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    Reading Exercises. Multiple Choice.: Exercise 1

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    Archaeologists in southern Germany discovered a mass grave containing the skeletons of 34 people - 9 adult males, 7 adult females and 16 children. All of the skeletons showed signs of fatal trauma such as head wounds, but none showed defensive wounds, suggesting they were killed whilst running away. This "Talheim Death Pit" dates back 7,000 years to the Stone Age, and provides some of the earliest evidence of organized group violence, or war, between two communities. While humans have been fighting wars for thousands of years, chimpanzees also engage in warfare, suggesting humans inherited a tendency towards violence from their ape-like ancestors, though not all agree violence is innate.

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    Archaeologists in southern Germany discovered a mass grave containing the skeletons of 34 people - 9 adult males, 7 adult females and 16 children. All of the skeletons showed signs of fatal trauma such as head wounds, but none showed defensive wounds, suggesting they were killed whilst running away. This "Talheim Death Pit" dates back 7,000 years to the Stone Age, and provides some of the earliest evidence of organized group violence, or war, between two communities. While humans have been fighting wars for thousands of years, chimpanzees also engage in warfare, suggesting humans inherited a tendency towards violence from their ape-like ancestors, though not all agree violence is innate.

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    Archaeologists in southern Germany discovered a mass grave containing the skeletons of 34 people - 9 adult males, 7 adult females and 16 children. All of the skeletons showed signs of fatal trauma such as head wounds, but none showed defensive wounds, suggesting they were killed whilst running away. This "Talheim Death Pit" dates back 7,000 years to the Stone Age, and provides some of the earliest evidence of organized group violence, or war, between two communities. While humans have been fighting wars for thousands of years, chimpanzees also engage in warfare, suggesting humans inherited a tendency towards violence from their ape-like ancestors, though not all agree violence is innate.

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    Reading Exercises. Multiple choice.

    Exercise 1
    Read the text and answer the questions below.

    Is violence innate?

      In 1983, archaeologists in southern Germany discovered a mass grave


    containing 34 skeletons. They included 9 adult males, 7 adult females and 16
    children.

      All of the skeletons showed signs of fatal trauma, including head wounds.
    None of them showed any signs of defensive wounds, suggesting they were
    killed whilst running away.

      The "Talheim Death Pit" dates from the Stone Age, around 7,000 years ago.
    It offers some of the oldest evidence of organised group violence between two
    communities: that is, of war.

      Clearly, humans have been fighting wars for thousands of years, and we may
    not be the only ones. There is growing evidence that several other species also
    engage in warfare, including our closest relatives the chimpanzees.

      That suggests we have inherited our predilection for warfare from our ape-like
    ancestors. But not everyone agrees that warfare is inbuilt.

    Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.

    1. What did archaeologists in southern Germany discover? 

    A.  Remains of 34 dead animals

    B.  Graveyard containing 34 skeletons

    C.  Relics of early civilization

    D.  9 adult males, 7 adult females and 16 children


    2. Why did scientists suggested that those people were killed whilst running
    away? 

    A.  Their skeletons showed signs of fatal trauma

    B.  There were 16 children

    C.  During that period organised group violence was very frequent

    D.  Their skeletons didn't show any signs of defensive wounds

    3. Why do human beings fight, according to the article? 

    A.  Because they have been fighting wars for thousands of years

    B.  Because chimpanzees, who are humans' closest relatives, engage


    in warfare

    C.  Because humans inherited predilection for warfare from their ape-


    like ancestors

    D.  Because fighting is their inbuilt instinct

    4. Which of the following phrases best describes the main aim of the Reading
    Passage? 

    A.  To describe fighting among different species

    B.  To intoduce principles of contemporary archaeology and its


    application

    C.  To introduce some relics of humans' warfare for further discussion


    whether violence is innate or not

    D.  To suggest ways of interperting humans' violence

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