When was it invented? 同步测试
笔试部分(共八大题) (100分,90分钟)
一、选择填空(共10分,每小题1分)
( )1. Sunglasses are used protecting eyes. A. from B. for C. to D. with 答案:B
解析:be used for意为“用来做……”。
( )2. Was a car invented _____ March 4, 1876? A. on B. in C. at D. of 答案:A
解析:具体在哪天,介词用on。
( )3. Can you tell me _____ the train was invented? A. what B. who C. when D. which 答案:C
解析:按句意,选who或when,但选who ,后面少by,故用when合理。
( )4. Many boys think playing computer games
is of all games.
A. more interesting B. the most interesting C. interesting D. more and more interesting 答案:B
解析:介词短语of all games是表示“范围”的,在一定的范围内作比较,是用形容词的最高级。interesting是多音节的形容词,所以它的最高级是用the most interesting。
( )5. He took my English-Chinese dictionary _____ mistake.
A. to B. by C. about D. on 答案:B
解析:by mistake意为“由于错误”。
( )6. I don’t like eating chocolate because the taste is too _____. A. sour
salty
B. C.
sweet D. hot 答案:C
解析:本句是在语境中辨别形容词的用法,根据句意选sweet。 ( )7. The blackboard ______ just now. Do you know who did it?
A. cleaned B. was cleaning C. has cleaned D. was cleaned 答案:D
解析:just now的意思是“刚才”,可以判断是过去时, blackboard不能执行后面的动作clean,所以用被动语态,表示主语是动作的承受者,故用一般过去时的被动语态。
( )8. We will not go home _____ it stops raining. A. after B. before C. until D. when 答案:C
解析:本句考查until的用法。until和not连用表示“直到...才做某事”的意思。
( )9.That house is not , so we have to buy it. A. enough big; enough money B. big enough;enough money
C. enough big; money enough D. much big; many money 答案:B
解析:本句考查enough的用法。enough作副词修饰形容词的时候,放在形容词的后面;enough作形容词修饰名词的时候,放在名词的前面。第一个空是用enough修饰形容词big,所以用big enough;第二个空用enough修饰后面的名词,所以用
enough money。
( )10. Can you tell me ____?
A. who the machine invented B. who the machine invented by
C. who was the machine invented by D. who the machine was invented by 答案:D
解析:本句为宾语从句,从句应用陈述句语序,又是被动语态。故选D.
二、完形填空(共10分,每小题1分)
People on Hainan Island like scuba diving. But do you know what makes it possible for people __11__ under water for a long time? It’s the scuba machine. Then do you know __12__ invented the machine? It was Jacquse Cousteau and his friend.
Cousteau was a man __13__ of new ideas. Ever since he was a child, he had been dreaming of diving deep to explore the wonderful world __14__ the sea. Later with the scuba machine he invented, his __15__ came true. He took a lot of pictures and videos of many things that people had never seen before. It took him eight years to make a TV show which he named “The Undersea World of Jacques