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2022 台湾同等学力人员申请硕士学位考试考试 真题卷（5） 本卷共分为 1 大题 50 小题，作答时间为 180 分钟，总分 100 分， 60 分及格。 一、单项选择题（共50 题，每题 2 分。每题的备选项中，只有一 个最符合题意） 1.Passage Five The Vikings have left many traces of their settlement which are still visible today. Archaeology provides physical evidence of their conquests, settlement and daily life. The study of place names and language shows the lasting effect which the Viking settlements had in the British Isles, and DNA analysis provides some insights into the effect the Vikings had on the genetic stock of the countries where they settled. All of this provides valuable information, but the only reason that we have an idea of the Vikings as a people is their appearance in the written sources. Unfortunately, the value of the written evidence is limited. 第1页 共107页 Not a lot of evidence survives, and much of what we have is either uninformative or unreliable. Many popular ideas about Vikings are nineteenth-century inventions. Others are the result of early historians acceptin sources which modern scholars now regard as completely unreliable. In Scandinavia the Vikin Age is regarded as part of prehistory because there are practically no contemporary written sources. Even in western Europe, the Vikin Age is often seen as part of the Dark Ages, from which comparatively few historical records have survived. Survivin accounts of Vikin activity were almost exclusively written by clergymen (神职人员). These monastic chronicles (编年史) outline broadly what happened, at what date. There are also sources of a more directly religious nature, such as the much-quoted letters of Alcuin, and Wulfstan’s famous Sermon of the Wolf , both of which chose to interpret the Viking raids as God’s punishment on the Anglo-Saxons for their sins. Even the chronicles reflect the fact that the Vikings often attacked monasteries for their wealth