四、阅读理解
How do we know about things that took place thousands of years ago, when there were no videos or photos? One answer is written records（书面记录）. The earliest written records of Chinese culture are known as oracle bone script (甲骨文).
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The oracle bone script is characters（文字）on turtle（龟）shells or animal bones. More than 3,000 years ago, ancient Chinese people in the Shang dynasty liked to ask fortune tellers（占卜师）about the future. The things they asked could be about family, weather, buildings, and so on. The fortune teller would write the questions on an oracle bone, make it hot, and then read the cracks（裂纹）on it to find an answer.
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In 1899, a man named Wang Yirong became sick in Beijing. He bought a medicine called "dragon bones". As an expert（专家）in studying ancient script, he soon found out that these symbols on the bones could be ancient writing. He sent people to buy a large number of these oracle bones and studied them. After careful study, he thought that these signs were the characters of the Shang dynasty more than 3,000 years ago.
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The oracle bone script not only tells us about ancient Chinese culture, but also is important to understand the development（发展）of the written form of the Chinese language. For example, the Chinese character ma on the oracle bone looks like a running horse. It has a long face and long legs. The character becomes simpler today, but we can still see the shape of a horse in it. "The oracle bone script shows the beautiful and special parts of a language that have been passed down year after year," said Chen Nan, a teacher at Tsinghua University.
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A
) 1. How does the writer develop his idea in Paragraph 3?
A. By telling a story.
B. By introducing a famous person.
C. By comparing（对比）differences.
D. By explaining（解释）the reasons.
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C
) 2. Which of the following is the Chinese character ma on the oracle bone?
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D
) 3. Match the subtitles（副标题）to the three paragraphs.
a. Who discovered（发现）oracle bone script?
b. What is oracle bone script?
c. Why is oracle bone script important?
A. ①-a, ②-b, ③-c B. ①-b, ②-c, ③-a C. ①-a, ②-c, ③-b D. ①-b, ②-a, ③-c
Exercise 3 of Unit 4 of 7B Reading (Ⅱ)
