专题07 短文选词填空10篇（名校最新真题）-2022-2023学年九年级英语上学期期中复习查缺补漏冲刺满分（牛津上海版）

牛津上海版九年级上学期期中复习 查缺补漏冲刺满分 (名校最新真题) 专题07 短文选词填空10篇 （2021·上海黄浦·九年级期中）Choose the proper words in the box to complete the following passage. Each can be used only once (选择最恰当的选项填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次)    A．dates       B．make sure     C．necessary      D．use     E. make of Even before humans could read or write, they needed to count. First they used their fingers, but when they had to deal with figures over ten, a counting device became ____1____.The earliest known calculating device is probably the abacus. It ____2____ back at least 3,000 years ago and the abacus has been used for centuries by merchants, clerks, students and accountants. It is still in ____3____ today, particularly in Asia. In fact, the abacus has been around so long that even the smartest historians can’t ____4____ who invented it. What we do know is that it was used by Egyptians, Persians, Chinese, Greeks, Romans and more. A．screen       B．invented     C．at the beginning     D．clearly     E. smaller Most people say that th