【題目】閱讀下面短文,在空白處填入一個適當(dāng)?shù)脑~,或填入括號中所給單詞的正確形式。

About 5000 years ago, people started to use the first written language. Well, do you know when1first alphabet (字母表) appeared?

Recent research suggests that it 2(use) first in Egypt around 1900B.C. Later, the ancient Greeks created 3(they) own according to this alphabet. And then the ancient Romans improved it almost like our modern alphabet. You can see that these4(letter) almost remain in our modern English alphabet by looking at letters from the Roman alphabet. A similar thing 5(happen) in the East. Paper was invented in China early in the second century A.D. Before that, written communication was done 6 rocks and shells. And the ancient Chinese invented their own system of symbols 7 became an alphabet in the end. Much of this is still used today. The8(China) alphabet of today is a mixture of single-sound symbols and symbols that represent (呈現(xiàn)) a word or a meaning. It is a beautiful-looking and wonderful-sounding 9.

Today, people use letters and symbols to communicate with each other, 10 pictograms (象形文字) haven’t gone away. You see them all the time. They remind us that communication is always developing but is, at its most basic, always the same.

【答案】

1the

2was used

3their

4letters

5happened

6on

7that/which

8Chinese

9language

10but

【解析】

本文主要講述語言文字的演變過程,第一份字母表的出現(xiàn),以及中國發(fā)明紙,今天,人們也在用文字來溝通。

1句意:你知道第一份字母表示什么時候出現(xiàn)的嗎?

考查定冠詞,序數(shù)詞前用定冠詞the修飾,(序數(shù)詞前已經(jīng)有代詞需要則不需要),故答案為the。

2句意:最近的研究表明,埃及在公元前1900年左右第一次開始使用字母表。

考查被動語態(tài),構(gòu)成結(jié)構(gòu)是be動詞+動詞過去分詞,ituse之間是被動關(guān)系,時態(tài)為過去時,故答案為was used

3句意:后來,古希臘人根據(jù)這份字母表創(chuàng)造了他們自己的字母表。

考查形容詞性物主代詞,形容詞own(自己的,特有的)常和名詞所有格或形容詞性物主代詞one’s(my/our/your/his/her/its/their)一起使用,以加強(qiáng)語氣,故答案為their。

4句意:通過觀察羅馬字母表里的字母,你可以發(fā)現(xiàn)這些字母幾乎保留在我們現(xiàn)代英語字母表里。

考查名詞復(fù)數(shù),letter為可數(shù)名詞,前用these“這些來修飾,名詞為復(fù)數(shù)形式,故答案為letters

5句意:一個相似的事件發(fā)生在東部。

考查動詞時態(tài),空白處充當(dāng)謂語,根據(jù)上下文時態(tài)為一般過去時,需要注意的是happen“發(fā)生沒有被動語態(tài),故答案為happened。

6句意:中國在公元2世紀(jì)早期發(fā)明了紙,在此之前,書面交流是在石頭和貝殼上進(jìn)行的。

考查介詞,on意為在……上面,文字寫在石頭和貝殼的上面,故答案為on。

7句意:古代中國人發(fā)明了他們自己的符號系統(tǒng),最后變成了字母表。

考查定語從句,關(guān)系代詞that/which在定語從句中作主語指代先行詞symbols,指物的時候關(guān)系代詞which/that都可,指人只能用that,并且不可省略,故答案為that/which

8句意:今天的漢語拼音是單一音標(biāo)符號和呈現(xiàn)一個詞或一個意思的符號的結(jié)合體。

考查形容詞,空白處需要填入形容詞修飾名詞alphabetChina為名詞詞性,變形容詞為Chinese,故答案為Chinese。

9句意:它是一種外觀美麗、發(fā)音美妙的語言。

考查名詞,空白處需填入名詞,漢語拼音屬于語言,language“語言;語言文字;說話;某種類型的語言,故空白處為language

10句意:今天人們使用字母和符號相互通信,但象形文字并沒有消失。

考查連詞,前后表示轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系,意為象形文字一直都在,故答案為but

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