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  3. The word "brick" did not appear in the English language before the 15th centu

The word "brick" did not appear in the English language before the 15th centu

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问题    The word "brick" did not appear in the English language before the 15th century. Bricks 【C1】______ have been known in Britain before then, but they were not【C2】______ enough to be mentioned by any writer. We know that they were used in ancient Egypt, in India, and in the Roman【C3】______; they were used again in parts of Europe; but there is a strange【C4】______ in the history of brick-making which left Britain, at【C5】______, without bricks for building for several hundred years. When they did arrive in Britain, it was in a very【C6】______ way.
   In the 15th century, Britain’s wool trade was【C7】______ flourishing, and shiploads of wool were exported to other countries, among them, Germany and Holland. These ships would have had to return empty, 【C8】______ their captains were able to pick up a【C9】______ cargo, and no captain likes an empty ship. For【C10】______ thing, it is difficult to【C11】______ in stormy weather; for another thing, it is a great waste of space. So【C12】______ than return home with an empty ship, the captains would【C13】______ up with anything, and at about this time, somebody had the idea of loading the home-bound ships with【C14】______. These were already being used【C15】______ in Holland and Germany, where the brick-makers were anxious to sell their surplus【C16】______.
   These bricks must have been a godsend to the builders of London and southeast England. There was very【C17】______ building stone in that part of the country, and stocks of good building【C18】______ were running【C19】______. Bricks were first used for the big houses of rich people living in the countryside, and only later for town houses and 【C20】______ cottages. [br] 【C17】
选项 A、few
B、much
C、little
D、less
答案 C
解析    本题考点为词语搭配。
   (1)句式分析。
   原句中，并列连词and将两个分句连接在一起。前一个分句使用了there be句型，building stone是名词词组作主语，very______表示building stone的数量多少。可见，此处要填一个表示数量的限定词。
   (2)句意判断。
   根据前一句These bricks must have been a godsend to…中的a godsend(天赐之物)可知，此处作者想表达砖块对英国的重要性。此句中的building stone(建筑石材)与bricks(砖块)都是建筑材料，是替代关系，由此可知，此处应选择一个表示数量短缺、数量少的词用来修饰不可数名词building stone。该句意为“在部分地区，建筑石材非常少”。故此空填little。
   【知识拓展】语法拓展：限定词。
   限定词是在名词词组中对名词中心词起特指、类指以及表示确定数量和非确定数量等限定作用的词类。限定词有冠词(不定冠词、定冠词和零冠词)、物主限定词(my，your，his，her，our，your，their，one’s，its)、名词属格(如Jane’s，his friend’s等)、指示限定词(this，that，these，those，such)、关系限定词(whose，which)、疑问限定词(what，which，whose)、不定限定词(no，some，any，each，every，enough，either，neither，all，both，many，much，half，several，(a)few，(a)little，another，other)、基数词和序数词、倍数词与分数词、表示数量的词(a lot of, lots of, plenty of, a good many of，a great deal of，a large of, a large／small amount of, a quantity of，a number of, etc．)。
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