阅读理解。
You go to a store. You see many new things. You know about them before you get to the store. How do
you know? You saw these things on TV. You learned about them through advertising.
People have been advertising for thousands of years. Long ago, men called "criers" walked up and down
the street. They shouted about things that were being sold.
Later, people met at one place. This place was a market. Some people came to sell. Other people came to
buy. But only those people who were at the market knew what was being sold.
When people learned about printing, things changed. Soon there were newspapers. Many people read the
newspapers. They saw many ads in the papers. Later, more people saw and listened to the ads on TV. Are
the people who sell to us "criers"?
1. When you go to a store, you see _____. [ ]
A. singers
B. advertisement
C. many new things
D. TV
2. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage? [ ]
A. We go to the store to read the newspaper.
B. We go to the store to buy things we hear about.
C. We go to the store to look at the ads on TV.
D. We go to the store to know other people.
3. People have been advertising for _____. [ ]
A. thousands of years
B. hundreds of years
C. one thousand years
D. one hundred years
4. Later people could find the ads _____. [ ]
A. on TV
B. in the newspapers
C. everywhere
D. both A and B
5. The main idea of the whole story is _____. [ ]
A. people advertise to sell things
B. people cried when they had to advertise
C. people went to the market
D. people never advertise
