Climate change reveals ancientartefacts in Norway's glaciers 1 气候变化揭示了挪威冰川中的古代文物
14. an explanation for weapons being left behind in the mountains
D 部分
Hunters would have easily misplacedarrows and they often discarded broken bows rather thantake them all the way home.
15. a reference to the physical difficulties involved in an archaeologicalexpedition
C 部分第3段
“Fieldwork is hardwork - hiking with all our equipment, often camping onpermafrost
permafrost [ˈpɜːməfrɒst] 冻土
16. an explanation of why less food may have been available
F 部分第2段
A colderturn in the Scandinavian climate would likely have meant widespread crop failures
17. a reference to the possibility of future archaeological discoveries
H 部分
That means archaeologists could beextracting some of those artefacts from retreating icein years to come.
18. examples ofitems that would have been traded
G 部分
these recent discoveries show thatplenty of goods travelled on overland routes, like the mountain passes ofOppland. And growing Norwegian towns,along with export markets,would havecreated a booming demand for hides to fight offthe cold,as well as antlers to make usefulthings like combs.
hide [haɪd] n. 毛皮 antler [ˈæntlə(r)] 鹿角
19. a reference to the pressure archaeologists are under to work quickly
B 部分第1段
once thawedout, these materials experience degradation relativelyswiftly.
thaw [θɔː] v.解冻
degrade /dɪˈɡreɪd/ v.(使)退化；分解
degradation [ˌdeɡrəˈdeɪʃn]
B 部分第2段
If somethingfragile dries and is windblown it might very soon be lost to science, or an arrowmight be exposed and then covered again by thenext snow and remain well-preserved.
fragile [ˈfrædʒaɪl]脆弱的
词根 frag 打破,打碎
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