（G=girl W=woman）

G：Life must have been difficult when you were a kid.

W：Oh, not really. 1            .

G：Well, you didn’t have many modern inventions. Like, you probably didn’t have a telephone, right?

W：Of course we did! How old do you think I am?2            .

G：How about cars? I bet cars weren’t invented yet.

W：Sure they were. Cars were invented in 1885. My family had a car. I think you need to take a history class, Alice.

G：Ha, Ha! Well, 3            .

W：No, we didn’t. The TV was invented around 1927, I think. Some friends of mine had one. But in those days, TVs were really expensive, and we couldn’t afford one.

G：And I bet you didn’t have calculators and computers and stuff. 4             We learned in school that hand-held calculators were invented in 1971 and personal computers were invented in 1976.

W：You’re right. 5            . But I do now!

The TV was invented around ________.

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The TV was invented around ________.

1. A.
   the twenty century
2. B.
   the twentieth century
3. C.
   twentieth century
4. D.
   twenty century

完形填空

What time is it? There are many ways you can (1) the time. You may have a watch on your wrist(手腕) .You can look at a clock on the wall. You can listen to the radio or (2) a number on the telephone to get the time.

I has not always been (3) to know the time. A long time ago people looked at the (4) to tell the time. They could tell the time by looking at it in the sky: morning, noon or afternoon.

Around the year 1400, people began to use the hourglass(沙漏) . It was made (5) glass with sand in it. It was wide at both ends, (6) narrow ( 窄的) in the middle. The sand ran from one end to (7) in one hour. At the end of every hour people turned the glass over ant it began (8) .

Hundreds of years later a machine called (9) was invented. After that people made (10) clocks so that they could (11) them in their pockets. These pocket clocks were called watches. Then, during the first world war (战争) men started (12) their watches on their wrists. It was easier and faster to tell the time

1.make sure       B. look at         C. write down        D. find out

2. A. call            B. read             C. count          D. write

3. A. different       B. difficult        C. easy             D. important

4. A. earth            B. sun               C. moon           D. satellite

5. A. by              B. into             C. from             D. of

6. A. so              B. and             C. but               D. or

7. A. another        B. other          C. others               D. the other

8. A. once            B. more            C. again               D. too

9. A. watch           B. clock            C. radio            D. telephone

10. A. good           B. cheap            C. beautiful            D. small

11. A. take          B. bring             C. carry                 D. get

12. A. wearing        B. inventing       C. making               D. buying