When people first walked across the Bering Land Bridge thousands of years ago, dogs were by their sides, according to a study published in the journal Science.
Robert Wayne of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Jennifer Leonard of the Smithsonian Institute, used DNA material—some of it unearthed by miners in Alaska—to conclude that today’s domestic dog originated in Asia and accompanied the first humans to the New World about 10,000 to 15,000 years ago. Wayne suggests that man’s best friend may have enabled the tough journey from Asia into North America. “Dogs may have been the reason people made it across the land bridge,” said Wayne. “They can pull things, carry things, defend you from fierce animals, and they’re useful to eat.”
Researchers have agreed that today’s dog is the result of the domestication(馴化) of wolves thousands of years ago. Before this recent study, a common thought about the precise origin of North America’s domestic dog was that Natives domesticated local wolves, the descendents(后代) of which now live with people in Alaska, Canada, and the Lower 48.
Dog remains from a Fairbanks-area gold mine helped the scientists reach their conclusion. Leonard, an evolutionary biologist, collected DNA from 11 bones of ancient dogs that were locked in permafrost(永凍層) until Fairbanks miners uncovered them in the 1920s. The miners donated the preserved bones to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where they remained untouched for more than 70 years. After borrowing the bones from the museum, Leonard and her colleagues used radiocarbon techniques to find the age of the Alaska dogs. They found the dogs all lived between the years of 1450 and 1675 A.D., before Vitus Bering and Aleksey Chirikov who were the first known Europeans to view Alaska in 1741. The bones of dogs that wandered the Fairbanks area centuries ago should therefore be the remains of “pure native American dogs,” Leonard said. The DNA of the Fairbanks dogs would also expose whether they were the descendents of wolves from North America.
Along with the Fairbanks samples, the researchers collected DNA from bones of 37 dog specimens(標(biāo)本) from Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia that existed before the arrival of Columbus. In the case of both the Alaska dogs and the dogs from Latin America, the researchers found that they shared the most genetic material with gray wolves of Europe and Asia. This supports the idea of domestic dogs entering the New World with the first human explorers who wandered east over the land bridge.
Leonard and Wayne’s study suggests that dogs joined the first humans that made the adventure across the Bering Land Bridge to slowly populate the Americas. Wayne thinks the dogs that made the trip must have provided some excellent service to their human companions or they would not have been brought along. “Dogs must have been useful because they were expensive to keep,” Wayne said. “They didn’t feed on mice; they fed on meat, which was a very guarded resource.”
小題1: The underlined word “remains” is closed in meaning to ______.
A．leftover foodB．a(chǎn)nimal waste
C．dead bodiesD．living environment
小題2:According to the study described in Paragraph 4, we can learn that ______.
A．a(chǎn)ncient dogs entered North America between 1450 and 1675 AD
B．the 11 bones of ancient dogs are not from native American dogs
C．the bones discovered by the gold miners were from North American wolves
D．the bones studied were not from dogs brought into North America by Europeans
小題3:What can we know from the passage?
A．Native Americans domesticated local wolves into dogs.
B．Scientists discovered some ancient dog remains in 1920s.
C．Latin America’s dogs are different from North America’s in genes.
D．Ancient dogs entered North America across the Bering Land Bridge.
小題4:The first humans into the New World brought dogs along with them because ______.
A．dogs fed on miceB．dogs were easy to keep
C．dogs helped protect their resourcesD．dogs could provide excellent service
小題5:What does the passage mainly talk about ______.
A．the origin of the North American dogs
B．the DNA study of ancient dogs in America
C．the reasons why early people entered America
D．the difference between Asian and American dogs

小題1:C
小題2:D
小題3:D
小題4:D
小題5:A

試題分析：本文是科普性文章。說(shuō)明了在幾千年前狗陪同人們一起跨過(guò)白令大陸橋進(jìn)入北美大陸，并且在此繁殖起來(lái)。而通過(guò)檢測(cè)發(fā)掘出的狗骨頭的DNA也證實(shí)了這一點(diǎn)。
小題1:C 詞意猜測(cè)題。根據(jù)第四段第二句話(huà)“Leonard, an evolutionary biologist, collected DNA from 11 bones of ancient dogs that were locked in permafrost(永凍層)”說(shuō)明是在冰凍層發(fā)現(xiàn)的狗的骨頭，所以remain應(yīng)該是尸體。C選項(xiàng)正確。
小題2:D細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)“They found the dogs all lived between the years of 1450 and 1675 A.D before Vitus Bering and Aleksey Chirikov who were the first known Europeans to view Alaska in 1741..”判斷可知被研究的骨頭不是歐洲人帶到北美來(lái)的狗的骨頭。所以D項(xiàng)正確。
小題3:D細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)第一段“When people first walked across the Bering Land Bridge thousands of years ago, dogs were by their sides, according to a study published in the journal Science.”所以D選項(xiàng)正確。
小題4:D 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)第二段“Wayne suggests that man’s best friend may have enabled the tough journey from Asia into North America. “Dogs may have been the reason people made it across the land bridge,” said Wayne. “They can pull things, carry things, defend you from fierce animals, and they’re useful to eat.”這些都說(shuō)明了人們之所以帶著狗，是因?yàn)樗鼈兡転槿藗兲峁┓⻊?wù)，由用處。所以D正確。
小題5:A推理題。文章第一段提到狗和人們一同跨過(guò)the Bering Land Bridge，第二三四五段研究狗的DNA“ to conclude that today’s domestic dog originated in Asia”，“Researchers have agreed that today’s dog is the result of the domestication(馴化) of wolves thousands of years ago”所以文章中心是談?wù)摴返钠鹪础?/div>
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When he started, he assumed that signs of the bends would be rarer in younger fossils, reflecting their gradual evolution of measures to deal with decompression. Instead, he was astonished to discover the opposite. More than 15% of Jurassic and Cretaceous ichthyosaurs had suffered the bends before they died, but not a single Triassic specimen (標(biāo)本) showed evidence of that sort of injury.
If ichthyosaurs did evolve an anti-decompression means, they clearly did so quickly—and, most strangely, they lost it afterwards. But that is not what Dr Rothschild thinks happened. He suspects it was evolution in other animals that caused the change.
Whales that suffer the bends often do so because they have surfaced to escape a predator (捕食動(dòng)物) such as a large shark. One of the features of Jurassic oceans was an abundance of large sharks and crocodiles, both of which were fond of ichthyosaur lunches. Triassic oceans, by contrast, were mercifully shark- and crocodile-free. In the Triassic, then, ichthyosaurs were top of the food chain. In the Jurassic and Cretaceous, they were prey (獵物) as well as predator—and often had to make a speedy exit as a result.
小題1:Which of the following is a typical symptom of the bends?
A．A twisted body.
B．A gradual decrease in blood supply.
C．A sudden release of nitrogen in blood.
D．A drop in blood pressure.
小題2:The purpose of Rothschild’s study is to see ______.
A．how often ichthyosaurs caught the bends
B．how ichthyosaurs adapted to decompression
C．why ichthyosaurs bent their bodies
D．when ichthyosaurs broke their bones
小題3:Rothschild’s finding stated in Paragraph 4 ______.
A．confirmed his assumptionB．speeded up his research process
C．disagreed with his assumptionD．changed his research objectives
小題4:Rothschild might have concluded that ichthyosaurs ______.
A．failed to evolve an anti-decompression means
B．gradually developed measures against the bends
C．died out because of large sharks and crocodiles
D．evolved an anti-decompression means but soon lost it

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Laws that would have ensured pupils from five to 16 received a full financial education got lost in the ‘wash up’. An application is calling on the next government to bring it back.
　At school the children are taught to add up and subtract(減法) but, extraordinarily, are not routinely shown how to open a bank account — let alone how to manage their finances in an increasingly complex and demanding world.
　Today the parenting website Mumsnet and the consumer campaigner Martin Lewis have joined forces to launch an online application to make financial education a compulsory element of the school curriculum in England. Children from five to 16 should be taught about everything from pocket money to pensions, they say. And that was exactly the plan preserved in the Children, Schools and Families bill that was shelved by the government in the so-called “wash-up” earlier this month — the rush to legislation before parliament was dismissed. Consumer and parent groups believe financial education has always been one of the most frustrating omissions of the curriculum.
　As the Personal Finance Education Group (Pfeg) points out, the good habits of young children do not last long. Over 75% of seven- to 11-year-olds are savers but by the time they get to 17, over half of them are in debt to family and friends. By this age, 26% see a credit card or overdraft(透支) as a way of extending their spending power. Pfeg predicts that these young people will “find it much harder to avoid the serious unexpected dangers that have befallen many of their parents' generation unless they receive good quality financial education while at school.”
　The UK has been in the worst financial recession(衰退)for generations. It does seem odd that — unless parents step in — young people are left in the dark until they are cruelly introduced to the world of debt when they turn up at university. In a recent poll of over 8,000 people, 97% supported financial education in schools, while 3% said it was a job for parents.
小題1:The passage is mainly about _____________.
A．how to manage school lessonsB． teaching young people about money　
C．how to deal with the financial crisisD．teaching students how to study effectively
小題2:It can be inferred from the first two paragraphs that __________.
A．laws on financial education have been effectively carried out
B．pupils should not be taught to add up and subtract
C．students have been taught to manage their finances
D．the author complains about the school education
小題3:The website and the consumer campaigner joined to _________.
A．instruct the pupils to donate their pocket money
B．promote the connection of schools and families
C．a(chǎn)sk the government to dismiss the parliament
D．a(chǎn)ppeal for the curriculum of financial education
小題4:A poll is mentioned to ___________.
A．show the seriousness of the financial recession
B．stress the necessity of the curriculum reform
C．make the readers aware of burden of the parents
D．illustrate some people are strongly against the proposal

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