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all of the history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful
electric light. But Edison could never be happy only because someone said he was a genius." There is no
such thing as genius," Edison said. He said that what people called genius was mostly hard work.
But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child he wondered about
the secrets of nature. Nature, he often said, is full of secrets. He tried to understand them; then, he tried
to learn what could usefully be done with them.
Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people will do almost anything instead of the difficult
work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking can give men
enjoyment and pleasure.
Edison could not understand how anyone could be uninterested in life. As he loved to think, he also
loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what ideas he had about life.
"Work," he answered. "Discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier." He said
he had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.
B. Many other people have changed Edison"s life.
C. Edison has changed the life of many other people.
D. Few men in history can change other people"s life.
B. genius plays the most important part in one"s success
C. hard work could do better than genius
D. genius could do better than hard work
B. interested in discovering the secrets of nature
C. interested in changing people"s ideas
D. uninterested in making people happier by discovering the secrets of nature
B. Edison made 100 inventions in his life
C. Edison was able to live and work for 100 years
D. People of his time were ready to give Edison another 100 years" work
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He had fought for years against cancer.Mourners gathered outside his house in Palo Alto, California, and Apple stores around the world.
Tim Bajarin, president of a high-tech research and consulting company, said "If you actually look at a
tech leader, they"re really happy if they have one hit in their life.Steve Jobs has the Apple II, the Mac, the
iPod, the iPhone, the iPad and Pixar."
Steve Jobs was a college dropout.He was adopted by a machinist and his wife, an accountant.They
supported his early interest in electronics.
He and his friend Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer-now just called Apple-in nineteen
seventy-six.They stayed at the company until nineteen eighty-five.That year, Steve Wozniak returned to
college and Steve Jobs left in a dispute (分歧) with the chief executive.
Mr.Jobs then formed his own company, called NeXT Computer.He rejoined Apple in nineteen
ninety-seven after it bought NeXT.He helped remake Apple from a business that was in bad shape then
to one of the most valuable companies in the world today.
Steve Wozniak, speaking on CNN, remembered his longtime friend as a "great visionary and leader""
and a "marketing genius (天才)".
President Obama said in a statement: "By building one of the planet"s most successful companies from
his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity.By making computers personal and putting the
Internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun."
David Carroll is a professor at Parsons School of Design in New York City.He says Steve Jobs not
only revolutionized technology, he also revolutionized American business.
"The fact that he was able to redesign American commerce lop to bottom and across is really stunning (令人惊奇的).He probably will be considered an industrial giant on the scale of Thomas Edison and
Henry Ford, so one of the great[s] of all time." David Carroll said.
Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple"s chief executive in August because of his health.He died a day
after the company released a new iPhone version that met with limited excitement.Apple"s new chief,
Tim Cook, will also have to deal with the new Kindle Fire tablet computer from Amazon.com.It costs
less than half as much as an iPad but also does less.
B. He became very rich though dropping out college.
C .He released a new iPhone version before death.
D. He revolutionized technology and made it enjoyable.
B. He made Apple very valuable once again in the world.
C. He developed a series of Apple products.
D. He was considered the greatest industrial figure of all time.
B. Jobs enriched the American spirit of science and freedom.
C. Jobs eventually realized his American dream.
D. American people are good at inventing things.
B. Jobs stayed in Apple as chief executive for about 24 years.
C. Jobs started his career in his family garage.
D. Run unsuccessfully, Apple was sold to NeXT Computer.
only a few other great scientists have achieved. An American university president once said that Einstein
had made a new outlook,a new view of the universe. It may be some time before the average mind
understands fully the identity of time and space and so on-but even ordinary man now understand that the
universe is something larger than ever thought before.
By 1914 young Einstein had been world-famous. He accepted the offer to become a professor at the
Prussian Academy of Science in Berlin. He had few duties,little teaching and unlimited chances for study,
but soon his peace and quiet were broken by World War I .
Einstein hated fighting and killing. The great suffering of war affected him deeply,and he sat unhappily
in his office doing little. He lost interest in his research. Only when peace came in 1918 was he able to get back to work.
In the year folloWjng World War I honors were increasingly put on him. He became head of the
Kaiser Whihem Institute of Theoretical Physics. But he himself refused the effort to put him in a position
far above other people. He was well known for his humble (恭顺的,谦逊的) manner.He often said that
his success would certainly have been achieved by others if he had never lived.
In 1921 he won the Nobel Prize,and he was honored in Germany until the rise of Nazism when he was driven from Germany because he was.a Jew.
B. the feeling of an Amencan university president towards Einstein
C. the difference between science and history
D. the change ,n human thought produced by Einstein
B. everybody understands Einstein"s scientific ideas
C. the new view of the universe can be quickly leamed by everyone
D. our ideas about the universe are different today from those in the past because of Einstein
B. had no chances for study
C. almost did nothing in his office
D. still continued his scientific research
B. when he was young
C. during World War I
D. after he left Europe
B. Einstein had other interests besides science
C. Einstein was forced to work again in 1918
D. Einstein led a quiet life during World War I
years apart, and during their lifetimes there was no contact between China and Greece,but it is interesting
to look at how the world that each of these great philosophers came from shaped their ideas,and how
these ideas in turn,shaped their societies.
Neither philosophers lived in times of peace,though there were more wars in Greece than in China.
The Chinese states were very large and feudal,while the Greek city-states were small and urban. The
urban environment in which Socrates lived allowed him to be more radical than Confucius. Unlike
Confucius,Socrates was not asked by rules how to govern effectively. Thus,Socrates was able to be
more idealistic,focusing on issues like freedom,and knowledge for its own sake. Confucius,on the other
hand,advised those in govemment service,and many of his students went out to government service.
Confucius suggested the Golden Rule as a principle for the conduct of life:" Do not do to others what
you would not want others to do to you. " He assumed that all men were equal at birth,though some had
more potential than others, and that it was knowledge that set men apart. Socrates focused on the
individual,and thought that the greatest purpose of man was to seek wisdom. He believed that the
superior class should rule the inferior (下层的) classes.
For Socrates,the family was of no importance,and the community of little concern. For Confucius,
however,the family was the centre of the society,with family retations considered much more important
than political relations.
Both men are respected much more today than they were in their lifetimes.
B. Confucius had much influence on Socrates" ideas.
C. The societies were influenced by the philosophers" ideas.
D. There were cultural exchanges between China and Greece.
B. the lower classes should be ruled by the upper class
C. the purpose of man was to seek freedom and wisdom
D. people should not ask others to do what they did not want to
B. Potential.
C. Knowledge.
D. Community.
B. comparison and contrast
C. cause and effect
D. definition and classification
only until 6 p. m. Then he has to do his homework. Michael Sessions, 18, beat the former mayor Douglas
Ingles,51, by just two votes and became the new mayor of Hillsdale. He is the youngest mayor of the US. As Sessions was too young to enter the election in the spring of 2005 , he registered to vote on Sept.
22, one day after his 18-year-old birthday. The day after that he started his write-in campaign(战役) ,
which means he should persuade voters to remember his name and write it by hand on the voting ballots(选票).
To help get his name known, Sessions earned $ 700 by selling apples over the summer. He spent the
money on posters and put them on the Hillsdale"s lawns.
Sessions" month-long campaign included going door to door, explaining his ideas of the town"s future in
the kitchens of his neighbours. "They"d look at me, and say, ‘ How old are you? How much experience
do you have?" And I say,’I"m still in high school" ," he said.
Sessions promised Hillsdale"s voters he would renew the local economy. "I was hopeful the whole
time, "he explained. One day he spent so long out on the streets knocking on the doors that he ended up
in a hospital emergency room.
Sessions said that his schoolwork will not get in the way of his job as a mayor. "From 7:50 a. m. to
2:30 p. m. , I"ll be a student. From 3 to 6, I"ll be the mayor of Hillsdale," he said.
"He did a very brave thing that couldn"t have been easy for him to do, "said Jack Vetted, a councilman
in Hillsdale, a city of 8,200 about 75 miles southwest of Detroit. "He does care about his town. He"s
been here all his life. "
Sessions will receive $ 3,600 a year during his four-year term, and will work out of his bedroom since
the town does not provide the mayor with an office.
B. Sessions worked so hard that he once tried to persuade people in a hospital.
C. Sessions won the election campaign by a very close outcome(结果).
D. Sessions felt disappointed when asked about his age and exerience.
B. renew the economy
C. sell apples
D. talk to neighbours in their kitchens
B. In America, young people are encouraged to get involved in politics.
C. All teenagers are allowed to enter political elections.
D. American mayors receive a salary of $ 3,600 a year during the 4-year term.
B. How to become a teenage mayor.
C. Hard work is the ticket to success.
D. Never too young to shake the world.
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For someone who is such a successful investor, Warren Buffett comes off as a pretty ordinary guy.
He was born on August 30,1930. __1__He used to go door-to-door and sell soda water. When his
family moved to Washington, Buffett became a paperboy for the Washington Post. Buffett ran his five
paper routes and even added magazines to round out his product offerings. While still in school, he was
making $175 a month,a full-time wage for many men.
__2__He spent $1,200 on 40 acres of farmland in Nebraska. He and a friend also made $50 a
week by placing pinball machines in barber shops. They called their venture (企业) Wilson Coin
Operated Machine Corp.
Already a successful small-time businessman, Buffett wasn"t interested in going to college but ended up
at the University of Pennsylvania—his father encouraged him to go. __3__But he was turned down in
what had to be one of the worst admission decisions in Harvard history. The outcome affected Buffett"s
life, for he ended up attending Columbia Business School ,where he studied under Professor Benjamin Graham, the father of securities analysis who provided the foundation (基础) for Buffett"s investment
strategy.
From the beginning, Buffett made his fortune from investing. He started with all the money he had made
from selling soda water, delivering papers,and operating pinball machines. Between 1950 and 1956, he
grew his $9,800 to $14,000. __4__ And then he gradually drew in other investors through word of mouth
and very attractive terms.
__5__ He doesn"t collect houses or cars or works of art, and he disdains (鄙视) companies that
waste money, on expensive cars, private dining rooms, and high-priced villas. He is a creature of
habitsame house, same office, same city, same soda water.
B. Buffett is more likely to be found in a four-star restaurant.
C. When he was 14, Buffett still kept great interest in investment.
D. Even as a young child, Buffett was serious about making money.
E. One thing is for sure about Buffett:he is happy doing what he is doing.
F. Buffett"s investment strategy mirrors his lifestyle and his overall philosophy.
G. From there,he organized investment partnerships with his family and friends.
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