【正文】 s movements as they think fit. [A] pause [B] halt [C] repel [D] keep 60. Have you ever received __ of what has happened to her? [A] the word [B] words [C] word [D] the words 61. Twelve is to three four is to one. [A] what IS] as [C] that [D] like 62. Things went well for her during her early life but in her middle age her __ seemed to change. [A] affair [B] luck [C] event [D] chance 63. Although I spoke to her about the matter several times, she took little __ of what I said. [A] remark [B] warning [C] notice [D] attention 64. The scheme was __ when it was discovered it would be very costly. [A] resigned [B] surrendered [C] released [D] abandoned 65. Yesterday my aunt bought some new __ for her flat at the seaside. 中華英語學習網 官方總站：圣才學習網 中華英語學習網 官方總站：圣才學習網 6 [A] furniture [B] furnitures [C] possession [D] possessions PART VI READING COMPREHENSION [30 MIN] SECTION A READING COMPREHENSION [25 MIN] In this part there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the correct answer. TEXT A People have been painting pictures for at least 30,000 years. The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunted animals. They used to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill. Pictures of this kind have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain. No one knows why they were painted there. Perhaps the painter thought that their pictures would help them to catch these animals. Or perhaps human 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 as a kind of writing. They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas, and also to represent the sounds of their language. The signs these people used became a kind of alphabet. The Egyptians used to record information and to tell stories by putting picturewriting and pictures together. When an important person died, scenes and stories from his life were painted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried. Some of these pictures are like modem icstrip (連環(huán)漫畫 ) stories. It has been said that Egypt is the home of the ic strip. But, for the Egyptians, 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 bad developed a simpler system of writing. The signs they used were very easy to write, and there were fewer of them than in the Egyptian system. This was because each sign, or letter, represented only one sound in their language. The Greeks developed this system and formed the letter of the Greek alphabet. The Ronmans 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 still need pictures of all kinds, drawings, 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 story much more interesting. 66. Pictures of animals were painted on the walls of caves in France and Spain because [A] the hunters wanted to see the pictures [B] the painters were animal lover [C] the painters wanted to show imagination [D] the pictures were thought to be helpful 67. The Greek alphabet was simpler than the Egyptian system for all the following reasons EXCEPT [A] the former was easy to write [B] there were fewer signs in the former [C] the former was easy to pronounce [D] each sign stood for only one sound 68. Which of the following statements is TRUE? [A] The Egyptian signs later became a particular alphabet. [B] The Egyptians liked to write icstrip stories. [C] The Roman alphabet was developed from the Egyptian one. [D] The Greeks copied their writing system from the Egyptians. 69. In the paragraph, the author thinks that pictures __ [A] should be made prehensible [B] should be made interesting [C] are of much use