发现来支持自己的论点,而不会是使用、拥有或者建立自己的论点,故正确答案为C.
70.D  细节题.由第二段最后一句"She says that it is only along the west coast that languages appear to have come from immigrants who arrived after the ice age,14,000 years ago."和最后一段最后一句"She insists that the approximately 150 distinct native American language families we know of today must have required at least 35,000 years to develop."可知D项正确.A项,文中没有相关内容,所以A项错误.B项,由最后一段第二句"It has been dated at 12,500 years old,which means the area was occupied during the last ice age."可知B项错误.C项,由第三段第一句"Nichols also has some different ideas about the direction in which the country was settled."可知C项错误.故正确答案为D.

点评 做阅读时经常犯错的主要原因是,仅凭读过文章后残留在脑海中的一丝印象来勾选答案,这样便很容易掉入出题人故意设布下的题目陷阱.所谓阅读理解,对于题目的理解一定要忠实于原文,因此,每一道题都应该与原文作全面的对比与核查,再得出答案.也就是说,阅读理解的每一道题目,在原文都应该有明确的出处,我们把这一出处叫做原文相关句,(1)排除与原文相关句主题不一致的选项(2)排除与原文相关句态度相反的选项  (3)排除用于过于极端或负面的选项(4)注意结合文章主旨和主题去排除.

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