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听力（共两节，满分阅读理解（共两节，满分15小题：每小题
30 分）(略)
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A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡
2分，满分
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（上将该项涂黑。
A
In my very first job with some archaeologists, I wasn’t digging objects out of the ground, inste was
employed as an artist, drawing what they found. However, I was soon more interested in the stories behind the objects than in drawing them and that
’s how my career in archaeology started. I still draw what I find in my
work as a specialist on the Silk Road, the old trade route running from Egypt to Mongolia, and I also work on some underwater projects too.
In archaeology, my all-time hero is an American called Raphael Pumpelly. I first heard about him
when I was a student on a trip to Turkmenistan, a country right in the heart of Asia. To get around the country, I had to learn Russian so that I could speak to the local people. When I got there I thought, the first Americans here!
” Then an old man told me about an American archaeologist, Raphael Pumpelly, who
was there doing the same thing over 100 years ago.
Archaeology
’s in my family. My wife
’s in the same profession, and, although our two boys aren
’ve been on some great digs together and they love what
interested in the future in archaeology themselves, we
we do because they get to travel with us. Last summer, we took them to Lake Titicaca in South America, in the high areas of the Andes mountain range. My best experience was when I was digging on the Egyptian Red Sea coast. There
’s very little rain and it
’s so dry that everything is kept as it was. In an old house, where th
used to store goods from the ships that came in, I picked up a 700-year-old mat in front of the house and there, under it, after all that time, was the house key with the ownerway home any minute! And I thought,
’s name carved on it. It felt like he could be on his
’s not much different to me!
“Hey, I do just that. This man
21. While working in Egypt, what did the writer find so interesting? A. That people from different centuries can be so similar.
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重庆南开中学2019届高三上学期第一次月考英语
