Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.When another old cave is discovered in the south of France, it is not usually news. Rather, it is an ordinary event. Such discoveries are so frequent these days that hardly anybody pays heed to them. However, when the Lascaux cave complex was discovered in 1940, the world was amazed. Painted directly on its walls were hundreds of scenes showing how people...
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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
When another old cave is discovered in the south of France, it is not usually news. Rather, it is an ordinary event. Such discoveries are so frequent these days that hardly anybody pays heed to them. However, when the Lascaux cave complex was discovered in 1940, the world was amazed. Painted directly on its walls were hundreds of scenes showing how people lived thousands of years ago. The scenes show people hunting animals, such as bison or wild cats. Other images depict birds and, most noticeably, horses, which appear in more than 300 wall images, by far outnumbering all other animals.
Early artists drawing these animals accomplished a monumental and difficult task. “They” did not limit themselves to the easily accessible walls but carried their painting materials to spaces that required climbing steep walls or crawling into narrow passages in the Lascaux complex.
Unfortunately, the paintings have been exposed to the destructive action of water and temperature changes, which easily wear the images away. Because the Lascaux caves have many entrances, air movement has also damaged the images inside. Although they are not out in the open air, where natural light would have destroyed them long ago, many of the images have deteriorated and are barely recognizable. To prevent further damage, the site was closed to tourists in 1963, 23 years after it was discovered
Why was painting inside the Lascaux complex a difficult task?
A. It was completely dark inside
B. The caves were full of wild animals
C. Many painting spaces were difficult to reach
D. Painting materials were hard to find
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The days when people would go to a zoo simply for (0. AMUSE) ___amusement____ are long ago. Today, when we place greater (1. IMPORT) __born_____ on the survival of animals in the wild, zoos have duty to inform the public and improve our (2. KNOW) ____in___ of the environment and the problems faced (3. WORLD) __event_____ by large numbers of animals. Today's zoos also play a role in the (4. PROTECT) __telephone_____ of threatened species, breeding animals for release in the wild. Many zoos also fund (5. SCIENCE) __spread_____ research into animals and their behavior. The way animals are treated in zoos has changed, too. Many intelligent animals suffer from (6. BORE) ___made____ in captivity and their keepers now try to improve the (7. PSYCHOLOGY) ___the____ state of the animals in their care. They do this by, for example, providing the animals with a (8. VARY) __imagined_____ of different food or by changing the animals' (9. DAY) _____death__ routine. Although some cris of zoos remain (10. CONVINCE) ____for___ , there can be no doubt that animals in zoos today enjoy a more comfortable existence than in the past.