Question

【題目】語篇補全閱讀下面的短文，從短文后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項補全短文，選項中有一項為多余選項。

Everyone must have given gifts to others. Do you know that the tradition of giving gifts didn’t start with the modem holidays we celebrate?【1】.

In many countries, gifts were traditionally wrapped (包裹). If gifts weren’t wrapped, much of the fun would be gone. 【2】, the surprise would be lost. So the wish to hid the gift led people to wrap their gifts. Historians believed wrapping gifts in paper probably started not long after paper was invented thousands of years ago.

【3】. More than 100 years ago, gifts were usually wrapped in heavy brown paper. Before that, cloth was often used. With the development of technology, wrapping paper was produced in the early 1900s. However, it wasn’t as easy to wrap gifts as it is today. That’s because adhesive tape (膠帶）wasn’t invented until 1928.

Now lots of waste was produced over the holidays because of wrapping paper. To solve the problem, some people carefully open gifts so that the wrapping paper can be used again. 【4】. And some homemade wrapping paper, which is treasured as much as the gift itself.

A. It is fun for receivers to guess what the gift is

B. If the receivers could see what the gift was at once

C. Many ancient people celebrated holidays by exchanging gifts

D. Some people use special gift bags instead of wrapping paper

E. But wrapping paper like what we use today was a recent invention

A. It is fun for receivers to guess what the gift is

B. If the receivers could see what the gift was at once

C. Many ancient people celebrated holidays by exchanging gifts

D. Some people use special gift bags instead of wrapping paper

E. But wrapping paper like what we use today was a recent invention

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】B

【3】E

【4】D

【解析】

本篇文章難度適中，主要講述贈送禮物并非始于我們慶祝的現(xiàn)代節(jié)日，古代人們就會通過交換禮物來慶祝節(jié)日。并且講述禮物包裝紙的發(fā)展歷程。

【1】根據(jù)Do you know that the tradition of giving gifts didn’t start with the modem holidays we celebrate可知，贈送禮物并非始于我們慶祝的現(xiàn)代節(jié)日，空處應說“許多古代人們通過交換禮物慶祝節(jié)日”，故選C。

【2】根據(jù)If gifts weren’t wrapped, much of the fun would be gone以及the surprise would be lost可知，如果禮物沒有被包裹，許多樂趣都會消失，接下來空處應該解釋原因，即禮物接收者會立刻看到禮物是什么，驚喜就會消失，故選B。

【3】根據(jù)More than 100 years ago, gifts were usually wrapped in heavy brown paper可知，表示以前用非常厚的棕色的紙包裝禮物，空處應填“我們如今用的包裝紙是最近的發(fā)明”，故選E。

【4】根據(jù)Now lots of waste was produced over the holidays because of wrapping paper. To solve the problem, some people carefully open gifts so that the wrapping paper can be used again可知，現(xiàn)在的節(jié)日會產生許多垃圾，為了解決這個問題，一些人小心地打開包裝紙，為了以后還可以重復使用，空處表示一些其他的方法，即“人們使用一些特殊的禮物袋而不是包裝紙”，故選D。