第二节 完型填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)

Greenwich is on the River Thames. It is five miles from the middle of  21  . The first English people were fishermen there,  22  they named the place Greenwich, meaning “green village”. Later the English kings and queens lived at Greenwich in their beautiful palaces.

The  23  of the earliest palace was Placentia. Henry VIII lived there .He knew that England must be  24  at sea. So he started two big shipyards at Greenwich, and for 350  25  the ships made there were the best in the world.

But trouble was coming to Greenwich. In 1649, a war  26  in England and a for eleven yesrs there was no king. The men who worked for him at Placentia  27  to live in the palace themselves.  28  sold all its beautiful things and bought small pieces of the palace garden with money.  29  , the war ended and King Charles II came  30  . But Placentia was falling down. So King Charles II built a new and  31  palace, which is now open to the public.

At this time, Charles was  32  about losing so many of its ships at sea. So in 1675, Charles  33  John Flam Steed, the first astronomer in England, try to find the  34  . Flam Steed worked in a new building on the high ground in Greenwich Park.  35  it, with a telescope which he made himself, Flam Steed could look all around the  36  . And he did night after night, for twenty years. Carrying on Flam Steed’s work a hundred years  37  , an astronomer called Garrison finally made a  38  which told the time at sea, and help  39  to know there they were . Because of Flam Steed’s work, every  40  in the world now tells its time by Greenwich time.

21.A.London        B.Paris          C.Berlin         D.Brussels

22.A.because        B.and           C.but           D.so

23.A.title           B.shape          C.name          D.form

24.A.great          B.helpful         C. strong         D.brave

25.A.months        B.days           C.weeks         D.years

26.A.started         B.found          C.needed         D.wanted

27.A.moved         B.rushed         C.hurried         D.decided

28.A.He            B.They          C.We           D.She

29.A.Unfortunately    B.Finally         C.Mainly         D.Gladly

30.A.back          B.out           C.around         D.along

31.A.smaller        B.higher         C.stronger        D.bigger

32.A.interested       B.worried        C.excited         D.puzzled

33.A.got           B.helped         C.made          D.forced

34.A.key           B.answer         C.question        D.problem

35.A.From          B.On            C.at            D.over

36.A.sea           B.palace         C.park           D.sky

37.A.ago           B.later           C.before         D.after

38.A.clock          B.computer       C.compass        D.beacon

39.A.drivers         B.workers        C.sailors         D.farmers

40.A.watch         B.country        C.ship           D.scientist

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