問題詳情：
Writing is a much newer invention than talking. Nobody knows when people first began to talk, but so far as we know, they did not begin to write until seven or eight thousand years ago.
In Egypt, Mesopotamia, and China, and later in Palestine and Greece, people began to make marks and pictures with sticks and sharp stones from which others, or they themselves later could see what they had thought.
These early records were the beginning of writing. The first writing was picture writing. Here are some early Chinese picture words. Can you see what they represent （代表）?
Later Chinese writing is less like pictures than the earlier writing was, but we can see the pictures in some of its words. For example：
In picture writing, each picture represents a word; you need a different picture or mark for each word. In present﹣day Chinese writing most of the marks are not pictures of anything, and a reader has to learn how the Chinese write about two thousand of these words before being able to read a newspaper.
With some of these marks you may be able to see what the idea is. For example：
The sun and the moon明Its meanings are："bright" and "open".
A man and two marks仁One of the meanings is "humanity".
28. When did people begin to write?
A. Seven or eight hundred years ago．
B. Before people first began to talk．
C. Seven or eight thousand years ago．
29. Which of the following is the earliest Chinese picture word?
A. 
B. 
C. 雨
30. What does the明in the passage mean?
A. Day and night．
B. Bright and open．
C. Humanity．
31. What's the passage mainly about?
A. The history of Chinese writing．
B. When Chinese people began to write．
C. How the Chinese began to talk．
【回答】
28.C
【解析】細節理解題。根據第一段中but so far as we know, they did not begin to write until seven or eight thousand years ago．可知，人們直到七八千年前纔開始寫作，由此可知文字寫作開始於七八千年前，故選C。
29.A
【解析】細節理解題。根據短文第三段中 The first writing was picture writing第一個是象形文字，結合選項，可知A選項是象形文字，所以它是*最早的文字，故選A。
30.B
【解析】細節理解題。根據短文倒數第二段中The sun and the moon明Its meanings are "bright"and"open"，太陽和月亮．說明它的意思是：明亮和開放，因此“明”的意思是"光明和開放"。故選C。
31.A
【解析】主旨大意題。根據短文開頭Writing is a much newer invention than talking，寫作是一項比談話新得多的發明，*的文字開始於七八千年前，經歷的一些變化最後形成了現在的漢字。由此可以推測，本文主要介紹的是*文字的歷史，故選A。
知識點：說明文
題型：閱讀理解
