Question

二、完形填空（共10分，每小題1分）

Everybody uses it. There is one on my desk now. It is 16 . Is there one on your desk too? Can you guess what I am talking about? It is a pencil. 17     pencils are about 18 centimetres long. One pencil can      18     a line thirty-five miles long or

write 45, 000 words! One pencil may be sharpened (肖U尖)several times      19     it is too short to write, yet we can buy one for the price of an orange! I think that pencils are very      20 . Pencils are made in many different colours but many people like yellow ones. There are more yellow pencils than      21      colour. No one knows why people like yellow pencils. Someone once made a lot of pencils. Half were yellow and half were green. A man bought them and      22     them for a long time. Then he went to the market with them and said, "The green pencils, I'm sorry to say, are not good. They break      23     . They are hard to be sharpened. They don't write well. I don't      24     any more green pencils. I want yellow ones in the future, please." But the pencils were      25     . The only difference was the colour!

(   )16. A. useful   B. yellow  C. a book      D. a ruler

 (     )17. A. Most   B. Few    C. Good     D. Only a few

(   )18. A. form  B. cut     C. write   D. draw 

(   )19. A. when   B. which    C. before   D. after

(   )20. A. common  B. special   C. cheap   D. expensive

(   )21. A. any   B. any other    C. other     D. others

(   )22. A. has used    B. used    C. wrote      D. drew

(   )23. A. easily   B. easy     C. hard          D. hardly

(   )24. A. need  B. want   C. sell    D. make

(   )25. A. the same    B. different   C. yellow   D. useful

Answer 1

 16-20 AADCC    21-25 BBABA