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  3. If we were asked exactly what we were doing a year ago, we should probably have to say that we could not remember. But if we had

If we were asked exactly what we were doing a year ago, we should probably have to say that we could not remember. But if we had

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问题     If we were asked exactly what we were doing a year ago, we should probably have to say that we could not remember. But if we had kept a book and had written in it an account of what we did each day, we should be able to give an answer to the question.
    It is the same on history. Many things have been forgotten because we do not have any written account of them. Sometimes men did keep a record of the most important happenings in their country, but often it was destroyed by fire or in a war. Sometimes there was never any written record at all because people of that time and place did not know how to write. For example, we know a good deal about the people who lived in China 4,000 years ago, because they could write and leave written records for those who lived after them. But we know almost nothing about the people who lived even 200 years ago in central Africa, because they had not learned to write.
    Sometimes, of course, even if the people cannot write, they may know something of the past. They have heard about it from older people, and often songs and dances and stories have been made about the most important happenings, and these have been sung and acted and told for many generations. For most people are proud to tell what their fathers did in the past. This we may call "remembered history." Some of it has now been written down. It is not so exact or so valuable to us as written history is, because words are much more easily changed when used again and again in speech than when copied in writing. But where there are no written records, such spoken stories are often very helpful.
It can be inferred from the passage that we could have learned much more about our past than we do now if our ancestors had______.
选项 A、kept a written record of every past event
B、not burnt their written records in wars
C、told exact stories of the most important happenings
D、made more songs and dances
答案A
解析 根据文章第一段可知，如果我们能够用笔记本记录自己在过去一年的所作所为的话，我们就能够记起自己在哪个时间段所做的事情；又根据文章第二段可知，我们了解4000年前的中国人，却不了解200年前的中非人的原因就是前者：有文字记录的历史。所以，从文章中可以推断：如果我们的祖先能够用文字记录发生的每一个事件，我们就会更加了解历史。据此判断，本题选A。
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