题目详解
Questions14-19
14 该题目信息出现于A段第二行‘material for producing pencil, was discovered in 1564 in Borrowdale in England when a lightning struck a local tree during a thunder’因此,正确答案为tree。
15 该题目信息出现于A段最后一句‘It was soon put to use by locals in marking their sheep for signs of ownership and calculation’因此,正确答案为sheep。
16 该题目信息出现于B段第三行‘soft, it requires some form of encasement. In Italy, graphite sticks were initially wrapped in string or sheepskin for stability’因此,正确答案为string。
17 该题目信息出现于D段,后半部分‘When the value of graphite was realised, the mines were taken over by the government and guarded.’因此,正确答案为government。
18 该题目信息出现于D段,末句‘In 1751 an Act of Parliament was passed making it an offence to steal or receive “wad”. This crime was punishable by hard labour or transportation.’因此,正确答案为steal。
19 该题目信息出现于E段,第三行‘It is widely known that astronauts in Russia used grease pencils’,因此,正确答案为grease。
Questions 20-26
20 利用题目细节信息‘Italy’,定位于B段第三行‘In Italy, graphite sticks were initially wrapped in string or sheepskin for stability, becoming perhaps the very first pencil in the world’因此,正确答案为TRUE。
21 利用题目细节信息‘Germany’定位于B段‘Shortly thereafter in 1662, a superior technique was discovered by German people: two wooden halves were carved, a graphite stick inserted’因此,正确答案为NOT GIVEN。
22 利用顺序原则,定位于C段第三行‘This mixture is important because the amount of clay content added to the graphite depends on intended pencil hardness,’原文说的是加入黏土,因此,正确答案为FALSE。
23 利用题目细节信息‘Elizabeth I’定位于D段末句‘One of its chief uses during the reign of Elizabeth I in the second half of the 16th century was as moulds for the manufacture of cannon balls. Graphite was transported from Keswick to London in armed stagecoaches.’原文说石墨被用作军事,而且被看守,因此,正确答案为TRUE。
24 原文中没有提及相关信息,因此,正确答案为NOT GIVEN。
25 利用顺序原则,定位于E段末句‘But despite the fact that the Americans did invent zero gravity pencils later, they stuck to mechanical pencils for many years’。因此,正确答案为NOT GIVEN。
26 利用顺序原则,定位于F段中间部分,‘A spectrum of users are likely to continue to use it into the future’,因此,正确答案为FALSE。