阅读理解。 O. Henry, a famous American writer of short stories, was born in North
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a pen name. His real name was William Sydney Porter. When he was a young boy, he did not go to school for
long because of being born in a poor family, but he tried to teach himself everything he needed to know.
When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas. There he tried different jobs. He first worked
on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank. But he got himself into some trouble. Some money went missing
from the bank. O. Henry was believed to have stolen (偷) it, so he was sent to prison (监狱). During the three
years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and went on writing.
He wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because almost all
of them finished with a sudden change. This made the readers surprised.
B. William Sydney Porter
C. Carolina
D. Texas
B. People thought he had stolen money from the bank.
C. he wanted to write stories about prisoners.
D. he broke the law (法律) by not using his own name
B. O. Henry was in school for a long time
C. O. Henry learned everything he needed by himself.
D. O. Henry liked writing stories when he was a little boy.
B. New York and the poor of the city
C. the newspaper
D. his life in prison
B. they were easy to understand
C. they showed love for the poor
D. they were about New York
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Dou Kou was born in Jiangsu in 1994. When he was 7 months old, his parents started working in over 30
different cities, such as Xi"an and Shenzhen. This kind of life gave him things to think and write about. When
he was 9 months old, he could speak and at the age of one, he could say five to six hundred words. At three,
he could look up words in the dictionary. At four, his father taught him how to learn by himself. His parents
like reading very much. So does he. At the age of 5, he began writing fairy tales. At the age of 6, he wrote a
novel about his life in different cities with his parents. His fairy tales are all from his life. One day, he found
many mice in the house. They not only ate their food but also hurt his mother"s hand. So he thought, "If we give
mice the stomach of cows, they will eat grass and they will be helpful to people." This was his first fairy tales
Change Stomach for Mice. Now he studies well in a middle school. He has written his third book, the novel
called Eyes of Children. He says, " I am not different from other children. I just wrote several books. "
B. Four.
C. Five
D. Six
B. father
C. school life
D. life in different cities
B. before his father taught him how to learn something
C. after he went to school
D. after his mother taught him how to learn something
B. doesn"t tell the truth
C. is the same as other children
D. likes his books
B. How to Write a Fairy Tales
C. How Clever the Boy is
D. Dou Kou, the Youngest Writer
When George was fourteen, he became his father"s helper. He spent a lot of time learning about engines.
On holidays, he often took engines into pieces and studied each piece carefully. Soon he became a very
good worker though he could not read or write.
He began to learn the 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 teacher.
On his eighteenth birthday, he wrote his own name for the first time in his life. George invented many
things in his life. The train was the greatest one among them. Today when we watch or take trains from
one place to another, we will think of this great man ------George Stephenson.
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| Bill Gates is head of the software company Microsoft and one of the world"s richest men. He was born on October 28, 1955 and grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. He was a very bright boy. Science and math were his two favorite subjects at school. And he dreamed of being a scientist. Bill first started to play on computers at the age of 13. At that time, a computer was a very large machine. Once he was interested in a very old computer. He and some of his friends spent as much time as possible on computers. In the end, they worked out a software program. Bill sold it for 4,200 dollars when he was only 17. In 1973, Bill went to Harvard University. In 1975, Bill and his partners developed a software program called BASIC. This was not the first program ever created, but its inventors were the first to decide that people who wanted to use it should pay for it. BASIC was a success. Then Bill left Harvard to work for Microsoft, a company he started in 1975 with his boyhood friend Paul Allen. They thought the computer would come into every office and every home soon. So they began developing software for personal computers. They improved the software to make it easier for people to use computers. After many years of hard work, Microsoft becomes one of the most successful companies. And Bill Gates also becomes one of the richest businessmen in the world. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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