Thomas Edison lost the first job. For the next five years he went around the country from job to job.
At last Edison went to New York. He had little money. He could not buy enough food to eat. He had no
place to sleep.
For many days Edison looked for work. He was hungry. At last he found work fixing machines. He
could fix the old machines. He also made new ones. The head man liked Edison"s new machines. He was
going to give Edison $40, 000 for them. 3. Edison would now have money to do what he wanted.
Thomas Edison was then 23, He used the money to build a shop in New Jersey. He had many people
working for him. But he worked more than 40 new things at one time.
In 1876 Alexander. Graham Bell made a telephone. But it could carry voices only a little way. Edison
wanted to make a better telephone. He soon made one. 4. It could carry voices a long way.
(一) 根据短文内容简要回答问题。
1. What did Thomas Edison do after he lost his first job?
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2. Where did Edison begin to have good luck after he found work?
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(二) 将短文中划线的句子译成汉语。
3. __________________________________________________________.
4. __________________________________________________________.
(三) 请给短文拟一个适当的标题。
5. __________________________________________________________.
2. In New Jersey
3. 爱迪生现在有钱能做他想做的事情了。
4. 它能把声音传很远。
5. A Great Inventor
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2002 NBA. The 2.26 m, 120 kg center becomes the first one to come from a foreign team. Yao Ming was
born in Shanghai in September, 1980. His mother was a center and captain of the Chinese National Women"s
Team. His father played basketball, too. Yao Ming is widely known in China. He came to be a very important
basketball player in China Basketball Association (联赛). It"s short for CBA. During the 2000-2001 season,
he got 27. 1 scores for the Shanghai Oriental (东方) Sharks in every match. Yao Ming joined the Houston
Rockets in November, 2002. He said this was a new start in his basketball life. He would do his best to learn
from the NBA and improve himself. Sport analyst (分析家) Bill Walton said, "Yao Ming has the potential
(潜力), the capability (能力) of changing the future of basketball."
B. volleyball
C. basketball
D. golf
B. basketball players
C. the centers of the Chinese National Team
D. the Captains of the Chinese National Team
B. is good
C. was good
D. did well
B. was well-know in
C. became a member of
D. took part in
B. change the future of basketball
C. improve himself
D. become the captain of the Houston Rockets
Wen Jiabao is the premier of the world"s most populous (人口众多的) country. But, millions of people
would rather call him "grandpa", Always in plain jackets, he seems an ordinary old man with a kind smile.
Wen has visited the "left-behind" children before Children"s Day. He visited Yang Saike"s home,
a primary schoolboy in a village of Xingping County, Shanxi. Yang"s parents were working in Fujian,
thousands of kilometers away. He was cared for by his grandparents. His parents fail to go home even
once a year. The premier held Yang in his arms and looked through his exercise book then praised him for
his hard work. When talked with many children and asked them many questions about their schooling and
life. The premier asked the local governments to do something to protect and care for such children at
home and it their parents in cities not worry about their children.
But in the face of disasters, he has the power to pull together the whole country. About two hours after
the deadly earthquake hit Sichuan Province, Permier Wen Jiabao was on a plane to the disaster area. Within
two days, he had seen almost all the worst hit cities and towns. The 65-year-old man was seen climbing
over damaged 26 buildings to encourage the trapped kids. And he shed (流泪) tears with sad families and
promised to help rebuild their homes.
B. Because he is plain and seems an old ordinary old man with a kind smile.
C. Because he has the power to pull together the whole country.
D. Because he visited almost all the worst hit cities and towns.
2. What"s the meaning of "left -behind" children?
B The teachers often left the children behind.
C. The children always sit at the back of classroom.
D. The children"s parents are working far away from them.
B. He asked the local governments to care for the "left-behind" children.
C. He praised Yang for his hard work.
D. He shed tears with sad families.
B. Premier Wen has encouraged the whole nation to fight against the disasters.
C. Grandpa Wen always thinks of the people first.
D. The governments would do something to protect and care for people
She had to 2 because she did not have enough money to finish her studies. But during that year, she
learned about 3 . She read about the first flight of the Wright Brothers and the first American woman
pilot, Harriet Quimby. Bessie often thought about what it would feel like to fly like a bird.
4 the age of 23, Bessic Coleman went to Chicago. There, she did some ordinary (普通的) jobs.
But she wanted to do something more important. She decided to learn 5 to fly planes. She soon found
6 was almost impossible to get into a flight school. Which flight school would admit (接受) a 7
woman?
Bessic learned that she would have a better chance in Europe. So she began to study 8 at a
language school in Chicago.
After World War I, Bessie Coleman went to France. She went to the famous 9 school in northern
France.She learned to fly in a plane there. She 10 seven months of flight training and in 1921 got her
international permit (许可证) to fly in France. She became the first black woman ever to have an
international pilot"s license (执照).
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| In 1608, an Englishman named Thomas traveled in Italy. He liked the country and 1 down everything interesting. But he found one thing 2 interesting than the others. In his diary Thomas wrote: " 3 the Italians eat meat, they use small forks. They do not eat with their hands because, as they say, people do not always have 4 hands." Before he went back to England, Thomas bought a few 5 . At home Thomas had a dinner party to show the forks to his friends. When the steak (牛排) was brought out, he took out a fork and wanted to 6 the steak as the Italians did in Italy. His friends were 7 when they saw this. He told them what the fork was. They all said that Italians were very strange people because the fork was not easy to use at all. Thomas tried to prove that his friends were 8 , so he began to show that it was easy to use the fork. But the first 9 of meat he took with the fork fell to the floor. His friends began to 10 at him and he had to take the fork away. People in England began to use forks only fifty years later. | ||||||
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