TOP 05 THE ORIGIN OF THE PACIFIC ISLAND PEOPLE - 英檢

Paragraph2:
Speculation on the origin of these Pacific islanders began as soon as
outsiders encountered them, in the absence of solid linguistic,archaeological,
and biological data, many fanciful and mutually exclusive theories were devised.
Pacific islanders ere variously thought to have come from North America, South
America, Egypt, Israel, and India, as well as Southeast Asia.Many older
theories implicitly deprecated the navigational abilities and overall cultural
creativity of the Pacific islanders. For example, British anthropologists
G. Elliot Smith and W. J. Perry assumed that only Egyptians would have been
skilled enough to navigate and colonize the Pacific.They inferred that the
Egyptians even crossed the Pacific to found the great civilizations of the
New World (North and South America). In1947 Norwegian adventurer Thor
Heyerdahl drifted on a balsa-log raft westward with the winds and currents
across the Pacific from South America to prove his theory that Pacific
islanders were Native Americans (also called American Indians). Later
Heyerdahl suggested that the Pacific was peopled by three migrations: by
Native Americans from the Pacific Northwest of North America drifting to Hawaii
,by Peruvians drifting to Easter Island,and by Melanesians. In 1969 he crossed
the Atlantic in an Egyptian style reed boat to prove Egyptian influences in the
Americas. Contrary to these theorists,the overwhelming evidence of physical
anthropology, linguistics, and archaeology shows that the Pacific islanders
came from Southeast Asia and were skilled enough as navigators to sail against
the prevailing winds and currents.



4. According to Paragraph2, which of the following led some early researchers
to believe that the Pacific islanders originally came from Egypt?

(A) Egyptians were known to have founded other great civilizations.

(B) Sailors from other parts of the world were believed to lack the skills
needed to travel across the ocean.

(C) Linguistic, archaeological, and biological data connected the islands to
Egypt.

(D) Egyptian accounts claimed responsibility for colonizing the Pacific as well
as the Americas.



這題給的答案是(B), 可是我覺得(A)沒有錯啊...
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