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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 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

重点单词   查看全部解释    
understand [.ʌndə'stænd]

想一想再看

vt. 理解,懂,听说,获悉,将 ... 理解为,认为<

 
strip [strip]

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n. 长条,条状,脱衣舞
v. 脱衣,剥夺,剥

联想记忆
comic ['kɔmik]

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n. 连环图画,喜剧演员,喜剧元素
adj.

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alphabet ['ælfəbit]

想一想再看

n. 字母表,基本原理(元素),符号系统

 
particular [pə'tikjulə]

想一想再看

adj. 特殊的,特别的,特定的,挑剔的
n.

联想记忆
comprehensible [.kɔmpri'hensəbl]

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adj. 可理解的,易懂的

 
except [ik'sept]

想一想再看

vt. 除,除外
prep. & conj.

联想记忆


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