His people said good-bye and watched him walk off toward the mountains. They had little reason to fear for his safety: the man was well dressed in insulated clothing and equipped with tools needed to survive the Alpine climate. However, as weeks passed without his return, they must have grown worried, then anxious, and finally resigned. After many years everyone who knew him had died, and a note even a memory of the man remained.
Then, on an improbably distant day, he came down from the mountain. Things had changed a bit: it wasn't the Bronze Age anymore, and he was a celebrity.
When a melting glacier released its hold on a 4,000-year-old corpse in September, it was quite rightly called one of the most important archeological finds of the century. Discovered by a German couple hiking at 10,500 feet in the Italian Tyrol near the Austrian border, the partially freeze-dried body still wore remnants of leather garments and boots that had been stuffed with straw for insulation. The hikers alerted scientists from the University of Innsbruck in Austria, whose more complete examination revealed that the man was tattooed on his back and behind his knee. At his side was a bronze ax of a type typical in southern central Europe around 2000 BC. On his expedition perhaps to hunt or to search for metal ore--he had also carried an all-purpose stone knife, a wooden backpack, a bow and a quiver, a small bag containing a flint lighter and kindling, and an arrow repair kit in a leather pouch.
Such everyday gear gives an unprecedented perspective on life in early Bronze Age Europe. "The most exciting thing is that we genuinely appear to be looking at a man who had some kind of accident in the course of a perfectly ordinary trip," says archeologist Ian Kinnes of the British Museum. "These are not artifacts placed in a grave, but the fellow's own possessions. "
Unlike the Egyptians and Mesopotamians of the time, who had more advanced civilizations with cities and central authority, the Ice Man and his countrymen lived in a society built around small, stable villages. He probably spoke in a tongue ancestral to current European languages. Furthermore, though he was a member of a farming culture, he may well have been hunting when he died, to add meat to his family's diet. X-rays of the quiver showed that it contained 14 arrows. While his backpack was empty, careful exploration of the trench where he died revealed remnants of animal skin and bones at the same spot where the pack lay. There was also the remainder of a pile of berries. Clearly the man didn't starve to death.
The trench provided him so with shelter from the elements, and he also had a braided mat of grass to keep him warm. If injury or illness caused the Ice Man's death, an autopsy on the 4,000-year-old victim could turn up some clues. The circumstances of his death may have preserved such evidence, as well as other details of his life.

单选题 The author describes what happened to the Ice Man and how his friends and family felt about his loss in paragraph 1 in order to ______.
A. tell the readers a true story about the Ice Man and his family
B. tell the readers about the cause of the Ice Man's death
C. provide some information about the life 4,000 years ago
D. introduce some background to the Ice Man in a vivid way

单选题 The word "resign" in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. give up B. stop work C. leave away D. take off

单选题 According to paragraph 2, in stating that "he came down from the mountain" the author means ______.
A. the Ice Man walked down from the mountain
B. the Ice Man woke up in the mountain
C. the Ice Man's body was brought down from the mountain
D. the Ice Man was dead while walking down the mountain

单选题 According to paragraph 3, when the Ice Man was found, he was wearing ______.
A. insulated clothing and tools made of stone
B. clothes made of leather and boots filled with straw
C. garments and boots made of animal skins
D. cotton clothes and boots made of leather

单选题 The word "whose" in paragraph 3 refers to the ______.
A. Ice Man B. scientists C. hikers D. leather garments.

单选题 Which of the following can be inferred from Paragraph 3 about the Ice Man?
A. He lived in a very poor condition.
B. He was on his expedition to search for metal ore.
C. The scientists have no idea about why he was out.
D. The natural environment was very harsh for him.

单选题 According to Ian Kinnes, the unique value of the Ice Man is ______.
A. he has been buried in ice for 4,000 years
B. he lived in early Bronze Age Europe
C. his death was caused by some kind of accident
D. his belongings reflect the everyday life 4,000 years ago

单选题 The word "tongue" in paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to the Ice Man's ______.
A. mouth B. accent
C. style D. language

单选题 Look at the four squares, , , and

单选题 According to paragraph 6, the author uses "such evidence" to refer to ______.
A. proof of how the Ice Man died
B. clues to how the Ice Man died
C. theories describing how the Ice Man may have died
D. the circumstances in which the Ice Man lived

单选题 Paragraph 7 discusses the study of the Ice Man's DNA, which includes all of the following EXCEPT ______.
A. the hot TV lights thrown on the body may damage its tissues
B. he is only a single individual and more specimens are needed
C. scientists are very optimistic about his genetic information
D. the DNA sequences will be the most valuable part of the discovery

单选题 The author believes that more messengers from the past can be got because ______.
A. four more Ice Men were found in Austrian
B. melting ice due to the warmer climate may reveal something
C. there will be more and more people looking for them
D. scientists have invented more advanced technologies to find them

填空题 Directions: Complete the table below about the Ice Man discussed in the passage. This question is worth 3 points.
Location
·______
Finders
·______
Study Results
·______
·______
·______

A. The Ice Man was discovered by two hikers.
B. It is certain that his death was not caused by starvation.
C. The Ice Man was found in Italy.
D. There were many everyday apparatus at his side.
E. The Ice Man was discovered in Austrian.

F. The Ice Man lived in around 2000 BC.

G. A long DNA sequence of him was recovered.