A项drink wine在文中未提及; C项来到这个村庄的人们是在英国而非埃及; D项由第五段第一句"An ancient road which led from the village to the River Avon"可知村庄和艾芬河有一定距离而并非在其附近。

3. What do experts think people did after the village parties?

A. Returned to live at Stonehenge.

B. Prayed for good luck in the new year.

C. Hunted farm pigs as a sport.

D. Put their dead relatives in the river.

【解析】选D。细节理解题。由第五段第二句"people came after their parties to throw dead relatives in the water so the bodies would be washed downstream to Stonehenge. "可知答案。

4. What was Stonehenge according to the text?

A. A village where hundreds of people once lived.

B. A place that regularly hosted large parties.

C. A church where local villagers would get married.

D. Asite where dead people were placed or remembered.

【解析】选D。细节理解题。由倒数第三段"Stonehenge was like a cemetery where ancient Britons buried the dead and remembered their ancestors. "可知答案选D。

5. When do people most often go to Stonehenge today?

A. When a new discovery is made.

B. At the beginning of summer and winter.

C. On the longest and shortest days of the year.

D. When they want to have a barbecue.

【解析】选C。细节理解题。由最后一段第二句"They meet there when the sun sets on the shortest day of winter and when it rises on the longest day of summer. "可知答案。

When scientists set out to explore the roots of human laughter, some apes(类人猿)were just tickled(胳肢)to help. That's how researchers made a variety of apes and some human babies laugh. After analyzing the sounds, they concluded that people and great apes inherited laughter from a shared ancestor that lived more than 10 million years ago. Experts praised the work. It gives strong evidence that ape laughter and human laughter are related through evolution(进化).

Scientists have noted that apes make characteristic sounds during play or while being tickled, especially to signal that they're interested in playing. It's been suggested before that human laughter grew out of primate(灵长目动物)roots. But ape laughter doesn't sound like human laughter. It may be slower noisy breathing. So what does that have to do with the human ha-ha? To investigate that, Marina Davila Ross and her colleagues carried out a detailed analysis of the sounds made by tickling three human babies and 21 other primates, apes included.

After measuring 11 features in the sound from each species, they tried to find out how these sounds appeared to be related to each other. The result looked like a family tree. Significantly, that tree matched the way the species themselves are related, the scientists reported online in the journal Current Biology. They also concluded that while human laughter sounds much different from ape laughter, their typical features could have come from the same ancestor.

Panksepp, who studies laughter-like responses in animals but didn't participate in the new work, called the paper exciting. Panksepp's own work concludes that even rats produce laughter in