在英语越来越普及的今天，学好英语成了大学生的首要学习目标。为了帮助大家顺利通过英语考试。特收集以下题目：
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 these 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 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 of writing simple. The ordinary people could not understand it.
By the year 1,000 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 alphabet 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.
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 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
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
1. D)
按照文章第一段第五行“Perhaps the painters thought that their pictures would help them to catch these animals.”可知古代人觉得在墙上画画会对他们有所辅佐，故选项D为正确谜底。
在做此类题时要注重题干的要求。经由过程阅读文章第四段很清嚣张就知道选项C “前者轻易发音”在文中没有说起，故为正确谜底。
3. A)
可用解除法来做本题。经由过程阅读文章很清嚣张选项B和D为错误陈述。
选项C “罗马字母是从埃及字母成长而来的”按照文章第四段第四，五句可知为错误阐述，是以只有选项A为正确谜底。
4. C
文章最后一段讲述了丹青在今天的用途，故选项C为正确谜底。