专四英语阅读练习.docx

People have been painting pictures for at least30,000 years. The earl People have been painting pictures for at least30,000 years. The earl iest pictures were painted bypeople who hunted animals. paintpictures of the animals they wanted to catch They used of this nd have been why to and ki found on the walls ofcaves in France and Spain. No on e knows theywere painted there. Perhaps the painters thoughtthat their pictures would always help them to catch theseanimals. Or perhaps huma n beings have wanted to tell stories in pictures. About 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians and other people in the Ne