Unit 2 Cloning Learning about language课时作业

阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

　　请阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　A

　　Imagine looking for your lost dog. You step into a cave. But instead of the dog, you find beautiful cave paintings. You see paintings of horses, deer, and bison that were drawn in black, brown, red and yellow. Your first question would probably be "Who did this？"

　　This is what happened to four French boys in 1940. They found the Lascaux caves. The paintings the boys discovered in those caves are about 17,000 years old. They were drawn by the ancient people called Cro­Magnons.

　　Cro­Magnons looked much like people of today. They used tools, such as fishing nets. But their art was extremely good. The main cave at Lascaux is called Great Hall of Bulls, which has a picture of bulls and horses in many colours. The largest animal is 18 feet long. There are smaller animals, such as bison, stags and a bear. There is also a strange spotted two­horned (两只角的) animal.

　　To the left of the main cave are the most famous paintings that are the drawings of animals in many different colours. One painting is called Little Horses. On the ceiling are horses and cows. The most unusual sight may be in the Shaft of the Dead Man where there is a rhinoceros, a carefully drawn dead man, an injured bison and a bird.

　　Why did Cro­Magnon artists do these beautiful drawings on cave walls? Did the drawings call upon some magic power? Did the Cro­Magnon people hope that the drawings would bring good luck? There is one thing the paintings seem to tell us. The Cro­Magnons were interested in the world. They looked at beauty and they understood it.

　　语篇解读：本文为说明文。文章主要介绍了法国Lascaux岩洞内的壁画。

　　1．The author uses the word "you" in Paragraph 1 to ________.

　　A．attract readers' attention

　　B．make it clear that this is a true story

　　C．give readers good directions to find the caves

　　D．compare modern people with Cro­Magnon people

　　解析：选A　推理判断题。第一段虚构了一个以读者为主人公的场景，目的是引起读者的注意。

　　2．What does the passage mainly tell us?

　　A．The cave paintings are beautiful.

　　B．Who found the beautiful cave paintings.

C．The Lascaux caves hold colourful ancient paintings.