题目内容
14.Have you ever written someone a note?Have you ever sent an email?If so,you were sending a message.People have always found ways to send messages to each other.The way we send messages has c(71)hanged over time.Each change has allowed people to send messages farther and faster.
Beating on a drum was one of the earliest ways to send a message.People beat on logs with large sticks.This sent signals a long distance.Different drumbeats meant different things.One might send a warning of d(72)anger.Another might announce that a meeting was going to take place.
Over time,people developed written language.Written messages became the first mail.The first mail carriers carried mail on f(73)oot.These runners ran long distances to carry mail.Later,horses were used to carry mail.Trains then replaced horses.Mail is still carried today.Most mail is now carried on trucks and planes.
Over 150years ago,a man found a way to send signals over a wire (电线).His invention was called the telegraph.The signals he used were known as Morse code.More than 30years later,someone invented the telephone.Using the telephone,people could send v(74)oice messages over a wire.
Once people found ways to send signals through the air w(75)ithout wire,new kinds of message senders were invented.One kind was the walkie-talkie.It got its name because you didn't have to stay in one place to use it.You could"walk and talk."Today,many people carry wireless telephones called cell phones.These phones are very small and can be carried in a pocket.Now people can make phone calls from almost a(76)nywhere.The latest way to send messages is the Internet.Internet messages are called email.An email can be sent to someone on the other side of the world in an instant.
One thing is certain.People will always send messages to each other.Message sending has changed a great deal since e(77)mail messages were first sent.How do you think messages will be sent in the future?
分析 文章大意:本文主要讲人们总是找到办法互相传递信息.我们发送信息的方式已经改变了.每一个变化都让人们发送消息更远和更快.由最初的敲钟,到由马匹运送邮件,再到手机.最后是现如今的互联网电子邮件.可以使信息从一个地方瞬间发送到另一个地方.那么未来的消息会如何发送呢?拭目以待吧.
解答 71.答案:changed.考查动词.根据Each change has allowed people to send messages farther and faster每一个变化都让人们发送消息更远和更快.可知用change改变,根据has,可知是现在完成时态,change的过去分词是changed.
72.答案:danger.考查名词.根据Different drumbeats meant different things.One might send a warning of…,不同的鼓声意味着不同的事情.一个人可能会发出一个警告…,可知应该用danger危险.
73.答案:foot.考查名词.根据These runners ran long distances to carry mail这些赛跑者跑很长的距离来运送邮件.可知应该是on foot步行.答案是foot.
74.答案:voice.考查名词.根据Using the telephone使用电话.可知,人们可以发生语音信息.用voice.
75.答案:without.考查介词.根据根据through the air通过空气,可知应该是无线,用without没有.答案是without.
76.答案:anywhere.考查副词.根据Now people can make phone calls from现在人们可以打电话从…,可知应该是anywhere,表示任何地点.答案是anywhere.
77.答案:email.考查名词.根据An email can be sent to someone on the other side of the world in an instant.电子邮件可以在一瞬间发送到在世界另一端的人.可知用email,表示自从"电子邮件"第一次被发送以来,消息发送发生了很大的变化.答案是email.
点评 首字母填空题.解答此类题型的方法一般就是根据文章前后句子之间意思推断出词义,并结合首字母推断出所缺单词,然后根据该单词在句子中的句子成分,所起作用,确定单词词形,进行适当词形变化.
Firstly,(76)D should be much better.Spaceships can travel at half the speed of light.It might take us two or three days to get to Mars.
Secondly,humans need food,water and air to live.Scientists should be able to develop plants that can be grown on Mars.These plants will (77)B the food and the air that we need.
There is a problem for us to live on Mars.Mars makes us much lighter than the Earth does.This will be dangerous because we could easily jump too high and fly slowly away into space.To prevent this,humans on Mars have to wear special shoes to make themselves(78)D
Life on mars will be better than that on the Earth (79)C.People will have more space.Living in a large building with 10bedrooms is highly possible.Many people believe that robots will do most of our work.
However,life on Mars may not be better than that on the Earth today.Food will not be the same meals will probably be in the form of pills and will not be as delicious as they are today.(80)B,space travel will make many people feel ill.The spaceship will travel fast but the journey to mars will probably be very uncomfortable.
| 75.A) crowded | B) modern | C) developed | D) serious |
| 76.A) dressing | B) eating | C) living | D) transporting |
| 77.A) destroy | B) produce | C) refuse | D) support |
| 78.A) quicker | B) prettier | C) lighter | D) heavier |
| 79.A) all the way | B) in this way | C) in many ways | D) by the way |
| 80.A) However | B) Besides | C) Nowadays | D) Immediately. |
| A. | great film | B. | greatest films | ||
| C. | the greatest film | D. | the greatest films |