Thomas Edison was a great American inventor He was in school  1  only three months．His teacher didn’t understand   2  this new pupil had so many strange questions．Most of the questions had nothing  3  with his lessons．The teacher didn’t want to teach Tom  4  ．He asked Tom’s mother  5  the boy home．Tom’s mother taught him to read and write and she found him to be a very good pupil．He learnt very fast and became very  6  in science．When he was only ten，he built a chemistry lab for  7 ．

   At the age of 12，he started  8  his own newspaper．He printed it and sold copies on the trains．It was the first newspaper  9  on trains in America．

   One day in August，1862，Edison saw a little boy， 10  on the railway at a station．A train was coming near quickly, and the boy was too frightened  11 ．Edison rushed out and carried the boy to  12 ．The boy’s father was so thankful  13  he taught Edison how to send messages by telegraph．Edison soon became good at it and later left home to work in different  14 ．This gave him a new start in life． 15  ，he was only 16．

1．A．in                      B．since                      C．for                        D on

2．A．what                        B．why                       C．how                             D．when

3．A．to do                        B．do                          C．doing                     D．does

4．A．more                        B．no more                  C．a(chǎn)ny more                      D．a(chǎn)ny

5．A．to take                   B．take                        C．takes                     D．took

6．A．interesting                 B．interested                C．interest                  D．interests

7．A．himself                     B．him                        C．his                         D．itself

8．A．writes                   B．wrote                    C．writing                   D．written

9．A．sold                         B．selling                     C．sells                       D．sell

10．A．played                    B．plays                      C．playing                   D．to play

11．A．to move                  B．moved                    C．moves                   D．moving

12．A．safe                        B safety                        C．safer                      D．safely

13．A．what                      B．which                     C．that                       D．when

14．A．city                        B．country                   C．village                     D．cities

15．A．At this time             B．When                     C．At that time             D．Now

1-5 CBACA        6-10 BACAC        11-15 ABCDC

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There was a great scientist ________(call)Thomas Edi-son in the USA．

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You and your parents can stop worrying- Edison, Pasteur, Darwin and many others were far from being "bright boys " when they were under twenty. Some of them, in the eyes of their teachers, were day- dreamers or slow pupils. So, young men or women, if you have the same experience, don' t fed disappointed.

It is always the case that parents prefer giving mere inspiring examples to encourage their children. If you take piano lessons and are not practicing hard, your parents might justly complain and show you the famous picture of little Mozart in his night- shirt, playing the piano at midnight. But the fact is that he didn’t appear to have much talent(才干)for music when he was quite young. It was not until 22 that Mozart suddenly became fired with a great liking(愛好)for music.

In the sciences, there have been thousands of people who showed great interest in certain subjects from their earliest years, and hundreds who had no idea of what they would do in the future. The well-known French chemist Pasteur displeased his parents because Louris did nothing but drew pictures and went fishing. Pasteur was twenty years old before he showed any interest in science. You have the Wright brothers, who showed great talent in engineering when they were quite young. And you have Thomas Edi-son, whose teacher tried to get him out of the class because his brain was often confused. You have the Nobel Prize Physicist Enrico Fermi, who at 17, had read enough mathematics for a doctor's degree. But there is also Charles Darwin, who hated to go to school when he was young. His farther was once so angry and shouted, "You care for nothing but shooting dogs and rat - catching. You will put your parents to shame."

So who knows what might happen in the future? It is, of course, better for the young people to know what they want to do in life . But they needn’t despair if they don ' t . There is still plenty of time and it’s never too later for success.

1. Before the age of 20, Pasture, Darwin and Edison__________.

A. were very interested in their future work .

B. were far from showing their talents .

C. showed early promise(有成功的希望)

D. failed in school.

2. To encourage their children parents are likely to give them__________

A. very excited examples        

B. real examples

C. some false examples          

D. extremely(非常) good examples

3. At the age of 22 Mozart________

A. was accidentally wounded by a fire 

B. suddenly become a great musician

C. started to play the piano at midnight  

D. became greatly interested in music

4. Which of the following statements best expresses the main idea of the passage?

A. Most successful adults are failures before the age of 22.

B. Early schooling is not important for later success.

C. People who show no signs of great talent when they are young might turn out to be greatly successful as adults.

D. People who show signs of great success when they are young might turn out to be failures as adults.

5. Young people should not despair (喪失信心) if they are not successful because________.

     A. Edison and Darwin were not bright when young

     B. they have more years to live than adults

     C. they still have a lot of time to work for it

     D. no one can tell what might happen in the future

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