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Passage #2    Mesopotamia, meaning “land between the rivers,＂ is widely considered to be the cradle of civilization.It was here, in 5000 B.C., that people settled into an agricultural lifestyle by the mighty Tigris and Euphratesrivers. Because there was little rain, the people depended on these rivers for their survival. The Mesopotamianscreated channels to distribute the flood waters that flowed for a short duration each year to their crops. The efficiency of their irrigation systems allowed their society to flourish, enabling them to create the world＇s firsttowns and cities. At the center of each town stood a temple complex with food stores, a treasury, and livingspaces, all of which were incorporated into the overall design. Over time, these towns evolved into city-states,eventually becoming an empire.    Soon there arose a need to keep reliable records of commodities traded, and out of this need, writing wasborn. The first format that writing took was a code of symbols which corresponded to various items andnumbers. These were carved into soft clay and were known as cuneiform. This system proved to be veryversatile and quickly spread to other uses. The Sumerian scribes used it to record daily life and to write the firstmajor literary work known to Western civilization. Perhaps the best known of Mesopotamia＇s civilizationswas Babylon. During the second millennium B.C., it rose from a regional capital to become the center of akingdom that stretched across southern Iraq and beyond. Its king, Hammurabi, left his mark with a remarkablecollection of laws. Hammurabi＇s code defined the constraints of private property, as well as legal decisions forcrimes, and family disputes.    Although it was eventually lost to the sands of time, Mesopotamia left a legacy of law, literature, andengineering for modern civilizations to build on. In fact, much of what we know of that chapter in the region＇shistory has come from excavations of ruined cities, supplemented by translations of ancient clay tablets.
36.Who were the first people to record their everyday life?
(A) The Babylonians
(B) The Egyptians
(C) The Iraqis
(D) The Sumerians

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答案：D
難度：簡單0.8
統計：A(0),B(1),C(3),D(16),E(0)

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