《2025年点石成金金牌夺冠八年级英语上册外研版辽宁专版》

C 新考向·毛笔的发明

The brush pen, one of the "Four Treasures of the Study", was invented thousands of years ago. In the past, the oldest pen was just a stick or a piece of bamboo. It was difficult for people to write well on thin silk with this kind of pen.
It is said that Meng Tian, a general(将军) of the Kingdom Qin, invented the pen. When Meng was leading an army (军队) to fight against the Kingdom of Chu, he had to report the situation to his king in time. But his pen was too hard and caused him much trouble, so he was thinking of ways to improve it.
One day after hunting, Meng went home with some wild rabbits. On the way, one rabbit's tail left a long trail(痕迹) on the ground. Suddenly, a good idea came to his mind, "If I tie the rabbit's hair to a stick, would it be easy to write with?"
After arriving home, he tied the rabbit's hair to a stick and tried writing with it. But the rabbit's hair was too smooth(光滑的) to write well and wasted a lot of silk. Meng was so disappointed that he dropped his invention into a stone hole in the yard.
A few rainy days later, he happened to find his invention fatter in the stone hole. He picked it up with hope. The brush worked beautifully on silk, because the water had cleaned the oil from the hair. Meng succeeded at last.
(B)9. When did Meng think of the good idea in Paragraph 3?
A. Before hunting animals.
B. When seeing the trail.
C. After cleaning the hair.
D. When writing on the paper.
(C)10. What problem did Meng Tian face when he first tried the rabbit - hair brush pen?
A. The brush pen broke easily.
B. The brush pen was too short to write with.
C. The rabbit's hair was too smooth to write well.
D. The rabbit's hair was not enough.
(B)11. ◆新考法·事件排序◆Which is the right order of inventing the brush pen?
a. The brush pen could write well.
b. Meng tied the rabbit's hair to a stick.
c. The water washed the oil away.
d. Meng dropped the stick into a stone hole.
A. b - d - a - c
B. b - d - c - a
C. d - b - c - a
D. d - a - c - b
(C)12. What's the main idea of the text?
A. When the brush pen was invented.
B. Why the brush pen was invented.
C. How the brush pen was invented.
D. What the brush pen was used for.

答案： 9.B 10.C 11.B 12.C