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2017英语专业四级阅读理解练习(9)

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  2017英语专业四级阅读理解要求考生掌握对一定难度新闻、文学等题材文章的阅读能力,从阅读速度和技巧,理解、判断和推理能力上都有更高要求,这就需要考生平时强加训练。

  People have been painting pictures for at least30,000 years. The earliest pictures were painted bypeople who hunted animals. They used to paintpictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill.Pictures of this kind have been found on the walls ofcaves in France and Spain. No one knows why theywere painted there. Perhaps the painters thoughtthat their pictures would help them to catch theseanimals. 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 picturesas kind of writing. They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas, and also torepresent the sounds of their language. The signs these people used became a kind ofalphabet.The Egyptians used to record information and to tell stories by putting picture writingand pictures together. When an important person died, scenes and stories from his life werepainted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried. Some of these pictures arelike modern comic strip stories. It has been said that Egypt is the home of the comic strip.But, for the Egyptians, pictures still had magic power. So they did not try to make their way ofwriting simple. The ordinary people could not understand it.

  By the year 1,000 BC, people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea haddeveloped a simpler system of writing. The signs they used were very easy to write, and therewere 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 formedthe letters of the Greek alphabet. The Romans copied the idea, and the Roman alphabet isnow used all over the world.

  These days, we can write down a story, or record information, without using pictures. But westill need pictures of all kinds: drawing, photographs, signs and diagrams. We find themeverywhere: in books and newspapers, in the street, and on the walls of the places where welive and work. Pictures help us to understand and remember things more easily, and they canmake a story much more interesting.?

  1. Pictures of animals were painted on the walls of caves in France and Spain because ___ ___.

  A. the hunters wanted to see the pictures

  B. the painters were animal lovers

  C. the painters wanted to show imagination

  D. the pictures were thought to be helpful

  2. The Greek alphabet was simpler than the Egyptian system for all the following reasonsEXCEPT 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

  3. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

  A. The Egyptian signs later became a particular alphabet

  B. The Egyptians liked to write comic?strip stories

  C. The Roman alphabet was developed from the Egyptian one

  D. The Greeks copied their writing system from the Egyptians

  4. In the last paragraph, the author thinks that pictures _____.

  A. should be made comprehensible?

  B. should be made interesting?

  C. are of much use in our life?

  D. have disappeared from our life

  参考答案:

  1. D) 根据文章第一段第五行

  “Perhaps the paintersthought that their pictures would help them to catchthese animals.”可知古代人以为在墙上画画会对他们有所帮助,故选项D为正确答案。?

  2. C) 在做此类题时要注意题干的要求。通过阅读文章第四段很清楚就知道选项C “前者容易发音”在文中没有提及,故为正确答案。?

  3. A) 可用排除法来做本题。通过阅读文章很清楚选项B和D为错误陈述。

  选项C “罗马字母是从埃及字母发展而来的”根据文章第四段第四,五句可知为错误论述,因此只有选项A为正确答案。

  4. C) 文章最后一段讲述了图画在今天的用途,故选项C为正确答案。


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