Thomas Edison was a great American inventor. He was born to a poor family in 1847. His mother taught him at home. He often observed things carefully and he made over 1,300 inventions during his life time. He was often said to be the greatest genius(天才) 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 happy only because someone said he was a genius. “There is no such thing as genius,” Edison said. He also 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 back, “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.
【小題1】Edison was______________.

A．interested in changing people’s ideas

B．interested in discovering the secrets of nature

C．very much uninterested in nature

D．uninterested in making people happier by discovering the secrets of nature

【小題2】Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

A．Many other people have changed Edison’s life.

B．Edison has changed the lives of many other people.

C．Only a few men in history can change other people’s lives.

D．Edison invented the electric light.

【小題3】The last sentence in the passage most probably implies(意指)___________.

A．people of his time were ready to give Edison another 100 year’s work

B．Life is too short for Edison to invent more for human beings

C．Edison made 100 inventions in his life

D．Edison was able to live and work for 100 years

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容和漢語(yǔ)提示，寫(xiě)出短文空白處各單詞的正確形式，每空限填一詞。

Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847. When he was a child, he always had a lot of questions and started asking questions about _____1.________ (如何)things worked. So his teachers didn’t like him. They thought he was kind of ____2.________(笨的) and many people didn’t understand him, either. He was only in school for three months. His mother _____3._____(教)him at home. His parents _____4._____(注意) he loved to read. They introduced him to the ____5.______(圖書(shū)館). He read many books there. The books _____6.______(使…感興趣) him very much. ________7.____ （在）the help of his parents, he also built his lab by _______8.______(他自己). He ______9.____ (發(fā)明) more than one thousand things,  ______10.______(包括) the first silent film, the light bulb, the record player and so on. He died on October 18,1931 at the age of 84.

 

根據(jù)句意和首字母或漢語(yǔ)提示完成單詞。

1.Don’t t_________ the rubbish here and there.

2.The hotel o_________ hot water 24 hours.

3.Thomas Edison was a great i_________.

4.The abacus was invented in the sixth _________ (世紀(jì)) by the Chinese.

5.We all respect Mr. Li because he is very _________(知識(shí)淵博的).

 

根據(jù)下列句子及所給漢語(yǔ)注釋或通過(guò)上下文，  在答題卡上標(biāo)有題號(hào)的橫線(xiàn)上，寫(xiě)出空缺處各單詞的正確形式。每空只寫(xiě)一詞。

1.Who do you think is    （苗條）,Kitty or Sandy?

2.Mr. Wu is an     （有能力的）teacher and he is my favourite teacher.

3.When Thomas Edison was young, he showed great    （興趣）in everything.

4.I am still    (想知道)what was going at the time．

5.I liked to sit beside the window and enjoy the     (美景)in the park.

6.We plan to help the students in poor areas by    (提供)them with some stationery.

7.We must help this boy.  He doesn't know the    (重要性)of study.

8.-I don't think it's right to treat Jimmy like this.

-I agree with you. He worked the hardest but got the    money.

9.- Have you heard that Jack had an accident last night?

- Yes, but    he wasn't badly hurt.

10.- Shall we go for a hiking this weekend?

- All right,    it rains.

 

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容和漢語(yǔ)提示，寫(xiě)出短文空白處各單詞的正確形式，每空限填一詞。
Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847. When he was a child, he always had a lot of questions and started asking questions about _____【小題1】________ (如何)things worked. So his teachers didn’t like him. They thought he was kind of ____【小題2】________(笨的) and many people didn’t understand him, either. He was only in school for three months. His mother _____【小題3】_____(教)him at home. His parents _____【小題4】_____(注意) he loved to read. They introduced him to the ____【小題5】______(圖書(shū)館). He read many books there. The books _____【小題6】______(使…感興趣) him very much. ________【小題7】____ （在）the help of his parents, he also built his lab by _______【小題8】______(他自己). He ______【小題9】____ (發(fā)明) more than one thousand things,  ______【小題10】______(包括) the first silent film, the light bulb, the record player and so on. He died on October 18,1931 at the age of 84.