Directions: There are five reading passages in this part. Each passage is
followed by four questions. For each question there are four suggested answers
marked A, B, C and D. Choose one best answer and blacken the corresponding
letter on the Answer Sheet. Passage One
Mart’s story in China began many thousands of years ago.
Remains of an early form of man discovered in China, known as Peking Man,
indicate that Stone Age men lived in the area as long as 500,000 years ago.
During the centuries that followed, their descendants laid the
foundations of civilization in China. Throughout its history,
China has been a rich source of inventions. Silk, the compass, tea and porcelain
originated there. In addition, they are responsible for the invention of paper
and printing. The Chinese had used ink as early as 1 200 B. C. , an excellent
type which they made from lampblack and which is known in English as India ink
or China ink. By the end of the first century A. D. , the Chinese had invented
paper. The Chinese also invented printing. Early Chinese
printing is called block printing. The printer carved raised characters on a
block of wood, wet the surface of the characters with ink, and pressed sheets of
paper against them. Printers in the 11th century went on to invent
movable type of baked clay. The characters of the movable type could be
rearranged to form different words and thus be used over and over again. The
Chinese alphabet has about 40 thousand characters. Because of the difficulty of
producing so many pieces of type, most Chinese printers continued to use block
printing.
This passage talks mostly about ()
A.the landforms of China
B.the people of China
C.Chinese explorers
D.Chinese history