【正文】 1 Before the print was brought to England in 1476, everything was written by hand. The few people who knew how to write were trained in schools set up by the church. Those who made a living by writing for other people were called scribes(抄寫員)。 The work of scribes was not easy. Much of it had to be done fast in order to meet the needs of the King. the church and traders. Most of the writing was in Latin(拉丁) ,but some of it was in the English of the day. And no one was quite sure how some English words should be spelled. One problem was that several letters were written with short vertical strok（豎筆）that all looked like each other. Among them were the letters , i, u, v, m and n, Thus .five straight lines in a row might stand for uni nui uvi or mii. As a result .reading was sometimes difficult, especially when the writing was done in a hurry. The scribes solved(解決)the problem in part, by changing the letter u to o when it came before m. n or v. This is how sum and cum came lo be written as some and e.At some point, too, the scribes seemed to have decided that no English word should be ended by u or v. Thus, in time an e was added to such words as live, have, due and true. It was added, but not pronounced. 36. Which of the following is true according to the passage?A. Everything has been written by hand in English since 1476. B. More than 500 years ago no people made a living by writing for other people. C. The church set up schools to train scribes before 1476. D. Scribes in England worked only for kings and traders. 37. Which of the following is false? A. Often the scribes had to work with great speed. B. The spelling of some English words was changed. D. Some scribes of the day were quite sure about the spelling of many English words. 38. Sometimes people couldn’t read easily_____________. A. because there were too many u’s and v’s in sonic English wordsB. because most of the writing was in LatinC. when the writing was in EnglishD. When tile writing was done hurriedly39. The scribes changed u before m to o becauseA. the change helped them write fasterB. the change made reading easierC. um and om had the same pronunciation D. om was the right order40. It is believed that some scribes thought A. it important to add an e to every English word B. the letter e at the end of any word shouldn39。t be pronounced C. it natural to change the spelling of sonic Latin words D. an English word should be ended neither by n nor by vI Man39。s First real inventions, and one of the most important inventions in history, was the wheel. All transportation and machine in the world depend on it. The wheel is the simplest yet but perhaps the most remarkable (值得注意的) of all inventions. Because there are no wheels in nature—no living thing was ever created with wheels. How, then, did man e to invent the wheel?Perhaps some early hunters found that they could roll the carcass (尸體) of a heavy animal through the forest on log more easily than they could carry it. However, the logs themselves weighed a lot. It must have taken a great prehistoric (史前的) thinker to imagine two thin slices (薄片) of log connected at their centers by a strong stick, this would roll along just as the logs did and axle came into being, and with them the first carts.41. The wheel is important because _______.it was man’s first real invention B. all transportation depends on it C. every machine depends on it D. both B and C42. The wheel is called _______. A. simple B. plicated C. strange D. unusual43. It was remarkable of man to invent the wheel because ______.it led to many other inventions man had no use for it then C. there were no wheels in nature D. all of the above44. The wheel was probably invented by _______. A. a group of early hunters B. the first men on eartha great prehistoric thinker D. the man who made the first cart45. This selection says that the first wheel may have been a ______. A. ground piece of stone B. heavy log C. piece of mental D. slice of logJIn 1865 the famous French author Jules Verne wrote two books. One was entitled From the Earth to The Moon and the other was entitled Around The Moon. In these books Jules Verne described man landing on the moon. In 1969 man actually did land on the moon. Many of the details of the real moon landing had been described with amazing accuracy in Jules Verne’s books. For example, Jules Verne’s spaceship had an initial of 36,000 feet per second.