内容正文:
2019-2020年人教版八年级下册英语期末分题型练习2
完形填空及参考答案
一组
In history, 31 has been measured(测量)by the move of the Sun. The earliest way to measure time is from 3500 B.C. and the oldest machine to measure time is the shadow clock (日晷) from India. As the sun moves across the sky, the sunlight will change on this clock. And there will be a shadow (影子) on 32 so that people can tell time. Actually, people have already realized that the Earth is round. So for a long time, people measured time 33 the Sun---when the Sun was the 34 in the sky, it was noon.
In fact, the earliest clocks were 35 in China. The clocks we use today were invented in the Northern Hemisphere(半球) in the 14th century. The inventors wanted the clock 36 to follow the Sun. In the Northern Hemisphere, the Sun appears to move in the sky 37 the East to the West. For example, if' you are in the Northern Hemisphere and face the South, you can watch the Sun 38 on your left (the East) and going down on your right