单选题 Passage Three
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
单选题 A. Dates and names that cannot be verified. B. Unusual works of art.
C. Articles written by previous historians. D. Significant events and influential people.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析]
(32) We usually think of history as the story of important people and events, but some historians are also interestedin the daily lives of ordinary people. We can get this kind of inf6rmation from written documents like diaries and townrecords, but we can also learn a lot from studying old family portraits.
(33) Family portraits provide clues about things like the size of the family and the hobbies and tastes of familymembers. The number of children in a portrait, for example, indicates the size of the family; the types of clothing familymembers wore for the portrait suggest the popular fashion of the time. (34)The objects that children hold in their handscan give clues about the games they played and their hobbies. (35)The background of a family portrait gives historiansan idea of room size and furnishings and even the wealth and social position of the family. All of these details help
historians understand more about the everyday lives of some of the ordinary people from the past．

文章的第一句话就提到，我们通常认为历史只和一些重要人物和事件有关，但是有一些历史学家也对普通人的生活感兴趣。题目问的是大多数人认为历史学家所关心的内容，所以答案选D。
单选题 A. They are few in number.
B. They depict important historical events.
C. They provide a lot of information about ordinary people.
D. They have clues about the social role of artists.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】通过老照片可以看到家庭的规模、成员的兴趣和爱好等很多的信息。所以答案选C。
单选题 A. Their playthings. B. Some money.
C. Their relatives' bands. D. Their shoes.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】通过孩子们手上拿的东西可以了解到孩子们玩的游戏。所以答案选A。
单选题 A. The location of the house. B. The social and economic status of the family.
C. The types of games children played. D. The profession of the owner of the house.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】通过照片上的背景能看到房屋的大小和家具，以此来判断家庭的财富状况和社会地位。故选B。