剑桥雅思8Test2阅读P2答案+解析（二）

**Reading Passage 2, Questions 18-26** A.climatic shifts B. ice cores C. tree rings D. glaciers E. interactions F. weather observations G. heatwaves H. storms I. written accounts 18&19.Documentation of past weather conditions is limited: our main sources of knowledge of conditions in the distant past are ______ and ______. 答案：B;C 题目解析：本题空格中所填词应为对于过去气候认识的来源，对应的文章内容是C段第2句“For the time before…ice cores,...”。C段的第2句后可以找到past的反义词recent, 这表明后面就是答案的出处，也就是B、C两项。 20.We can deduce that the Little Ice Age was a time of ______, rather than of consistent freezing. 答案：A 题目解析：本题空格中所填词应与consistent freezing的意思相反(rather than)，对应的文章内容是B段第5句“The Little Ice Age was far from a deep…climatic shifts.”。题目中的consistent freezing对应B段第五句中的deep freeze。因此题答案为A。 21.Within it there were some periods of very cold winters, others of ______ and heavy rain,... 答案：H 题目解析：本题空格中所填词应与heavy rains形成并列。对应的文章内容是B段最后1句“The seesaw brought…summer heat waves.”。此题答案为H。 22....and yet others that saw ______ with no rain at all. 答案：G 题目解析：本题比较简单，空格所填词为with no rain所修饰的对象，并对应文中的droughts。本题对应的文章内容是B段最后1句“The seesaw brought…summer heat waves.”。结合剩余选项以及文中的对应句，可得到答案为G。 23-26 A. Medieval Warm Period B. Little Ice Age C. Modern Warm Period 23.Many Europeans started farming abroad. 答案：C 题目解析：题目说很多欧洲人开始在海外从事农业活动，这对应的文章内容是F段内容“...with the beginning of the Modern Warm Period. There was a vast migration from Europe by land-hungry farmers and others,... ”。结合题目和文章内容可知题目描述的是Modern Warm Period。故此题答案为C。 24.The cutting down of trees began to affect the climate. 答案：C 题目解析：题目说砍伐树木开始影响气候，这对应的文章内容是F段第3句“Millions of hectares of forest…”。这一句指出，数百万公顷的森林和林地毁于开荒，并引起第一次人为的全球变暖。除此之外，F段整段都在谈论Modem Warm Period，答案为C。 25.Europeans discovered other lands. 答案：A 题目解析：题目说欧洲人发现了新大陆，这对应的文章内容是D段第2、3句“Part One describes the…”，这里指出，古斯堪的纳维亚的航海者们从欧洲北部出发探索北海，在格陵兰岛定居，并探访了北美大陆。故此题答案为A。 26.Changes took place in fishing patterns. 答案：B 题目解析：题目说捕鱼的模式发生了变化，对应的文章内容是E段倒数第4句“The Basques, Dutch,…”。文中指出，巴斯克人、荷兰人和英国人最先造出了能够适应在寒冷多风暴的大西洋中航行的离岸渔船，故此题答案为B。