2022年专四英语阅读练习.docx

2022年专四英语阅读练习 （一） People have been painting pictures for at least30,000 years. The earliest pictu res 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 fou nd on the walls ofcaves in France and Spain. No one knows why theywere pai nted there. Perhaps the painters thoughtthat their pictures would help them t o catch theseanimals. Or perhaps human beings have always wanted to tell st ories in pictures. About 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians and other people in the Near East bega n to use picturesas kind of writing. They drew simple pictures or signs to repr esent things and ideas, and also torepresent the sounds of their language. Th e signs these people used became a kind of alphabet.The Egyptians used to r ecord information and to tell stories by putting picture writingand pictures tog ether. When an important person died, scenes and stories from his life werep ainted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried. Some of the se 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 p ower. So they did not try to make their way ofwriting simple. The ordinary pe ople 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 ver y easy to write, and therewere fewer of them than in the Egyptian system. Th is was because each sign, or letter,represented only one sound in their langua ge. The Greeks developed this system and formedthe letters of the Greek alp habet. 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 p ictures. 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 und erstand 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 ?___ ___?.? （一） People have been painting pictures for at least30,000 years. The earliest pictu res 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 fou nd on the walls ofcaves in France and Spain. No one knows why theywere pai nted there. Perhaps the painters thoughtthat their pictures would help them t o catch theseanimals. Or perhaps human beings have always wanted to tell st ories in pictures. About 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians and other people in the Near East bega n to use picturesas kind of writing. They drew simple pictures or signs to repr esent things and ideas, and also torepresent the sounds of their language. Th e signs these people used became a kind of alphabet.The Egyptians used to r ecord information and to tell stories by putting picture writingand pictures tog ether. When an important person died, scenes and stories from his life werep ainted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried. Some of the se 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 p ower. So they did not try to make their way ofwriting simple. The ordinary pe ople 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 ver y easy to write, and therewere fewer of them than in the Egyptian system. Th is was because each sign, or letter,represented only one sound in their langua ge. The Greeks developed this system and formedthe letters of the Greek alp habet. 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 p ictures. 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 und erstand 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 ?___ ___?.? 。