Question

【題目】The bicycle is one of the simplest yet most useful inventions in the world. What is most surprising is that it was not _____ earlier, although the great inventor Leonardo Da Vinci had drawn pictures for bicycles and also for flying machines and some other things. Those things were not produced______ long after he died.

A person riding a bicycle uses ______ energy to make the bicycle move, and there is no pollution at all when you are riding. Even so, in developed _______, most people don’t travel to work by bicycle. It is not because the bicycles are expensive or people feel_______ if they ride to work. It’s because _____ cars on the roads becomes larger. It certainly becomes ______ to ride a bicycle. As a result, more people put their bicycles away and go to work ______ their cars , and in this way, the situation is made more serious._____ the best way to make riding safer and more popular is to create paths (開設(shè)通道) only for bicycles, and to make ______ so difficult and expensive for drivers to take their cars into the city that they will go back to use their bicycles.

【1】A. invent B. inventing C. invented D. to invent

【2】A. before B. when C. since D. until

【3】A. much B. quite a lot of C. very little D. many

【4】A. world B. countries C. land D. earth

【5】A. lucky B. glad C. sorry D. tired

【6】A. the number of B. a number of C. this kind of D. all kinds of

【7】A. safer B. more dangerous C. much dangerous D. safe

【8】A. by B. in C. use D. drive

【9】A. Hardly B. May be C. Perhaps D. Nearly

【10】A. it B. them C. us D. that

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】D

【3】C

【4】B

【5】D

【6】A

【7】B

【8】B

【9】C

【10】A

【解析】

試題分析：

【1】根據(jù)句意：它沒有早些時(shí)候被發(fā)明，這里表示被動(dòng)，填C。

【2】not…until…“直到……才”，句意是：直到他死后這些東西才制造出來(lái)。選D

【3】句意是騎車的人花費(fèi)的精力很少，little修飾不可數(shù)名詞，表示很少，其它選項(xiàng)意思都不對(duì)。選C。

【4】developed countries“發(fā)達(dá)國(guó)家”選B。

【5】句意是：許多發(fā)達(dá)國(guó)家中的人不騎自行車去上班。它不是因?yàn)樽孕熊囀前嘿F的或者如果他們騎去工作，人們感到疲倦。所以選D。

【6】The number of “……的數(shù)量”a number of“許多”，因?yàn)橹^語(yǔ)動(dòng)詞用的是becomes，故選A。

【7】B。句意是：它是因?yàn)榈缆飞系钠�車的�?shù)量很大。騎自行車肯定變成更危險(xiǎn)的。

【8】“乘車”可以用by car或in one’s car，所以選B。

【9】句意是：或許，使騎車更安全和更受歡迎的最好的方式僅僅為自行車創(chuàng)造一條道路，選C。

【10】這里填it是形式賓語(yǔ)，代指不定式to take their cars into the city ，選A。