题文
If we are asked exactly what we were doing a year ago, we might have to say that we could not remember. But if we had kept a book and written in it an account (陈述) of what we did each day, we should be able to give an answer to the question.It is the same in history. Many things have been forgotten because we do not have any written account of them. Sometimes men did keep a record of the important happenings in their country, but often it was destroyed by fire or in a war. Sometimes there was never any written record at all because the people of that time and place did not know how to write. For example, we know a great deal about the people who lived in china 4,000 years ago, because they could write and leave written records for whose who lived after them. But we know almost nothing about the people who lived even 200 years ago in central Africa, because they had not learned go write.
Sometimes, of course, even if the people cannot write, they may know something of the past. They have heard about it from older people, and often songs and dances and stories have been made about the most important happenings, and those have been sung and acted and told for many generations, for most people are proud to tell what their fathers did in the past. This we may call ‘remembered history’. Some of it has now been written history, because words are much more easily changed when used again and again in speech than when copied in writing. But where there are no written records, such spoken stories are often very helpful.
小题1: Which of the following ideas is NOT talked about in the passage above?A．“Remembered history” is less reliable than written history.B．Written records of the past played a most important in our learning of the human history.C．A written account of our daily activities helps us to remember what we have done D．Where there are no written records, there is no history.小题2:Remembered history”refers to .A．history based on a person’s imaginationB．stories of important happenings passed down from mouth to mouthC．history written down in booksD．what we have learned and remembered in history lessons小题3:“Remembered history”is regarded as valuable only when .A．it is written downB．there is no written account C．is proves downD．people are interested in it小题4: It can be inferred from the passage that we could have learned much more about our past than we do now if our ancestors had .A．kept a written record of every past eventB．not fought against one another in warsC．told exact stories of the most important happeningsD．produced and taught more songs and dances 题型：未知难度：其他题型
答案
小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:B
小题4:A
解析
小题1:根据文章的大意：用文字记录历史的重要性，若没有文字“remembered history”就显得尤为重要，而其与用文字记载事件有着不可替代的缺点---不是很可靠。由此判断本题选D
小题2:
根据“… for most people are proud to tell what their fathers did in the past. This we may call ‘remembered history’.即因为大多数人自豪地讲着他们的父辈从前做过的事。由此判断“remembered history”是用嘴来传述事件，故选B
小题3:有文章的最后一句：“…where there are no written records, such spoken stories are often very helpful.”即在没有文字记载的地方，口述事件就非常重要。故选B
小题4:根据文章的大意：即用文字记载事件比口述的要准确，若没有文字，口述就显得尤为重要，故可以判断该题选A.
考点
据考高分专家说，试题“If we are asked exac.....”主要考查你对 [历史文化类阅读 ]考点的理解。历史文化类阅读
什么是历史文化类阅读：
本类题型常用的方式是夹叙夹议。叙述的目的是为了议，所以要把握其议才是主要方面。阅读这类文章，先弄清其引入的话题，再弄清里面人物对其不同的看法，然后理解作者本身对话题的观点看法或思考。
历史文化类阅读技巧：
【题型说明】历史文化类阅读理解文章属高考常选材料之一。这类文章常涉及历史、文化、法制、宗教等方面的文学艺术、发明创造、文化遗产保护、宗教与文化、风俗与习惯、道德与法制、中外文学名著节选、等等。这类材料的命题点往往落在主旨大意题、事实细节题上。
【答题方法】在做这类阅读理解题时，我们应注意以下几个方面：
1、采用先题后文：先读题目，再带着问题读文章。这类阅读理解文章相对来说事实细节题稍多一点，如果带着问题读文章，有利于我们抓细节。
2、先做细节题。因为做完了局部性的事实细节题后，自然会加深我们对文章的理解，这样更有利于做主旨大意题。
3、重点敲定主旨题。主旨大意题提问的形式主要有两大类：一类是Main idea型；一类是Topic或Title型。
在解答这类试题时应注意以下几点：
a．读首句抓大意。
文化教育类阅读理解文章多采用说明文、议论文体裁，而这类文章大都采用文章段落的中心，即主题句在文章开头。因此，要寻找这类文章的主旨大意就需要研究文章的首句。
b．读尾句抓大意。
有时这类文章的主题句安排在文章的结尾，作为对全篇的总结。
c．读首段抓大意。
有些文章或段落的开头和结尾部分都有主题句。这种结构是为了突出主题思想而使用两次点题的写作方法。这两个主题句在句子结构和用词上有所不同，而且在内容上前句和后句也不重复。
d．从段落中抓大意。
有些文章或段落的主题句在文章中，这种文章或段落往往以一句话或几句话引出要表达的主题，在主题句出现后，再举例子陈述细节或继续论证。
e．归纳要点抓大意。
有些文章或段落无明显的主题句，只是暗示性地体现主题。这就要求同学们在阅读过程中根据文中所叙述的事实或线索来概括总结主旨大意。
