Question

完形填空

What time is it? There are many ways you can (1) the time. You may have a watch on your wrist(手腕) .You can look at a clock on the wall. You can listen to the radio or (2) a number on the telephone to get the time.

I has not always been (3) to know the time. A long time ago people looked at the (4) to tell the time. They could tell the time by looking at it in the sky: morning, noon or afternoon.

Around the year 1400, people began to use the hourglass(沙漏) . It was made (5) glass with sand in it. It was wide at both ends, (6) narrow ( 窄的) in the middle. The sand ran from one end to (7) in one hour. At the end of every hour people turned the glass over ant it began (8) .

Hundreds of years later a machine called (9) was invented. After that people made (10) clocks so that they could (11) them in their pockets. These pocket clocks were called watches. Then, during the first world war (戰(zhàn)爭) men started (12) their watches on their wrists. It was easier and faster to tell the time

1.make sure       B. look at         C. write down        D. find out

2. A. call            B. read             C. count          D. write

3. A. different       B. difficult        C. easy             D. important

4. A. earth            B. sun               C. moon           D. satellite

5. A. by              B. into             C. from             D. of

6. A. so              B. and             C. but               D. or

7. A. another        B. other          C. others               D. the other

8. A. once            B. more            C. again               D. too

9. A. watch           B. clock            C. radio            D. telephone

10. A. good           B. cheap            C. beautiful            D. small

11. A. take          B. bring             C. carry                 D. get

12. A. wearing        B. inventing       C. making               D. buying

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.B  

2.A    

3.C  

4.B      

5.D

6.C    

7.D    

8.C  

9.B      

10.D

11.C      

12.A

【解析】

1.考查短語辨析，make sure確信；look at看；write down寫下；find out發(fā)現(xiàn)，看時(shí)間用look at故選B

2.考查動(dòng)詞辨析，call打電話；read讀；count數(shù)數(shù)；write寫根據(jù)題意選A.

3.考查形容詞，沒有很容易的方法知道時(shí)間，因此選C.

4.考查對(duì)短文的理解，很久以前人們是通過看太陽來知道時(shí)間的，故選B

5.考查被動(dòng)語態(tài)，be made of由...制成，看出原材料；be made from看不出原材料，根據(jù)題意，沙漏是是由玻璃制成的看出原材料，故選D

6.考查both的用法，兩個(gè)都both and故選C

7.考查代詞，  one... the other一個(gè)...另一個(gè)，another另一個(gè)，用于三者以上，根據(jù)題意選D

8.考查對(duì)短文理解能力，再一次again故選C

9.考查名詞辨析，clock鐘表，watch手表，根據(jù)下文提示故選B.

10.考查形容詞，根據(jù)段意人們制作小的鐘表以便放在口袋里，故選D

11.考查動(dòng)詞辨析take帶走bring帶來catch隨身攜帶，故選C

12.考查動(dòng)詞辨析，戴手表用wear，invent發(fā)明，make制造，故選A