Question

【题目】根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Learn to Think

“I will think of it.” It is easy to say this. 【1】________________ We can not see our thoughts, or hear, or taste, or feel them; and yet what mighty power they have!

Sir Isac Newton was seated in his garden on a summer’s evening, when he saw an apple fell from a tree. 【2】______________ Later, he discovered how the earth, sun, moon, and stars were kept in their places.

【3】____________ He began to think; he wanted to find out why the steam in the kettle moved the heavy lid. From that time he went on thinking and thinking. When he became a man, he improved the steam engine so much that it could, with the greatest ease, go the work of many horses.

【4】_______________

A man named Galileo was once standing in the cathedral of Pisa, when he saw a light swaying to and fro. This set him thinking, and it led to the invention of the pendulum.

Boys, when you have a difficult lesson to learn, don’t feel discouraged, and help yourselves before asking someone to help you. 【5】_______________

A. But do you know what great things have come from thinking?

B. Think, and by thinking you will learn how to think to some purpose.

C. A boy named James Watt sat quietly by the fireside, watching the lid of the tea kettle as it moved up and down.

D. And do you know how to think?

E. When you see a steamboat, a steam mill, remember that it would never have been built of it had not been for the hard thinking of someone.

F. He began to think, trying to find out why the apple fell.

G. He was a famous physicist and good at thinking.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】F

【3】C

【4】E

【5】B

【解析】

试题分析:思想虽然看不见，摸不着，但它能带来伟大的发明或发现，本文介绍的三个人都善于思考，才会有所发现和创造。遇到困难别灰心，勤动脑就会有创新。

【1】A考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。根据We can not see our thoughts, or hear, or taste, or feel them; and yet what mighty power they have!思想虽然看不见，摸不着，感受不到，但是思考有巨大的力量，A选项But do you know what great things have come from thinking但是你知道思考会发生什么伟大的事情吗，符合，故选A。

【2】F考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。根据Sir Isac Newton was seated in his garden on a summer’s evening, when he saw an apple fell from a tree.可知牛顿坐在自家的花园中，看见苹果从树上落下，F选项He began to think, trying to find out why the apple fell.他开始思考，试着找到苹果落下的理由，符合，故选F。

【3】C考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。根据he wanted to find out why the steam in the kettle moved the heavy lid.他想知道为什么水壶的蒸汽会使得盖子上上下下，C选项A boy named James Watt sat quietly by the fireside, watching the lid of the tea kettle as it moved up and down一个叫瓦特的男孩坐在火边，看着水壶的盖子上上下下，符合，故选C。

【4】E考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。根据When he became a man, he improved the steam engine so much that it could, with the greatest ease, go the work of many horses.可知瓦特改造了蒸汽发动机，使得以蒸汽动力的很多东西被改善，E选项When you see a steamboat, a steam mill, remember that it would never have been built of it had not been for the hard thinking of someone当你看见一架蒸汽船，记住如果不是某人的思考，它就不会被制造出来，符合，故选E。

【5】B考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。根据don’t feel discouraged, and help yourselves before asking someone to help you.别灰心丧气，在找别人帮助你之前，你要帮助自己，B选项Think, and by thinking you will learn how to think to some purpose.思考，通过思考你会学到如何利用思考达到某种目的，符合，故选B。