2. 考研
  3. 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

admin2011-02-25  45
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/plZ4777K
0

考研英语一

相关试题推荐
随机试题
最新回复(0)