The Chinese first ________ (make) paper about 2,000 years ago. China still has pieces ________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 hair-like parts of certain plants.
Paper was not made in ________ (south) Europe until about the year 1100. Scandinavia( 斯堪的纳维亚半岛),which now makes a great deal of the ________ (world) paper, did not begin to make it until 1500. It was a German ________ (name) 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 ________ (become) the largest paper producers. Today in Finland, which makes the ________ (good) paper in the world, the paper industry is the biggest on the land. New papermaking machines are very big, and ________ (them) make paper very fast. The biggest machines can make a piece of paper that is 300 metres long and 6 metres wide ________ one minute.
When we think of paper, we think of newspapers, books, letters, envelopes and writing paper. ________there are many other uses. Only half of the paper that is made is used for books and newspapers, etc.
【答案】 made;of;southern;world's;named;became;best;they;in;But
【解析】本文介绍了全世界的造纸工艺。
(1)句意： 大约2000年前中国制造了第 一张纸。根据 2,000 years ago可知2000年前是一般过去时的标志，make的过去式是made ， 故填made。
(2)句意：中国仍然有在那之前制作的纸。pieces of，固定搭配，张，故填of。
(3)句意： 直到大约1100年，纸才在南欧制造出来。Europe是名词其前是形容词，south是名词，southern是形容词，故填 southern。
(4)句意：斯堪的纳维亚半岛现在在世界报纸上占有很大份额，直到1500年才开始发行。paper是名词，此处是所有格，故填 world's。
(5)句意：是一个叫谢弗的德国人发现人们可以用树做最好的纸。name和German是被动关系，故用过去分词做后置定语，故填 named。
(6)句意：此后，森林国家瑞典、挪威、芬兰和美国成为最大的纸张生产国。描述过去用一般现在时，become的过去式是became，故填 became。
(7)句意：今天，在世界上造纸最好的是芬兰，造纸工业是世界上最大的。根据 the biggest on the land 可知此处是最高级，good的最高级是best，故填 best。
(8)句意：新的造纸机很大，而且造纸很快。此处缺少主语，故用主格，them是宾格，主格是they，故填 they。
(9)句意：最大的机器可以在一分钟内制造出一张长300米、宽6米的纸。此处缺少介词表示时间范围，in one minute，在一分钟之内，故填in。
(10)句意：但还有很多其他用途。此处缺少连词，此处表示前后的对比，故是转折关系连词but，故填But。
【点评】考查语法填空，注意谓语的时态，语态，非谓语动词，词性，连词搭配等多种用法。
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