时间：2022-08-15 03:21:19
Everybody uses one. There is one on my desk now. It is 1 . Is there one on your desk， too? 2 am I talking about? Can you 3 what it is? It is a pencil.
4 pencils are about 18 centimeters long. One pencil can 5 a line thirty-five miles long， or write 45， 000 6 ! One pencil may be sharpened (削尖) several times 7 it is too short to 8 ， yet we can buy one for the price of an orange! I think that pencils are very 9 .
Pencils are made in many different 10 ， but most people like yellow ones. There are more yellow pencils than any other color. No one knows why people like yellow pencils 11 they do. Someone once made a lot of pencils. Half were yellow and half were green. A man bought them and 12 them for a long time. Then he went to the market with them and said， “The green pencils， I’m sorry to say， are 13 good. They break easily. They are hard to be sharpened. They don’t write well. I don’t 14 any more green pencils. I want yellow ones in the future， please.”
But the pencils were 15 . The only difference was the color!
1. A. useful B. yellow C. a book D. a ruler
2. A. What B. Do you know what C. Who D. Do you know who
3. A. find B. remember C. know D. guess
4. A. Most B. Few C. Good D. Only a few
5. A. form B. cut C. write D. draw
6. A. stories B. words C. sentences D. books
7. A. when B. which C. before D. after
8. A. write B. sharpen C. draw D. use
9. A. common B. useful C. cheap D. expensive
10. A. countries B. colours C. sizes D. types
11. A. and B. but C. or D. that
12. A. has used B. used C. wrote with D. drew with
13. A. quite B. not only C. also D. not
14. A. need B. want C. sell D. make
15. A. the same B. different C. yellow D. useful
答案及简析：
文章大意：铅笔是一种人们常用的文具，它价格便宜，而且色彩丰富。但令人费解的是人们更喜欢黄颜色的铅笔。
1. A 根据上文可以选择A项，句意为：它很有用处。
2. A 这句话意为“我正在说什么”。如果选B项则后面应是陈述语序。
3. D 通过逻辑推理，判断出答案为“猜”。
4. A “大多数”铅笔。
5. D 搭配“draw a line”。
6. B 根据常识可知是“字”，而不是“句子”或是其他。
7. C 一支铅笔在短得不能用以前可以削很多次，选C项。
8. D “too... to”为固定句型，意为“太……而不能”，句义同上。
9. C 买一支铅笔仅要一个橘子的价钱，因此铅笔是很便宜的。
10. B 根据后半句：但大多数人喜欢黄色，判断该选“颜色”。
11. B 意义上需要转折，所以用but。
12. B 这里不能用现在完成时，因为动作是从过去开始的，并没有持续到现在。
13. D 从下文看，这个人认为绿色的铅笔易断，所以此处应选not。
14. B 从上下文判断，这里是不“想要”，而不是不“需要”了。
15. A 这些铅笔都是一样的，唯一不同的是颜色。