单选题
Paper was first made in the year 105A.D.(公元). It was made by a man named Ts'ai Lun. He lived in China.
For over 500 years paper was made only in China. People in Japan learned of paper around the year 600. As years went by, people in other places began to make paper.
The lead (铅) pencil is not made of lead. It is made of graphite (石墨). People found graphite in 1564. They thought it was a kind of lead. Today we still call pencils "lead pencils".
The first Wooden (木头) pencils were made by Kasper Faber. In 1761 he started making pencils in Germany (德国). Erasers (橡皮) like those we use today were first made in 1752. They were made in France by a man named Magellan. A man named Hyman L. Lipman first put erasers on the ends of pencils. And that is how the pencil came to be now.
单选题 Where is paper first made?
  • A. China.
  • B. Japan.
  • C. Germany.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[名师解析] 本题目问纸首先是在哪儿发明的，从文章开头找信息。纸由蔡伦发明，他居住在中国，因此答案是A。
单选题 When did the Japanese people learn how to make paper?
[A] 105
  • A.D.
  • B. 500 A.D.
  • C. 600 A.D.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[名师解析] 题目问日本人什么时候学会造纸。第二段第一句说日本人在约公元600年学会造纸，因此是C。
单选题 Why does people call pencil the "lead pencil"?
  • A. Because pencil is made of lead.
  • B. Because people made a mistake.
  • C. There is no reason.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[名师解析] 题目问人们为什么叫铅笔为“铅”笔，答案在第三段中找，文中说铅笔实际上是由石墨做成的，人们在1564年发现石墨，以为那是一种铅，到现在人们还是叫铅笔。因此这是人们认识上的一个错误，所以应该选B，而不是A所说的铅笔就是铅做的，或是C所说的干脆没有原因。
单选题 When was graphite first found?
  • A. 1564.
  • B. 1761.
  • C. Doesn't say.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[名师解析] 题目问石墨最先在什么时候被发现，第三段中可以找到是在1564年被发现的，因此答案是A。
单选题 What is true about pencils in this text?
  • A. It is made of wood only.
  • B. It is made of graphite only.
  • C. It has erasers.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[名师解析] 本题目问以下有关铅笔的那个是对的，应该用排除法。A和B都是错的，因为铅笔不只只有木头或石墨，而是两者均有。C是对的，第四段中提到铅笔上有橡皮。
单选题 Who made the first eraser?
  • A. Kasper Faber from Germany.
  • B. Magellan from France.
  • C. Hyman L. Lipman.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[名师解析] 题目问谁发明了第一块橡皮。第四段中提到今天我们使用的橡皮是在 1752年发明的，它们是在法国由一个叫Magellan的人制造出来的，所以答案是B。