Question

Learn to Think

"I will think of it. " It is easy to say this. 1       We cannot see our thoughts,or hear,or taste,or feel them;and yet what mighty power they have！

Sir Isaac Newton was seated in his garden on a summer's evening,when he saw an apple fall from a tree. 2       Later,he discovered how the earth,the sun,the moon,and the stars were kept in their places.

3       He began to think;he wanted to find out why the steam in the kettle moved the heavy lid. From that time he went on thinking and thinking. When he became a man,he improved the steam engine so much that it could,with the greatest ease,do the work of many horses. 4      

A man named Galileo was once standing in the cathedral of Pisa,when he saw a chandelier (枝形吊燈) swaying to and fro. This set him thinking,and it led to the invention of the pendulum (鐘擺) .

Boys and girls,when you have a difficult lesson to learn,don't feel discouraged,and help yourselves before asking someone to help you. 5      

   A. But do you know what great things have come from thinking?

   B. Think,and by thinking you will learn how to think to some purpose.

   C. A boy named James Watt sat quietly by the fireside,watching the lid of the tea kettle as it moved up and down.

   D. And do you know how to think?

   E. When you see a steamboat,a steam train,remember that it would never have been built if it had not been for the hard thinking of someone.

   F. He began to think,trying to find out why the apple fell.

   G. He was a famous physicist and good at thinking.

1.                  2.         3.                  4.          5.         

Answer 1

我們不能看到、聽到、品味，或感覺到我們的思想,然而，思想具有強大的力量。我們遇到問題時一定要善于思考。

1. A考査轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系。本文先通過引用人們常常說的話"我會想想的"來引起話題，接著用一個問句來引起讀者的思考："但是你知道思考曾引發(fā)哪些創(chuàng)舉嗎？"并回答："我們不能看到、聽到、品味，或感覺到我們的思想，然而，它們有強大的力量！"這樣環(huán)環(huán)相扣，引入中心議題。關(guān)鍵詞"thinking"反復(fù)出現(xiàn)，選項A符合文意。

2. F考查順承關(guān)系。本段以牛頓觀察蘋果落地并引發(fā)思考的故事告訴讀者一個簡單的道理：思考來源于細(xì)微的觀察。后句"后來，他發(fā)現(xiàn)了地球、太陽、月亮及其他恒星處于其運行軌道的秘密"是上一句的結(jié)果，故F項"他開始思考蘋果掉落的原因"符合邏輯順序。

3. C考查順承關(guān)系。本段講的是詹姆斯.瓦特由觀察水壺冒熱氣引發(fā)思考的故事，信息詞"watching the lid of the tea kettle"在本段和選項中都能找到，符合行文邏輯。

4. E本句總結(jié)升華。這里是對本段的歸納和總結(jié)："當(dāng)你看到汽船、蒸汽火車，請記住，如果當(dāng)初沒有那個善于思考的人，這些東西可能永遠(yuǎn)不會存在。"

5. B本句總結(jié)升華。本段是對全文的總結(jié)和回歸。

B項"遇到事情應(yīng)思考，思考才能實現(xiàn)某一目標(biāo)"符合本文大意。