Question

【题目】根据短文内容，完成任务。注意：每个空只填一个单词。

What do you think of the most important inventions in the world? The TV? The printing? The telephone? Or the computer? A report shows that they are not the only important inventions. Here are three other important inventions.

One of the simplest(最简单的) inventions is the toilet(冲水式马桶). Before toilets, waste ran into rivers from people’s houses. Illnesses were common in big cities, and it was often difficult to find clean drinking water.

Animal food is another important invention. Before the invention, most animals were killed（杀死） every autumn because there was not enough food for them in winter. After hay (干草) became a kind of common animal food, animals could live through the long winter.

The third great invention is glasses. Glasses help people read, write and do “close work” after the age of forty-five. Without glasses, the world would be difficult for the people above forty-five.

Important 【1】
Some most important inventions	The TV, the 【2】, the 【3】, the computer
Three other important inventions	Before the inventions
The 【4】	【5】 ran into rivers from people’s houses 【6】 were common in big cities It was often difficult to find【7】 drinking water
Hay, animal food	Most animals were killed in 【8】 because there wasn’t enough food in winter.
【9】	Reading, writing and “close work” would be difficult for people over【10】

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】inventions

【2】printing

【3】telephone

【4】toilet

【5】waste

【6】illness

【7】clean

【8】autumn

【9】Glasses

【10】forty-five

【解析】

本文主要介绍了人们一般认为电视、电话、电脑等是重要的发明，实际上，一些简单的发明也很重要，例如抽水马桶、眼镜和动物食料等。

【1】文章通篇都在围绕invention“发明”来写，文章开头“What do you think is the most important invention?”你认为最重要的发明是什么，故答案为inventions。

【2】从文章第一行“The TV? The printing? The telephone? Or the computer?”可判断此处指打印技术，故答案为printing。

【3】从文章第一行“The TV? The printing? The telephone? Or the computer?”，可判断此处为电话，故答案为telephone。

【4】根据第二段，可知最重要的发明应是厕所，故答案为toilet。

【5】根据“Before toilets, waste ran into rivers from people’s houses”，可知是垃圾倒入河中，故答案为waste。

【6】根据“illness were common in big cities”，可知疾病在大城市很常见，故答案为big cities。

【7】根据“Illnesses were common in big cities, and it was often difficult to find clean drinking water”，可知清洁的饮用水难找，故答案为 clean。

【8】根据“most animals were killed every autumn because there was not enough food for them in winter”，可知大多数的动物每年秋天被杀死 ，因为没有足够的食物让他们来度过冬天，故答案为autumn。

【9】根据“The third great invention is glasses”，可知第三个重要的发明是眼镜，故答案为Glasses。

【10】根据“Glasses help people read, write and do ‘close work’ after the age of forty-five”，可知是45岁，故答案为forty-five。