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We all know that many more people today are right-handed than left-handed. Can one trace this same pattern far back in prehistory? Much of the evidence about right-hand versus left-hand dominance comes from stencils and prints found in rock shelters in Australia and elsewhere, and in many Ice Age caves in France, Spain, and Tasmania. When a left hand has been stenciled, this implies that the artist was right-handed, and vice versa. Even though the paint was often sprayed on by mouth, one can assume that the dominant hand assisted in the operation. One also has to make the assumption that hands were stenciled palm downward—a left hand stenciled palm upward might of course look as if it were a right hand. Of 158 stencils in the French cave of Gargas, 136 have been identified as left, and only 22 as right; right-handedness was therefore heavily predominant.

Cave art furnishes other types of evidence of this phenomenon. Most engravings, for example, are best lit from the left, as befits the work of right-handed artists, who generally prefer to have the light source on the left so that the shadow of their hand does not fall on the tip of the engraving tool or brush. In the few cases where an Ice Age figure is depicted holding something, it is mostly, though not always, in the right hand.

Clues to right-handedness can also be found by other methods. Right-handers tend to have longer, stronger, and more muscular bones on the right side, and Marcellin Boule as long ago as 1911 noted the La Chapelle-aux-Saints Neanderthal skeleton had a right upper arm bone that was noticeably stronger than the left. Similar observations have been made on other Neanderthal skeletons such as La Ferrassie I and Neanderthal itself.

Fractures and other cut marks are another source of evidence. Right-handed soldiers tend to be wounded on the left. The skeleton of a 40- or 50-year-old Nabatean warrior, buried 2,000 years ago in the Negev Desert, Israel, had multiple healed fractures to the skull, the left arm, and the ribs.

Tools themselves can be revealing. Long-handed Neolithic spoons of yew wood preserved in Alpine villages dating to 3000 B.C. have survived; the signs of rubbing on their left side indicate that their users were right-handed. The late Ice Age rope found in the French cave of Lascaux consists of fibers spiraling to the right, and was therefore tressed by a righthander.

Occasionally one can determine whether stone tools were used in the right hand or the left, and it is even possible to assess how far back this feature can be traced. In stone toolmaking experiments, Nick Toth, a right-hander, held the core (the stone that would become the tool) in his left hand and the hammer stone in his right. As the tool was made, the core was rotated clockwise, and the flakes, removed in sequence, had a little crescent of cortex (the core's outer surface) on the side. Toth's knapping produced 56 percent flakes with the cortex on the right, and 44 percent left-oriented flakes. A left-handed toolmaker would produce the opposite pattern. Toth has applied these criteria to the similarly made pebble tools from a number of early sites (before 1.5 million years) at Koobi Fora, Kenya, probably made by Homo habilis. At seven sites he found that 57 percent of the flakes were right-oriented, and 43 percent left, a   pattern almost identical to that produced today.

About 90 percent of modern humans are right-handed: we are the only mammal with a preferential use of one hand. The part of the brain responsible for fine control and movement is located in the left cerebral hemisphere, and the findings above suggest that the human brain was already asymmetrical in its structure and function not long after 2 million years ago. Among Neanderthalers of 70,000–35,000 years ago, Marcellin Boule noted that the La Chapelle-aux-Saints individual had a left hemisphere slightly bigger than the right, and the same was found for brains of specimens from Neanderthal, Gibraltar, and La Quina.

Directions: An introductory sentence for a brief summary of the passage is provided below. Complete the summary by selecting the THREE answer that express the most important ideas in the passage. Some sentences do not belong in the summary because they express ideas that not presented in the passage or are minor ideas in the passage. This question is worth 2 points. Several categories of evidence indicate that people have always been predominantly right-handed.

  • A.Stencils of right-handed figures are characteristic of cave art in France, Spain, and Tasmania.
  • B. Signs on the skeletal remains of prehistoric figures, including arm-bone size and injury marks, imply that these are the remains of right-handed people.
  • C. Instruments such as spoons, ropes, and pebble tools show signs that indicate they were used or constructed by right-handed people.
  • D. The amount of prehistoric art created by right-handed artists indicates that left-handed people were in the minority.
  • E. Neanderthal skeletons often have longer finger bones in the right hand, which is evidence that the right hand was stronger.
  • F. Nick Toth, a modem right-handed toolmaker, has shown that prehistoric tools were knapped to fit the right hand.
  • A.Stencils of right-handed figures are characteristic of cave art in France, Spain, and Tasmania. B. Signs on the skeletal remains of prehistoric figures, including arm-bone size and injury marks, imply that these are the remains of right-handed people. C. Instruments such as spoons, ropes, and pebble tools show signs that indicate they were used or constructed by right-handed people. D. The amount of prehistoric art created by right-handed artists indicates that left-handed people were in the minority. E. Neanderthal skeletons often have longer finger bones in the right hand, which is evidence that the right hand was stronger. F. Nick Toth, a modem right-handed toolmaker, has shown that prehistoric tools were knapped to fit the right hand.
正确答案: BCD

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当前版本由 十三个 更新于2018-10-21 21:46:52 感谢由 十三个 对此题目的解答所做出的贡献。

Stencils选项原文没说,原文说证据来自三个地方,答案说右撇子是三个地方的特点,不一样 Signs选项对应原文第三段第二句和第四段一二句,正确 Instruments选项对应原文第五段第一句,正确 The amount选项对应原文第六和第七段的第一句,正确 Neanderthal选项是原文第三段中的一个细节,不选 Nick Toth选项是原文第六段的一个细节,不选

当前版本由 joannazz 更新于2018-01-08 17:18:10 感谢由 joannazz 对此题目的解答所做出的贡献。

段落小结题 解析:A没说,原文说证据来自三个地方,A说右撇子是三个地方的特点 B对应原文第三段第二句和第四段一二句,正确 C对应原文第五段第一句,正确 D对应原文第六和第七段的第一句,正确 E是原文第三段中的一个细节,不选 F是原文第六段的一个细节,不选

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We all know that many more people today are right-handed than left-handed. Can one trace this same pattern far back in prehistory? Much of the evidence about right-hand versus left-hand dominance comes from stencils and prints found in rock shelters in Australia and elsewhere, and in many Ice Age caves in France, Spain, and Tasmania. When a left hand has been stenciled, this implies that the artist was right-handed, and vice versa. Even though the paint was often sprayed on by mouth, one can assume that the dominant hand assisted in the operation. One also has to make the assumption that hands were stenciled palm downward—a left hand stenciled palm upward might of course look as if it were a right hand. Of 158 stencils in the French cave of Gargas, 136 have been identified as left, and only 22 as right; right-handedness was therefore heavily predominant.

Cave art furnishes other types of evidence of this phenomenon. Most engravings, for example, are best lit from the left, as befits the work of right-handed artists, who generally prefer to have the light source on the left so that the shadow of their hand does not fall on the tip of the engraving tool or brush. In the few cases where an Ice Age figure is depicted holding something, it is mostly, though not always, in the right hand.

Clues to right-handedness can also be found by other methods. Right-handers tend to have longer, stronger, and more muscular bones on the right side, and Marcellin Boule as long ago as 1911 noted the La Chapelle-aux-Saints Neanderthal skeleton had a right upper arm bone that was noticeably stronger than the left. Similar observations have been made on other Neanderthal skeletons such as La Ferrassie I and Neanderthal itself.

Fractures and other cut marks are another source of evidence. Right-handed soldiers tend to be wounded on the left. The skeleton of a 40- or 50-year-old Nabatean warrior, buried 2,000 years ago in the Negev Desert, Israel, had multiple healed fractures to the skull, the left arm, and the ribs.

Tools themselves can be revealing. Long-handed Neolithic spoons of yew wood preserved in Alpine villages dating to 3000 B.C. have survived; the signs of rubbing on their left side indicate that their users were right-handed. The late Ice Age rope found in the French cave of Lascaux consists of fibers spiraling to the right, and was therefore tressed by a righthander.

Occasionally one can determine whether stone tools were used in the right hand or the left, and it is even possible to assess how far back this feature can be traced. In stone toolmaking experiments, Nick Toth, a right-hander, held the core (the stone that would become the tool) in his left hand and the hammer stone in his right. As the tool was made, the core was rotated clockwise, and the flakes, removed in sequence, had a little crescent of cortex (the core's outer surface) on the side. Toth's knapping produced 56 percent flakes with the cortex on the right, and 44 percent left-oriented flakes. A left-handed toolmaker would produce the opposite pattern. Toth has applied these criteria to the similarly made pebble tools from a number of early sites (before 1.5 million years) at Koobi Fora, Kenya, probably made by Homo habilis. At seven sites he found that 57 percent of the flakes were right-oriented, and 43 percent left, a   pattern almost identical to that produced today.

About 90 percent of modern humans are right-handed: we are the only mammal with a preferential use of one hand. The part of the brain responsible for fine control and movement is located in the left cerebral hemisphere, and the findings above suggest that the human brain was already asymmetrical in its structure and function not long after 2 million years ago. Among Neanderthalers of 70,000–35,000 years ago, Marcellin Boule noted that the La Chapelle-aux-Saints individual had a left hemisphere slightly bigger than the right, and the same was found for brains of specimens from Neanderthal, Gibraltar, and La Quina.

Directions: An introductory sentence for a brief summary of the passage is provided below. Complete the summary by selecting the THREE answer that express the most important ideas in the passage. Some sentences do not belong in the summary because they express ideas that not presented in the passage or are minor ideas in the passage. This question is worth 2 points. Several categories of evidence indicate that people have always been predominantly right-handed.

  • A.Stencils of right-handed figures are characteristic of cave art in France, Spain, and Tasmania.
  • B. Signs on the skeletal remains of prehistoric figures, including arm-bone size and injury marks, imply that these are the remains of right-handed people.
  • C. Instruments such as spoons, ropes, and pebble tools show signs that indicate they were used or constructed by right-handed people.
  • D. The amount of prehistoric art created by right-handed artists indicates that left-handed people were in the minority.
  • E. Neanderthal skeletons often have longer finger bones in the right hand, which is evidence that the right hand was stronger.
  • F. Nick Toth, a modem right-handed toolmaker, has shown that prehistoric tools were knapped to fit the right hand.
正确答案: BCD

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十三个 更新于2018-10-21 21:46:52

Stencils选项原文没说,原文说证据来自三个地方,答案说右撇子是三个地方的特点,不一样 Signs选项对应原文第三段第二句和第四段一二句,正确 Instruments选项对应原文第五段第一句,正确 The amount选项对应原文第六和第七段的第一句,正确 Neanderthal选项是原文第三段中的一个细节,不选 Nick Toth选项是原文第六段的一个细节,不选

joannazz 更新于2018-01-08 17:18:10

段落小结题 解析:A没说,原文说证据来自三个地方,A说右撇子是三个地方的特点 B对应原文第三段第二句和第四段一二句,正确 C对应原文第五段第一句,正确 D对应原文第六和第七段的第一句,正确 E是原文第三段中的一个细节,不选 F是原文第六段的一个细节,不选

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