Question

If we are asked exactly what we were doing a year ago, we might have to say that we could not remember. But if we had kept a book and written it in account（陈述）of what we did each day, we should be able to give an answer to the question.

    It is the same in history. Many things have been forgotten because we do not have any written account of them. Sometimes men did keep record of the important happenings in their country, but often it was destroyed by fire or in a war. Sometimes there was never any written record at all because the people of that time and place did not know how to write. For example, we know a great deal about the people who lived in China 4000 years ago, because they could write and leave written records for those who lived after them. But we know almost nothing about the people who lived even 200 years ago in central Africa, because they had not learned to write.

    Sometimes, of course, even if the people cannot write. They may know something of the past. They have heard about it from older people, and often songs and dances and stories have been made about the most important happenings, and those have been sung and acted and told for many generations (代), for most people are proud to tell what their fathers did in the past. This we may call “remembered history”. Some of it has now been written history, because words are much more easily changed when used again and again in speech than when copied in writing. But where there are no written records, such spoken stories are often very helpful.

1. Which of the following ideas is not talked in the passage above? _________.

A.      Remembered history is less reliable（可靠的） than written history.

B.      Written records of the past play a most important part in our learning of the human history.

C.      Where there are no written records, there is no history.

D.     A written account of our daily activities（活动） helps us to answer some questions.

2. “Remembered history” refers to _________.

A.      history based on a person’s imagination（想象）.

B.      Stories of important happenings passed from mouth to mouth.

C.      Songs and dances about the most important events（事件）.

D.     Both B and C.

3. Remembered history is regarded as valuable only when _________.

A. it is written down                B. there is no written account

C. it proves to be true                D. people are interested in it

4. It can be inferred（推断） from the passage that we could have learned much more about our past than we do now if our ancestors（祖先）had _________.

A. kept a written record of every past event

B. not burned their written records in wars

C. told exactly stories of the most important happenings

D. made more songs and dances

Answer 1

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