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 (战争) 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.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.考查短语辨析，make sure确信；look at看；write down写下；find out发现，看时间用look at故选B

2.考查动词辨析，call打电话；read读；count数数；write写根据题意选A.

3.考查形容词，没有很容易的方法知道时间，因此选C.

4.考查对短文的理解，很久以前人们是通过看太阳来知道时间的，故选B

5.考查被动语态，be made of由...制成，看出原材料；be made from看不出原材料，根据题意，沙漏是是由玻璃制成的看出原材料，故选D

6.考查both的用法，两个都both and故选C

7.考查代词，  one... the other一个...另一个，another另一个，用于三者以上，根据题意选D

8.考查对短文理解能力，再一次again故选C

9.考查名词辨析，clock钟表，watch手表，根据下文提示故选B.

10.考查形容词，根据段意人们制作小的钟表以便放在口袋里，故选D

11.考查动词辨析take带走bring带来catch随身携带，故选C

12.考查动词辨析，戴手表用wear，invent发明，make制造，故选A