The oldest building
On a
hillside at Chichibu, north of Tokyo, Japanese archaeologists
have uncovered the (0)
...
A. clues
B. leftovers
C. remains
D. extras
of what is believed to be the world's oldest (1)
...
A. unnatural
B. fake
C. synthetic
D. artificial
structure. The structure was discovered during the construction
of a park. The site has been (2)
...
A. dated
B. aged
C. calculated
D. estimated
to half a million years ago, (3)
...
A. following
B. according
C. saying
D. mentioning
to a report in a scientific magazine. The structure consists of
what appear to be 10 post holes, which form two irregular pentagons. These could be the remains of two huts. A (4)
...
A. number
B. few
C. figure
D. sum
of stone tools were also found
scattered
around the site. It is believed that the shelter was built by
an (5)
...
A. old
B. elderly
C. antique
D. ancient
ancestor of humans, Homo erectus, who is known to have (6)
...
A. employed
B. used
C. handled
D. handed
stone tools. The remains of these huts could help to (7)
...
A. explain
B. inform
C. argue
D. answer
how Homo erectus lived and hunted. What is not known is
whether these structures were temporary, or more permanent shelters.
But they do (8)
...
A. illustrate
B. demonstrate
C. show
D. display
us that hominids could (9)
...
A. imagine
B. think
C. conceive
D. plan
of using technology to organise things. They had the idea of actually
making a structure - a (10)
...
A. site
B. place
C. situation
D. resort
where they could sleep. It represents
the mental capacity to distinguish (11)
...
A. within
B. from
C. among
D. between
inside and outside. Before this new (12)
...
A. breakthrough
B. invention
C. discovery
D. finding
, the oldest remains of a structure were those at Terra Amata
in France, from around 200,000 to 400,000 years ago.