2014考研英语PartB翻译

Part B

Directions：The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order. For Questions 41-45, you are required to reorganize into a coherent text by choosing from the list A-G and filling them into the numbered boxes .Paragraphs A and E have been correctly placed. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.（10 points）

41 --- A --- 42. --- E ---43 --- 44 --- 45

[A] Some archaeological sites have always been easily observable—for example, the Parthenon in Athens, Greece; the 有些考古遗址总是很容易看见， 例如，希腊，雅典的Parthenon;

pyramids of Giza in Egypt; and the megaliths of Stonehenge in southern England. But these sites are exceptions to the 埃及的Giza金字塔， 以及英格兰南部巨石阵中的巨大石头。 但这些遗址只是常态中的特例。

大多数考古遗址是要依靠仔细搜寻的， 还有不少的是被偶然发现的。

discovered by accident. Olduvai Gorge, an early hominid site in Tanzania, was found by a butterfly hunter who literally Olduvai大峡谷，一个位于坦桑尼亚的早期原始人居住遗址，毫不夸张地说，就是在1911年，被一个追 赶蝴蝶的人掉进了Olduvai的一个深深的山谷才发现的。在20Aztec的古代器 in the 1970s. 物曝光了。

[B] In another case, American archaeologists Rene Million and George Cowgill spent years systematically mapping the 在另外一个案例中，美国的考古学家Rene Million和George Cowgill花了好几年的时间，系统地测绘了墨西哥大峡谷中的 entire city of Teotihuacan in the valley of Mexico near what is now Mexico City. At its peak around AD 600, this city Teotihuacan古城全貌的地图，那儿附近就是现在的墨西哥城。 公元600年是它的顶峰时期，这座城市是 was one of the largest human settlements in the word. The researchers mapped not only the city’s vast and ornate

世界上最大的人类居住地之一。 研究者们不仅测绘了宏大而富丽的集会场所，

ceremonial areas, but also hundreds of simpler apartment complexes where common people lived.

还测绘了数以百计的较为简单的老百姓住过的公寓。

[C] How do archaeologists know where to find what they are looking for when there is nothing visible on the surface of 考古学家们在地表没有任何痕迹的时候，怎样知道哪儿能找到他们正在寻找的古董呢？

the ground? Typically, they survey and sample (make test excavations on) large areas of terrain to determine where 颇据代表性的做法是，他们对大面积地区进行调查和取样（试探性挖掘）以决定在什么地方可挖出有用的信息。 excavation will yield useful information. Surveys and test samples have also become important for understanding the 调查和样品测试对于了解更大的包含考古遗址的情况显得尤为重要。

larger landscapes that contain archaeological sites.

[D] Surveys can cover a single large settlement or entire landscapes. In one case, many researchers working around the 调查既包括单一的大型居住地，也可以是遗址全貌。 有一个案例，许多工作在古Maya, Honduras的Copán市的 ancient Maya city of Copán, Honduras, have located hundreds of small rural villages and individual dwellings by using 研究者们通过空中拍照和步行调查，已经安置好了好几百个小小的农村村落和个人住处。

500至 of the rural population around the city changed dramatically between AD500 and 850, when Copán collapsed.

850年间，Copán衰败时，发生了怎样一个戏剧性变化。 为了找到它们的遗址，现在的考古学家们依赖严密的系统调查方式和各种各样的高科技和技术。

tools and techniques. Airbone technologies, such as different types of radar and photographic equipment carried by

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