Question

Passage 2 (2015 山东临沂)

      根据短文内容，从方框中选出恰当的单词或短语填空，使短文通顺完整。每个选项只能用一次，有两项多余。

       A. everyone    B. how long   C. weak   D. higher   E.instead of

       F. However     G. speed      H.left     I. until    J.lower  

       K.enjoyed     L. how far 

       Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe,England,on December 25,1642.He was born early and he was very 1        No one believed he could continue to live.But he surprised 2       . He had one of the most powerful minds in history.And he lived 3        he was 84.

       Newton’s father died before he was born. His mother married again a few years later. She 4       Newton with his grandmother.

       The boy was not a good student. Yet he was curious (好奇的) and liked to make things,such as kites,clocks and simple machines. Newton also 5        finding new ways to answer questions or solve problems.As a boy,for example,he wanted to find a way to measure (?则量) the 6        of the wind.On a windy day,he measured how far he could jump with the wind at his back.Then he measured 7       he could jump with the wind in his face.From the difference between the two jumps,he made his own measure of the power of the wind.

       Strangely,Newton became a much better student after a boy kicked him in the stomach. The boy was one of the best students in the school.Newton decided to get even (报复) by getting 8        marks than the boy who kicked him.In a short time,Newton became the top student at the school.

       Newton left school to help on the family farm. 9       , the boy was not a good farmer. He spent his time solving math problems,instead of taking care of the farm.He spent hours visiting a bookstore in town, 10       selling his vegetables in the market. An uncle believed that Newton would do better as a student than as a farmer. So he sponsored (资助) the young man into Cambridge University to study math.

1.       2.       3.       4.       5.      

6.       7.       8.       9.       10.      

Answer 1

1. C 2. A  3. I  4. H  5. K  6. G  7. L  8. D  9. F 10. E

Passage 2

[语篇解读]本文是一篇艾萨克•牛顿的简介。

1. C由下文可知用weak。

2. A surprise sb.使某人惊讶。

3. I until直到 为止。

4. H leave sb.把某人留在。

5. K enjoy doing sth.喜欢做某事。

6. G the speed of the wind 风速。

7. L how far he could jump 他可以跳多远。

8. D get higher marks得到更高的分数。

9. F however 但是。

10. E instead of 而不是。