我们之前说过，复习考研英语要注重真题，在记忆词汇和练习阅读理解、翻译题的时候要结合真题做搭配记忆，并辅以相应的练习，下面我们就以真题为例，从中摘取出容易出现的考点，让2016考研的考生更深刻地领会"搭配记忆"法。

　　【相关真题】

　　①Surveys can cover a single large settlement or entire landscapes.②In one case, many researchers working around the ancient Maya city of Copán, Honduras, have located hundreds of small rural village and individual dwellings by using aerial photographs and by making surveys on foot.③The resulting settlement maps show how the distribution and density of the rural population around the city changed dramatically between AD500 and 850, when Copán collapsed.④In another case, American archaeologists Rene Million and George Cowgill spent years systematically mapping the entire city of Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico near what is now Mexico City.⑤At its peak around AD 600, this city was one of the largest human settlements in the world.⑥The researchers mapped not only the city's vast and ornate ceremonial areas, but also hundreds of simpler apartment complexes where common people lived.

　　【高频考点】

　　1.举个例子：in one case,…(再举个例子in another case,…)

　　2.由此获得的地图：the resulting maps

　　3.发生显著变化：change dramatically

　　4.处于顶峰时：at one's peak

　　5.华丽的宗教区域：ornate ceremonial areas(ornate=covered with a lot of decorations)