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共用题干 第三篇People have been painting pictures for at least 30,000 years.The ear...

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People have been painting pictures for at least 30,000 years.The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunted animals.They used to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill.Pictures of this kind have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain.No one knows why they were painted there.Perhaps the painters thought that their pictures would help them to catch these animals.Or perhaps human beings have always wanted to tell stories in pictures.
About 5,000 years ago,the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures as kind of writing. They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas,and also to represent the sounds of their language.The signs there people used became a kind of alphabet.
The Egyptians used to record information and to tell stories by putting picture-writing and pictures together. When an important person died,scenes and stories from his life were painted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried.Some of these pictures are like modern comic strip stones.It has been said that Egypt is the home of the comic strip.But for Egyptians,pictures still had magic power. So they did not try to make their way of writing simple.The ordinary people could not understand it.
By the year 1000 BC,people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea had developed a simpler system of writing. The signs they used were very easy to write,and there were fewer of them than in the Egyptian system.This was because each sign,or letter,represented only one sound in their language.The Greeks developed this system and formed the letters of the Greek alphabet.The Romans copied the idea and the Roman alphebet is now used all over the world.
These days,we can write down a story,or record information,without using pictures.But we still need pictures of all kinds:drawing,photographs,signs and diagrams.We find them everywhere:in books and newspapers,in the street,and on the walls of the places where we live and work.Pictures help us to understand and remember things more easily,and they can make a story much more interesting.
选项 The Greek alphabet was simpler than the Egyptian system for all the following reasons EXCEPT that______.
A:the former was easy to write
B:there were fewer signs in the former
C:the former was easy to pronounce
D:each sign stood for only one sound
答案C
解析本题是细节考查题。原文是“无人知晓为何会画在那里，或许画画的人认为这些图能帮他们捉住这些动物，或者人类总是通过图画来叙述故事”。选项A“猎人想看到这些图画”；选项B“画图的人喜爱动物”；选项C“画图的人想展现自己的想象力”；选项D“图画被认为是有用的”。根据文章第一段可知，答案为D。
本题是细节考查题。原文是“他们画出简单的图或符号来代表事物和思想，以及他们所用语言的发音。这些人用的符号就成为了字母表”。选项A“物品”；选项B “字母表，'；选项C“思想”；选项D“所用语言的发音”。由此可知答案为B。
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本题是细节考查题。选项A“埃及人用的符号后来变成一种字母表”，选项B“埃及人喜欢画漫画故事”；选项C"罗马字母表由埃及的演变而来”；选项D“希腊人模仿埃及人的书写系统”。综观全文可知，答案为A。
本题是综合阅读能力考查题。选项A“应该让人容易理解”；选项B“应该有趣”；选项C“在生活中很有用”；选项D“从生活中消失了”。由本文最后一段可知，答案为C。
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