Question

In the 13th century, the famous Indian traveler, Marco Polo, traveled a long way to China.

 One of the things he discovered was that the Chinese used paper money. In western countries, people did not use paper money until the 15th century. However, people in China began to use paper money in the 11th century.

A Chinese man called Cai Lun invented paper almost 2,000 years ago. He made it from wood. He took the wood from trees and made it into paper. He then put these pieces of paper together and made them into a book.

Now paper still comes from trees. We use a lot of paper every day. If we keep on wasting so much paper, there will not be any trees left on the earth. If there are no trees, there will be no paper. ②Every day, people throw away about 2,800 tons of paper . It takes 17 trees to make one ton of paper. This means that we are cutting down 48,000 trees every day.

Since it takes more than 10 years for a tree to grow, we must start using less paper now. If we don’t, we will not have enough time to grow more trees to take the place of those we use for paper. So how can we save paper? We can use both sides of every piece of paper, especially when we are making notes.We can choose drinks in bottles instead of those in paper packets. We can also use cotton handkerchiefs(手帕) and not paper ones. When we go shopping, we can use fewer paper bags. If the shop assistant does give us a paper bag, we can save it and reuse it later.

Everyone can help save paper. If we all think carefully, we can help protect the trees. But we should do it now, before it is too late.

1.将处翻译成汉                                                                   .

2.根据②处完成下面的句子。（每空一词）

Every   day ,about  2800  tons  of  paper  _____   ____away    by  people  all  over  the world.

3.根据短文内容完成下面句子。（每空一词）

Paper is made from trees，so we should try our best to save paper

_____   ______we can help protect the trees.

Answer

1.他发现的其中一件事就是中国人使用纸币。

2.is thrown

3.so that

【解析】

试题分析：这篇文章主要讲述了中国人在很久以前发明了造纸术，用树木来制作纸张，现在人们依旧使用这种方法。这也致使了很多树木被砍，尤其是纸张的浪费加剧了这一问题。所以我们应该节约用纸，例如双面使用，用手帕等。

1.根据语境可知，这是一个表语从句，主语为“One of the things he discovered”。这里“he discovered”在这里作后置定语，修饰“things”，“one of+名词复数”表示“……其中之一”。表语为“that the Chinese used paper money.”，即中国人使用纸币。综合上述，故译为：他发现的其中一件事就是中国人使用纸币。

2.本题就是把句子变成被动句，结构为be+动词过去分词。根据语境，句子的主语为不可数名词“paper”，是动作的承受者，作第三人称第三看待。依照主谓一致原则，故应填：is thrown。

3.根据短文的描述可知，我们节约纸张的目的是为了保护树木。结合语境，这里应用表示目的的连接词，故应填：so that。

考点：环保类短文阅读。