Question

    A The Chinese first made paper about 2 ,000 years ago. China still has pieces of paper which were made as long ago as that. But Chinese paper was not made from the wood of trees. It was made from the hairlike parts of certain plants.

   Paper was not made in southern Europe until about the year of 1100. Scandinavia (斯堪的納維亞 半島) ，which now makes a great deal of the world’s paper,did not begin to make it until 1500. It was a German named Schaeffer who found out that one could make the best paper from trees. After that,the forest countries of Sweden,Norway,Finland,and the United States became the largest paper producers. Today in Finland,which makes the best paper in the world,the paper industry is the biggest in the land. New papermaking machines are very big,and they make paper very fast. The biggest machines can make a piece of paper 300 metres long and 6 metres wide in one minute.

When we think of paper,we think of newspapers,books,letters,envelopes and writing paper. But there are many other uses. Only half of the,paper is used for books and newspapers,etc.

() 1. Which of the following is the first,to make paper?

   A. China. B. Scandinavia. C. Germany. D. Finland.

() 2. Schaeffer found out that .

   A. the best paper was in the forest

   B. a German made the best paper

    C. wood could be made into the best paper  

     D. the oldest paper was made 1 ,500 years ago

() 3. The underlined word “industry” means “ ” in Chinese.

A.國防 B.教育 C.農業 D.工業

() 4. According to the passage,paper is not used for.

   A. newspaper   B. envelops 

   C. writing paper   D. food and drinks

() 5. The second paragraph mainly talks about paper making.

   A. in the United States   B. in Scandinavia

    C. in Europe   D. in all forest countries

Answer 1

 1—5 ACDDC

【全文翻譯】

一個中國人第一次造紙大約2, 000年前。中國仍然被制造的紙早在那片。但是中國的紙不是用木頭做的。它是由某些

植物的細微部分。直到1100年，紙才在南歐制造。斯堪的納維亞（斯堪的納維亞半島），使得現在世界的大量論文，

沒有開始做它直到1500。一個叫謝弗的德國人發現，一個人可以用樹做最好的紙。此后，瑞典、挪威、芬蘭和美國的

森林國家成為最大的造紙生產國。今天，芬蘭是世界上最好的造紙廠，造紙工業是世界上最大的。新的造紙機非常大，

而且造紙速度很快。最大的機器可以制造一張300米長，一分鐘6米寬的紙。當我們想到紙時，我們想到報紙、書籍、

信件、信封和信紙。但還有許多其他用途。只有一半的紙張用于書籍和報紙等。

【解析】

1.由文中“A The Chinese first made paper about 2 ,000 years ago.”可知選A.

2.由文中“Schaeffer who found out that one could make the best paper from trees.”可知選C.

3.“industry”工業

4.紙不是用來吃和喝的，不看文章也知道，常識，選D

5.第二段主要講了歐洲制紙的過程，所以選C