题目内容
【题目】阅读下面材料,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
The history of computer began in 1642 as a calculating machine in France. It could 【1】 (simple) difficult sums. The computer developed very slowly and it took nearly two hundred years 【2】 it was built as an 【3】 (analyze) machine. In 1936, Alan Turing wrote a book about how the computer could be made to work as a “universal machine”【4】 (solve) any difficult mathematical problems.
At the beginning, the computer was as large as a room. This reality worried the designers. With time 【5】 (go) by, it became smaller and smaller and 【6】 memory developed a great deal. With artificial intelligence, it is getting cleverer and cleverer, quicker and quicker. In 【7】 early 1960s, computers could be connected by a network, which enabled their users to share information with others. Since the 1970s, computers have had many new 【8】 (apply) and become very important in communication, finance, trade and been put into space rockets and sent to explore the Moon and Mars. Since its birth, the computer 【9】 (design) to serve the human race and provided humans 【10】 a life of high quality.
【答案】
【1】simplify
【2】before
【3】analytical
【4】to solve
【5】going
【6】its
【7】the
【8】applications
【9】has been designed
【10】with
【解析】
这是一篇说明文。文章介绍了计算机的发展历史。
【1】考查动词。句意:它可以简化复杂的计算。根据句意及空前could可知,此处应使用动词simplify“简化”的原形。故填simplify。
【2】考查连词。句意:计算机的发展非常缓慢,在它被建造成分析机器之前它花了近200年的时间。根据句意可知,此处应使用连词before“在……之前”。故填before。
【3】考查形容词。句意:它被建造成分析机器。此处做machine的定语,应使用形容词analytical“分析的;解析的;善于分析的”。故填analytical。
【4】考查非谓语动词。句意:1936年,阿兰·图灵写了一本关于如何使计算机能作为一个“通用机器”来解决任何数学难题。根据句意及句子结构分析可知,此处表目的,应使用不定式。故填to solve。
【5】考查非谓语动词。句意:随着时间的流逝。此处为with复合结构,time与go是逻辑主谓关系,应使用现在分词,表主动进行。故填going。
【6】考查代词。句意:它变得越来越小,内存也得到了发展。根据句意可知,此处指“它(计算机)的”,应使用代词its。故填its。
【7】考查冠词。句意:在20世纪60年代早期,计算机可以通过网络连接,这使得用户可以与其他人共享信息。“多少世纪多少年代”前要加定冠词。故填the。
【8】考查名词。句意:自20世纪70年代以来,计算机有了许多新的应用,在通信、金融、贸易方面变得非常重要,并被用于太空火箭和探索月球和火星。根据空前many可知,此处应使用名词application“应用”的复数形式。故填applications。
【9】考查时态和语态。句意:自从诞生以来,计算机就被设计为服务于人类。根据Since its birth可知,应使用现在完成时,the computer与design是被动关系,应使用被动语态。故填has been designed。
【10】考查介词。句意:为人类提供了高质量的生活。短语:provide sb. with sth.“给某人提供某物”。故填with。