[填空题]People in ancient times weren’t able to make diverse materials, but they could use every subject occurring in the nature.

[填空题]People in ancient times weren’t able to make diverse materials, but they could use every subject occurring in the nature.

[单项选择]Some ancient people were able to tell the time by the shadow（）by the sun on the slate.
A. thrown
B. flung
C. cast
D. tossed

[单项选择]Since ancient times people have found various ways to preserve meat.
A. eat
B. cook
C. freeze
D. keep

[单项选择]In ancient times people who were thought to have the ability to ______ dreams were likely to be highly respected.
A. impart
B. inherit
C. interpret
D. intervene

[单项选择]Since ancient times, people have dreamed of leaving their home planet and exploring other worlds. In the later half of the 20th century, that dream became reality. The space age began with the launch of the first artificial satellites in 1963. A human first went into space in 1963. Since then, astronauts and cosmonauts have ventured into space for ever greater lengths of time, even living aboard orbiting space stations for months on end. Two dozen people have circled the moon or walked on its surface. At the same time, robotic explorers have journeyed where humans could not go, visiting all but one of the solar system’s major worlds. Unpiloted spacecraft have also visited a host of minor bodies such as moons, comets, and asteroids. These explorations have sparked the advance of new technologies, from rockets to communications equipment to computers. Spacecraft studies have yielded a bounty of scientific discoveries about the solar system, the Milky Way Galaxy, and the universe. And the
A. Those explorations.
B. The advance of new technologies.
C. Spacecraft studies.
D. Scientific discoveries.

[填空题]In ancient times, people traveled not for fun but to find a place to raise livestock,___________ ____________________________________(或者不以敌人为邻)

[填空题]What helped ancient people forecast the weather By observing the sky, ______.

[填空题]How did ancient people remember their knowledge of weather patterns They ______.

[单项选择]Why did ancient people usually live where there were plenty of trees（）
A. Trees provided them with shades.
B. Trees indicated plenty of sunlight and rainfall.
C. Trees were materials for burning and building houses.
D. Trees provided them with fruit and food.

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Long time ago, the ancient people could not travel to any far away places for they had no vehicle to carry them across the wide oceans, deep valleys, long rivers or high mountains.
Nowadays people take advantage of steamships, trains, airplanes and 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, such as the customs, the geography of other countries. And 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 large was Mr. Columbus. He was a brave man. Up to the middle of the 15th century, the people were afraid of traveling because they believed it was a dangerous thing.
There is a saying in China, which is "Travelling for thousands is be
A. they found it no use doing so
B. they liked staying at home
C. there was no modern transportation
D. they were forbidden to go to other countries