People often said Thomas Edison was the greatest genius of his age. There are on
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People often said Thomas Edison was the greatest genius of his age. There are only a few men in all of 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. "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 the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking could give men enjoyment and pleasure.
Edison could not understand how anyone 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.
小题1:According to Thomas Edison, what"s genius?| A．Hard thinking. | B．Useful inventions | | C．Useful dreams. | D．Hard work. |
小题2:After exploring the secrets of nature, Edison always tried to______．| A．make them useful in life | | B．carry out a new experiment | | C．write down what he had learnt | | D．share them with others |
小题3:Edison could not understand______.| A．how anybody enjoyed life | | B．how anybody loved working | | C．why anybody loved thinking | | D．why anybody was tired of life |
小题4:The underlined sentence in the last paragraph means that______．| A．Edison was able to live another 100 years | | B．life was too short for Edison to work for human beings | | C．Edison was born to be a great inventor | | D．Edison was ready to make his l00th invention |
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答案
小题1:D
小题2:A
小题3:D
小题4:B |
解析
本文讲述了爱迪生眼中的天才是什么？以及爱迪生是如何成为人们眼中的天下的。
小题1:细节题。根据He thought what people called genius was mostly hard work.可知，答案为D。
小题2:细节题。根据…俺的他很和同日而道头learn what he could usefully do with them以及文章倒数第二句话，可知答案为A.
小题3:细节题。根据文章第四段第一句话可知，他不能理解为什么任何热播对生活不感兴趣，故答案选D。
小题4:理解句意。本句话的意思是，在他的脑子里有足够的发明足以够他再活100年。说明他觉得生命太短暂了以至于不能为人类做出更多的贡献。 |
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Tell me more about your city. Maybe my next long journey is India.
Hope to get your reply.
Liu Shaowen
| 小题1: | | A．proud | B．happy | C．sorry | D．excited |
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| 小题2: | | A．money | B．machines | C．technologies | D．information |
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| 小题3: | | A．cooperate | B．trade | C．devote | D．believe |
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| 小题4: | | A．found | B．spotted | C．saw | D．discovered |
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| 小题5: | | A．southeast | B．northeast | C．northwest | D．southwest |
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| 小题6: | | A．being | B．has been | C．was | D．is |
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| 小题7: | | A．rich | B．quiet | C．fast | D．open |
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| 小题9: | | A．walked | B．climbed | C．drove | D．ran |
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| 小题10: | | A．demand | B．need | C．want | D．hope |
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| 小题11: | | A．hard | B．fierce | C．violent | D．unbearable |
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| 小题12: | | A．museum | B．temple | C．tower | D．pyramid |
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| 小题13: | | A．still | B．yet | C．therefore | D．then |
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| 小题14: | | A．brand | B．trade-mark | C．landmark | D．footmark |
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| 小题15: | | A．scenery | B．landscape | C．history | D．location |
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| 小题16: | | A．for | B．from | C．among | D．beyond |
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| 小题17: | | A．barely | B．hardly | C．rarely | D．easily |
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| 小题18: | | A．habitat | B．home | C．birthplace | D．residence |
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| 小题19: | | A．written | B．recorded | C．composed | D．painted |
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| 小题20: | | A．leader | B．teacher | C．adviser | D．guide |
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Frankenstein is one of the world’s most famous horror stories. It’s about a doctor who creates a new man from the body parts of dead people and brings it to life. But the experiment goes wrong and the monster(怪兽) kills the doctor and many others. The story has been read by millions since it was first published and in the last hundred years it has been made into dozens of movies. Many people are surprised to learn its writer was a 19-year-old woman, called Mary Shelley.
Mary was born into a rich London family in August 1797. She was educated by her parents and when she was 13 she decided to become a writer. In 1812, she met the famous writer Percy Shelley and they soon got married. Sadly for Mary, their first child died soon after birth in Italy. In her diary, Mary wrote about a dream：“I dreamt that my little baby came to life again---that it had only been cold and that we rubbed it before the fire and it lived.”
In 1816, Percy Shelley and 19-year-old Mary visited the poet Lord Byron at his home in Switzerland. Because of the bad weather they stayed indoors reading horror stories. On night, Byron asked everyone to write their own story. Mary thought of her dream and wrote the story of Frankenstein
Frankenstein was published when Mary was 21, and became a huge success. Many people didn’t think a 19-year-old woman could write so well and believed her husband was the real writer.
Although famous, Shelley’s life was full of sadness. Only one of her four children lived and in 1822 her husband died in a swimming accident. Mary was broken-hearted and decided not to marry again. She devoted herself to her child and continued to write until her death in 1851.
小题1:Where was Mary Shelley when she wrote the story Frankenstein ? | A．In England | B．In Italy | C．In Switzerland | D．In France |
小题2:In which order do the following take place?
a. Bad weather made everyone stay indoors reading horror stories.
b. The story Frankenstein was first published.
c. Mary wrote about a dream in her diary.
d. Mary met the famous writer Percy Shelley.
e. Movies based on the story of Frankenstein were made.| A．a,c,b,e,d | B．d,c,a,b,e | C．c,a,b,d,e | D．b,a,d,c,e |
小题3:How old was Mary Shelley when she died? |
A mouse looked through a crack(缝隙) in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package; what food might it contain? He was astonished to discover that it was a mouse trap!
Running to the farmyard, the mouse shouted, warning everyone, “There is a mouse trap in the house, there is a mouse trap in the house.”
The chicken, with her head high, glared at the mouse and said, “Shut up. Little Ugly. This is a great concern to you, but it has nothing to do with me; I can’t be troubled by it.
The mouse turned to the pig and told him, “There is a mouse trap in the house.” “I am so sorry, Mr. Mouse,” said the pig sympathetically, “but there is nothing I can do about it but pray; you are always in my prayers.”
The mouse turned to the cow, who relied, “ A mouse trap, am I in great danger, huh?”
Now the mouse had to face the farmer’s mouse trap alone.
The very night a sound was heard through the house, like that of a mouse trap catching its prey. The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a big poisonous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer’s wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital. She returned home with a fever. It is said that drinking fresh chicken soup will help treat fever, so the farmer took his sharp knife to the farmyard for the soup’s main ingredient. His wife’s sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer killed the pig. The farmer’s wife did not get well, in fact, she died, and so many people came for her funeral. The farmer had the cow killed to provide for all of them to eat.
So next time when someone is facing a problem, don’t say that it has nothing to do with you. Remember: when the least of us is threatened, we all might be at risk.
小题1:We could see from the passage that the mouse was _____.| A．good at cheating others | B．honest | | C．kind and warm-hearted | D．foolish |
小题2:Which of the following is False according to the passage? | A．The others help the farmer kill the cow. | | B．The mouse trap was very practical | | C．The pig is more friendly than the other animals. | | D．The farmer’s family was very poor and they had no friends |
小题3:What can we learn from the story?| A．Better safe than sorry | | B．Traps can always cause chain reactions | | C．To keep the balance of nature is the duty of us all | | D．What you think impossible to happen to you might come at you unexpectedly |
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Around twenty years ago I was living in York. 36 I had a lot of experience and a Master’s degree, I could not find 37 work.
I was 38 a school bus to make ends meet and 39 with a friend of mine, for I had lost my flat. I had 40 five interviews (面试) with a company and one day between bus runs they called to say I did not 41 the job. “Why has my life become so 42 ?” I thought painfully.
As I pulled the bus over to 43 a little girl, she handed me an earring 44 I should keep it 45 somebody claimed (认领) it. The earring was painted black and said “BE HAPPY”.
At first I got angry. Then it 46 me – I had been giving all of my 47 to what was going wrong with my 48 rather than what was right! I decided then and there to make a 49 of fifty things I was happy with. Later, I decided to 50 more things to the list. That night there was a phone call for 51 from a lady who was a director at a larger 52 . She asked me if I would 53 a one-day lecture on stress (压力) management to 200 medical workers. I said yes.
My 54 there went very well, and before long I got a well-paid job. To this day I know that it was because I changed my way of 55 that I completely changed my life.
| 小题2: | | A．successful | B．extra | C．satisfying | D．convenient |
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| 小题3: | | A．driving | B．repairing | C．taking | D．designing |
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| 小题4: | | A．working | B．travelling | C．discussing | D．living |
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| 小题5: | | A．prepared for | B．attended | C．asked for | D．held |
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| 小题7: | | A．hard | B．busy | C．serious | D．short |
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| 小题8: | | A．wave at | B．drop off | C．call on | D．look for |
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| 小题9: | | A．ordering | B．promising | C．saying | D．showing |
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| 小题10: | | A．in case | B．or else | C．as if | D．now that |
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| 小题11: | | A．hurt | B．hit | C．caught | D．moved |
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| 小题12: | | A．feelings | B．attention | C．strength | D．interests |
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| 小题13: | | A．opinions | B．education | C．experiences | D．life |
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| 小题14: | | A．list | B．book | C．check | D．copy |
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| 小题15: | | A．connect | B．turn | C．keep | D．add |
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| 小题16: | | A．her | B．a passenger | C．me | D．my friend |
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| 小题17: | | A．hospital | B．factory | C．restaurant | D．hotel |
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| 小题18: | | A．listen to | B．review | C．give | D．talk about |
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| 小题19: | | A．plan | B．choice | C．day | D．tour |
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| 小题20: | | A．operation | B．speaking | C．employment | D．thinking |
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Barditch High School decided to hold an All-School Reunion. Over 450 people came to the event. There were tours of the old school building and a picnic at Confederate Park. Several former teachers were on hands to tell stories about the old days. Ms. Mabel Yates, the English teacher for fifty years, was wheeled to the Park.
Some eyes rolled and there were a few low groans(嘟囔声)when Ms.Yates was about to speak. Many started looking at their watches and coming up with excuses to be anywhere instead of preparing to listen to a lecture from an old woman who had few kind words for her students and made them work harder than all the other teachers combined.
Then Ms. Yates started to speak:
“I can’t tell you how pleased I am to be here. I haven’t seen many of you since your graduation, but I have followed your careers and enjoyed your victories as well as crying for your tragedies. I have a large collection of newspaper photographs of my students. Although I haven’t appeared in person, I have attended your college graduations, weddings and even the birth your children, in my imagination.”
Ms. Yates paused and started crying a bit. Then she continued:
“It was my belief that if I pushed you as hard as I could, some of you would succeed to please me and others would succeed to annoy me. Regardless of our motives, I can see that you have all been successful in you chosen path.”
“There is no greater comfort for an educator than to see the end result of his or her years of work. You have all been a great source of pleasure and pride for me and I want you to know I love you all from the bottom of my heart.”
There was a silence over the crowd for a few seconds and then someone started clapping. The clapping turned into cheering, then into a deafening roar(呼喊). Lawyers, truck drivers, bankers and models were rubbing their eyes or crying openly with no shame all because of the words from a long forgotten English teacher from their hometown.
小题1:What activity was organized for the school reunion?| A．Sightseeing in the park. | | B．A picnic on the school playground. | | C．Telling stories about past events. | | D．Graduates’ reports in the old building. |
小题2:What can be inferred from Paragraph 2? | A．Some graduates were too busy to listen to Ms. Yates’ speech. | | B．Many graduates disliked Ms. Yates’ ways of teaching. | | C．Some people got tired from the reunion activities. | | D．Most people had little interest in the reunion. |
小题3:We can learn from Ms. Yates’ speech that she _____________.| A．kept track of her students’ progress | | B．gave her students advice on their careers | | C．attended her students’ college graduations | | D．went to her students’ wedding ceremonies |
小题4:What was Ms.Yates’ belief in teaching teenagers?| A．Teachers’ knowledge is the key to students’ achievements. | | B．Pressure on students from teachers should be reduced. | | C．Hard-pushed students are more likely to succeed. | | D．Students’ respect is the best reward for teachers. |
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