【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 tead of ________him, she said. Robert, what a great mess you have made! I ________（not see）such a huge sea of milk before! Well, since the milk has already been spilled, would you like ________（play）in the milk for a while? We ________（clean）it up after that. Then, he did so. After a few minutes. His mother said. You know. Robert. whenever you ________a mess like this, finally you have to clean it up. He used a sponge（海綿）and together they cleaned up the spilled milk. His mother then said. You know, we ________how to successfully carry a big milk bottle with two tiny hands just now. Let39。s go to the yard and fill the bottle with water to see if you ________（discover）a way to carry it. Then the little boy learned that if he grasped （抓緊）the bottle at the top with both hands, he could carry it without dropping it. What a wonderful lesson!11．閱讀下面材料，在空白處填入適當(dāng)?shù)膬?nèi)容或括號(hào)內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。 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, ________（probable） .about 5, 500 years ago. With writing, people did not have to remember everything in their heads. They could municate with people that they never________ （see） and share their knowledge with insure generations.Later, the Greeks were wellknown for their literature （文學(xué)） and science, but their books looked very different ________the books of today. They were called scrolls （卷軸）. They were difficult to use and took a lot of space in a library. About 2,000 years ago, books with lots of pages________ （invent）. For more than a thousand years, the pages of books were made from animal skin. That changed in ________thirteenth century, when Europeans learned about a very ________（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 ________were produced on a printing press.These days it is difficult ________（imagine） a world without books. But human invention does not stop. Every year, more________ （story） are bought as ebooks and read on a screen. Will anyone turn the pages of a traditional book in the future, ________will books, like scrolls, soon disappear?12．閱讀下面短文，在空格處填入一個(gè)適當(dāng)?shù)脑~或使用括號(hào)中詞語(yǔ)的正確形式填空。 Strangely enough, some inventions are lost ________people can39。t imagine their ________（valuable）. A use may need to be invented along with the invention. An example is the fax machine. The technology for faxing ________（invent） in the 1800s. It took more than one hundred years, however, for the fax to be seen as useful. In 1843 Alexander Bain invented a machine to ________（electrical） transmit（傳輸） writing. At first, it was considered ________（use） since few people thought there was ________need for transmitting writing over ________（wire）. Eventually the value of the invention was realized, and it was improved ________office use. By the 1980s, the fax machine became a piece of standard ________（equip） in offices. The reason is ________it can very quickly transmit written documents. Who knows how many other inventions just need to be recognized as valuable?13．He was ________ （mention） in the letter. 14．閱讀下面短文，在空白處填入一個(gè)適當(dāng)?shù)脑~，或填入括號(hào)中所給單詞的正確形式。 Today almost everyone knows puters and the Internet. If I ask you What is the most important in your life? , maybe you will say Computers and the Internet. The________（one） puter was made in 1946. It was very big but it worked________（slow）. Today puters are getting smaller and smaller. But________work faster and faster. What can puters do? A writer has said, People can39。t live________puters today. The Internet came a little later than puters. It is about twentythree years later than puters. But now it can________（find） almost everywhere. We can use it to read books, write letters, do________（shop）, play games or make friends. Many students like the Internet very much. They often surf the Internet as soon as they are free. They make friends on the Internet and maybe they have never seen these friends. They don39。t know their real________（name）, ages, and even sex（性別）. They are so________（interest） in making the unreal friends that they can39。t put their hearts into study. Many of them can39。t catch up with others on many subjects________of that. We can use puters and the Internet to learn more about the world. But at________same time, we should remember that not all the things can be done by puters and the Internet.15．閱讀下面短文,在空白處填入一個(gè)適當(dāng)?shù)脑~,或填入括號(hào)中所給單詞的正確形式。 At about thirteen years old, I felt very lonely. I didn39。t like my classmates, my parents or anyone else. My classmates didn39。t want to talk ________ me and my parents were always saying that other kids were ________（good） than me. I thought I was the ________（luck） person in the world. One day I had a big fight with one of my classmates. I was so angry ________ I hit him in the face. Just at that moment, a boy stood up and ________（stop） the fight. He was the monitor of our class. After that, he often helped me and we became good ________（friend）. Whenever I got angry or sad, he would help ________（I） to cool down. My life began to change because of the boy, my best friend. We spent a lot of interesting days together. ________ time goes by, I have bee happier with people and things. And people around me have ________ （change）, too. My parents don39。t shout at me ________ more and my classmates bee friendly to me. But now we go to different cities to study. How I miss the days when we were together! 16．語(yǔ)法填空 Tonight is the night when children in much of the ________（west） world will be waiting for a fat man ________ red and white to pass by on his sleigh and climb down the chimney to deliver the Christmas _____