Choose the best answer and complete the passage.

Men sometimes say,“We are better and cleverer than women. Women _____________ invent things, we do." It is true that men have invented a lot of useful things: machines, radios, and guns, too. But scientists and archaeologists

（考古学家）now agree that women invented one very important thing. It has changed ______________. They invented agriculture. Before the invention of agriculture men were _____________. They went out every day. Sometimes they killed animals and sometimes animals killed them. Life was difficult and dangerous. Women had to go out every day, too. They collected roots, fruit and grass. Then, one day more than 10,000 years ago, a woman dropped some grass seeds near her home in the Middle East. They grew, and the first wheat was ______________. The idea grew, too. Women planted roots and fruit trees. Then they could stay at home and look after the children and the animals. Women like baby animals. Archaeologists think that women _____________ the first domestic animals: dogs, cows sheep and goats. That idea grew, too. Then their husbands did not have to go hunting for meat. They stayed at home. They built villages and _____________. Civilization began. Men began civilization after women invented agriculture.

【小题1】

A．ever B．never C．sometimes D．often

【小题2】

A．history B．idea C．opinion D．society

【小题3】

A．farmers B．workers C．hunters D．inventors

【小题4】

A．appeared B．born C．sold D．bought

【小题5】

A．liked B．bought C．kept D．brought

【小题6】

A．countries B．nations C．states D．cities