Question

Long, long ago there were only a few thousand people in the world. These people move form place to place over the land, hunting animals for food.
No one knows how or when these people learned about growing food. But when they did, their lives changed. They did not have to look for food any more. They could stay in one place and grow it.
People began to live near one another. And so the first village grew. Many people came to work in the villages. These villages grew very big. When machines appeared(出現), life in the villages changed again. Factories were built. More and more people lived near the factories. The cities grew very big.
Today some people are moving back to small towns. Can you tell why?
【小題1】The best title(題目)of the text should be ___.

A．Cities or Villages	B．Back to Towns
C．How Cities Grew	D．People and Animals

【小題2】The underlined word "they" in the second paragraph refers to(指的是) ___.

A．villages

B．animals

C．cities

D．people

【小題3】When factories were built, ___.

A．more people live near the factories

B．people began to live in the factories

C．many people began to work in villages

D．many machines appeared in big factories

【小題4】We can learn from the text that ___.

A．people like to work only in big cities

B．some people don't like to live in big cities

C．there will be no small towns in the future(將來)

D．it is better to live in cities than in villages

【小題5】In what order did people do the following things?
A. Worked in villages       B. Lived near the factories.
C. Learned to grow food.    D. Built factories.
E. Began to live near each other.
A. d, b, a, e, c         B. e, a, c, d, b
C. c, e, a, d, b         D. a. c. d. e. b

Answer 1

【小題1】C
【小題2】D
【小題3】A
【小題4】B
【小題5】C

解析試題分析：這篇短文簡單的介紹了人類社會的發展過程，人們首先由學會種植食物開始，從而結束了游獵生活，接著開始集體生活，建立村莊，工廠，最后生活在工廠附近，城市出現。
【小題1】本文主要介紹了城市的產生過程，故選C，城市是怎樣產生的。
【小題2】聯系上文描述，可知they指的是這些人們，故選D，人們。
【小題3】根據最后一段Factories were built. More and more people lived near the factories.描述，可知選A。
【小題4】根據Today some people are moving back to small towns.可知有些人不喜歡住在城市里面。故選B。
【小題5】根據短文描述，可知人們是先學會種植食物，然后開始群居，然后建立村莊，然后建立工廠，最后住在工廠附近。故選C。
考點：關于人類社會發展的說明文閱讀
點評：本文淺顯易懂，各個小題都能在文中找到適當依據。只要認真閱讀短文，注意前后聯系，就能順利完成閱讀。文章所設試題主要考察細節查找，做題關鍵是找出原文的根據，認真核查小題和原文的異同。