2014年考研英语一真题下载(12)

out to look for them .Such searches can take years. British archaeologist Howard Carter knew that the tomb of the Egyptian pharaohTutankhamunexisted from information found in other sites . Carter sifted through rubble in the Valley of the King for seven years before be located the tomb in 1922 .In the late 1800s British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans combed antique dealers' stores in Athens ，Greece He was searching for tiny engraved seals attributed to the ancient Mycenaean culture that dominated Greece from the 1400s to 1200s BC .Evans's interpretations of these engravings eventually led him to find the Minoan palace at Knossos （Knosos）， on the island of Crete ， in 1900.

[G] Ground surveys allow archaeologists to pinpoint the places where digs will be successful .Most ground surveys involve a lot of walking ， looking for surface clues such as small fragments of pottery ，They often include a certain amount of digging to test for buried materials at selected points across a landscape .Archaeologists also may locate buried remains by using such technologies as ground radar ，magnetic-field recording ，and metal detectors .Archaeologists commonly use computers to map sites and the landscapes around sites .Two and three-dimensional maps are helpful tools in planning excavations ， illustrating how sites look ， and presenting the results of archaeological research.

PART C

Directions：

Read the following text carefully and them translate the underlined segments into Chinese .Your translation should be written neatly on the ANSWER SHEET. （10 points）

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life. It might be poetic， philosophical， sensual， or mathematical， but in any case it must， in my view， have something to do with the soul of the human being. Hence it is metaphysical； but the means of expression is purely and exclusively physical： sound. I believe it is precisely this permanent coexistence of metaphysical message through physical means that is the strength of music. （46）It is also the reason why when we try to describe music with words， all we can do is articulate our reactions to it， and not grasp music itself.

Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure. Sometimes I feel in his late works a will to break all signs of continuity. The music is abrupt and seemingly disconnected， as in the last piano sonata. In musical expression， he did not feel restrained by the weight of convention. （47）By all accounts he was a freethinking person， and a courageous one， and I find courage an essential quality for the understanding， let alone the performance， of his works.

This courageous attitude in fact becomes a requirement for the performers of Beethoven's

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