Question

【題目】A Japanese company has a new bread-making machine. It can make bread from uncooked rice in four hours.

The_______of the bread-making machine is “Gopan”. It means “rice” and “bread” in Japanese. Users put_______rice in the Gopan and the machine does the rest, from milling (碾磨) the rice to baking the bread.

The bread-making machine is quite______at $600 (4,000 yuan), but it has sold very well. The company put Gopan on the market last month and it______ in only one week. The company says it will not take orders for the Gopan_______next April.

Hisao Nagayama, a Japanese food______, thinks the Gopan is popular ______ Japanese people are changing their eating habits. They eat more Western food. Busy lives are making it ______for Japanese people to find the time to cook and eat rice.

“People can eat the bread ______ and it is delicious. And it is made of ________ the Japanese like to eat---rice.” he said. Do you want to have a try?

【1】A. information B. form C. function D. name

【2】A. washed B. wasted C. cooked D. used

【3】A. expensive B. cheap C. old-fashioned D. fantastic

【4】A. made out B. took out C. put out D. sold out

【5】A. with B. when C. while D. until

【6】A. teacher B. cook C. expert D. artist

【7】A. so that B. though C. because D. because of

【8】A. easier B. harder C. easy D. important

【9】A. hardly B. easily C. especially D. accidentally

【10】A. what B. when C. where D. why

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】 D

【2】 A

【3】 A

【4】 D

【5】 D

【6】 C

【7】 C

【8】 B

【9】 B

【10】 A

【解析】

短文介紹了日本公司研制的一種新型的面包機(jī)，它可以在四小時(shí)內(nèi)用未煮熟的米飯做成面包。忙碌的生活使得日本人很難找到時(shí)間做飯和吃米飯，這種面包機(jī)的上市，可以使人們很容易地吃到面包，味道鮮美。深受大家的歡迎。

【1】句意：制作面包機(jī)器的名稱叫“面包機(jī)”。它在日語中的意思是“大米”和“面包”。A. information信息；B. form表格；C. function作用；D. name名字。結(jié)合句意可知，答案為D。

【2】句意：用戶將洗好的米放入面包機(jī)。A. washed洗滌；B. wasted浪費(fèi)；C. cooked做飯；D. used使用。在制作面包之前首先要把大米洗好，故答案為A。

【3】句意：這臺(tái)面包機(jī)很貴，價(jià)值600美元（4000元）。A. expensive昂貴的；B. cheap便宜的；C. old-fashioned過時(shí)的；D. fantastic極好的。根據(jù)后面的句子“but it has sold very well.”可知，面包機(jī)價(jià)格雖貴，但是很暢銷，故答案為A。

【4】句意：公司上個(gè)月把面包機(jī)上市，只用了一周就賣完了。A. made out理解，假裝，辨認(rèn)出；B. took out 拿出；C. put out撲滅；D. sold out賣完。結(jié)合句意可知，答案為D。

【5】句意：該公司表示，直到明年四月才會(huì)接受面包機(jī)的訂單。A. with與……一起；B. when當(dāng)……時(shí)候；C. while正當(dāng)……的時(shí)候；D. until直到。not…until直到……才，結(jié)合句意可知，答案為D。

【6】句意：日本食品專家長山昭夫（Hisao Nagayama）認(rèn)為，因?yàn)槿毡救苏�在改變他們的飲食�?xí)慣，所以面包機(jī)很受歡迎。A. teacher老師；B. cook廚師；C. expert專家；D. artist畫家。Hisao Nagayama是食品專家，解釋了面包機(jī)在日本受歡迎的原因，故答案為C。

【7】句意：日本食品專家長山昭夫（Hisao Nagayama）認(rèn)為，面包機(jī)很受歡迎是因?yàn)槿毡救苏�在改變他們的飲食�?xí)慣。A. so that以便，后跟目的狀語從句；B. though盡管；C. because因?yàn)�，后跟原因狀語從句；D. because of由于，后跟名詞，代詞或動(dòng)名詞。結(jié)合語境理解，前后句表示因果關(guān)心，because引導(dǎo)原因狀語從句，故答案選C。

【8】句意：忙碌的生活使得日本人很難找到時(shí)間做飯和吃米飯。A. easier更容易的；B. harder更難的；C. easy容易的；D. important重要的。生活的快節(jié)奏使人很難找到時(shí)間做飯，故答案選B。

【9】句意：人們可以很容易地吃到面包，味道鮮美。A. hardly幾乎不；B. easily容易地；C. especially特別；D. accidentally意外地。前面提到面包的制作過程很簡單，省時(shí)間，適合那些不愿意在家做飯的生活節(jié)奏快的人群，故答案為B。

【10】句意：它是日本人喜歡吃的大米做成的。A. what什么；B. when何時(shí)；C. where 哪兒；D. why為什么。what可以用來指物，用作關(guān)系代詞，在句子中作主語或賓語；when，where，why只能用作關(guān)系副詞，在句中作狀語，此處的成分應(yīng)該是eat的賓語，故答案選A。