2018-2019学年广东省广州市天河区八上期末英语试卷.docxVIP

2018-2019学年广东省广州市天河区八上期末英语试卷

Nexttimewhenyouholdabookinyourhands,stopandthink.Likemostthingsinthemodernword,itistheresultofthousandsofyearsofhumaninvention.

First,cametheinventionof,probablyabout5,500yearsago.Withwriting,peopledidnothavetoremembereverythinginheads.Theycouldsharetheirknowledgewithfuturegenerationsandwithpeoplethattheyneversaw.

Later,heGreekswerewellknownfortheirliterature(文学)andscience,buttheirbookslookedverydifferent.Theywerecalledscrolls(卷轴).Theyweredifferentandtookalotofspace.

About2,000yearsago,bookswithlotsofpages.Formorethanathousandyears,thepagesofbooksweremadeanimalskin.Andthatchangedincentury.Atthattime,EuropeanslearnedaboutaChineseinvention:paper.ThenthebiggestchangeforbooksinEuropecameinthe1440s,JohannesGutenberginventedtheprintingmachine.Beforethat,peopleinEuropecopiedbooksbyhand,theywereveryexpensive.Withaprintingmachine,peoplewereabletoproducemorebooks.Soitwaspossibleformoreandmorepeopletoaffordthebooks.

Thesedaysisdifficulttoimagineaworldwithoutbooks.Buthumaninventionnever.Everyyear,moreandmorepeoplebuye-bookstoreadstoriesonascreen.

Willanyoneturnthepagesoftraditionalbookinthefuture,orwillbooks,likescrollssoondisappear?

(1)

A．another B．other C．theother D．others

(2)

A．write B．wrote C．writing D．written

(3)

A．their B．them C．they D．theirs

(4)

A．communicated B．communicate C．communicating D．communicates

(5)

A．touse B．use C．using D．used

(6)

A．appear B．appeared C．wouldappear D．wereappearing

(7)

A．as B．of C．in D．by

(8)

A．thirteen B．thirteenth C．thethirteenth D．thethirteen

(9)

A．practice B．practise C．practically D．practical

(10)

A．if B．but C．while D．when

(11)

A．because B．so C．howeve