三、阅读理解（40分）Maps are our oldest literature(文献),older than books.People think a map was the

三、阅读理解（40分）
Maps are our oldest literature(文献),older than books.People think a map was the first thing the human ever wrote to municate each other.Perhaps one million years ago,with a stick in the mud of a lake bed,the earlier human drew some lines to stand for a lake,a river,a thick forest and some good hunting grounds beyond the forest.
It made so much sense that people took it for magic(魔术),they expressed the world in a picture.There was something so real about this new thing called map that it helped us believe we could get there.It not only strengthened belief that good hunting existed beyond the forest,but it strongly suggested that the future existed;it was a place we could go to and be there tomorrow.What a fort.On maps all paths lead somewhere.
41.Which of the following statements is true?
A.Maps can't be used to municate each other.
B.Maps have the same long history as books.
C.No matter how hard you study them,maps don't make any sense.
D.None of the above is true.
42.The earlier human used lines drawn in the mud to express    .
A.the whole world                              B.real places
C.strong belief                                          D.great fort
43.Now people regard some lines drawn by the earlier human as     .
A.the beginning of maps           B.the chanting form of maps
C.real maps                      D.a part of maps
44.It can be concluded that     .
A.maps are the most useful way of municating each other
B.the first map showed somewhere far away
C.the first map showed somewhere very near
D.the first map showed all directionsD