Pictures of animals were painted on the walls of caves in France and Spain because ( ).

[材料题] People have been painting pictures for at least 30,000 years. The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunted animals. Pictures of this kind have been found were painted on the walls of caves in France and Spain. No one knows why, Perhaps the painters thought that their pictures would help them to catch these animals. About 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to 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. 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

单项选择题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

单项选择题2.People hide their weakness from ( ).: A、The Egyptian signs later became a particular alphabet.; B、The Egyptians liked to hunt animals.; C、The Roman alphabet was developed from the Egyptian one.; D、The Greeks copied their writing system from the Egyptians.

单项选择题3.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

单项选择题4.Which of the following statements is WRONG.: A、The earliest pictures were painted can represent the sounds of their language.; B、The signs that people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea used were more easy to write than Egyptian ones.; C、The Roman alphabet was developed from the Greek one.; D、Now we can still see the Roman alphabet around the world.

单项选择题5.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

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