托福阅读真题解析：拉斯科岩洞画

study picturesof animals and imagine a successful hunt. Considerable support exists for this opinion becauseseveral animals in the pictures are wounded by arrows and spears. This opinion also attemptsto solve the overpainting by explaining that an animal’s picture had no further use after thehunt.

　　7. The word accompanied in the passage is closest in meaning to

　　○Represented

　　○Developed into

　　○Were associated with

　　○Came after

　　8. According to paragraph 4, why do some scholars believe that the paintings were related tohunting?

　　○Because some tools used for painting were also used for hunting

　　○Because cave inhabitants were known to prefer animal food rather than plant food

　　○Because some of the animals are shown wounded by weapons

　　○Because many hunters were also typically painters

　　Paragraph 5 A third opinion takes psychological motivation much further into the realm oftribal ceremonies and mystery: the belief that certain animals assumed mythical significanceas ancient ancestors or protectors of a given tribe or clan. Two types of images substantiatethis theory: the strange, indecipherable geometric shapes that appear near some animals, andthe few drawings of men. Wherever men appear they are crudely drawn and their bodies areelongated and rigid. Some men are in a prone position and some have bird or animal heads.Advocates for this opinion point to reports from people who have experienced a trance state,a highly suggestive state of low consciousness between waking and sleeping. Uniformly, thesepeople experienced weightlessness and the sensation that their bodies were being stretchedlengthwise. Advocates also point to people who believe that the forces of nature are inhabitedby spirits, particularly shamans* who believe that an animal’s spirit and energy is transferred tothem while in a trance. One Lascaux narrative picture, which shows a man with a birdlike headand a wounded animal, would seem to lend credence to this third opinion, but there is stillmuch that remains unexplained. For example, where is the proof that