For thousands of years, people thought of glass as something beautiful to look at. Onl

cently 【C1】______ come to 【C2】______ something to look through. Stores 【C3】______ their goods in large glass windows. Glass bottles and jars 【C4】______ food and drink allow us 【C5】______ the contents. Glass 【C6】______ spectacles (眼镜), microscopes, telescopes, and 【C7】______ very useful and necessary objects. 【C8】______ are used by people who cannot see 【C9】______ or by people who want to protect their eyes 【C10】______ bright light. Microscopes make tiny things larger 【C11】______ we can examine them. Telescopes 【C12】______ objects that are far away appear 【C13】______ closer to us.

【C14】______ in recent years plastics have replaced glass 【C15】______ conditions where glass might be 【C16】______ broken there are new uses 【C17】______ for glass that were never imagined in the 【C18】______ . Perhaps the greatest 【C19】______ . of glass is that its constituent (形成的) parts are inexpensive and can be found 【C20】______ over the world.

【C1】_____

A．they

B．do they

C．they have

D．have they

recently 21 come to think of it as something look through.Stores 22 their goods in large glass windows.Glass bottles and jars 23 food and drink allow us to see the contents.Glass 24 spectacles(眼镜),microscopes(显微镜),telescopes,and many other very useful and necessary objects,and glasses are used by people who cannot see 25 or by people who want to protect their eyes 26 bright light.Microscopes make tiny things larger 27 we can examine them.Telescopes make objects that are far away appear 28 closer to us.However in recent years plastics have replaced glass 29 conditions where glass might be easily broken.There are new uses being developed for glass that were never imagined in the past.Perhaps the greatest 30 of glass is that its constituent(形成的) parts are inexpensive and can be found all over the world.21.A.they B.do they C.they have D.have they

22.A.protect

B.hide

C.display

D.set aside

23.A.hold

B.held

C.that hold

D.that holding

24.A.used to make

B.is used to make

C.is used to making

D.used to making

25.A.perfectly

B.perfect

C.perfection

D.perfected

26.A.from

B.in

C.with

D.beyond

27.A.so as

B.as that

C.so that

D.such that

28.A.ever

B.rather

C.more

D.much

29.A.under

B.below

C.within

D.on

30.A.goodness

B.advance

C.advantage

D.progress

Task 2

Directions: This task is the same as Task 1. The 5 questions or unfinished statements are numbered 41 through 45.

Thousands of years ago, traveling was very hard. There were no roads and no cars. People traveled on rivers and lakes. They used logs, either one at a time, or tied together.

People then began to use animals to pull very heavy loads. Some people put

The main idea of the first paragraph is that ______.

A．people traveled on lakes thousands of years ago

B．people used logs thousands of years ago

C．traveling was hard thousands of years ago

D．there were no roads and cars thousands of years ago

Task 2

Directions: This task is the same as Task 1. The 5 questions or unfinished statements are numbered 41 through 45.

Thousands of years ago, traveling was very hard. There were no roads and no cars. People traveled on rivers and lakes. They used logs, either one at a time, or tied together.

People then began to use animals to pull very heavy loads. Some people put

The main idea of the first paragraph is that ______.

A．people traveled on lakes thousands of years ago

B．people used logs thousands of years ago

C．traveling was hard thousands of years ago

D．there were no roads and cars thousands of years ago

raveled on rivers and lakes. They used logs, either one at a time, or tied together.

People then began to use animals to pull very heavy loads. Some people put rollers under a load, and this was the first use of the wheel. The wheel was the most important invention in transportation.

The need to transport many people at one time led to the use of the stagecoach. It's a horse-drawn public vehicle carrying passengers along a regular route. The stagecoach was pulled by four to six horses. It often rode through the night with a change of a driver.

But people wanted a faster and easier way of traveling. The "horseless carriage" of automobile was invented in 1892. Life became more pleasant. Roads were built. Farmers were able to travel to cities. City people were able to get fresh fruits and vegetables. People traveled to many places for fun.

The main idea of the first paragraph is that ______.

A．people traveled on lakes thousands of years ago

B．people used logs thousands of years ago

C．traveling was hard thousands of years ago

D．there were no roads and cars thousands of years ago

Thousands of years ago people were forced to leave their homeland because ______.

A．the earth was in an ice age

B．they found their homeland getting colder

C．huge sheets of ice were spreading over the land

D．they had to stay near the animals they hunted for food

and I was again crushed by the thought that I now stood on the site of the first atomic bombardment, where thousands upon thousands of people had been slain in one second, where thousands upon thousands of others had lingered on to die in slow agony.（）

Task 2

Directions: This task is the same as Task 1. The 5 questions or unfinished statements are numbered 41 through 45.

Thousands of years ago, traveling was very hard. There were no roads and no cars. People traveled on rivers and lakes. They used logs, either one at a time, or tied together.

People then began to use animals to pull very heavy loads. Some people put rollers under a load, and this was the first use of the wheel. The wheel was the most important invention in transportation.

The need to transport many people at one time led to the use of the stagecoach. It's a horse-drawn public vehicle carrying passengers along a regular route. The stagecoach was pulled by four to six horses. It often rode through the night with a change of a driver.

But people wanted a faster and easier way of traveling. The "horseless carriage" of automobile was invented in 1892. Life became more pleasant. Roads were built. Farmers were able to travel to cities. City people were able to get fresh fruits and vegetables. People traveled to many places for fun.

The main idea of the first paragraph is that ______.

A．people traveled on lakes thousands of years ago

B．people used logs thousands of years ago

C．traveling was hard thousands of years ago

D．there were no roads and cars thousands of years ago