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戴爾美語IELTS雅思試題與解題示範教學 2026年03月31日

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戴爾美語IELTS雅思試題與解題示範教學 2026年03月31日

Ancient People in Sahara
On Oct. 13, 2000, Paul Sereno, a professor from the University of Chicago, guided a team of palaeontologists to climb out of three broken Land Rovers, contented their water bottles and walked across the toffee-coloured desert called Tenere Desert. Tenere, one of the most barren areas on the Earth, is located on the southern flank of Sahara. According to the turbaned nomads Tuareg who have ruled this infertile domain for a few centuries, this California-size ocean of sand and rock is a ‘desert within a desert’. In the Tenere Desert, massive dunes might stretch a hundred miles, as far as the eyes can reach. In addition, 120-degree heat waves and inexorable winds can take almost all the water from a human body in less than a day.

Mike Hettwer, a photographer in the team, was attracted by the amazing scenes and walked to several dunes to take photos of the amazing landscape. When reaching the first slope of the dune, he was shocked by the fact that the dunes were scattered with many bones. He photographed these bones with his digital camera and went to the Land Rover in a hurry. ‘I found some bones,’ Hettwer said to other group members, ‘to my great surprise, they do not belong to the dinosaurs. They are human bones.’

One day in the spring of 2005, Paul Sereno got in touch with Elena Garcea, a prestigious archaeologist at the University of Cassino in Italy, asking her to return to the site with him together. After spending 30 years in researching the history of Nile in Sudan and of the mountains in the Libyan Desert, Garcea got well acquainted with the life of the ancient people in Sahara. But she did not know Sereno before this exploration, whose claim of having found so many skeletons in Tenere desert was unreliable to some archaeologists, among whom one person considered Sereno just as a ‘moonlighting palaeontologist’. However, Garcea was so obsessive with his perspective as to accept his invitation willingly.
Questions 15-18
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 2?
In boxes 15-18 on your answer sheet, write
Books & Literature

TRUE
if the statement is true
FALSE
if the statement is false
NOT GIVEN
if the information is not given in the passage

15 The pictures of rock engravings found in. Green Sahara is similar to those in other places.
16 Tenere Desert was quite a fertile area in Sahara Desert.
17 Hettwer found human remains in the desert by chance.
18 Sereno and Garcea have cooperated in some archaeological activities before studying ancient Sahara people.
 
題號 答案 解析 出處(段落/行)
15 NOT GIVEN 文中提到泰內雷沙漠的景觀和骨骸，但完全沒有提到「岩石雕刻(rock engravings)」或其與他處的相似性。 無
16 FALSE 題目說該區很肥沃，但原文第一段明確指出 Tenere 是 "one of the most barren areas" (最荒涼的地區之一) 且是 "infertile domain"。 第一段/第3-5行
17 TRUE 攝影師 Hettwer 本來是要去拍風景（amazing scenes），結果意外發現骨骸。文中用 "attracted by the amazing scenes" 說明他並非刻意尋找。 第二段/第1-4行
18 FALSE 文中提到 Elena Garcea 在這次探索前「並不認識 Sereno」(she did not know Sereno before this exploration)，因此不可能合作過。 第三段/第5-6行
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