[单项选择]Why didn't men climb mountains long ago

[单项选择]Long, long ago there were very ______ people in this place, but now it has become a town with 5,000,000 population.
A. few
B. little
C. a few
D. a little

[单项选择]One of the reasons why men invented certain sounds to express thoughts and actions was that they could ______.


A. agree with certain signs
B. write them down
C. make themselves understand each other
D. combine them

[单项选择]A long time ago, at
A. A．a .national conference on biology, he cautiously ______ his new theory on life. advancedB. relievedC. producedD. thrust

[单项选择]Long long ago, there were ______ people in the world.


A. a lot of
B. many
C. only a few

[单项选择]Yesterday we ______to climb mountains.


A. go
B. have gone
C. went

[单项选择]Let's go to climb mountains, ______

[单项选择]We all went to climb mountains ______Mary.


A. except
B. beside
C. besides

[单项选择]Why do men and women share household tasks


A. Because women play an equal role as men.
B. Because women play a dominant role in the family.
C. Because women have less time to spend on housework.
D. Because men spend more time on housework.

[单项选择]But the Swiss discovered long years ago that constant warfare brought them ______ suffering and poverty.
A. anything but
B. nothing but
C. none other than
D. no more than

[单项选择]The reason why these men committed suicide is that（）
A. they felt they dishonored the family name
B. they couldn't find gainful employment because of their age after losing their job
C. they were afraid of being old
D. Both A and B.

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Passage One
Long time ago, the ancient people could not travel to any faraway places for they had no instruments to carry them across the wide oceans, the deep valleys, long rivers or the high mountains.
Nowadays men take advantage of steamships, trains, airplanes for modern bridges. Airplanes can carry us to the far countries in a short time; steamships can travel across the wide oceans. It is convenient to the modern people.
Travelling is a good idea to us because we can get more knowledge about, such as the custom, the geography of other countries. And the people could travel among the different countries in the world. For it is easy to travel from the land by trains, or from the sea by ships.
We learnt that the Italian who made the world larger was Mr. Christopher Columbus. He was a brave man. Up to the middle of the 15th century, the people were afraid of travelling because they believed it was a dangerous thing.
There is a sayi
A. it can bring us more knowledge
B. it can make us rich
C. they have too much money
D. it is a good idea