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TOEFL Listening Class Unit 1 Passage 12

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106. What are the speakers mainly discussing?

Valuable objects found at prehistoric sites
The location of prehistoric villages
The origin of farming in prehistoric times
Reasons for population growth in prehistoric times

107. According to the old theory, what happened when the
prehistoric population grew?

Fighting over food supplies became common in
prehistoric villages.
Many people could no longer survive just by hunting
and gathering wild plants.
Some villages were threatened by disease.
Hunting techniques improved.

108. What important information can the archaeologists' new
technique provide?

Why villages were established
How to locate early farming tools
The kinds of seeds first cultivated
The ages of tiny objects

109. What conclusion did archaeologists reach concerning
early villages?

There were more prehistoric villages than previously
thought.
The grain found in villages is not as old as they had
thought.
Population growth in prehistoric villages made new
farming methods necessary.
Village life arose from a need for protection against
outsiders.

110. What can be inferred about the first prehistoric people to
live in villages?

Many of them survived by hunting and gathering wild
plants.
Most of them did not eat meat.
They seldom used charcoal for cooking.
There were fewer of them than previously thought.


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