In the 1450s Johannes Gutenberg, a Gennan printer, …完形填空及答案

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In the 1450s Johannes Gutenberg, a Gennan printer, developed a new printing press(印刷机)Then single letters could be __41____ in lines to create a page of text.  The letters were made of metal.Each one could be ___42___ to different parts of the press,depending on which words were___43____  on a certain page. This was one of the most important ___44_____ in the history of pringting.

___45____, most books had been created by copying out text by hand. The__46__of a single book would take many hours or even days. With the Gutenberg press, ___47___ could be printted in several seconds, and many copies of books could be created in a few hours.

    Gutenberg's printing press was not so much an i___48____, however, as an improvement of developing technologies. The Chinese were the first to use wooden blocks(木刻版)as early as the 8th century. Then great __49___was made around 1040. The movable type was invented by Bi Sheng in China. European ___50____the printing methods centuries later. Another contribution to Cutenberg`s system also come from the East,__51____.The Chinese invented paper using ___52___materials,including old clothes. The kind of the inexpensive paper was introduced into Europe in 1000 or so. This kind of paper was __53___for the new European printing presses,__54____it took in the only ink required for the metal type.

Printing soon became an important __55___in a rapidly growing world. By 1500,nearly 35,000 books were in print worldwide. But the printing press did not ___56___a lot for a long time. In the 19th century , however, iron ____57___wood in the press`s framework. And paper became___58___in continuous rolls rather than more expensive single pieces. Steam engines ___59__the speed at which the press ran. In the late 1900s,the introduction of better presses greatly __60___the time it took to turn ideas into books.

 

41.A.used         B. put          C. read          D. written

42.A.shown       B .turned       C. moved         D. added

43.A.needed       B. lost         C. collected       D. found

44.A.challenged    B. studies      C. discoveries    D. developments

45.A.Recently     B. Immediately  C. Previously    D. Finally

46.A.discussion    B. production   C. instruction    D. preparation

47.A.pages       B. ideas        C. models        D. characters

48.A.attraction    B . expressin    C. competition    D. invention

49.A.accident     B. research     C. progress       D. situation

50.A.believed     B. followed     C .tested        D. required

51.A.paper       B. wood         C. letters       D. metal

52.A.fine        B. thin         C. heavy         D. cheap

53.A.useless      B. special      C. good          D. impossible

54.A.as         B. although     C. until         D. unless 

55.A.fashion     B. industry     C. trick         D. belief

56.A.apply       B. help         C. work          D. change

57.A.replaced    B. controlled   C. became        D. protected

58.A.necesary    B. available    C. normal        D. valuable

59.A.reached     B. limited      C. increased     D. kept

60.A.made        B. allowed      C. wasted        D. reduced

 

41-15BCADC 46-50BADCB 51-55ADCAB 56-60DABCD