牛津译林版高中英语必修二模块综合测评2VIP专享

高中英语学习材料（灿若寒星 *制作整理）模块综合测评 (二) (时间： 100 分钟；满分： 120 分) Ⅰ.阅读理解 (共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分) AImagine looking for your lost dog. You step into a cave(洞穴 ). But instead of the dog, you find beautiful cave paintings. You see paintings of horses, deer, and bison that are drawn in black, brown, red and yellow. Your first question would probably be “Who did this？”This is what happened to four French boys in 1940. They found the Lascaux caves. The paintings the boys discovered in those caves are 17,000 years old. They were drawn by the ancient people called Cro-Magnons. Cro-Magnons looked much like people of today. They used tools, such as fishing nets. But their art was extremely good. The main cave at Lascaux is called the Great Hall of Bulls, which has a picture of bulls and horses in many colors. The largest animal is 18 feet long. There are smaller animals, such as bison, stags(雄鹿 )and a bear. There is also a strange spotted two-horned (两只角的 ) animal. To the left of the main cave are the most famous paintings that are the drawings of multicolored animals. One painting is called Little Horses. On the ceiling are horses and cows. The most unusual sight may be in the Shaft of the Dead Man where there is a rhinoceros (犀牛), a carefully drawn dead man, a wounded bison and a bird. Why did Cro- Magnon artists do these beautiful drawings on cave walls? Did the drawings call upon some magical power? Did the Cro- Magnon people hope that the drawings would bring good luck? There is one thing the paintings seem to tell us. The Cro-Magnons were interested in the world. They looked at beauty and they understood it. 1．The author uses...