阅读理解 Ancient history is better understood and our knowledge of the past is direc

阅读理解

Ancient history is better understood and our knowledge of the past is directly increased when the remains of old animals and cities are unearthed (发掘). Among the animals that wandered(游荡) through the world of long ago are some which have now entirely died out, but sometimes the bones of such creatures are found in the earth by the scientist. From these bones he is able to reconstruct (修复) the skeleton (骨架) of the animal and from the skeleton he can obtain quite a good idea of its appearance . If a man on his way to work in the morning were to meet one of these prehistoric (史前的)creatures, he would get the biggest shock of his life. Among them were the various kinds of dinosaurs(恐龙), the bones of which have been found both in Europe and in America. Some of them walked on four legs, but others stood partly upright and walked on their back legs only, like a bird. But they were not to be compared with a bird in size. The dinosaurs were the biggest animals that ever walked on the surface of the earth. Some were twelve feet high; some were sixty feet long, others eighty feet long! The length, say, of six or seven big motorcars end to end. The upper bone of the back leg of one was the size of a tall man, six feet two inches in length. Imagine another creature, which had a head the size of a room doorway, eight feet in length, and with three bony points on it. Or imagine another with plates (盾片) sticking up on edge along its back perhaps for the purpose of keeping off the attacks of animals that wanted to eat it. At one period of history these dinosaurs were the masters of the earth. Now not one remains. Our knowledge of them is wholly obtained from the bones that have been found here and there buried in the ground.

Other buffed remains are a sign of the activities of ancient men. The archaeologist (考古学家) digs up objects proving that civilization is not the product only of modem times. Old cities yield (透露,暴露) up their treasures. Beautiful pottery (陶器) is brought to light after lying buried for centuries. Inscriptions (碑文) on stone tell of the activities of men long since dead. The languages of the ancient Egyptians was for long a puzzle to the Egyptologist and no one was able to understand the inscriptions found on ancient Egyptian stones. By good fortune , however, a piece of stone was found near Rosetta in the Nile Delta. The Stone proved to be the key to old Egyptian language, because the Greek on it could be understood.

1．According to the passage, ________ prehistoric animals now died out.

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2．All of the following are true EXCEPT that ________.

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A．dinosaurs once lived in America and Europe

B．some dinosaurs walked on two legs

C．some birds were bigger than dinosaurs

D．some dinosaurs’ heads had the size of a room doorway

3．The sentence “civilization is not the product of only modem times” in the last paragraph means ________.

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A．civilization exists only in ancient times

B．civilization exists only in modem times

C．civilization exists in ancient times, and in modem times as well

D．civilization exists neither in ancient times nor in modem times

4．The Stone is one of the most valuable stones in the world because ________.

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A．it told activities of ancient people

B．it was found in Egypt

C．it enabled archaeologists to understand old Egyptian

D．it enabled archaeologists to understand Greek

5．The passage mainly discusses ________.

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A．ancient history

B．prehistoric animals and civilizations

C．that dinosaurs once lived on the earth

D．how we obtain knowledge of the past

试题答案

答案：A;C;C;C;D