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托福阅读句子简化题:Pacific Island

2015-08-13 15:48:12来源:网络

  【托福阅读题型:Pacific Island句子简化题】托福阅读中句子简化题是重要题型之一。根据托福阅读题型不同来进行专项练习,是短期提高托福阅读能力的有效方法。同学们需要多加练习哦!

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  托福阅读句子简化题:Pacific Island

  【Paragraph 4】Contrary to the arguments of some that much of the pacific was settled by Polynesians accidentally  marooned after being lost and adrift, it seems reasonable that this feat was accomplished by deliberate colonization  expeditions that set out fully stocked with food and domesticated plants and animals. Detailed studies of the winds and  currents using computer simulations suggest that drifting canoes would have been a most unlikely means of colonizing the Pacific. These expeditions were likely driven by population growth and political dynamics on the home islands, as well as the challenge and excitement of exploring unknown waters. Because all Polynesians, Micronesians, and many Melanesians speak Austronesian languages and grow crops derived from Southeast Asia, all these peoples most certainly derived from that region and not the New World or elsewhere. The undisputed pre-Columbian presence in Oceania of the sweet potato, which is a New World domesticate, has sometimes been used to support Heyerdahl’s “American Indians in the Pacific” theories. However, this is one plant out of a long list of Southeast Asian domesticates.  As Patrick Kirch, an American anthropologist, points out, rather than being brought by rafting South Americans, sweet potatoes might just have easily been brought back by returning Polynesian navigators who could have reached the west coast of South America.(The Origin of the Pacific Island People)

  Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage? Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.

  ○ Some people have argued that the Pacific was settled by traders who became lost while transporting domesticated plants and animals.

  ○ The original Polynesian settlers were probably marooned on the islands, but they may have been joined later by carefully prepared colonization expeditions.

  ○ Although it seems reasonable to believe that colonization expeditions would set out fully stocked, this is contradicted by much of the evidence.

  ○ The settlement of the Pacific islands was probably intentional and well planned rather than accidental as some people have proposed.

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