《2025年学典四川九年级英语全一册人教版A版》

五、语法填空。阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
It is made of metal (金属) or plastic. It is small and light. You can find it almost everywhere in your 1 (day) life — on your clothes, schoolbag and some shoes. With the help of it, you can open or close 2 (everything) easily. Can you guess what it is?

Of course, the answer is — a zipper. I read a passage about it when I was looking 3 a website. In fact, a lot of inventions 4 (list) in it. Under the name of the inventions were the 5 (describe) and history of these inventions. But I only took an interest in the zipper among all the inventions.
The passage 6 (mention) that the zipper was invented in 1893 in Chicago, the US. Its pioneer is Whitcomb Judson, 7 was an American engineer. He had this idea because of one of his friends. Once, his friend had difficulty 8 (tie) his shoelaces (鞋带) because he had a bad back. Judson wanted to help his friend, so he invented the zipper. He made his zipper out of metal and showed his invention in the World Expo in Chicago, the US in 1893. 9 his zipper was so heavy that it was not popular. In 1913, a Sweden man 10 (name) Gideon Sundbach improved the zipper. And people first used it to make clothes for French pilots. Then an American factory began to make the zipper. People named it after the sound "zip".
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答案： 1. daily
2. things
3. through
4. were listed
5. descriptions
6. mentioned
7. who
8. tying
9. But
10. named