黃金29-第36篇 - 英檢

篇名:Colonizing the Americas via the Northwest Coast

Paragraph 5: The coastal hypothesis has gained increasing support in recent
years because the remains of large land animals, such as caribou and brown
bears, have been found in southeastern Alaska dating between 10,000 and
12,500 years ago. This is the time period in which most scientists formerly
believed the area to be (inhospitable) for humans. It has been suggested that if
the environment were capable of supporting breeding populations of bears,
there would have been enough food resources to support humans. Fladmark and
others believe that the first human colonization of America occurred by boat
along the Northwest Coast during the very late Ice Age, possibly as early as
14,000 years ago.
海岸假設近些年得到了越來越多的支援，因為一些大型動物（比如北美馴鹿，棕熊）的
遺跡在阿拉斯加東南部地區被發現，其時間為10,000到12,500年之前。這個時期在以前
被大部分科學家認為是不適合人類生存的。通常，如果一種環境能滿足熊的繁殖種群，
那麼它就有足夠的食物來源來供應人類的生存。Fladmark和其他科學家都認為人類第一次
乘船沿著西北岸到達美洲發生在冰河時代的晚期，可能早達14,000年以前。多數的最新
地質資料表明：13,000 至 14,000年前，人們在由於低海平面而裸露的大陸架沿岸的無
冰區域定居是可能的。

問題:
10. The word "inhospitable" in the passage is closest in meaning to
○not familiar
○not suitable
○not dangerous
○not reachable
答案:3~ 為什麼不能選2??


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