History of paint

文章大意

雅思听力Part4讲解颜料的历史，从史前人类用黏土和木炭制作简单颜料，到加入动物脂肪和蜂蜜延长保存时间，再到古埃及因建造神庙和纪念碑而发展出更丰富的颜料种类，还提到颜料曾作为货币使用。

题目与答案

1. History of Paint

   Prehistoric era

   The first colours were made from clay and probably put on the 31_____ .

   答案：face

   原文定位：Researchers have determined that the first colors came from clay, which was most likely used to create marks on the face

   同义替换：「put on」↔「create marks on」，「probably」↔「most likely」

2. Coloured drawings in Australia were discovered in caves.

   Colour was produced using substances such as charcoal.

   Colours were temporary until the addition of animal fats for 32_____ .

   答案：permanent

   原文定位：Of course, the art from this paint, as we'll call it, wasn't permanent, so it's difficult for us to know much more about what it was used for or who used it

   同义替换：「temporary」↔「permanent」，「until the addition of」↔「introduced」

3. Permanent colours were transportable and possibly used as a form of 33_____ .

   答案：money

   原文定位：colors were valuable and may have been used at one time or another as a type of money

   同义替换：「form」↔「type」，「possibly」↔「may have been」

4. Ancient Egyptian era

   The creation of new monuments and 34_____ resulted in different paints.

   答案：temples

   原文定位：With wealth and power, monuments were constructed and decorated, and also a large number of temples. This led to the development of a wider range of paint

   同义替换：「creation」↔「constructed」，「resulted in」↔「led to」

5. One problem was that many paints at this time were 35_____ .

   答案：toxic

   原文定位：Interestingly, we now know that one of the problems with much of the paint used at that time, and actually for centuries after, was that it was toxic

6. Egyptian Blue

   ·was probably the first colour produced that is not found in 36_____

   答案：nature

   原文定位：It is not a color that exists in nature

   同义替换：「found」↔「exists」，「produced」↔「made」

7. ·was made from 37_____ which had been broken up into tiny pieces

   ·was used on rich people's tombs as decoration.

   答案：glass

   原文定位：The color Egyptian blue was produced by crushing up blue glass very finely

   同义替换：「broken up into tiny pieces」↔「crushing up very finely」，「made from」↔「produced by」

8. Red Earth

   ·Red minerals were turned into 38_____, which was used to make paint.

   答案：powder

   原文定位：This color was produced when minerals that were red in color were ground into a very fine powder

   同义替换：「turned into」↔「ground into」

9. Roman era

   ·Artists used plants to make a range of colours.

   Dragon's Blood

   ·People believed it was a mixture of blood from dragons and 39_____ .

   答案：elephants

   原文定位：the belief that the paint was a mixture of the blood from fights between dragons, which people really believed in then, and elephants

10. ·It was actually the 40_____ from tree trunks.

    答案：gum

    原文定位：It came from the tree trunks of a species of tree from Southeast Asia, or more specifically, the gum from the trunks of those trees

    同义替换：「actually」↔「more specifically」