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2014.6.7雅思考试阅读考题回顾

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总体来讲,本次阅读难度较大,三篇文章中有一篇是考过的旧题即Mammoth Kill。本次阅读考试涉及到的题型有判断(是非无及对错无),填空(摘要及笔记),配对(人名及句子)和选择题。其中判断题和填空题的比重比较大。建议烤鸭们平时多练习高频题型。

 

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考试日期:

201467

 

Reading Passage 1

Title:

Fishbourne Roman Palace

Question types:

1-3 填空题 (NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS)

4-9 判断题 (TRUE / FALSE / NOT GIVEN)

10-13 填空题 (NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS)

文章内容回顾

本篇讲述的是对一个罗马宫殿的考查。段总述该宫殿的历史;第二段描述发现的经过;第三段对其建筑进行描写;第四段列举了关于该宫殿为谁而建的两种假说;较后段说明该地方现状。

相关英文原文阅读

Although local people had known of the existence of Roman remains in the area, it was not until 1960 that the archaeologist Barry Cunliffe first systematically excavated the site, which had been accidentally uncovered by Aubrey Barrett an engineer working for Portsmouth Water Company who was laying a new water main across a field. The Roman villa excavated by Cunliffe's team was so large that it became known as Fishbourne Roman Palace, and a museum was erected to protect and preserve some of the remains in situ. This is administered by the Sussex Archaeological Society.

 

In size, it is approximately equivalent to Nero's Golden House in Rome or to the Roman villa at Piazza Armerina in Sicily, and in plan it closely mirrors the basic organisation of the emperor Domitian's palace, the Domus Flavia, completed in AD 92 upon the Palatine Hill in Rome. Fishbourne is by far the largest Roman residence known north of the Alps. At about 500 feet (150m) square, it is larger in size than Buckingham Palace.

 

A modern museum has been built by the Sussex Archaeological Society, incorporating most of the visible remains including one wing of the palace. The gardens have been re-planted using authentic plants from the Roman period. A team of volunteers and professional archaeologists are involved in a continuing research archaeological excavation on the site of nearby, possibly military, buildings. The last dig was in 2002.

 

The first buildings on the site were granaries, apparently a supply base for the Roman army, constructed in the early part of the conquest in 43 AD. Later, two timber-frame buildings were constructed, one with clay and mortar floors and plaster walls which appears to have been a dwelling house of some comfort. These buildings were demolished in the AD 90s and replaced by a substantial stone-walled house, which included a courtyard garden with colonnades and a bath suite. It has been suggested that the palace itself, incorporating the previous house in its south-east corner, was built in around BC73–75 AD. A reinterpretation of the ground plan and finds assemblage by Dr Miles Russell of Bournemouth University has suggested that, given the extremely close parallels with Domitian's imperial palace in Rome, its construction may more plausibly date to after AD 92.

 

With regard to who lived in the Fishbourne palace, the accepted theory, first proposed by Barry Cunliffe, is that the early phase of the palace was the residence of Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus (or Togidubnus), a pro-Roman local chieftain who was installed as king of a number of territories following the first stage of the conquest. Cogidubnus / Togidubnus is known from a reference to his loyalty in Tacitus's Agricola, and from an inscription commemorating a temple dedicated to Neptune and Minerva found in nearby Chichester. Another theory is that it was built for another native, Sallustius Lucullus, a Roman governor of Britain of the late 1st century who may have been the son of the British prince Adminius. Two inscriptions recording the presence of Lucullus have been found in nearby Chichester and the redating, by Miles Russell, of the palace to the early AD 90s, would fit far more securely with such an interpretation. If the palace were designed for Lucullus, then it may have only been in use for a few years, for the Roman historian Suetonius records that Lucullus was executed by the delusional emperor Domitian in or shortly after AD 93.

 

Additional theories suggest that either Verica, a British client king of the Roman Empire in the years preceding the Claudian invasion was owner of the palace, or even one Tiberius Claudius Catuarus, whose gold signet ring was recently discovered.

题型难度分析

1-3 填空题 NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS

1. Save food for the army

2. Surrounded by formal gardens

3. Colours are added to mosaic floors

 

4-9 判断题 TRUE / FALSE / NOT GIVEN

4. The Fishbourne Roman Palace was the first building built on the site. (FALSE)

5. Research is going on in this area. (TRUE)

6. FALSE

7. TRUE

8. Scientists have reached agreement on whom the palace was built for. (NOT GIVEN)

9. The palace was burnt down by local people. (NOT GIVEN)

 

10-13 填空题 NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS

10. The first part found w

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