[originaltext]Hello, viewers. Today I’m standing at a 2,000-year-old Roman-era

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问题  
Hello, viewers. Today I’m standing at a 2,000-year-old Roman-era site. Here, the brightly colored scenes that once decorated a mansion are being dug up. These scenes are turning up in the southern French city of Arles, surprising the historians who have been working here since 2014. Patches of paint still cling to the stone walls of a bedroom and reception hall. Some of these painted walls are preserved in places to a height of one meter. In addition, thousands of fragments that fell off the walls have been recovered. These pieces have been put back together with great care and display a variety of images. Some of these images include figures never seen before in France, such as a woman playing a stringed instrument, possibly a character from mythology.
The paintings were done with such skill and with such expensive dyes that experts believe the artists originally came from Italy. They were likely hired by one of the city’s elite. Perhaps a Roman official wanted Pompeii-like interior to remind him of home. He was probably stationed in this provincial trading port, founded in 46 BC as a colony for veterans of the Roman army. Or maybe a wealthy local wanted to show off his worldly sophistication. The paintings may yield even more stunning surprises as additional sections are put together like pieces of a puzzle. Whoever it was that created such magnificent pieces of art, they surely had no idea that their work would still be around thousands of years later.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.
12. Where is the speaker standing?
13. What do the thousands of fragments display when they are put back together?
14. What makes experts think the paintings were done by artists from Italy?
15. What do we learn from the passage about the owner of the mansion?

选项 A、Beside a beautifully painted wall in Aries.
B、Beside the gate of an ancient Roman city.
C、At the site of an ancient Roman mansion.
D、At the entrance to a reception hall in Rome.

答案 C

解析 短文开头男士说,他现在正站在一处有着2,000年历史的罗马时代遗址上。在这里,属于一座大宅院的色彩艳丽的景致正在被挖掘出来。这些景致出现在法国南部城市阿尔勒,震惊了自2014年以来一直在这里工作的历史学家。也就是说,男士正站在一座古罗马大宅院的遗址上,因此答案为C)。
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