阅读理解。 People often said Thomas Edison was the greatest of his age. There are
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his 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 pleased only because someone said he was a genius(天才)."There
is no such thing as genius," Edison said. He thought 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. He tried to understand them, and then he tried to learn what he could
usefully do with them.
Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people would do almost anything instead of thinking,
especially if they don"t think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking could give men enjoyment
and pleasure.
Edison could not understand why someone could not be interested in life. As he loved to think,
he also loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what idea 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.
A. Thinking
B. Hard work
C. Useful dreams
D. Useful inventions
2. After exploring(探索) the secrets of nature, Edison always tried to _____ .
A. write down what he had learnt
B. carry out a new experiment
C. make them useful in life
D. share them with others
3. The underlined word "wondered" in the passage means " _____ " in English. .
A. wanted to know
B. invented
C. discovered
D. paid attention
4. Edison could not understand _____ .
A. How anybody enjoyed life
B. how anybody loved working
C. why someone could not be interested in life
D. why anybody loved thinking
5. The last sentence in the passage means that _____ .
A. Edison was born to be a great inventor
B. Edison was able to live another 100 years
C. Edison was ready to make his 100th invention
D. life was too short for Edison to work for human beings
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piano. Marc, from California, USA, says, "The problem is that my legs aren"t straight enough, so I have
to get very close to the piano."
Marc"s 34-year-old mother played Beethoven"s CDs to him when she was pregnant (***的). Marc
started playing the piano at a birthday party when he was only two. While the other children were singing "Twinkle, twinkle, little star …", he walked over to the piano and started playing the song. It astonished
his mother, because that was the first time he"d been near a piano. Marc gave his first public performance,
playing Beethoven, at six, the same age as Mozart. After that concert, Marc won a ￡225,000 university
scholarship (奖学金).
At present he practices the piano eight hours a day. He also studies part-time at the famous Colbum
Music School in Los Angeles, and flies once a month to China for lessons at Shanghai Music School.
Marc says, "I like playing the piano because it makes me have a lot of different feelings - sadness,
excitement, happiness and so on. I like playing difficult pieces, especially those that my teacher says I
shouldn"t."
B. France
C. Canada
D. the United States
B. f
ive C. six
D. nine
B. 使……担心
C. 使……惊奇
D. 使……难过
B. eight hours a day
C. in his free time
D. only on weekends
B. he doesn"t like challenges
C. he is afraid of challenges
D. he wants to give up music
South Pole Station as the only doctor in 1998 when she was 47.
In early March 1999, she discovered that there was something wrong with her right breast (乳房).
She was sure it was cancer (癌症), but she wasn"t able to go to a doctor for help. She couldn"t leave the
station for the next seven months until the snow turned back into water. Rather than wait for the death,
Dr. Nielsen decided to fight against the cancer. But without the proper medical help, she wouldn"t live for
long. Soon a USA Air Force jet came to provide her with some help. She started her own treatments
(治疗) after getting instructions from American doctors. She finally returned home that October. Since
then, she had become helpful to cancer charities.
Sadly, Dr. Nielsen"s cancer got worse and worse. She passed away on June 23, 2009. She once
wrote to her parents, "I understand what life really is: It is not when or how you die but how you truly
were ever alive."
2. 将文中划线句子翻译成汉语.
3. 从文中找出与下列句子意义相近的句子.
Dr. Nielsen decided to fight against the cancer in
stead of waiting for the death. 4. 根据短文内容,回答下列问题.
How old was Dr. Jerry Nielsen when she passed away?
5. 用文中两个形容词描述一下Jerry Nielsen.
(1) (2)
and colleges. But the most important cap was his thinking cap. It had saved his mother"s __3__. One day
when he was a boy his mother fell ill. The doctor wanted __4__ her an operation (手术). But the light in
the room was not bright. Edison quickly __5__ his thinking cap and he found a way __6__ his mother.
Edison was good at __7__ his hands and his head. He was the most interested __8__ electricity. We can
see his __9__ everywhere because they are very common. They were __10__ by Edison"s thinking cap.
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| Sandwich is an Englishman. He lives in the 18th century. Sandwich is rich, but he likes to played cards for money. He often play for 24 hours, and doesn"t even stop to have his meals. He orders his servants to bring him some meat and bread. He puts the meat between the two pieces of bread and holds the food in his left hand while he play cards with his right hand. People like Sandwich"d idea, and from then on they eat bread and meat as Sandwich does. From the name of the man, Sandwich, we have the word of the food"sandwich"today. | |||
| 1．Which country does Sandwich live in? __________________________________________________________________________ 2．What does Sandwich like to do? __________________________________________________________________________ 3．Why does Sandwich let others bring him something to eat? __________________________________________________________________________ 4．How does Sandwich eat bread and meat when he plays cards? __________________________________________________________________________ 5．Can you say something about the food "sandwich"? __________________________________________________________________________ |