B.The quality of the amphorae used at the port was not very good.

　　C.The scale of the trade made it possible to waste quality amphorae sometimes.

　　D.The importing of oil from overseas gradually declined, reducing the need for potterycontainers.

　　10.The statement that "maps show the various spots where Roman pottery ofaparticular type has been found tell only part of the story" makes the point that

　　A.maps indicate where specific pottery styles have been found, but they do not indicatewhere these styles originated.

　　B.maps show the geographical spread of Roman pottery but not the people who had accessto it.

　　C.maps do not usually include pottery styles found in the remotest regions the Roman Empire.

　　D.archaeologist studying Roman pottery need to use a range of techniques in theirinvestigations.

　　11.The word "humble" in the passage is closest in meaning to

　　A.rural.

　　B.distant.

　　C.ancient.

　　D.modest.

　　12.The word "particular" in the passage is closest in meaning to

　　A.specific.

　　B.common.

　　C.ancient.

　　D.superior.

　　13. Look at the four squares [■] that indicate where the following sentence could beadded to the passage. Where would the sentence best fit? That is because residents ofa city did not usually discard used pottery at the same site over a long period of time.

　　■【A】Only rarely can we derive any "real" quantities from deposits of brokenpots. ■【B】However, there is one exceptional dump, which does represent a very large part of thesite's total history of consumption and for which an estimate of quantity has been produced. ■【C】On the left bank of the Tiber River in Rome, by one of the river ports of the ancient city,is a substantial hill some 50 meters high called Monte Testaccio. ■【D】It is made up entirely ofbroken oil amphorae, mainly of the second and third centuries A.D. It has been estimated thatMonte Testaccio contains the remains of some 53 million amphorae, in which around 6,000million liters of oil were imported into the city from overseas,imports into imperial Rome weresupported by the full might of the state and were therefore quite exceptional- but the size ofthe operations at Monte Testaccio, and the productivity and complexity that lay behindthem,nonetheless cannot fail to impress. This was a society with similarities to modernone-moving goods on a gigantic scal, manufacturing high-quality containers to do so, andoccasionally, as here, even discarding them on delivery.

　　14. Directions: An introductory sentence for a brief summary of the passage isprovided below. Complete the summary by selecting the THREE answer choices thatexpress the most important ideas in the passage. Some sentences do not belong in thesummary because they express ideas that are not presented in the passage or areminor ideas in the passage. This question is worth 2 points.

　　The pottery of the ancient RomanEmpire is remarkable.

　　A.Roman pottery is considered to be practical and of consistently high quality.

　　B.Roman pottery was transported over long distances, and different levels of society hadaccess to quality pottery.

　　C.Archaeologists looking for the remains of Roman pottery concentrate on urban sitesbecause that is where the oldest pieces of kitchenware and amphorae have been found.

　　D.Even though the exact quantity of pottery produced by the Romans is almost impossibleto calculate, it is certain that is was produced in large quantities.

　　E.People are not familiar with the whole range of pottery of Romans created because most ofthe available pieces represent only a limited number of styles and shapes.

　　F.It is still unclear to archaeologists what the role of the Roman state in the commercialsuccess of Roman pottery was.

　　tpo29閱讀答案

　　1.對應原文第二句。A原文并沒有對amphorae和pottery的比較。C原文提到了快速轉輪和燒窯的使用，但并沒說因此陶器質量就下降了。D提到了陶器在Mediterranean的廣泛使用，但是沒有種類間的比較。

　　2.只有C和原文的描寫沖突。

　　3.四個選項分別對應紅色標記部分。D選項對應的最后一句和原文矛盾，原文說一眼看上去這個pot是非?，F代化的。但實際很古老了。因此its true age并不明顯。D錯誤。

　　4.這一段的主題就是第一句，強調了massive quantity。因此后面提到work of archaelogists也是為了支持這個主題。因此選A。

　　5.Substantial是大量的，實質的等意。A是保護的;B是人工的;D是著名的。只有C是大的。所以選擇C。而且這里也描述了50 meters high也是描述了它的大小。所以應選擇與大小有關的。

　　6.這里介紹Monte Testaccil是在支持本段的論點。回到原文這段的第一句可以看到原文說"很難通過brokenpot來確定那個時期的pot產量，而Monte Testaccil確實個例外。所以也就是說可以通過這個dump遺址得到當時的quantities。選C

　　7.Entirely是完全的，整個的。A是明顯的，B是完全的，C是基本的，D是大部分的。這里B最符合。

　　8.根據Tiber River定位，看到后面的描述說around 6000 million liters of oil were imported into cityform oversea。那么也就是說當時的進出口貿易非常繁華。對應答案D。

　　9.根據原文discarded定位到原文最后一句。如同現代工業社會一樣，大量生產和需求，但是背后的生產力并不能滿足之類的。所以在運送的時候也是如此。有時大量運送就難免會有打碎的。因此選擇C。A原文沒提到;B原文也沒說，而且前文一直在說pot都是high quality的。D這里也沒說到oil和pottery的關系。

　　10.這里說Map只是tell part of the story，那么證明能得到roman pottery的不僅是map描畫的范圍，應該會有更大的范圍;從而來支持這一段的中心句，over substantial distances。A選項錯誤，styles是從羅馬來的。C，D跟原文也沒關系。而B符合，說maps在一定程度上說明了羅馬陶器的地理散播，但并不是所有能得到陶器的人。

　　11.Humble謙虛的，簡陋的。也可以通過and的并列形式推斷詞義，后面是isolated，與世隔絕的，那么也可以引申為，偏遠的，落后的。所以humble應該是相近的意思。此處A是干擾項，鄉村的，田園的。但是少了簡陋那層意思。用D最合適。

　　12.Particular特別的，特指的。A是特別的，符合原文意思。這里也說得是什么的類型?？梢砸勒丈衔耐茢?。B是常見的，C是原始的，D是先進的。

　　13.這里要插入的句子中出現了that is because，那么that肯定是指代了前文的某個現象，然后用要插入的這句話進行解釋。句子第一句說，很少有遺址可以表明這種陶器的產量，第二局說但是有一個例外。那么應該是先解釋原因，再說例外的情況。That指代的就是第一句話描述的現象。因此插入第二個空。

　　14.A、B正確，對應文章第一段和第二段，第一段重點說high quality，第二段說不僅是審美考慮也是practical的。E正確，對于原文最后一段。