GMAT阅读长效提高自读材料(连载二).pdf

GMAT 阅读长效提高自读材料 (动物研究类) ——SWU 出品 1 GMAT 阅读长效提高自读材料 目 录 前言 3 材料一：老鼠化石研究 4 材料二：爬行动物蛇的研究 5 材料三：猛兽灭绝 6 材料四：蟾蜍和青蛙 7 材料五：甲壳虫特点 8 2 GMAT 阅读长效提高自读材料 前言 GMAT 考试中，阅读所占的分量举足轻重。阅读的答题准确率不在于一时半会的速 成，而是取决于长期的累积。一个优秀的阅读答题者，甚至英语学习者都是在长期的学 习中总结出经验和技巧。为了帮助GMAT 备考考生更好得提高阅读和应试能力，并应对 相关资料不足的情况，我们推出此套阅读长效提高资料，这些材料均选自GMAT 考试原 始基金或者GWD 模拟题中，都是最贴近考试类型的材料。GMAT 的考试阅读原文也类 似于本册编选的材料。 此套阅读材料，建议考生在使用的时候，在阅读的同时要理解其大意和内涵，充分 利用好每一篇文章。我们将不定期为备考考生推出多套阅读材料，并以连载的形式呈现 给大家。 由于编者水平有限，不足之处恳请指正。同时，希望备考的考生都顺利通过考试！ 3 GMAT 阅读长效提高自读材料 材料一：老鼠化石研究 An international team of researchers, led by Dr Janet Wilmshurst from Landcare Research, spent 4 years on the project which shows conclusively that the earliest evidence for human colonisation is about 1280-1300 AD, and no earlier. They based their results on new radiocarbon dating of Pacific rat bones and rat-gnawed seeds. Their results do not support previous radiocarbon dating of Pacific rat bones which implied a much earlier human contact about 200 BC. The original old rat bones dates have been hotly debated ever since they were published in Nature in 1996. The ages are controversial because there is no supporting ecological or archaeological evidence for the presence of kiore or humans until 1280-1300 AD and the reliability of the bone dating has been questioned. This is the first time that the actual sites involved in the original study have been re-excavated and analyzed. Dr Wilmshurst and her team researchers re-excavated and re-d