【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[听力原文]
Pompeii was an ancient city on the southwestern coast of Italy, on the Bay of Naples. It was founded in the 7th century B. C. by a tribe called the Oscans. Later other peoples—Estruscans, Samnites, and Greeks—settled there. In the 1st century B.C. Pompeii was taken over by the Romans.
On August 24 in the year A. D. 79 the volcano Vesuvius, located about 5 miles north of Pompeii, suddenly came alive. Dark clouds, hot cinders and ash, and poisonous gases poured from its cone. The terrifying eruption buried Pompeii beneath 10 to 20 feet of cinders and volcanic ash, killing 2,000 of its more than 20,000 inhabitants and sealing up their homes with the furniture and other belongings inside. The nearby towns of Herculaneum and Stabiac were also destroyed in the eruption. In a matter of 2 days the once flourishing seaside city, where many wealthy Romans had their country homes, disappeared. It lay buried nearly 2,000 years.
In 1748 Charles III, King of Naples and Sicily, ordered the digging out of Pompeii to begin. He hoped that this excavation would uncover treasure to enrich his archaeological collection. Since then, almost all the city has come to light. Most ancient cities either have died of old age or were robbed and destroyed by their conquerors. Pompeii was struck down in one swift blow by a natural disaster.
Today, when you go to Pompeii, you see not a heap of ruins but streets with paving stones worn by chariot wheels, well-preserved buildings, wine shops, and restaurants. Some walls are scratched with Latin phrases praising or abusing the wine and food or advertising fights between gladiators in the arena.
Many of the rich country homes and their gardens with ornamental pools can still be seen. The gateways were often guarded by dogs. One unfortunate beast was left tied to a gatepost by a master so anxious to escape that he forgot his pet. In another house an unfinished meal was left on a table when guests fled for their lives. There was little time for citizens to remove their valuables. In the crush near the city gates many inhabitants were choked to death by the poisonous gases. The imprint of their bodies remains in the hardened volcanic ash.
Most of the art treasures, cooking utensils, household furnishings, arid implements from Pompeii and Herculaneum are on view in the Naples National Museum. All these articles have been so well preserved that archaeologists are able to piece together in a remarkable way what everyday life was like in Roman times 2,000 years ago.

【正确答案】 A

【正确答案】 B

【正确答案】 B

【正确答案】 A