2015年8月的最后一场GRE考试已经顺利的落下帷幕，紧接着就是9月份的考试紧锣密鼓的随之而来，那么如何高效的应该今后的GRE考试，并且获得不过的成绩呢?考生还需要从真题入手，了解一些出题的思路。以下就是2015年8月29日GRE长阅读真题，抢先看，希望对考生有所帮助。
长阅读
As to when the first people populated the American subcontinent is hotly debated.
Until recently, the Clovis people, based on evidence found in New Mexico, were
thought to have been the first to have arrived, some 13,000 years ago. Yet evidence
gathered from other sites suggest the Americas had been settled at least 1,000 years
prior to the Clovis. The "Clovis first" Idea, nonetheless, was treated as gospel, backed
by supporters who, at least initially, outright discounted any claims that suggested
precedence by non-Clovis people. While such a stance smacked of fanaticism,
proponents did have a solid claim: if the Clovis peoples crossed the Bering Strait
13,000 years ago, only after it had become ice-free, how would a people have been
able to make a similar trip but over ice?
A recent school of thought, backed by Weber, provides the following answer: pre-
Clovis people reached the Americas by relying on a sophisticated maritime culture,
which allowed them to take advantage of refugia, or small areas in which aquatic life
flourished. Thus they were able to make the long journey by hugging the coast as far
south as to what is today British Columbia. Additionally, they were believed to have
fashioned a primitive form of crampon so that they would be able to dock in these
refugia and avail themselves of the microfauna. Still, such a theory begs the question
as to how such a culture developed.
The Solutrean theory has been influential in answering this question, a fact that may
seem paradoxical--and startling—to those familiar with its line of reasoning: the
Clovis people were actually Solutreans, an ancient seafaring culture along the Iberian
peninsula, who had--astoundingly given the time period--crossed into the Americas
via the Atlantic ocean.
Could not a similar Siberian culture, If not the pre-Clovis themselves, have displayed
equal nautical sophistication?
Even if one subscribes to this line of reasoning, the “Clovis first” school still have an
objection: proponents of a pre-Clovis people rely solely on the Monte Verde site in
Chile, a site so far south that its location begs yet another question: What of the
6,000 miles of coastline between the ice corridor and Monte Verde? Besides remains
found in network of caves in Oregon, there has been scant evidence of a pre-Clovis
peoples. Nonetheless, Meade and Pizlnsky claim that a propitious geologic accident
could account for this discrepancy: Monte Verde was located near a peat bog that
essentially fossilized the village. Archaeologists uncovered two wooden stakes,
which, at one time, were used in twelve huts. Furthermore plant species associated
with areas 150 miles away were found, suggesting a trade network. These findings
indicate that the Clovis may not have been the first to people the Americas, yet more
excavation, both in Monte Verde and along the coast, must be conducted in order to
determine the extent of pre-Clovis settlements in the Americas.
It can be inferred from the passage that the reason the author finds the Solutrean hypothesis both startling and paradoxical is that
(A) ancient cultures were in most likelihood unable to develop such a sophisticated form of maritime transport that they were able to cross the Atlantic
(B) it supports the Clovis school of thought, and posits the existence of a capacity not commonly associated with ancient people
(C) the Clovis people had crossed from Siberia navigating across a difficult ice corridor, whereas the pre-Clovis people had sailed, with far less difficulty, across the Atlantic ocean
(D) it suggests that the pre-Clovis people had a way to circumvent the ice-corridor, yet were unlikely to have traveled as far south as modem day Chile
(E) it runs counter to one of the chief tenets of the "Clovis first" school of thought It can be most reasonably inferred from the passage that in regard to the manner in
which the Monte Verde village was preserved that
(A) unless evidence of other pre-Clovis people was fossilized the same way it was in Monte Verde, archaeologists will be unable to determine the extent of the settlement of pre-Clovis people
(B) major discoveries can sometimes result from random processes in the environment
(C) plant species can offer valuable dues into the origin of other pre-Clovis settlements
(D) sites dated from slightly after the period of the Clovis people did not offer archaeologists such a trove of information
(E) archaeologists are unlikely to find any other significant evidence of pre-Clovis people unless they venture as much as 150 miles from the site
If it is true that a trade network between pre-Clovis people had been established, then which of the following could be expected to be found at settlements near Monte Verde?
(A) Other villages that have been preserved in a peat bog
(B) Plants species similar to those uncovered at Monte Verde
(C) The same number of wooden stakes for supporting dwelling
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