阅读理解 passage one People have been painting pictures for at least 30,000 years.The earliest pictures were painted by people who huntedanimals. They used to paint pictures of the animals they wantedto catch and kill. Pictures of this kind have been found on thewalls of caves in France and Spain. No one knows why theywere painted there. Perhaps the painters thought that theirpictures would help them to catch these animals. Or perhapshuman beings have always wanted to tell stories in pictures. 　　About 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures askind of writing. They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas, and also torepresent the sounds of their language. The signs these people used became a kind ofalphabet.The Egyptians used to record information and to tell stories by putting picture writingand pictures together. When an important person died, scenes and stories from his life werepainted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried. Some of these pictures are likemodern comic strip stories. It has been said that Egypt is the home of the comic strip. But, for theEgyptians, pictures still had magic power. So they did not try to make their way of writing simple.The ordinary people could not understand it. 　　By the year 1,000 BC, people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea had developeda simpler system of writing. The signs they used were very easy to write, and there were fewer ofthem than in the Egyptian system. This was because each sign, or letter, represented only onesound in their language. The Greeks developed this system and formed the letters of the Greekalphabet. The Romans copied the idea, and the Roman alphabet is now used all over the world. 　　These days, we can write down a story, or record information, without using pictures. But we stillneed pictures of all kinds: drawing, photographs, signs and diagrams. We find them everywhere:in books and newspapers, in the street, and on the walls of the places where we live and work.Pictures help us to understand and remember things more easily, and they can make a storymuch more interesting.

单选题 Pictures of animals were painted on the walls of caves in France and Spain because ______.

单选题 The Greek alphabet was simpler than the Egyptian system for all the following reasons EXCEPTthat ______.

单选题 Which of the following statements is TRUE

单选题 In the last paragraph, the author thinks that pictures ______.