Question

【题目】阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。将答案填写在答题纸的相应位置。

Next time you hold a book in your hands, stop and think. Like most other things in the modern world, it is the result of thousands of years of human invention.

First, came the invention of writing,【1】(probable) about 5, 500 years ago. With writing, people did not have to remember everything in their heads. They could communicate with people that they never【2】(see) and share their knowledge with insure generations.

Later, the Greeks were well-known for their literature (文学) and science, but their "books" looked very different【3】the books of today. They were called scrolls (卷轴). They were difficult to use and took a lot of space in a library. About 2,000 years ago, books with lots of pages【4】 (invent).

For more than a thousand years, the pages of books were made from animal skin. That changed in 【5】thirteenth century, when Europeans learned about a very【6】(use) Chinese invention: paper.

But the biggest change for books in Europe came in 1439, when Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press. Before that, books in Europe were copied by hand, so they were very expensive. Many more people could afford the books【7】were produced on a printing press.

These days it is difficult【8】(imagine) a world without books. But human invention does not stop. Every year, more【9】(story) are bought as e-books and read on a screen.

Will anyone turn the pages of a traditional book in the future,【10】will books, like scrolls, soon disappear?

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】probably

【2】saw

【3】from/to/than

【4】were invented

【5】the

【6】useful

【7】that/which

【8】to imagine

【9】stories

【10】or

【解析】文章大意：本文讲述了书的由来和发展历史。

【1】句意：首先，来说一下写作的由来，大概在5500年以前。由题干可知“about 5, 500 years ago”是句子的时间状语，所以空格处应填副词，与probable所对应的副词形式为probably，故答案填probably。

【2】句意：他们能够与他们从未见过的人交流，并与子孙后代们分享他们的知识。由题干可知空格处是定语从句的谓语动词，根据主句中的could可判断从句是时态用一般过去时，提示词see的过去式为saw，故答案填saw。

【3】句意：后来，希腊人因他们的文学和科学而著名，但是他们的“书籍”和现在的书籍大不相同。由题干可知本句考查固定搭配different from/to/than“不同于…”，故答案填from/to/than。

【4】句意：大约2000之前，有很多书页的书被发明了。分析题干可知书和发明之间是被动关系，时态为一般过去时，books为复数，所以系动词be用were，故答案填were invented。

【5】句意：书页由兽皮制作的那种现象在13世纪发生了变化。根据句意“在十三世纪”，in the xxth century表示“在第几世纪”，序数词前面要用定冠词the，故答案填the。

【6】句意：当欧洲人了解到中国一个非常有用的发明“纸”的时候。空格后面的invention为名词，意思是“发明”，要用形容词来修饰，根据句意可知此处是“有用的”，英文表达是useful，故答案填useful。

【7】句意：更多的人能买得起通过印刷机生产的书。本题考查定语从句，分析题干可知先行词是物：the books，所以关系词用that或者which，故答案填that/which。

【8】句意：现在很难想象一个没有书的世界。分析题干可知本句考查句型It is difficult to do sth.“做某事是困难的”， It是形式主语，句子真正的主语是后面的动词不定式，故答案填to imagine。

【9】句意：每年都有更多的故事以电子书的形式出现在屏幕上被阅读并被购买。story是可数名词，more是many的比较级，所以此处用story的复数形式stories，故答案填stories。

【10】句意：将来会有人翻开传统书籍的书页吗？或者书籍，像卷轴一样，会很快消失吗？空格处是连接两个句子，而且前后两句话表示的是两种假设，所以此处应填表示选择的连词“或者”，英文表达是“or”，故答案填or。