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题型，无选项，无首字母完型，关于人类学的；超长阅读一篇，十分长非常长，4个回答问

题吧；写作一篇，关于一句人生哲言的。

一篇cloze一篇阅读还有一篇作文

cloze的那篇文章题目是Into Africa -- human ancestors from Asia

文章不长有15个空，但没有任何选项供选择，文章大概讲的是：人们一直认为非洲是人类祖先的发源地，但是近期考古学家发现的化石研究发现人类的组先很可能是从亚洲而来。具体的填空不是很难，如果看懂文章的话。无首字母，15空，2分一个，讲得大概是人类祖先并非起源于非洲，而是可能从亚洲迁移而来的.

Evolution

Into Africa – the human ancestors from Asia

The human family tree may not have taken root in Africa after all, claim scientists, after finding that its ancestors may have travelled from Asia.

By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent 7:00PM BST 27 Oct 2010

While it is widelyaccepted that man evolved in Africa, in fact its immediate predecessors mayhave 1colonised thecontinent after developing elsewhere, the study says.

The claims are madeafter a team 2unearthedthe fossils of anthropoids – the primate group that includes humans, apes andmonkeys – in Libya's Dur At-Talah.

Paleontologistsfound that 3amongstthe 39 million year old fossils there were three distinct families ofanthropoid primates, all of whom lived in the 4area at approximately the same time.

Few or anyanthropoids are known to have existed in Africa during this 5period, known as theEocene epoch.

This could eithersuggest a huge gap in Africa's fossil record – 6unlikely, say the scientists, given the amount ofarchaeological work undertaken in the area –7 or that the species "colonised" Africafrom another continent at this time.

As the evolutioninto three species would have 8taken extreme lengths of time, combined with the lack of fossilrecords in Africa, the team concludes that Asia was the most likely 9origin.

Writing in thejournal Nature, the experts said they believed migration from Asia to be themost 10plausibletheory.

Christopher Beard,of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, said: "11If our ideas are correct,this early colonisation of Africa by anthropoids was a truly 12pivotal event — one ofthe key points in our evolutionary history.

"At the time,Africa was an island continent; when these 13anthropoids appeared, there was nothing on thatisland that could compete with them.

"It led to aperiod of flourishing evolutionary divergence amongst anthropoids, and one ofthose lineages 14resultedin humans.

"If our earlyanthropoid ancestors had not succeeded in migrating from Asia to Africa, wesimply 15wouldn'texist."

He added:"This extraordinary new fossil site in Libya shows us that in the middleEocene, 39 million years ago, there was a surprising diversity of anthropoidsliving in Africa, whereas few if any anthropoids are known from Africa beforethis time.

"This suddenappearance of such diversity suggests that these anthropoids probably colonisedAfrica from somewhere else.

"Withoutearlier fossil evidence in Africa, we're currently looking to Asia as the placewhere these animals first evolved."