一、聯系上下文,在空白處填入適當的短語或句子
Lily: Max! Do you know any interesting story about numbers?
Max: Yes! A story about Archimedes counting sand.
Lily: How is it?
Max: The king said that his treasure was like stars and beyond measure (不勝其數). Archimedes proved him wrong.
Lily: How? With stars?
Max: He thought about the king's word 1. (
for a while
), and then 2. (毫不猶豫地答道
answered without hesitation
), "Stars are too far. Let's 3. (用沙子替代
use sand instead
)!"
Lily: Sand? Like on a beach?
Max: Exactly! He drew a giant chessboard pattern. "Start with one grain," he said. "4. (
Double the amount
) for each of the rest of the squares."
Lily: And the king promised to provide the sand?
Max: Yes, but by square 20, he was worried! 5. (
Even with all the silver
) in his country, he still couldn't buy enough sand.
Lily: So numbers beat real wealth?
Max: Totally! Now I challenge you: At which square would we have enough sand to cover our whole city?