By the year 1,000 BC,people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea had developed a simpler system of writing.The signs they used were very easy to write,and there were fewer of them than in the Egyptian system.This was because each sign,or letter,represented only one sound in their language.The Greeks developed this system and formed the letter of the Greek alphabet.The Romans copied the idea,and Roman alphabet is now used all over the world.
These days,we can write down a story,or record information,without using pictures.But we still need pictures of all kinds:drawings,photographs,signs and diagrams.We find them everywhere:in books and newspapers,in the street,and on the walls of the places where we live and work.Pictures help us to understand and remember things more easily,and they can make a story much more interesting.
(2015·湖北重点中学期中联考)
1.Ancient people in France and Spain painted pictures on the walls of caves probably because.
A.they loved animals
B.they enjoyed seeing pictures
C.they preferred painting pictures to showing imagination
D.they thought pictures would be helpful in catching animals
2.From this passage we know that.
A.the Egyptian signs made a particular alphabet come into being
B.the Roman alphabet was developed from Egyptian alphabet
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