托福阅读真题+题目+答案：The Beginnings of Agriculture

托福阅读真题+题目+答案：The Beginnings of Agriculture

After the end of the last ice age, humans who had lived by hunting and gathering began to grow plants deliberately and domesticate wild animals for food-the beginning of agriculture. This change in how human communities supported themselves is known as the Neolithic Revolution. In the Near East, some grains, legumes, and animals were domesticated as long as eleven thousand years ago (about 9000 B.C.). In Europe, there is evidence that farming began being practiced in parts of Greece and Bulgaria about 5500 B.C., but it did not reach western Europe until later.

1.The word “deliberately” in the passage is closest in meaning to

A.as a group

B.in large quantities

C.on purpose

D.with great success

2.According to paragraph 1, which of the following best characterizes the Neolithic Revolution?

A.Humans lived by gathering wild plants and hunting wild animals.

B.People significantly improved their techniques for hunting animals and gathering wild plants.

C.Plants and animals were domesticated for the first time.

D.People migrated with plants and animals from the Near East to western Europe.

We do not know exactly why humans first began to domesticate and cultivate wild foods. Perhaps humans who had become settled in one area did not want to migrate as the climate warmed; instead of moving to where their preferred sources of food were more abundant, they sought to increase the availability of these foods in their own area. Another possibility is that mortality decreased in some communities as they became more settled, leading to population explosions that caused people to look for ways of increasing the food supply. Some agricultural techniques may have developed gradually over a long period of time, as people intervened more and more in the wild environment, for example, by fencing in the animals they hunted or weeding out plants they did not like. When crises occurred, they responded by exploiting these techniques more intensively.

3.According to paragraph 2, people may have reacted to the warming of the climate by

A.staying where they had settled

B.looking for new kinds of wild foods to eat

C.developing new ways to prepare foods for eating

D.growing plants that they previously did not like

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