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1、课文语法填空（2） 1 Frederick William I, the king of Prussia, could never have imagined that his greatset gift to the Russian people would have _1_ an amazing history. This gift was the Amber Room,_2_ was given this name because several tons of amber were used _3_(make) it. The amber which was selected _4_(
2、have) a beautiful yellow-brown colour like honey. The design of the room was in the fancy style popular inthose days. It was also a treasure _5_(decorate) with gold and jewels, which took the countrys best artists about ten years to make. In fact,the room was not made _6_(be) agift. It was designed
3、for the palace of Frederick I. However,the next king of Prussia, Frederick William I,_7_ whom the amber room belonged, decided not to keep _8_. In 1716 he gave it to Peter the Great. _9_ return, the Czar sent him a troop of his best soldiers. So the Amber Room became part of the Czars winter palace
4、in Stpeterburg. About four metres long,the room served _10_ a small reception hall for important visitors. 2 Later,Catherine had the Amber Room _1_(move) to a palace outside St Ptersburg where she spent her summers. She told her artists to add more details _2_ it. In 1770 the room was completed the
5、way _3_ she wanted. Almost six hundredof its mirrors and pictures shone like gold ._4_(sad), although the Amber Room was considered one of the wonders of the world, it is now _5_(miss). In St Pterburg 1941,the Nazi army was nearSt Peterburg. This was a time _6_ the two countries were at war._7_ the
6、Nazis could get to the summer palace, the Russians were able to remove some furniture and smallart objects from the Amber Room. However,some of the Nazis secretly stole the room itself. In less than two days 100,000 pieces were put inside twenty-seven wooden boxes._8_ is no doubt that the boxes were
7、 then put on a train for Konigsberg, which was at that time a German city on the Baltic sea. After that, _9_ happened to the Amber Room remains a mystery. Recently,the Russians and Germans have built a new Amber Room at the summer palace. By studying old photos of the former Amber Room, they have ma
8、de the new one look like the old _10_. In 2003 it was ready for the people of St Petersburg when they celebrated the 300th birthday of their city. 3Atlanta was a Greek princess. She was very beautiful and could run faster than _1_ man in Greece. But she was not allowed to run and win glory for herse
9、lf in the Olympic Games. She was _2_ angry that she said to her father that she would not marry anyone _3_ could not run faster than her. Her father said that she must marry, so Atlanta made a bargain with him. She said to him, These are my rules. When a man says he wants to marry me, I will run aga
10、inst him. If he cannot run as fast as me,he _4_(kill). No one will be pardoned.Many kings and princes wanted to marry Atlanta, but when _5_ heard of her rules, they knew it was _6_(hope). So many of them sadly went home, but _7_ stayed to run the race. There was a man _8_(call) Hippomenes who was am
11、azed when he heard of Atlantas rules, Why are these men so 9_(fool)? he thought. Why will they let themselves be killed because they cannot run as fast as this princess? However, when he saw Atlanta come out of her house to run, Hippomenes changed 10_ mind. I will marry Atlanta - or die! he said. 4O
12、ver time I have been changed quite a lot. I began _1_ a calculating machine in France in 1642. _2_ I was young I could simplify difficult sums. I developed very slowly and it took nearly two hundred years _3_ I was built as an analytical machine by Charles Babbage. After I was programmed by an opera
13、tor_4_ used cards with holes, I could think logically and produce an answer quicker than any person. At that time it was considered a technological revolution and the start of my artificial intelligence. In 1936 my real father, Alan Turing, wrote a book about _5_ I could be made to work as a univers
14、al machine to solve any difficult mathematical problem. From then on, I grew rapidly both _6_ size and in brainpower. By _7_ 1940s I had grown as large as a room, and I wondered _8_ I would grow any larger. However, this reality also worried my designers. _9_ time went by, I was made _10_(small). Fi
15、rst as a PC (personal computer) and then as a laptop, I have been used in offices and homes since the 1970s. 5 These changes only became possible as my memory improved. First _1_ was stored in tubes, then on transistors and later on very small chips. As a result I totally changed my shape. As I have grown older I have also grown smaller. Over time my memory has developed so
