文档介绍：2011杭州市中考英语试卷
(共15小题,计15分)
通读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后在各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
Ballpoint pens have made life easier for millions of people. At one time (26) did not like their students to( 27) with them. Perhaps it was too easy. Pens can leak (漏) and it is (28) to spill (溢出) the ink. And it is hard to write on thin or cheap paper with them.
Ladislao Biro (29) for a newspaper in Budapest. He spent all day (30 )his desk. Day in and day out, he corrected (31) of thin, cheap paper with a pen and ink. He often had to stop to (32) his pen and it did not write 33 on the thin paper. He and his brother e (34 )some experiments. They wanted a pen that did not leak, with ink that did not spill. Why not 35 a little ball at the end?
Two Englishmen, Henry Martin and Frederick Miles, liked the (36) 。 It was the (37 )of the Second World War. The Air Force (空军) (38 )a non-leak, non-spill pen for the men to write with in (39) 。 Martin and Miles made and (40) many thousands of Biro “writing-sticks” to the Air Force.
26. A. factories B. schools C. chops D. restaurants
27. A. play B. write C. come D. meet
28. A. easy B. hard C. free D. popular
29. A. left B. waited C. looked D. worked
30. A. on B. near C. at D. in
31. A. mistakes B. books C. pages D. diaries
32. A. mend B. fill C. brush D. change
33. A. well B. down C. out D. up
34. A. kept B. finished C. began D. studied
35. A. find B. wear C