【正文】 Why did David play tennis while he was playing chess with Watson? Because he _________________. ( ) A. had no interest in playing chess with adults (成年人 ) B. was not good at playing chess C. liked playing tennis much better than playing chess D. played chess much better than Watson 39. From the story, we know that ________________. A. David Prag was the real winner B. Mr Watson was the real winner C. neither of them was the real winner D. both of them were the real winners ( ) 40. Which of the following (下列 ) is NOT true? A. Sometimes young children can beat adults in playing chess. B. Watson thought he could win the game quickly, and so he did. C. Watson learned something from David and won the silver cup. D. Watson would never fet the name of the boy. ( ) 五、完形填空 通讀下面短文，掌握其大意。t too happy. A player likes the oppon ent (對手 ) to play as well as he does. But it was holiday time and I agreed to play. We placed the board (棋盤 ) in the garden. The game began. I hoped it would be quick──and so it was. “ Ｉ soon knew that David Prag was no learner. After ten minutes his sister came outside and began to play tennis against a boy seemed to lose interest in our game. He moved a piece (棋子 ) without care. I gave my attention to the board. “ ‘Call me when you are ready, Mr Watson,’he said. “When I was ready?I looked had gone off to play with his sis studied the board──and found I was driven into it went on with David: a quick move, then tennis, back to the board,then back to his sister. My difficult condition became impossible to change. I was beaten,oh so easily,by a tenyearold chess was the winner── in twentyeight minutes. “David Prag: a name to remember. I had a chance to use his game today, and it won this cup for me. To him, of course, it is only one of a hundred, or perhaps a thousand, winning games.” 根據(jù)以上短文內(nèi)容，從下列各題所給的四個選項中選擇最佳的一項。s only ten.’she said, ‘I39。t rightly mine,”he said, when he was holding the cup.“It was won two years ago when I was on holiday in? “A family was staying at my hotel ( 旅館 ) at that time. Mrs Prag, the mother, was told that I played chess。 32. At first, zero was not used by people. ( ) The space between 6 and 3 was easy to see and to read. ( ) 33. When people wrote eight hundred and nine, they would put a cirle with a dot in it between 8 and 9. ( ) 34. Zero came from the circle around the dot. ( ) 35. Zero isn39。3. But the dot was hard to people put a circle around it like this 6⊙3. Then people could see the dot. They remembered the space. At last,only the circle around the dot was was like a zero. This is one story of how the zero came to be used. Now zero has many important uses. Zero tells how many. Can you tell some other ways