2018年秋季高中英语Unit2WorkingthelandPeriod1WarmingUp(1)

People can’t survive without food. Long ago, early people couldn’t grow crops, so they had
to live by hunting animals and gathering grains. After a tribe(部落) had lived
in an area for some time, its food supply would begin to reduce. Then the tribe
had to move to new hunting grounds where there was more food.
This way of life caused special problems for the tribes. They were forced to
depend on luck, as well as on their hunting skills. If they could find no game, the whole tribe would be in danger of starving. And when the hunters had good luck one day, they were not sure to find game the next time. The tribes moved often because much land was needed to support their people.
As time passed by, people learned that they could grow their food. At first, the women of tribes collected patches of wild grain. Later, people discovered that they could plant their own seeds. Farming slowly became a way of life.
As people turned away from hunting to farming, their life changed. When the food supply became richer and richer, they no longer moved from place to place. The success of their crops depended partly on the weather, but there were also things they could do to help crops grow.
In the past, a tribe had to travel many miles for food. Now, only a small amount of land was necessary to feed the whole tribe. The early tribe could grow in size because farming provided a way to feed people.
【语篇概述】人要生存就离不开食物，我们的祖先最初是靠种植来获取食物的吗？阅读本篇了解一下种植是如何成为人类的一种生存方式的。

Ⅰ. Skim the passage and give the general idea of the passage.
1. The passage mainly tells us—_________________________________.
答案：how farming became a way of life
2. Skim the passage to get the main idea of each part.
A. Farming changed their way of life.
B. The early way of life caused special problems for the tribes.
C. Farming made the tribe grow in size.
答案:BAC
Ⅱ. Read the passage again and choose the best answers.
1. Why did the early tribes move so often?
A. They enjoyed traveling around.
B. They had to find enough food.
C. Because of the bad weather they did not like to stay in one place.
D. They liked to go hunting everywhere.
【解析】选B。

细节理解题。

根据第一段第三、四句After a tribe had lived in an area for some time, its food supply would begin to reduce. Then the tribe had to move to new hunting grounds where there was more food. 可知答案为B。

2. The underlined word “game” in Paragraph 2 probably means “______”.
A. 游戏
B. 比赛
C. 野味
D. 赌博
【解析】选C。

词义猜测题。

根据第二段第二、三句They were forced to depend on luck, as well as on their hunting skills. If they could find no game, the whole tribe would be in danger of starving. 得知，他们主要靠幸运活下来，如果找不到野味(猎物)，整个部落会处于饿死的危险境地。

由前面hunting 便知答案为C。

3. When farming provided enough food to people,___________.
A. the women didn’t do any work at al l
B. the tribe could grow larger and life became steady
C. they did not move at all
D. they no longer went hunting
【解析】选B。

细节理解题。

根据文章最后一句The early tribe could grow in size because farming provided a way to feed people. 便知B项内容正确。

4. From the passage we can infer that___________.
A. early tribes liked moving from place to place
B. hunting was interesting in early days
C. the change from hunting to farming happened very quickly
D. life was hard and unsteady for early tribes
【解析】选D。

推理判断题。

从第一段中得知，“一个部落在某一地区居住一段时间后，食物量不断减少，该部落不得不搬到有更多食物的地方”；从第二段中得知，“他们主要靠幸运活下来，如果找不到野味(猎物)，整个部落会处于饿死的危险境地”，因此对早期的部落来说，生活是艰辛的，不稳定的。

Ⅲ. Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions.
1. How did early people get food?
_______________________________________________
2. What would happen if the early people failed to hunt?
_______________________________________________
3. Why did the early tribe become larger and larger？
_______________________________________________
答案: 1. By hunting animals and gathering grains.
2. The whole tribe would be in danger of starving.
3. Because farming provided a way to feed early people.。