2017英語專業(yè)四級(jí)閱讀理解練習(xí)(9)

　　2017英語專業(yè)四級(jí)閱讀理解要求考生掌握對(duì)一定難度新聞、文學(xué)等題材文章的閱讀能力，從閱讀速度和技巧，理解、判斷和推理能力上都有更高要求，這就需要考生平時(shí)強(qiáng)加訓(xùn)練。

　　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

　　參考答案：

　　1. D) 根據(jù)文章第一段第五行

　　“Perhaps the paintersthought that their pictures would help them to catchthese animals.”可知古代人以為在墻上畫畫會(huì)對(duì)他們有所幫助，故選項(xiàng)D為正確答案。?

　　2. C) 在做此類題時(shí)要注意題干的要求。通過閱讀文章第四段很清楚就知道選項(xiàng)C “前者容易發(fā)音”在文中沒有提及，故為正確答案。?

　　3. A) 可用排除法來做本題。通過閱讀文章很清楚選項(xiàng)B和D為錯(cuò)誤陳述。

　　選項(xiàng)C “羅馬字母是從埃及字母發(fā)展而來的”根據(jù)文章第四段第四，五句可知為錯(cuò)誤論述，因此只有選項(xiàng)A為正確答案。

　　4. C) 文章最后一段講述了圖畫在今天的用途，故選項(xiàng)C為正確答案。