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If you didn’t know any better, you might mistake the Newark Earthworks in southern Ohio for the product of some giant heaven spi
If you didn’t know any better, you might mistake the Newark Earthworks in southern Ohio for the product of some giant heaven spi
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2017-01-15
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If you didn’t know any better, you might mistake the Newark Earthworks in southern Ohio for the product of some giant heaven spirit who went crazy with an Etch A Sketch. The Earthworks are actually a series of huge geometric mounds that anthropologists believe were created two millennia ago by ancestors of Native Americans called the Hopewell people. The most significant feature still standing is known as the Octagon(八角广场), which has 550-foot-long earthen walls and a footprint big enough to hold four Roman Colosseums(古罗马的圆形大剧场). The structure is connected, via two parallel embankments, to a perfect, 20-acre circle. Together the two shapes form a sophisticated astronomical observatory—scientists have discovered that the structure is precisely aligned with the 18.6-year lunar cycle’s northernmost moonrise. The residents of Newark will tell you that it is also precisely aligned with the ninth fairway at the private Moundbuilders Country Club.
The Earthworks are a National Historic Landmark, and they are under consideration for the UNESCO World Heritage list of cultural and natural wonders. But if you want to see them well, you’re too late. During the golf season, everyone but club members is kept out, except on four visiting days. Let’s not condemn the club so fast. The club, which since 1910 has occupied the Octagon and covered all maintenance costs, is widely credited with preventing the place from being plowed under. The issue is how to accommodate nonmembers who want more access, especially for Native American ceremonial purposes.
Most visitors end up seeing only a tiny part of the Octagon from a small observation deck. Or they can follow the asphalt cart path that winds past the swimming pool, an old tennis court, and a parking lot to reach a chain-link fence through which, off in the distance, they can glimpse the loaf-shaped mound known as the Observatory. Several years ago the financially strapped Ohio Historical Society, which owns the Earthworks, extended the club’s lease until 2078. If the World Heritage site nomination goes through, tourism would undoubtedly jump. That would certainly put more pressure on the club and historical society. One frequently suggested scenario is for the federal government to buy out the club and turn the Newark Earthworks into a national park.
Some people simply refuse to be intimidated by men wearing spiky(尖的)shoes and pastel(淡色的)shirts. Cherokee elder Barbara Crandell has climbed the Observatory to pray for more than two decades—but not once, the octogenarian is proud to point out, when the golf course has dictated. She goes when her heart calls. A few years ago, after Crandell, with the aid of a cane, made her way to the top, club officials showed up and asked her to leave. When she refused, she was arrested and later convicted of trespassing. Friends raised money and paid off her $883 fine and court costs in Sacagawea dollar coins.
According to Paragraph 3, the following claims are correct EXCEPT that______.
选项
A、most visitors can see only a tiny part of the Octagon
B、the loaf-shaped mound is far from the chain-link fence
C、it would put more pressure on the club if the nomination goes through
D、the only way to protect the place is that the government buys out the club
答案
D
解析
细节题。文章第三段提到这是一个被频繁建议的方案,而不是唯一的方法,所以[D]不符合文意,故为正确答案。[A]“大部分游客只能看见八角广场的一小部分”与本段第一句意思是相同的,故排除;[B]考查对该段第二句的理解,off in the distance是“在远处”的意思,所以[B]“条状土堤离那个铁丝网围栏很远”也是符合文意的,故排除;第三段倒数第三句和倒数第二句说,如果世界遗产名录的提名被通过,旅游业毫无疑问会快速发展,那一定会给俱乐部和历史协会带来更多的压力,所以[C]符合文意,故排除。
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