2．Why do scientists say the art is quite old?

　　A．The art was carved into stone with stone tools.

　　B．Most animals carved in the stone are extinct.

　　C．The cave is one of the farthest points in the world.

　　D．Some pictures were covered by stalagmites more than 10,000 years old.

　　解析：选D　细节理解题。根据倒数第三段可知答案。

　　3．By studying the cave art, scientists could learn about ________.

　　A．how ancient people crossed the North Sea

　　B．why some of the animals have died out

　　C．how humans spread out across the world

　　D．what ancient people had for food at that time

　　解析：选C　细节理解题。根据最后一段最后一句"another important evidence of understanding how humans spread out across the world."可知。

　　4．Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

　　A．Cave Art About Animals Is Most Beautiful

　　B．Cave Art Is Found in an Unusual Way

　　C．Cave Art Turns Out to Be Britain's Oldest

　　D．Cave Art Has a Great Influence on Britain

　　解析：选C　标题归纳题。本文主要介绍Creswell Grags的洞窟艺术为什么是英国最古老的艺术，后半部分给出了证据。

　　B

　　One week after I started working in Beijing, I decided to visit a place of interest called the Summer Palace. Before setting off, I researched into it on the Internet. The Summer Palace is composed mostly of a lake, but it's surrounded by beautiful greenery and a walkway that circles the lake. It is recommended that you give the Summer Palace about three hours. If you try to walk around it, it could take five or six hours. With that knowledge of it, I set off.

The highlight of the tour had to be the view from the Tower of Buddhist Incense. It sits on top of a large hill overlooking the lake and that is worth the climb. It was built as a place to worship (敬拜) Buddha. And in the Summer Palace, unlike most of the other places, photography wasn't allowed in most of the buildings. Most of the statues of Buddha and the other artifacts (手工艺品) were off­limits to photos.