48 The main idea of this paragraph is that the aboriginal art of Australia illustrates
(A) how aboriginal art has been modernized.
(B) why the European settlers dreamed of a new land.
(C) how the aboriginal people maintained a close relationship with the land.
(D) how the artists struggled to survive in a difficult territory.

settler 移居者；殖民者；開拓者

indigenous 土產的；土著的；本地的

dreamtime 澳洲原住民神話

migration 遷移；（候鳥等的）遷徙

ancestral 祖先的；祖傳的

terrain 地面；地域，地帶

bark 樹皮

campsite 營地

stencil painting 模板印刷

tribal 部落的，種族的

ochre 赭石；赭土

watercolor 水彩畫

contemporary 當代的

millennia 一千年

 The aboriginal people of Australia have always made the land important in their arts. When settlers from Europe came to Australia in the 18th and 19 th centuries, they claimed that the land was owned by no one, but, as the art works of the indigenous show, the land has always given the aboriginal people a sense of mutual belonging: they belong to the land and the land belongs to them. Traditional “dreamtime”  art reflects the creation myths and migration legends of ancestral beings across difficult terrain. Paintings done on bark often show a bird’s eye view of a familiar landscape, a river, or a campsite. Stencil paintings on rocks mark important places on tribal journeys. And the colors for paintings originally came from clay ochre mined from the earth and wood ash. Even though watercolors and oil paints may now be used, works by contemporary aboriginal artists still show the close relation of the indigenous people to the land they have lived on for millennia. 答案在最後一句

48 The main idea of this paragraph is that the aboriginal art of Australia illustrates 

(A) how aboriginal art has been modernized.  原住民的藝術如何現代化

(B) why the European settlers dreamed of a new land. 為什麼歐洲人拓荒者夢想一個新土地

(C) how the aboriginal people maintained a close relationship with the land. 原住民要如何與土地維持緊密的關係

(D) how the artists struggled to survive in a difficult territory.  藝術拓荒者如何在一個困難的領土上奮鬥求生