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    A "lost tribe" that reached America from Australia may have been the first Native
    Americans, according to a new theory.
    If proved by DNA evidence, the theory will break long established beliefs about the
    southerly migration of people who entered America across the Bering Strait, found it
    empty and occupied it.
    On this theory rests the belief of Native Americans to have been the first true
    Americans. They would be classified to the ranks of escapee, beaten to the New World by
    Aboriginals (土著人) in boats.
    To a European, this may seem like an academic argument, but to Americans it is a
    philosophical question about identity, Silvia Gonzales, of Liverpool University said.
    Her claims are based on skeletons found in the California Peninsula of Mexico that
    have skulls quite unlike the broad Mongolian features of Native Americans. These narrow-
    skulled people have more in common with southern Asians, Aboriginal Australians and people
    of the South Pacific Region.
    The bones, stored at the National Museum of Anthropology (人类学) in Mexico City,
    have been carbon-dated and one is 12,700 years old, which places it several thousand
    years before the arrival of people from the North. "We think there were several migration
    waves into the Americas at different times by different human groups," Dr. Gonzales said.
    "The timing, route and point of origin of the first colonization of the Americas remains
    a most contentious topic in human evolution."
    But comparisons based on skull shape are not considered conclusive by anthropologists,
    so a team of Mexican and British scientists, backed by the Natural Environment Research
    Council, has also attempted to take out DNA from the bones. Dr. Gonzales declined yesterday
    to say exactly what the results were, as they need to be checked, but indicated that they
    were consistent (一致) with an Australian origin.
    1. It is generally considered that the first Native Americans came from ______.
    [     ]

    A. North Asia
    B. Australia
    C. South Pacific
    D. South Asia
    2. The skeletons found in the California Peninsula of Mexico have ______.
    [     ]

    A. the broad skull shape
    B. the narrow skull shape
    C. different features of Aboriginal Australians
    D. the same features of Native Americans
    3. The underlined "contentious" is similar in meaning to "______".
    [     ]

    A. likely to cause great interest
    B. difficult to solve
    C. well-known to all
    D. likely to cause argument
    4. Which of the following statements is true according to the text?
    [     ]

    A. Research on skulls can draw an exact conclusion.
    B. DNA tests have proved the fact that the first Native Americans came from Australian.
    C. Scientists are still not sure about the origin of the Native Americans.
    D. People began to enter America across the Bering Strait about 12,700 years ago.
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本类题型常用的方式是夹叙夹议。叙述的目的是为了议,所以要把握其议才是主要方面。阅读这类文章,先弄清其引入的话题,再弄清里面人物对其不同的看法,然后理解作者本身对话题的观点看法或思考。


历史文化类阅读技巧:

题型说明】历史文化类阅读理解文章属高考常选材料之一。这类文章常涉及历史、文化、法制、宗教等方面的文学艺术、发明创造、文化遗产保护、宗教与文化、风俗与习惯、道德与法制、中外文学名著节选、等等。这类材料的命题点往往落在主旨大意题、事实细节题上。
答题方法】在做这类阅读理解题时,我们应注意以下几个方面:
1、采用先题后文:先读题目,再带着问题读文章。这类阅读理解文章相对来说事实细节题稍多一点,如果带着问题读文章,有利于我们抓细节。
2、先做细节题。因为做完了局部性的事实细节题后,自然会加深我们对文章的理解,这样更有利于做主旨大意题。
3、重点敲定主旨题。主旨大意题提问的形式主要有两大类:一类是Main idea型;一类是Topic或Title型。
在解答这类试题时应注意以下几点:
a.读首句抓大意。
文化教育类阅读理解文章多采用说明文、议论文体裁,而这类文章大都采用文章段落的中心,即主题句在文章开头。因此,要寻找这类文章的主旨大意就需要研究文章的首句。
b.读尾句抓大意。
有时这类文章的主题句安排在文章的结尾,作为对全篇的总结。
c.读首段抓大意。
有些文章或段落的开头和结尾部分都有主题句。这种结构是为了突出主题思想而使用两次点题的写作方法。这两个主题句在句子结构和用词上有所不同,而且在内容上前句和后句也不重复。
d.从段落中抓大意。
有些文章或段落的主题句在文章中,这种文章或段落往往以一句话或几句话引出要表达的主题,在主题句出现后,再举例子陈述细节或继续论证。
e.归纳要点抓大意。
有些文章或段落无明显的主题句,只是暗示性地体现主题。这就要求同学们在阅读过程中根据文中所叙述的事实或线索来概括总结主旨大意。