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Israeli archaeologists have discovered human remains dating from 400,000 yea

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问题     Israeli archaeologists have discovered human remains dating from 400,000 years ago,(1)______ conventional wisdom that Homo sapiens(2)______in Africa.
    Avi Gopher, of Tel Aviv University’s Institute of Archaeology, said testing of stalactites(钟乳石) and other(3)______found in a cave east of Tel Aviv(4)______ that eight teeth uncovered there could be the earliest(5)______ so far of our species. " Our cave was used for a period of about 250, 000 years— from about 400,000 years ago to about 200, 000 years ago," he told the reporters.
    " The teeth are(6)______ through the(7)______ of the cave, some in the deeper part;(8)______ from 200, 000 years and through all kinds of other layers that can be(9)______ 400, 000 years. The oldest are 400,000 years old" ,he added.
    That calls into question the(10) ______held view that Africa was the(11)______of modern man, said Gopher, who headed the dig at Qesem Cave.
    "It is(12)______ at the moment that the earliest Homo sapiens that we know is in east Africa and is 200,000 years old,or a little less. We don’t know of anywhere else where anyone(13)______ to have an earlier Homo sapiens,"he said.
    Gopher said the first teeth were (14)______in 2006 but he and his team waited until they had several samples,then(15)______ years of testing, using a variety of dating methods,(16)______ publishing their findings.
    Digging continues at the cave, the university said, with researchers (17)______ to uncover(18) ______finds that will enable them to(19)______the findings published up to now and to enhance our understanding of the(20)______of mankind, and especially the appearance of modern man. [br] (13)
选项 A、declares
B、argues
C、claims
D、asserts
答案 C
解析 名词辨析题。[C]claims意为“宣称，断言”，它是四个选项中唯一可以用作claim to do的选项，故选[C]。[A]declares意为“宣布，公布”，用法是“declare sth．(to be)”或“declare that…”，意为“宣布某事”；[B]argues意为“争论，争辩”，用法是“argue about／over sth．”或“argue that…”，意为“争论”;[D]asserts意为“断言，坚称”，用法是“assert sth．”或“assert that…”，意为“断言，坚持认为……”。[A]、[B]和[D]在用法上不符合文章要求，因此排除。
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