雅思阅读真题+题目+答案：beyond the bule line

雅思阅读真题+题目+答案：Beyond the Blue Line

A Much of the thrill of venturing to the far tide of the world rests on the romance of difference. So one feels certain sympathy for Captain James Cook on the day in 1778 that he “discovered” Hawaii. Then on his third expedition to the Pacific, the British navigator had explored scores of islands across the breadth of the sea, from lush (adj. 丰富的)New Zealand to the lonely wastes of Easter Island. This latest voyage had taken him thousands of miles north from the Society Islands to an archipelago (n.群岛)so remote that even the old Polynesians back on Tahiti knew nothing about It lmafllne Cook's surprise, then, when the natives of Hawaii came paddling out In their canoesand greeted him in a familiar tongue, one he had heard on virtually every mote of inhabited land be had visited. Marveling at the ubiquity (n.普遍存在)of this Pacific lanfluafle and culture,he later wondered in his journal: "How shall we account for this Nation .preadlnfl Melf so far over th. vast ocean?"

B That question, and others that flow from It. has tantalized Inquiring minds for centuries: Who were these amazing seafarers? Where did they come from, starting more than 3,000 years ago? And how could a Neolithic people with simple canow and no navigation gear manage to find, let alone colonize, hundreds offar-flunfl island specks scattered across an ocean that spans nearly a third of the globe? Answers have been slow in coming. But now a startling archaeotogfcal find on the island of Efatt, in the Pacific nation of Vanuatu, has revealed an ancient seafaring people, the distant ancestors of today's Polynesians, taking their flret steps Into the unknown. The discoveries there have also opened a window into the shadowy world of those early voyagers.

C "What we have is a first-or second-fleneration site containing the graves of some of the Pacific's first explorers" says Spriggs, professor of archaeology at the Aimtnltan National University and deader of an International team excavatinfl the site. It came to light only by luck. A backhoe operator, digging up topsoil on the grounds of a derelict coconut plantation, scraped open a flrave-the first of dozens in a burial ground some 3,000 years old. It is the oldest cemetery ever found in the Pacific islands, and it harbors the bones of an ancient people archawlogtets call the Lapita, a label that derive, from a beach in New Caledonia where a landmark cache of their pottery was found in the 1950s.

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Questions 27-31

Complete the summary with the list of words A-L below.

Write the correct letter A-L in boxes 27-31 on your answer sheet.

The question, arisen from Captain Cooks expedition to Hawaii, and others derived from it,has fascinated researchers for a long time. However, a surprising archaeological find on Efate began to provide valuable Infonnation about the 27.......On the excavating site, a 28.......containing 29.......of Lapita was uncovered. Later on, various researches and tests have been done to study the ancient people^pita and their 30.......How could they manage to spread themselves so far over the vast ocean? All that is certain is that they were good at canoeing. And perhaps they could take well advantafleofthe trade wind. But there is no 31.......of it

A. bones  B. co-leader   C. descendents  D. international team  E. inquiring minds   F. proof    G. ancestors   H. early seafarers   I. pottery    J. assumption   K. horizons   L. grave

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