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he liked to find out how things 2 . He was in school for only three months. He asked his teacher a lot
of 3 questions. Most of them had nothing to do 4 his lesson. The teacher thought the boy was
not 5 and was not worth 6 . When he told this to Edison"s mother, she took her son out of school.
As she had been a teacher, she taught him 7 . The boy read a lot. Soon he became very 8 in
sciene. 9 the age of ten Edison had already built a chemistry lab for himself. Ever since then, he
never stopped 10 for new and better ways to do things.
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a small town in Florida, the USA. He 1 a few naughty boys who later 2 in his stories. At the age
of 12, his father died, and he began to work, first as a printer, then on a river boat. Those years on the
boat went into his book "Life 3 the Mississipi. (密西西比河)"
4 the Civil War (国内战争) he worked as a reporter and used Mark Twain as his pen name. The
stories he wrote in this period 5 him famous and popular. He made a lot of money by writing, lecturing
and running 6 publishing house. But he spent all of it on high living and 7 business.
Mark Twain 8 as a "funny man". But in fact he took a serious view of life. Many sad things
happened in his own life. All his 9 helped to shape (形成) his stories 10 showed the dark side of
society. He died as an old man of 75 in 1910.
When George was fourteen, he became his father"s helper. He spent a lot of time learning about engines
(发动机). And on holidays he often made one engine to pieces and studied each piece carefully. Soon he
became a very good worker though he could not read or write. He began to learn English letters when he
was seventeen years old. Every day after he did twelve hours of hard work,he walked a long way to have
lessons from a young school teacher. On his eighteenth birthday, he wrote his own name for the first time
in his life. George invented (发明) many things in his life. The train was the greatest one among them.
Today when we take trains from one place to another, we"ll think of this great man-George Stephenson.
B. In 1789
C. In 1795
D. In 1798
was young. He liked to repair clocks and make toys. He also was interested in astronomy (天文学). Newton
went to school at twelve. Soon after he had to stop as his mother wanted him to do farm work. When she
found her son was so interested in science, Mrs. Newton sent him to Cambridge (剑桥) University to study.
He was 19 at that time. Sometimes he had to work as a servant to go on his study. There he became a famous
scientist. At 23 he invented methods of calculation (计算) which have been used to nowadays. In 1665 he had
to leave the university and go home where he made two of his great discoveries. One is that he found the colour
of sunlight was made up of seven kinds. The other was the founding of force of gravity (地心引力), which
was one of the most important theories (理论) for modern science.
B. discovered the force of gravity
C. discovered the universe
old king always took his advice. 2 the new king didn"t like listening to Qu Yuan after the old king 3 .
Qu Yuan finally 4 his job.
Qu Yuan was very 5 at writing poems (诗). People still love his poems very much now. He was a
26 poet (诗人), but he was always 7 because the king didn"t take his advice and it made his country
lose many battles (战役).
At last, he jumped into a 8 and died. It was the 9 day of the fifth lunar (农历) month that year.
The Chinese people will never 10 Qu Yuan. They eat rice dumplings (粽子) and have dragon (龙)
boat race in honor of (纪念) him every year.
world today. Tiger Woods was born in California, the United States, in 1975. His father, Earl, is an
African American and his mother, Kultida, comes from Thailand. Earl Woods played golf, and Tiger
learned how to play it from him. Earl Woods said that Tiger could hit a golf ball when he was only six
months old!
Tiger Woods started to become famous when he was young. In 1978, when Tiger was three years
old, he was on his first TV show. He played golf with some famous people and he surprised them.
Between the ages of 8 and 16, Tiger Woods learned a lot about playing golf. He won his first championship
in those years. In 1994, Tiger became a student at Stanford University, but he didn"t stop playing golf.
He won 10 golf championships while he was studying at Stanford. In 1996,the sports magazine Sports
Illustrated named him the Sportsman of the Year. In the same year, Tiger became a professional golfer.
In the next few years, he won many more golf championships. As Tiger became more and more famous,
he got rich. In 1999, he won more prize money than any other golfer over six and a half million dollars.