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　　一、段落大意

　　P1. 文章讨论的是Australia的某个地方有一种shell mounds，一个专有名词，a打头的。这个一直是考古学家考察的一个热点，然后说考古学家认为这个shell mounds是早期人们为了dry campsites in late wet season吧，而且为close to camps for their resources。

　　P2. 是对这个观点表示怀疑，讲其实这种a打头的shell很sensitive,会受到环境、温度等的影响，所以其实为了dry campsites in late wet season是不对的。因此怀疑shell会不会因为季节的变化会变地方，因此mounds是不是应该在不同的地方呢?而且应该在不同的mounds有differences,同一个cluster里的mounds内部环境也应该不同，同一个mounds里面应该也有不同的shell。但结果发现并没有不同。

　　二、题目

　　Q1. 问文中所说的某个地区的人的特点是什麽?

　　我选的是那些人喜欢还是盛产一种shell(就是a打头的那个)。

　　三、备注

　　不长，两段，三个题。

　　之前那位考古的同学找到的文章挺对的，尤其是第二段。

　　四、疑似原文

　　Old Boundaries and New Horizons: The Weipa Shell Mounds Reconsidered.

　　Based on Bailey's research it is clear that the mounds are commonly composed of over 90% of the cockle shell, Anadara granosa, a claim that is partially supported by my own recent fieldwork on mound groups on the north Mission River (Morrison 2001. See Figure 1). Mounds have been noted to occur in a variety of locations including within mangrove forests, on exposed sand dunes and beach ridges, but more commonly on the fringes of Eucalyptus tetradonta woodlands and on open samphire plains and saltpans. In terms of their physical nature, the mounds range from as low as 0.20 m in height through to massive, almost monumental ridges of shell several hundred metres long and up to 13 metres high. More commonly mounds are around 2-6 metres in height, and occur as parts of clusters containing up to 15 other mounds.

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　　Bailey has consistently argued that shell mounds were the result of small groups of people exploiting the local environment on a yearly basis during the late wet season He suggested that these groups deposited shell in mounds in order to provide themselves with dry campsites that were above the waterlogged or flooded ground common in coastal areas during the late wet season. He believed that mound distribution was determined by the desire of people to camp as close as possible to the resources they were using. However, it was the way these groups adapted to prevailing environmental conditions that influenced precisely where they would camp. For example, he hypothesised that if the weather was windy and stormy people would retreat to shell mounds that were slightly more inland, on the fringes of the Eucalyptus tetradonta woodlands. Conversely, during fine weather these groups would move out onto the saltpans and coastal plains, occupying mounds closer to the resources they were exploiting.

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　　我又看了看Shell Mounds的寂静(考古部分的文章)，内容很像，第一段有这句He believed that mound distribution was determined by the desire ofpeople to camp as close as possible to the resources they were using. 但是考试中第二段是作者在说如果Shell Mounds是由于人长期居住或者是不断迁移的话，应该有痕迹。但是却没有这样的证据。