Question

【題目】 In the 13th century, Marco Polo, the world known Italian traveller, saw many wonderful things in China. One of the things he discovered was money made of paper. People in the West did not have such kind of money until the 15th century. 【1】

Paper was invented by a Chinese man called Cai Lun almost 2,000 years ago. But it was not made in Europe until the year 1100. Four hundred years later, a German discovered that he could make the best paper from trees. 【2】

Paper can be used in many ways. The common uses include newspapers, magazines and books. But do you know that paper can be used for keeping warm? In Finland, the farmers wear paper boots to keep their feet warm in the snow. And even houses can be insulated (使絕緣的) from heat or cold with paper.

However, we have to understand that paper still comes from trees now. 【3】 Every day people throw away about 2,800 tons of paper in our city. It takes 17 trees to make one ton of paper. This means that we are cutting down nearly 48,000 trees every day. The fact is that it takes more than 10 years for a tree to grow.

【4】 We can use both sides of every piece of paper. We can make useful things out of used paper. We can use china cups instead of paper ones. When shopping, we can use fewer paper bags and reuse them if we have some.

In short, we should keep a balance (平衡) between using paper and protecting trees, and do it now before it is too late.

A.So we must start saving paper right now.

B.If we keep on wasting so much paper, there will not be any trees left on the earth some day in the near future.

C.However, the Chinese began to use it in the 7th century.

D.So it is the right time to stop making paper from trees.

E.After that, countries rich in forests, such as Canada, Sweden, America, Finland became the most important ones in paper making.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】E

【3】B

【4】A

【解析】

文章主要講述了紙?jiān)跂|西方的發(fā)明和產(chǎn)生，紙的用途以及呼吁人們充分利用和節(jié)約使用紙，因?yàn)榧埖闹圃煸�料是�?shù)木，而樹(shù)木的生長(zhǎng)時(shí)間很長(zhǎng)。

【1】

根據(jù)上文“One of the things he discovered was money made of paper. People in the West did not have such kind of money until the 15th century.”可知，中國(guó)有了紙幣，西方進(jìn)入15世紀(jì)后也有了紙幣。與之搭配的應(yīng)該是：紙幣的使用。故選C。

【2】

根據(jù)上文“…a German discovered that he could make the best paper from trees.”可知，一個(gè)德國(guó)（西方國(guó)家）的人發(fā)現(xiàn)用樹(shù)木做原料能制作出上乘的紙。與之搭配的應(yīng)該是：西方森林資源豐富的國(guó)家成為重要的造紙國(guó)家。故選E。

【3】

根據(jù)下文“Every day people throw away about 2,800 tons of paper in our city. It takes 17 trees to make one ton of paper.”可知，人們每天扔掉大約2800噸紙，制作一噸的紙需要17棵樹(shù)木。與之搭配的應(yīng)該是：浪費(fèi)大量紙張的后果（未來(lái)的地球樹(shù)木消失）。故選B。

【4】

根據(jù)第5段可知，紙張正反兩面都使用，充分利用使用過(guò)的紙張，使用陶瓷杯而不用紙杯，減少或重復(fù)利用紙袋等都是節(jié)約用紙的表現(xiàn)。與之搭配的應(yīng)該是：節(jié)約用紙的呼吁。故選A。

補(bǔ)全短文做題方法：

一，通讀全文，了解中心思想。二，試填；根據(jù)出題處的前后句進(jìn)行推理判斷解答。例如小題1，此題的前文都是在講述紙幣，所以自然出題處也是在講紙幣；而選項(xiàng)里面只有C選項(xiàng)提到了紙幣，所以該題答案為C。三，如果做題時(shí)間充足，最后通讀全文，檢查加上所填句子后文章表達(dá)是否通順，符合邏輯。