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五、阅读理解
The guitar is one of the most popular musical instruments in the world. Many different cultures have played instruments like the guitar for over 3,000 years. The oldest instrument that we can see today comes from Ancient Egypt. You can see this guitar in a museum in Cairo. It belonged to a singer who sang for the Egyptian queen Hatshepsut. This type of guitar had a long neck and only three strings(弦).
The lute is also an ancient instrument similar to a guitar,but it has a short neck and a body like half a pear. It usually had more strings than a guitar and they were in pairs. From 1100 to 1500,traveling singers and storytellers played the lute to go with their songs.
Guitars sometimes had pairs of strings like the lute,but the guitar changed over time to use single strings. People used guitars with six single strings for the first time in the 1600s in Italy,but the most important change happened in the 1850s. The Spanish guitar maker Antonio de Torres Jurado made the guitar's body bigger. His idea made the sound of the guitar louder and better. Most of today's classical guitars follow his design.
The first electric guitar appeared in the 1930s. The electric guitars have a solid body and can make many different sounds. We also find them in many different shapes and sizes. Some electric guitars don't look like guitars at all!
( A )1. What does the underlined word "them" in Paragraph 4 refer to?
A. Guitars. B. Sounds. C. Shapes. D. Sizes.
( A )2. In which order did the following events happen?
①The first electric guitar appeared.
②People used guitars with six single strings in Italy.
③Antonio de Torres Jurado made the guitar's body bigger.
④Traveling singers played the lute to go with their songs.
A. ④②③① B, ①③④② C. ④①③② D. ③④①②
( D )3. Why does the writer write the text?
A, To discuss the invention of the guitar, B. To introduce the shapes of the guitar. C. To compare the players of the guitar. D. To show the development of the guitar.
[读后词汇拓展]猜出画波浪线短语的确中文意思,并收入自己自的小词典词典。
1. owe sb. an apology 欠某人一个道歉
2. more than that 不止如此

答案： 1.A 2.A 3.D 读后词汇拓展 1. 欠某人一个道歉 2. 不止如此