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练习四 三、阅读理解（共15小题计30分） 阅读下列短文，从短文后所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项A． Very little is known about the thousands of people who built the pyramids(金字塔). Many experts now believe that the workers were not slaves but citizens doing their duties. The recent discovery of a 4500-year-old bakery(面包房) can give some information that may be useful to form kind of answer. Where did these builders come from, and how did they live while under the service of their kings? “Two centuries of close study have found out a great deal about those things connected with the pyramids,” says Professor Lehner, “but we are interested in the masses of people who are never talked about in history---the peasant builders.” Lehner, a pyramid expert at Yale, discovered the bakery just south of Cheop’s Pyramid. The bakery might have helped feed as many as 10,000 workers. The experts are putting together bits of seed and animal bones found there in order to find out what the workers ate at that time. They are also searching for nearby places in hope of discovering anything that can help them find out the worker’s home provinces. 1. People used to think that it was the _________ who built the pyramids. A. experts B. citizens C. peasants D. slaves 2. The passage tells us that ________. A. little has been found out about pyramid builders B. a bakery was discovered 200 years ago. C. Cheop’s Pyramid is to the south of the bakery D. the masses of people never talked about history 3. The discovery of the bakery may help the experts find out what kind of _____. A. plant the workers grew B. food the workers had C. home the workers lived in D. animal the workers hunted B. One hot night last July, when our new baby wouldn’t or couldn’t sleep, I tried everything I could think of: a warm bottle, songs, and gentle rocking. Nothing would settle him. Guessing that I had a long night ahead of me, I brought a portable(便携式) TV into his room, thinking that watching the late movie was as good a way as any to kill off the hours u