雅思阅读真题解析-剑16Test2Passage1-The White Horse of Uffington-填空题​

　雅思阅读真题解析-剑16Test2Passage1-The White Horse of Uffington-填空题?

　　整体分析

　　GR

　　文章Q1-8是判断题，Q9-13是填空题。我们先做填空，再做判断题。

　　填空题

　　Choose ONE WORD ONLYfrom the passage for each answer.

　　字数限制：最多只能写一个单词。

　　The Uffington White Horse

　　题目标题和文章标题一样，所以没什么用，记得标题中的词不能划定位词即可。

　　Q9

　　The location of the Uffington White Horse:

　　.a distance of 2.5 km from Uffington village

　　.near an ancient road known as the 9................

　　.close to an ancient cemetery that has a number of burial mounds

　　分析

　　上述内容可以划定位词的有2.5km, ancient road, ancient cemetery和burial mounds。空格前面是known as 【叫作】后边加名称，既然是道路的名称，所以是专有名词，所以这个名称很有可能是大写。

　　定位

　　4The Uffington White Horse is a unique, stylised representation of a horse consisting of a long, sleek back, thin disjointed legs, a streaming tail, and a bird-like beaked head. The elegant creature almost melts into the landscape. The horse is situated 2.5 km from Uffington village on a steep slope close to the Late Bronze Age* (c. 7th century BCE) hillfort of Uffington Castle and below the Ridgeway, a long-distance Neolithic** track.

　　答案

　　这段中出现了定位词2.5km,我们找表示道路名称的词即可。这句话有close to 【与...离得近】和below 【在...之下】都可以对应第9题题干中的near【在...附近】。close to 后边是Late Bronze Age， 这里是三个单词，肯定不行，其次age【时期】和题干的road对应不上，我们要找的是道路的名称。后半句的below后边是Ridgeway，这个词本身包含way【道路】，而且它后边的插入语说明它是一个track【小道】，所以答案是Ridgeway。

　　Q10

　　Dating the Uffington White Horse:

　　.first reference to White Horse Hill appears in 10 ................from the 1070s

　　分析

　　题干中可以划定位词的有1070s,这个数字在原文中可能是原数字，也有可能是1070-1079的任一一个年份。空格前面是appears in【在...里出现】，这句开头说的是first reference 【第 一次提及】，说明空格应该1070s这个时代留下来的记录。

　　定位

　　6  The earliest evidence of a horse at Uffington is from the 1070s CE when ‘White Horse Hill’is mentioned in documents from the nearby Abbey of Abingdon, and the first reference to the horse itself is soon after, in 1190 CE. However, the carving is believed to date back much further than that. Due to the similarity of the Uffington White Horse to the stylised depictions of horses on 1st century BCE coins, it had been thought that the creature must also date to that period.

　　答案

　　这一段中1070s出现在第 一句，这句中的is mentioned【被提到】对应题干中的reference， 这句中的The earliest对应题干中的first，所以我们在这句中找出跟记录相关的名词就可以。不难发现这句中跟着in出现的是documents 【文件】，所以答案就是这个词。我们用Word的时候，保存的文件一般以doc或docx结尾，这里的doc就来自于document【文件】这个词。

　　是word没错了

　　Q11

　　.horses shown on coins from the period 100 BCE - 1 BCE are similar in appearance

　　.according to analysis of the surrounding 11 ................ the Horse is Late Bronze Age / Early Iron Age

　　分析

　　题干中可以划定位词的有coins, 100 BCE - 1 BCE和Late Bronze Age / Early Iron Age。空格左边是surrounding【周围的；环绕着...的】,所以空格应该填写具体的东西或者面积比较广的东西。

　　定位

　　7However, in 1995 Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) testing was carried out by the Oxford Archaeological Unit on soil from two of the lower layers of the horse’s body, and from another cut near the base. The result was a date for the horse’s construction somewhere between 1400 and 600 BCE - in other words, it had a Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age origin.

　　答案

　　题干中的Late Bronze Age / Early Iron Age出现在最后一句，这句话里没有跟题干中的surrounding和analysis对应的词，这句开头是result【结果】，所以analysis【分析】很有可能在前一句。前一句中的testing【测试；检测】对应题干中的analysis；...from two of the lower layers【下方两层】和...from another cut near the base 【接近地基的另一个...】这个对应surrounding，也就是这个horse上下方都有东西包围着它。所以跟这两个短语挨着的词就只剩soil【土壤】这个词了，结合surrounding soil【周围的土壤】,是符合我们一开始的推测，答案是soil。

　　Q12

　　Possible reasons for creation of the Uffington White Horse:

　　.an emblem to indicate land ownership

　　.formed part of an ancient ritual

　　.was a representation of goddess Epona - associated with protection of horses and 12..............

　　分析

　　小黑点之间是并列的关系，一般对应并列的句子。题干中可以划定位词的有ownership, ancient ritual和goddess Epona。空格左边是protection of horses, 这个内容跟空格是并列关系。这里可能出现两种情况，空格可能是跟protection of horses并列的短语，也有可能是跟horses并列的另一个名词。既然空格只能写一个单词，所以这里只能是第二种情况，即protection of horses and (什么)。

　　定位

　　8The latter end of this date range would tie the carving of the horse in with occupation of the nearby Uffington hillfort, indicating that it may represent a tribal emblem marking the land of the inhabitants of the hillfort. Alternatively, the carving may have been carried out during a Bronze or Iron Age ritual. Some researchers see the horse as representing the Celtic*** horse goddess Epona, who was worshipped as a protector of horses, and for her associations with fertility...

　　答案

　　这段第3句出现了定位词Epona, 后边的protector对应题干中的protection我们找出跟horse并列的名词就可以。and后边的名词有associations 和fertility。一般-ment, -ion和-ing结尾的名词是表示行为的名词，我们这里需要的是受保护的东西，而不是行为，所以答案只能是fertility【生育】。

　　Q13

　　.was a representation of a Welsh goddess called 13 ................

　　分析

　　题干中可以划的定位词有Welsh goddess，空格应该写这个女神的名称，所以答案很有可能是大写。

　　定位

　　8...However, the cult of Epona was not imported from Gaul (France) until around the first century CE. This date is at least six centuries after the Uffington Horse was probably carved. Nevertheless, the horse had great ritual and economic significance during the Bronze and Iron Ages, as attested by its depictions on jewellery and other metal objects. It is possible that the carving represents a goddess in native mythology, such as Rhiannon, described in later Welsh mythology as a beautiful woman dressed in gold and riding a white horse.

　　答案

　　这段中的最后一句出现了定位词Welsh，这句话里表示名称的词是Rhiannon,后半句的插入语中beautiful woman对应题干中的goddess，所以答案就是Rhinanon。