Question

Do you live in a city? Do you know how cities began? Long long ago, the world had only a few thousand people. These people moved from one place to another. They moved over the land, hunting animals for food.

No one knows how or when these people learned about growing food. But when they did, their lives changed. They did not have to move houses any more.

They could stay in one place and grow it. People began to live near each other, so the first village grew. Many people came to work in the villages, and these villages became larger and larger.

Then people had machines, life in the villages changed again. People built factories. More and more people lived near the factories. So the villages grew into cities. Some of them grew very big.

Today, it's strange that some people are moving back to small villages. Can you tell me why?

根据短文内容，完成下列小题。

1.How many people were there in the world long long ago? (no more than 5 words)

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2.What did the villages grow into after people built factories? (no more than 5 words)

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3.Why did people move from place to place long long ago? (no more than 5 words)

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4.Who knows when people learned about growing food? (no more than 5 words)

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5.Why are some people moving back to small villages?

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Answer

1.A few thousand people.

2.Cities.

3.To hunt animals for food.

4.Nobody.

5.Because the air in villages is clean.

【解析】

本文简单介绍了城市是怎么从村庄演变而来的。

1.句意：很久以前世界上有多少人？（不超过5个词）原文“Long long ago, the world had only a few thousand people.”（很久以前，世界上只有几千人），故填 A few thousand people.

2.句意：人们建造工厂后村庄变成了什么？（不超过5个词）原文“So the villages grew into cities.”（所以村庄变成了城市），故人们建造工厂后村庄变成了“城市”，填Cities.

3.句意：为什么很久以前人们会从一个地方搬到另一个地方？（不超过5个词）原文“They moved over the land, hunting animals for food.”（他们在大地上迁移，狩猎动物作为食物），所以从一个地方搬到另一个地方的原因是狩猎动物作为食物，故填 To hunt animals for food.

4.句意：谁知道人们何时了解种植食物？（不超过5个词），原文“No one knows how or when these people learned about growing food.”（没有谁知道这些人是如何以及何时学会种植食物的），故填Nobody.

5.句意：为什么有些人会搬回小村庄？原文“Today, it's strange that some people are moving back to small villages.”（今天，很奇怪的是一些人开始搬回小村庄了），这里文章并没有直接说出原因，这是一道发散题，言之有理即可，可以说今天人们搬回去是因为“村庄的空气更好”，可填“Because the air in villages is clean”。