Question

【題目】根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有兩項為多余選項。

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】

試題分析:思想雖然看不見，摸不著，但它能帶來偉大的發(fā)明或發(fā)現(xiàn)，本文介紹的三個人都善于思考，才會有所發(fā)現(xiàn)和創(chuàng)造。遇到困難別灰心，勤動腦就會有創(chuàng)新。

【1】A考查對上下文的理解和推理判斷能力。根據(jù)We can not see our thoughts, or hear, or taste, or feel them; and yet what mighty power they have!思想雖然看不見，摸不著，感受不到，但是思考有巨大的力量，A選項But do you know what great things have come from thinking但是你知道思考會發(fā)生什么偉大的事情嗎，符合，故選A。

【2】F考查對上下文的理解和推理判斷能力。根據(jù)Sir Isac Newton was seated in his garden on a summer’s evening, when he saw an apple fell from a tree.可知牛頓坐在自家的花園中，看見蘋果從樹上落下，F(xiàn)選項He began to think, trying to find out why the apple fell.他開始思考，試著找到蘋果落下的理由，符合，故選F。

【3】C考查對上下文的理解和推理判斷能力。根據(jù)he wanted to find out why the steam in the kettle moved the heavy lid.他想知道為什么水壺的蒸汽會使得蓋子上上下下，C選項A boy named James Watt sat quietly by the fireside, watching the lid of the tea kettle as it moved up and down一個叫瓦特的男孩坐在火邊，看著水壺的蓋子上上下下，符合，故選C。

【4】E考查對上下文的理解和推理判斷能力。根據(jù)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發(fā)動機，使得以蒸汽動力的很多東西被改善，E選項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當(dāng)你看見一架蒸汽船，記住如果不是某人的思考，它就不會被制造出來，符合，故選E。

【5】B考查對上下文的理解和推理判斷能力。根據(jù)don’t feel discouraged, and help yourselves before asking someone to help you.別灰心喪氣，在找別人幫助你之前，你要幫助自己，B選項Think, and by thinking you will learn how to think to some purpose.思考，通過思考你會學(xué)到如何利用思考達到某種目的，符合，故選B。