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1、 阅读理解 A Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Ohio People around found little Edison very bright because he often took things apart to see how they worked In the early 1860s he created his first important invention a telegraphic 电报的 repeater that could send messages over a second line At 21 he invented
2、an electrical vote recorder and got his first patent 专利 for it The next year he designed an improved stock ticker a kind of electronic communications medium and then set up a company to produce it In 1874 he invented the quadruplex telegraph a type of electrical telegraph Edison built his first labo
3、ratory in Menlo Park New Jersey when he was 30 years old They often had several projects going at once and it wasn t long before they started producing one invention after another including such revolutionary inventions as the phonograph and the electric light The lab was successful because of Ediso
4、n s inventive talent his strong determination and his ability to inspire his assistants devotion by working so hard along with them and relaxing with them The lab even had a pipe organ a kind of musical instrument After a long day of work he would play the pipe organ while he and his assistants woul
5、d sing along The people who worked with him during those years would often say that those were the happiest days of their lives Edison s goal was to create a small invention every ten days and a big invention every six months Edison once said I always invented to gain mo ney to go on inventing so th
6、e money wasn t really the goal for him The money was used to make sure that he could continue his work Eventually the lab at Menlo Park couldn t contain all of the work that he wanted to do so Edison built a new laboratory complex in West Orange New Jersey Then he could undertake more projects with
7、greater resources than had ever been possible before 解题导语 本文是一篇记叙文 文章主要介绍了爱迪生的部分发明成果及实验室 1 What s the RIGHT time order for Edison s inventions mentioned in this passage A A telegraphic repeater a phonograph an electrical vote recorder B An electrical vote recorder a phonograph a quadruplex telegraph
8、 C A quadruplex telegraph an electrical vote recorder a phonograph D A telegraphic repeater an electrical vote recorder a quadruplex telegraph D解析 细节理解题 根据第二段的In the early 1860s he created his first important invention got his first patent 专利 for it 及 In 1874 he invented the quadruplex telegraph a t
9、ype of electrical telegraph 可知 a telegraphic repeater 是在 19 世纪 60 年代早期发明的 an electrical vote recorder 是 1868 年发明的 a quadruplex telegraph 是 1874 年发明的 故可推出时间顺序 2 Edison set up a company at 22 to A sell his unique artwork B sell experimental materials C produce an electrical vote recorder D produce an
10、improved stock ticker D解析 细节理解题 根据第二段的At 21 he invented an electrical vote recorder and got his first and then set up a company to produce it 可知 爱迪生成立公司是为了生产一种改进的 stock ticker 3 What did Edison use the money from his inventions for A Helping the poor B Traveling to Europe C Building many schools D C
11、ontinuing his invention work D解析 细节理解题 根据第五段的Edison once said I always invented to gain money to go on inventing so the money wasn t really the goal for him The money was used to make sure that he could continue his work 可知 Edison 靠发明赚钱只是为了维持其发明工作 4 What can we learn from the passage A Edison was a
12、talented and determined person B Edison got his first patent because of the electric light C Edison s first laboratory was in West Orange New Jersey D Edison showed no interest in inventing things in his childhood A解析 推理判断题 根据全文内容尤其是第四段的The lab was successful because of Edison s inventive talent his
13、 strong determination 可推断 爱迪生是一个有才能并且很坚定的 人 B Tea is the second most popular drink in the world after water There are different kinds of tea including green tea and black tea A cup of tea has become a part of our daily lives and our culture Earlier tea used to be made in large pots Hot water was pou
14、red over a bunch of tea leaves even to make a single cup It is believed that this led to waste of tea and that is where the story of the teabag comes in It is more convenient and easier to use a teabag than to brew 沏 fresh tea leaves every time you want to make a cup of tea With the help of teabags
15、tea was made available in places like offices and airplanes In order to make tea taste good you need to remove the dried leaves after brewing With teabags you can brew a great cup of tea without a tea strainer Who invented the teabag has been a question for a very long time There are some interestin
16、g stories about this question but the most popular one is of a New York tea businessman Thomas Sullivan In 1908 he sent samples of tea to his customers in small silk bags A few of his customers thought that these bags were to be dipped 浸 in water to brew tea and so they did not empty out the tea Sullivan did not realize this till the time he started receiving complaints from customers about the orders not being sent in bags Then he started producing teabags and because of silk being too expensiv
