سؤال قراءة ستيب محلول — المفردات في السياق (تدريب 7157)

(1)The Dutch in the 1600s were the first Europeans to reach Australia. In 1770, Captain James Cook claimed Australia for Britain. For a time, however, Australia remained too distant to attract European settlers. The First Settlers (2)Like most regions claimed by the imperialist powers, Australia had long been inhabited by other people. The first settlers had reached Australia perhaps 40,000 years earlier, probably from Southeast Asia, and spread across the continent. These indigenous people were called Aborigines, a word used by Europeans to denote the earliest people to live in a place. Today many Australian Aborigines call themselves Kooris. Isolated from the larger world, the Aborigines lived in a small hunting and food-gathering bands, much as their ancestors had. The word “inhabited” in Paragraph (2) is closest in meaning to