Question

 

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The Aborigines (澳洲土著) have lived in Australia for about 60,000 years. They painted pictures inside caves, and these are the rock paintings that have given us so much information about Aboriginal life. For example, some of the paintings that are about 10,000 years old show men with boomerangs. From this we know that the Aborigines started using boomerangs for hunting at that time. Other pictures show kangaroos, so we know that there were kangaroos at that time.

The Aborigines believed that spirits made people, animals and plants, and that these spirits still live in the earth. For Aborigines, no one can own the earth—the earth belongs to the spirits.

In 1700, there were many Aboriginal groups with a population of 750,000 all over Australia, and there were probably more than 240 different Aboriginal languages. The groups did not have a leader. Instead, things were decided by the older men in a group. People from different groups often travelled hundreds of miles to meet each other.

Aboriginal life changed when an English boat arrived in Australia in 1770. Many Aborigines were killed in the wars that they had with the English. More Europeans came, and they started taking land from the Aborigines. The Europeans also brought new illnesses that killed the Aborigines. The result is that today there are only about 300,000 Aborigines in Australia.

1.The Aborigines painted pictures       .

A．on animals’ fur                        B．on the land

C．on the tree                            D．on the rock

2.What do you think the Aborigines used boomerangs to do?

A．To paint.          B．To hunt.           C．To fight.           D．To play.

3.The Aborigines thought        were the most important on the earth.

A．people           B．animals           C．spirits            D．plants

4.In an Aboriginal group        decided things.

A．the older men                          B．the leader

C．the English                            D．the Europeans

5.The number of the Aborigines is small today       .

A．because their living condition was very bad

B．because the English killed a lot of them in the wars

C．because of the new illnesses the Europeans brought them

D．because of the wars and the new illnesses

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.D

2.B

3.C

4.A

5.D

【解析】

試題分析：這篇文章講述了土著人在澳大利亞已經居住了6000多年了，他們在巖石上作畫，通過那些畫，我們可以推斷出他們當時的生活情況。后來，歐洲人發現了這里，殺害了很多土著人，導致了如今只有30萬的土著人。

1.細節題。根據文章They painted pictures inside caves, and these are the rock paintings that have given us so much information about Aboriginal life.可知，土著人在巖石上畫畫。故選D

2.細節題。根據文章From this we know that the Aborigines started using boomerangs for hunting at that time.可知，土著人使用回旋鏢捕獵。故選B

3.細節題。根據文章第二段可知，土著人認為靈魂是地球上最重要的東西，地球屬于靈魂。故選C

4.細節題。根據文章Instead, things were decided by the older men in a group.可知，在一個土著群通常是由年齡比較大的人決定事情的。故選A

5.細節題。根據文章最后一段可知，很多歐洲人殺害了土著人，并帶來一些疾病，導致了土著人數量的減少。故選D

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