安徽省舒城中学2015-2016学年高一英语下学期第四(6)

B. no quartz can be found in recent times

C. quartz can fell people rocks, geological time

D. the sequences of rocks differ from area to area

31. Which of the following is Smith's greatest achievement?

A. He drew many maps of strata. B. He used fossils to identify strata.

D. He was the creator of modern C. He built a lot of canals in England.

geology.

D

Try to imagine a world without noodles and you may begin to realize just how widespread this thin, tasty food has become. Discoveries in archaeology(考古学) have proven it to be a surprisingly ancient food, dating back at least to 4000 B. C. Not surprisingly, however, given the noodle's widespread appeal and high status in more than a few culinary(烹任的) traditions, the claim(声称) to its invention is often a hotly discussed subject.

Many peoples have laid claim to its origination. Historically, both Italy and the Middle East have particularly battled for the title. Italian cooking is closely connected with the pasta noodle, but surprisingly the oldest recorded use of noodles in Italy only dates back to the 8th century, during the Arab conquest of Sicily, an island of Italy. This fact, along with the appearance of wheat flour in the Middle East around 5000 B. C., has led some to favor the Arab world as the more likely one to have first created noodles. However, recent evidence has cast some doubt on this theory, when the oldest known bowl of noodles was discovered in northwestern China.

In 2002, a sealed bowl was unearthed from beneath ten feet of soil at the Lajia archaeological site, and found to contain a bowl of amazingly well-preserved(保存完好的) noodles. After examination, scientists considered them to be about 4,000 years old. It was also determined that the noodles were not made of the wheat flour known at that time throughout the Middle East, but instead of two types of millet grain, which was widely grown throughout China as far back as 7,000 years ago.

One of the most remarkable aspects (方面) of the finding, however, as archaeochemist Patrick McGovern at the University of Pennsylvania points out, is the degree of skill required to fashion long, thin noodles like those found at Lajia. “This shows a fairly high level of food processing and culinary techniques,” he said.

Although the Lajia discovery makes China home to the oldest known noodles, the origin of the noodle itself remains one of ancient history's many secrets.

32. There has been a worldwide debate over_____.

A. what food is the oldest

popular food

33. What can we conclude from Paragraph 2 ? B. where the noodle was invented D. whether the noodle is the world's most C. when the oldest food was discovered