【文章內容簡介】 t 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） 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?【答案】 probably；saw；from；were invented；the；useful；that/which；to imagine；stories；or 【解析】【分析】本文介紹了書的歷史。 （1）句意： 首先，書寫的發(fā)明可能在大約5500年前。副詞修飾動詞came，probable是形容詞，probably是副詞，故填probably。 （2）句意： 他們可以與從未見過的人交流，并與保險公司的幾代人分享他們的知識。根據 5, 500 years ago可知時態(tài)是一般過去時，see的過去式是saw ， 故填saw。 （3）句意： 后來，希臘人因他們的文學和科學而聞名，但是他們的“書”看起來和今天的書大不相同。be different from，固定搭配，與……不同 ， 故填from。 （4）句意： 大約2000年前，有很多頁的書4被發(fā)明。根據2000年前是一般過去時，invent和pages是被動關系，主語是名詞復數，故助動詞是were ， 故填 were invented。 （5）句意： 這種情況在13世紀發(fā)生了變化，當時歐洲人了解到一項非常有用的中國發(fā)明，紙。根據thirteenth是序數詞，其前是定冠詞the，故填the。 （6）句意：這種情況在13世紀發(fā)生了變化，當時歐洲人了解到一項非常有用的中國發(fā)明，紙。invention是名詞，其前是形容詞，use是動詞，useful是形容詞，故填 useful。 （7）句意： 更多的人買得起印刷機上生產的書。定語從句缺少主語，指代先行詞books，故用關系代詞that/which指代，故填 that/which。 （8）句意： 如今，沒有書的世界很難想象。it39。s+形容詞+to so，固定搭配，做某事很…… ， 故填 to imagine。 （9）句意： 每年，都有更多的故事以電子書的形式被購買并在屏幕上閱讀。此處缺少主語，根據are可知是名詞復數，story是名詞 ， 故填 stories。 （10）句意： 將來會有人翻過傳統(tǒng)書籍的書頁嗎？像卷軸一樣的書會很快消失嗎？連接疑問句表示并列關系用or ， 故填or。 【點評】考查語法填空，注意謂語的時態(tài)，語態(tài)，非謂語動詞，詞性，連詞搭配等多種用法。6．閱讀下面短文，在空白處填入適當的內容（不多于3個單詞）或括號內單詞的正確形式。 Ernest Hemingway, the son of a doctor and a music teacher, was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. Hemingway39。s father________（teach） him early on how to hunt and fish, two activities Hemingway loved throughout his life. Instead of ________（go） to college, Hemingway became a reporter for the Kansas City Star. Later, in Europe, he worked as a driver ________the Italian army until he was wounded and shipped home, where he again wrote for newspapers. Two years ________, he moved to Paris, where he hoped to improve his writing. There he became friends with other ________（America） writers, including Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Hemingway developed ________style of writing that was simple and direct. He chose words sparingly（儉省地）, avoided using adjectives, and trusted the reader to understand ________（mean） of his writing. As he put it, I always try ________（write） on the principle（原則） of the iceberg（冰山）. There is seven eighths of it under water for every part that shows. This style continues to influence Writers today. In his career（生涯）, which lasted some 40 years, Hemingway earned the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize. He was one of the finest writers of the________（twenty） century. For a while Emest Hemingway lived in Key West, Florida, where he had nearly 50 cats. One of them was a cat with six toes（腳趾）, which a ship39。s captain had given him. Today his Key West home is a museum, and many cats still live there. Some of them are ________（child） of Hemingway39。s sixtoed cat. Hemingway was married four times and had three sons. He died in 1961.【答案】 taught；going；for；later；American；a；meaning；to write；twentieth；children 【解析】【分析】本文介紹了海明威及其寫作風格。 （1）句意： 海明威的父親很早就教他如何打獵和釣魚。描述過去用一般過去時，teach的過去式是taught，故填 taught。 （2）句意： 海明威沒有去上大學，而是成了《堪薩斯城明星報》的記者。of是介詞其后是動名詞，故填going。 （3）句意： 后來，在歐洲，他在意大利軍隊當司機，直到他受傷并被運回家，在那里他再次為報紙寫作。work for，固定搭配，為……工作，故填for。 （4）句意： 四年后，他搬到巴黎，希望在那里提高寫作水平。時間段+later，……之后，故填later。 （5）句意：在那里，他和其他美國作家成了朋友。writers是名詞其前是形容詞做定語，America是名詞，American是形容詞，故填 American。 （6）句意： 海明威形成了一種簡單直接的寫作風格。style是名詞單數，以輔音音素開頭，故用不定冠詞a表示泛指，故填a。 （7）句意：他謹慎地選擇詞語，避免使用形容詞，并相信讀者能理解他作品的意思。understand后是動名詞做賓語，故填 meaning。 （8）句意：我總是試圖用冰山的原理寫作。try to do，固定搭配，嘗試做某事，故填 to write 。 （9）句意： 他是20世紀最優(yōu)秀的作家之一。根據定冠詞the可知，此處是序數詞，twenty是基數詞，twentieth是序數詞 ， 故填 twentieth。 （10）句意： 其中一些是海明威六趾貓的孩子。根據are，可知表語是名詞復數，child的復數是children ， 故填 children。 【點評】考查語法填空，注意謂語的時態(tài)，非謂語動詞，詞性，介詞搭配等多種用法。7．語法填空 The