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(出现), 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?
小题1:The best title(题目)of the text should be ___.

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

小题2:The underlined word "they" in the second paragraph refers to(指的是) ___.

A．villages

B．animals

C．cities

D．people

小题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

小题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(将来)

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

小题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

小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:A
小题4:B
小题5:C

试题分析：这篇短文简单的介绍了人类社会的发展过程，人们首先由学会种植食物开始，从而结束了游猎生活，接着开始集体生活，建立村庄，工厂，最后生活在工厂附近，城市出现。
小题1:本文主要介绍了城市的产生过程，故选C，城市是怎样产生的。
小题2:联系上文描述，可知they指的是这些人们，故选D，人们。
小题3:根据最后一段Factories were built. More and more people lived near the factories.描述，可知选A。
小题4:根据Today some people are moving back to small towns.可知有些人不喜欢住在城市里面。故选B。
小题5:根据短文描述，可知人们是先学会种植食物，然后开始群居，然后建立村庄，然后建立工厂，最后住在工厂附近。故选C。
点评：本文浅显易懂，各个小题都能在文中找到适当依据。只要认真阅读短文，注意前后联系，就能顺利完成阅读。文章所设试题主要考察细节查找，做题关键是找出原文的根据，认真核查小题和原文的异同。