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The earliest discovered traces of art are beads and carvings, and then paintings, from sites dating back to the Upper Paleolithic period. We might expect that early artistic efforts would be crude, but the cave paintings of Spain and southern France show a marked degree of skill. So do the naturalistic paintings on slabs of stone excavated in southern Africa. Some of those slabs appear to have been painted as much as 28,000 years ago, which suggests that painting in Africa is as old as painting in Europe. But painting may be even older than that. The early Australians may have painted on the walls of rock shelters and cliff faces at least 30,000 years ago, and maybe as much as 60,000 years ago.

1．The word “marked” in the passage is closest in meaning to
○Considerable
○Surprising
○Limited
○Adequate

Answer 1

我认为这道题选B。看这句话“We might expect that early artistic efforts would be crude, but the cave paintings of Spain and southern France show a marked degree of skill.”翻译过来差不多是“我们可能会预测这些早期艺术的效果会很粗糙，但是”--这个但是很重要，它表示后面要说的是出乎意料的事情，是与前面的预测相反的，--“但是西班牙和法国南部的洞穴壁画却展现出marked技术水平。”现在看选项：A相当多的；B显著的，惊人的；C有限的；D充足的。所以选B。

Answer 2

Considerable
显著的