(A)根据短文内容，从四个选项中选出一个正确答案,并将其代表字母填在题前括号内。(本题共10分，每小题1分)
Big schoolbags have been a serious problem for students for a long time. Maybe your schoolbag is too 36 to carry, and it troubles you a lot 37 you want to find a book out to read. Now an e-textbook will 38 you.
It is said that e-textbooks are going to be 39 in Chinese middle schools. An e-textbook.
ok, in fact, is a small 40 for students. It is much 41 than a usual schoolbag and easy to carry. Though it is as small as a book. It can 42 all the materials(材料)for study. The students can read the text page by page on the 43 , take notes with the pointer(屏写笔)， or even“ 44 ”their homework to their teachers by sending e-mails. All they have to do is to press a button.
Some people say e-textbooks are good, but some say they may be 45 for the students eyes. What do you think of it ?
( )36．A．light B．heavy C．useful D．comfortable
( )37．A．till B．after C．before D．when
( )38．A．trouble B．prevent C．help D．understand
( )39．A．used B．kept C．invented D．lent
( )40．A．TV B．radio C．pen D．computer
( )41．A．heavier B．lighter C．cheaper D．brighter
( )42．A．hold B．build C．discover D．practise
( )43．A．blackboard B．desk C．screen D．card
( )44．A．find out B．hand in C．get back D．give back
( )45．A．helpful B．famous C．good D．bad
(B)根据短文内容，用方框中所给词的正确形式填空，使短文完整、正确(每词只用一次) (10分)
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Maps are very useful and important to us today, but they are not a new invention.(发明) In fact, people have made and used maps for 46_____ . It isbelieved that the first map of the world 47_____ be a 2,600-year-oldclay(黏土)map from Babylonia. People in the past did not 48_____ what the world really looked like, but they had many ideas about 49_____ .
Mapmakers could not draw accurate (精确)maps of the Earth 50_____ people began traveling around the world in the 51_____ century, mapping small areas each time. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, people 52_____making correct maps of countries, but the accurate maps of the world were not made until the 1890s.
Maps today are 53_____ , cheap, and easy to understand. People depend on maps 54_____ day. What would our lives be like 55______ them ?