Question

【題目】根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，回答下列問(wèn)題。

No one knows who invented the pencils or when it happened. A Swiss described a pencil in a book in 1565. He said it was a piece of wood with lead (鉛) inside it. Pencils weren’t popular. Then, in 1795, someone started making pencils from graphite (石墨), and they became very popular. Today, people still make pencils in the same way. They put it inside a piece of wood.

One pencil can write 50, 000 English words or make a line 55 kilometers long.

Before the pencils were widely used, people used bird feathers (羽毛) as pens. When people wrote with feather pens, they had to put the point into ink after every few letters. Next, someone invented a fountain pen(自來(lái)水筆) that could hold ink inside it. A fountain pen can write a few pages before you have to fill it again.

Two brothers, Ladislao and George Biro, invented the ballpoint pen (圓珠筆) that we all use today. They left their country Hungary (匈牙利) and started making ballpoint pens in England in 1943, during World War II. Later, a French company called Bic bought the Biro brothers’company. Some people call the ballpoint pens “Bics.” Australians call them “biros.” Whatever we call them, we use them every day.

【1】What instruments for writing are mentioned in the passage?

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【2】Which was used more often before 1795, pencils or feather pens?

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【3】Who invented ballpoint pens?

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【4】Where were ballpoint pens made by Biro brothers?

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【5】What does the underlined word “them” refer to(指代)?;

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Answer 1

【答案】

【1】Pens, pencils and ballpoint pens.

【2】Feather pens.

【3】Two brothers, Ladislao and George Biro.

【4】In England.

【5】The ballpoint pens.

【解析】

本文介紹了筆的發(fā)展，從最初的鉛筆，到之后的鋼筆，到現(xiàn)在仍在使用的圓珠筆。

【1】本文介紹了三種筆，第一段介紹了鉛筆pencils，第三段介紹了鋼筆pens，第四段介紹了圓珠筆the ballpoint pens。故答案為Pens, pencils and ballpoint pens.

【2】根據(jù)“Then, in 1795, someone started making pencils from graphite (石墨), and they became very popular.”可知鉛筆是在1975年流行起來(lái)的，根據(jù)“Before the pencils were widely used, people used bird feathers (羽毛) as pens.”可知在鉛筆廣泛應(yīng)用之前，人們使用羽毛做的鋼筆，因此在1975年之前，用的應(yīng)該是羽毛的鋼筆。故答案為Feather pens.

【3】根據(jù)“Two brothers, Ladislao and George Biro, invented the ballpoint pen (圓珠筆) that we all use today.”可知兩兄弟Ladislao和George Biro發(fā)明了圓珠筆。故答案為Two brothers, Ladislao and George Biro.

【4】根據(jù)“They left their country Hungary (匈牙利) and started making ballpoint pens in England in 1943, during World War II.”可知兩兄弟是在英國(guó)開(kāi)始制造圓珠筆的。故答案為In England.

【5】根據(jù)Some people call the ballpoint pens “Bics.” Australians call them “biros.”可知一些人叫圓珠筆Bics，澳大利亞有不同的叫法，他們叫biros，因此them指代的是圓珠筆the ballpoint pens。故答案為The ballpoint pens。