首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Our visit to the excavation of a Roman fort on a hill near Coventry was of more than archaeological interest. The year’s dig had
Our visit to the excavation of a Roman fort on a hill near Coventry was of more than archaeological interest. The year’s dig had
admin
2013-01-25
56
问题
Our visit to the excavation of a Roman fort on a hill near Coventry was of more than archaeological interest. The year’s dig had been a fruitful one and had assembled evidence of a permanent military camp much larger than had at first been conjectured. We were greeted on the site by a group of excavators, some of them filling in a trench that had yielded an almost complete pot the day before, others enjoying the last-day luxury of a cigarette in the sun, but all happy to explain and talk about their work. If we had not already known it, nothing would have suggested that this was a party of prisoners from the nearby prison. This is not the first time that prison labor has been used in work of this kind, but here the experiment, now two years old, has proved outstandingly satisfactory.
From the archaeologists’ point of view, prisoners provide a steady force of disciplined labor throughout the entire season, men to whom it is a serious day’s work, and not the rather carefree holiday job that it tends to be for the amateur archaeologist. Newcomers are comparatively few, and can soon be initiated by those already trained in the work. Prisoners may also be more accustomed to heavy work like shoveling and carting soil than the majority of students. When Coventry’s Keeper of Archaeology went to the prison to appeal for help, he was received cautiously by the men, but when the importance of the work was fully understood, far more volunteers were forthcoming than could actually be employed. When they got to work on the site, and their efforts produced pottery and building foundations in what until last year had been an ordinary field, their enthusiasm grew till they would sometimes work through their lunch hour and tea break, and even carry on in the rain rather than sit it out in the hut. This was undoubtedly because the work was not only strenuous but absorbing, and called for considerable intelligence. The men worked always under professional supervision, but as the season went on they needed less guidance and knew when an expert should be summoned. Disciplinary problems were negligible: the men were carefully selected for their good conduct and working on a party like this was too valuable a privilege to be thrown away.
The Keeper of Archaeology said that this was by far the most satisfactory form of labor that he had ever had, and that it had produced results, in quantity and quality, that could not have been achieved by any other means.
The visit to the excavation site was
选项
A、of purely archaeological interest.
B、fruitful because a complete pot was discovered.
C、interesting in more than one way.
D、made by a group of prisoners.
答案
C
解析
事实细节题。由文章首段首句可知.作者参观挖掘点不仅仅是出于对考古学本身的兴趣。故[C]正确。[A]与原文相反,故不选;该段第二句谈到一年以来的挖掘是fruitful的,但题干问的是有关the visit的信息,而不是问挖掘工作的结果,故排除[B];由文意可知,去参观的人是“我们”,犯人是在那里劳动的,故[D]错误。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/idp4777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Earthquakebeltsare______.Whatisthemostappropriatetitleforthepassage?
Earthquakebeltsare______.WhatcanbesaidabouttheexperimentsatRockyMountainArsenal?
Whattheauthormainlyintendstosayinthefirstparagraphis______.Thispassageismainlyabout______.
Inthefollowingtext,somesentenceshavebeenremoved.ForQuestions41-45,choosethemostsuitableonefromthelist(A、B、C、
Themostgeneraldefinitionthatcanbegiven,is,thatthePhilosophyofHistorymeansnothingbutthethoughtfulconsideration
Inanidealworld,thenation’seliteschoolswouldenrollthemostqualifiedstudents.Butthat’snothowit(1)_____.Applican
OneofgoalssetbytheEuropeanUnion’sLisbonsummitis______.WhichofthefollowingisTRUEaccordingtothetext?
OneofgoalssetbytheEuropeanUnion’sLisbonsummitis______.AccordingtowhatisbeyondtheabilityofEurope’sfirmsnow
Forthefirsttimeindecades,doctorshavebegunmakingmajorchangesinthetreatmentoflungcancer,basedonresearchprovin
Forthefirsttimeindecades,doctorshavebegunmakingmajorchangesinthetreatmentoflungcancer,basedonresearchprovin
随机试题
直接管理是工程项目管理组织体系的一个子系统,其主要内容包括()
下列项目中,不符合现金流量表中现金概念的是( )。
某员工将一块青铜塑造成门锁柄,所得价值为21美元,又将其塑造成一件工艺品,所得价值为28万美元,其中所体现的是()。
庙底沟类型以河南__________和陕西__________出土的彩陶为代表。
Goodmannersrepresentourvaluesconcerningsocialstyle.Mannerssignalourrespectforotherpeopleandareessentialingai
Clerk:Jack’sWateringHole.Caller:Oh,I’mcallingabouttheadforandesigner,______?Clerk:Yes,itis.Whatkindofexp
自我防御机制
Respectisyourabilitytoempathizewithanotherhumanbeing,despitecontrastingopinions,values,orlifestyles.Beingablet
WhatwillthewomandoonFriday?
_____foralongtime,thefieldsarealldriedup.
最新回复
(
0
)