专四阅读理解.docVIP

专四阅读理解预热（1）About?5,000?years?ago,?the?Egyptians?and?other?people?in?the?Near?East?began?to?use?pictures?askind?of?writing.?They?drew?simple?pictures?or?signs?to?represent?things?and?ideas,?and?also?torepresent?the?sounds?of?their?language.?The?signs?these?people?used?became?a?kind?ofalphabet.The?Egyptians?used?to?record?information?and?to?tell?stories?by?putting?picture?writing?andpictures?together.?When?an?important?person?died,?scenes?and?stories?from?his?life?were?paintedand?carved?on?the?walls?of?the?place?where?he?was?buried.?Some?of?these?pictures?are?like?moderncomic?strip?stories.?It?