二、传统文化 完形填空(共15小题;每小题1分,满分15分)
根据短文内容,从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
When Confucius(孔子) was a young boy, his family was poor. He couldn't go to a good
1 like rich kids, but he loved learning and got knowledge through self-study. Whenever he had trouble
2 something, he asked people for help, and it didn't matter if they were young or old. By the age of thirty, Confucius had learned a lot and became famous for his
3 in his town.
Back then, people didn't have paper like we do now. Instead, they used
4 to make books. They cut the bamboo into thin pieces, dried them with fire, and then
5 on them. These pieces were "bamboo slips", or zhu jian in Chinese. Each slip was long and
6 , and people could only write one line on each slip. To
7 a whole book, they needed lots of these bamboo slips. They tied them together with cowhide strings(牛皮绳子), so they could read the book
8 . It was a lot of work! Some books, like The Book of Changes, were
9 to read because they had too many bamboo slips.
Confucius didn't begin studying The Book of Changes until his later years. It was a difficult book,
10 Confucius worked hard to understand it. However, he only
11 what the book was mainly about when he read it for the first time. So, Confucius read it
12 and then understood the important ideas this time. Next, he read it a third time and finally understood the deep meaning. After that, he
13 reading The Book of Changes many more times. Since he read it so many times, the cowhide strings holding the bamboo slips together
14 several times, and Confucius had to use new ones to tie the bamboo slips. Even though he read it many times, Confucius didn't think he fully understood the
15 . "If I could live a bit longer," he said, "I would understand everything in The Book of Changes."
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D
)1. A. hospital B. museum C. restaurant D. school
(
D
)2. A. collecting B. discovering C. searching D. understanding
(
C
)3. A. childhood B. education C. knowledge D. pressure
(
A
)4. A. bamboo B. paper C. leaves D. trees
(
D
)5. A. held B. printed C. walked D. wrote
(
D
)6. A. big B. small C. wide D. thin
(
A
)7. A. make B. open C. buy D. borrow
(
B
)8. A. heavily B. easily C. quietly D. bravely
(
A
)9. A. difficult B. light C. important D. popular
(
A
)10. A. but B. since C. until D. whenever
(
D
)11. A. arrived at B. agreed with C. improved on D. learned about
(
A
)12. A. again B. too C. together D. anyway
(
C
)13. A. enjoyed B. considered C. kept D. got
(
A
)14. A. broke B. died C. happened D. shook
(
A
)15. A. book B. story C. reason D. question
