剑桥雅思16Test4Passage1阅读答案解析Roman tunnels

剑桥雅思16 Test4 Passage1阅读答案解析

第1题答案：posts

对应原文：第1段：…which consisted of placing posts over a hill in a straight line,to ensure that the tunnel kept to its route

答案解析：根据标题定位到文章的第1段，从图片箭头指示可以看出，空上填的应该是地面上的东西，由此确定posts为正确答案。

第2题答案：canal

对应原文：第1段：Once the tunnel was completed,it allowed water to flow from the top of a hillside down towards a canal,which supplied water for human use

答案解析：顺着上一题往下，根据local people和human use的对应定位到这句话，空前词runs into与flow towards同义替换，根据修饰关系，确定答案为canal。

第3题答案：vetilation

对应原文：第1段：The excavated soil was taken up to the surface using the shafts,which also provided ventilation during the work.

答案解析：根据shaft和soil定位到第1段的这句话，空前词and与also同义替换，由并列关系确定答案为ventilation。

第4题答案：lid

对应原文：第2段：…and were covered with a wooden or stone lid

答案解析：根据标题定位到第2段，再根据wooden or stone定位到这句话，很容易锁定lid为正确答案。

第5题答案：weight

对应原文：第2段：Romans hung a plumb line from a rod placed across the top of each shaft and made sure that the weight at the end of it hung in the center of the shaft.

答案解析：根据rod和plumb line定位到这句话，图片问的是绳子末端挂的是什么，由at the end锁定weight（重物）。

第6题答案：climbing

对应原文：第2段：The shafts were equipped with handholds and footholds to help those climbing in and out of them

答案解析：根据handholds and footholds定位到这句话，原文中填上去既符合词性要求，又符合句义的只有climbing，由此确定答案。

第7题答案：FALSE

对应原文：第3段：It was used to cut through high mountains,when the qanat method was not a practical alternative

答案解析：原文第3段表示，反向挖掘法在暗渠法无法使用的时候才会派上用场，可见它并没有完全取代后者。题干中completely replaced的说法太过绝对，由此判断答案为FLASE。

第8题答案：NOT GIVEN

对应原文：无

答案解析：原文中完全没有提到隧道建设的用工要求，可以比较容易的判断为NOT GIVEN。

第9题答案：FALSE

对应原文：第3段：An inscription written on the side of a 428-meter tunnel,built by the Romans as part of the Saldae aqueduct system in modern-day Algeria,describes how the two teams of builders missed each other in the mountain and how the later construction of a lateral link between both corridors corrected the initial error.

答案解析：虽然题干对应句子很复杂，但从开头inscription就可以看出这一事件并不是记载在书里，而是在隧道侧面的铭刻上，由此判断答案为FALSE。

第10题答案：TRUE

对应原文：第3段：describes how the two teams of builders missed each other in the mountain

答案解析：原文中所描述的Saldae aqueduct system的错误在于两队建筑工人在山中彼此错过，即隧道两段没有相遇，由此判断答案为TRUE。

第11题答案：gold

对应原文：第4段：Traces of such tunnels used to mine gold can still be found at the Dolaucothi mines in Wales

答案解析：根据Dolaucothi定位到第4段，附近提到的矿石种类只有gold，由此确定答案。

第12题答案：(the)architect(‘s)(name)

对应原文：第5段：Most tunnels had inscriptions showing the names of patrons who ordered construction and sometimes the name of the architect.

答案解析：根据patron定位到第5段中间靠后的位置，由并列关系确定architect为正确答案。

第13题答案：(the)harbour/harbor

对应原文：第5段：the 1.4-kilometer Cevlik tunnel in Turkey,built to divert the floodwater threatening the harbor of the ancient city of Seleuceia Pieria

答案解析：根据Cevlik定位到第5段的最后。题干问的是Seleuceia Pieria的哪部分，根据所有格表达的所属关系确定答案为harbor。