Question

VI．完形填空（共10小题，每小题1分，计10分）

“I will think of it.”It is easy to say this; but do you know what great things have come from

______? We can not see our own thoughts, or hear, or taste, or feel them; but we do feel the ______

our thoughts have!

Sir Isaac Newton was seated in his garden ______ a summer’s evening. He was thinking about something else when he saw ______ fall from a tree. He began to think. In trying to understand why the apple fell, he ______ how the earth, the sun, the moon and the stars were kept in their places.

A boy named James Watt sat quietly by the fireplace, watching the lid (盖子) of the tea kettle as it moved up and down. He began to think; he wanted to ______ why the steam in the kettle moved the heavy lid. From that time he went on thinking and thinking; and when he became a man, he

______ the steam engine successfully. From then on it could do the work of many horses ______.

Next time when you see a steam boat or a steam mill, remember that it would ______ have been built without the hard thinking of someone.

Boys, when you have a ______ lesson to learn, don’t feel discouraged, and help yourselves before asking someone to help you. Think, and by thinking you will learn how to think to some purpose.

1.A. saying B. thinking C. writing D. reading

2.A. power B. method C. pressure D. reason

3.A. in B. at C. on D. for

4.A. a lid B. an orange C. an apple D. a leaf

5.A. described B. invented C. complained D. discovered

6.A. look out B. take out C. find out D. turn out

7.A. increased B. improved C. repaired D. influenced

8.A. hardly B. busily C. heavily D. easily

9.A. never B. ever C. still D. yet

10.A. possible B. difficult C. simple D. useful

Answer 1