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    The Man of Many Secrets
    Harry Houdini was one of the greatest American entertainers in the theater this century．He was a man famous for his escapes—from prison cells，from wooden boxes floating in rivers，from locked tanks full of water．He appeared in theaters all over Europe and America．Crowds came to see the great Houdini and his “magic”tricks．
    0f course，his secret was not magic，or supernatural powers．It was simply strength．He had ability to move his toes as well as to move his fingers．He could move his body into almost any position he wanted．
    Houdini started working in the entertainment world when he was 17，in 1891．He and his brother Theo performed card tricks in a New York club．They called themselves the Houdini brothers．When Harry married in 1894，he and his wife Bess worked together as magician and assistant，but for a long time they were not successful．Then Harty performed his first prison escape，in Chicago in 1898．Harry persuaded a detective to let him try to escape from the prison，and he invited the local newspaperman to watch．It was the publicity(名声)that came from this that started Harry Houdini’s success．
    Harry had fingers trained to escape from handcuffs(手铐)and toes trained to escape from ankle chains，but his biggest secret was how he unlocked the prison doors．Every time he went into the prison cell，Bess gave him a kiss for good luck—and a small skeleton key，which is a key that fits many locks passed quickly from her mouth to his．
    Harry used these prison escapes to build his fame．He arranged to escape from the local jail of every town he visited．In the afternoon the people of the town would read about it in their local newspapers．and in the evening every seat in the local theater would be full．What was the result? Worldwide fame，and a name remembered today．
    小题1:According to the passage，Houdini’s success in prison escapes depends on   ．
    A．his magic tricks and inhuman powers B．his special tricks and a skeleton key
    C．his unusual ability and skeleton key D．his inhuman talents and magic tricks
    小题2:According to the passage，how did Houdini get the key which helped him unlock prison door?
    A．He took the key from his wife’s mouth．
    B．His wife passed it to his hand while kissing him．
    C．His wife gave it to him by a magic trick．
    D．He got it in his mouth through a kiss by his wife．
    小题3:It can be inferred from the passage that Houdini became famous   ．
    A．when he was about 24 B．when he was about 17
    C．after the year 1894 D．before the year 1898

    小题1:C
    小题1:D
    小题1:A
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    科目：高中英语 来源：不详 题型：阅读理解

    Do you know Henry Ford? He was the first person to build cars which were cheap，strong and fast．He was able to sell millions of models because he could produce them in large numbers at a time；that is，he made a great many cars of exactly the same kind．Ford’s father hoped that his son would become a farmer，but the young man did not like the idea and he went to Detroit where he worked as a mechanic（机械师）．By the age of 29，in 1892，he had built his first car．However，the car made in this way，the famous “Model T” did not appear until 1908—five years after Ford had started his great motor car factory．This car showed to be well-known that it remained unchanged for twenty years．Since Ford’s time，this way of producing cars in large numbers has become common in industry and has reduced the price of many goods which would otherwise be very expensive．
    小题1:Henry Ford was the man to built _____ cars．
    A cheap and strong                     B. cheap and long
    C. fast and expensive              D. strong and slow
    小题2:Ford was able to sell millions of cars，because_____．
    A．he made many great carsB．his cars are many
    　    		C．he made lots of cars of the same kindD．both A and B
    小题3:The “Model T” was very famous_____．
    A．before 1908B．between 1982 and 1908　　
    C．before 1892D．after 1908
    小题4: Ford built his own car factory________.
    A．n 1903B．in 1908C．in 1913D．in 1897

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