科目：高中英语 来源：高中英语同步·单元练习册第一册下（高一年级第二学期用） 题型：014
By 1862 Marx ________ about 500 articles on politics and social problems all over the world.
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By 1862 Marx ________ about 500 articles on politics and social problems all over the world.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2013-2014学年高考二轮复习训练：专题4 情态动词与虚拟语气英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
French novelist Jules Verne (1828～1905) is often called the father of science fictions.Although he was not a great traveller himself，his characters journeyed to the moon (in From Earth to Moon)，Under the sea (in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea)，into a volcano (in A Journey to the Centre of the Earth)，around the world (in Around the World in Eighty Days) and to many other places.
Jules Verne was born in the French city of Nantes in 1828.When he was a boy he ran away from home to work on a ship.However，his father soon found him and brought him home.After that he decided that any future travel he did would be in books.In 1847，his father sent Jules to Paris to study to be a lawyer.Even though he was busy writing，Verne passed his exams in 1849 with high marks.
When Jules told his father he did not want to be a lawyer，his father was very angry.He stopped sending his son any money，so Jules had to earn a living by his writing.Over the next few years he wrote many stories and plays which brought him only a little money.Then，in 1856，he met Honorine de Viane，a rich，young widow with two children.The couple married the next year and their only child Michel was born in 1862.
After his marriage，Verne worked as a businessman in Paris.However，he was not very successful at his job and spent most of his time writing books and doing research for the next one.In 1863，he published his novel Five Weeks in a Balloon and in the following year he published A Journey to the Centre of the Earth which brought him fame.His books became so popular and earned him so much money that he was able to leave his job and work full time on his writing.
In his lifetime，Jules Verne wrote more than 50 books and he became a rich man.Many of this imaginative novels have been turned into films.
1.Jules Verne became rich because of his________.
A．father? B．marriage
C．business? D．writing
2.When Jules Verne was brought home by his father，he decided that________.
A．he would go on more travels in the future
B．he would do as his father required
C．he would be devoted to writing about future travels
D．he would stop writing about future travels
3.Which book can be considered as a turning point in Jules Verne’s life?
A．Five Weeks in a Balloon.
B．A Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
C．From Earth to Moon.
D．Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
4.What can we infer from the passage?
A．Jules Verne was appreciated by film makers.
B．Jules Verne was not clever enough to learn law.
C．Jules Verne’s stories and plays won him big fame in the 1850s.
D．Jules Verne’s wife helped him a lot in his writing career.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015届新疆兵团农二师华山中学高一上期期中考试英语卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
O. Henry was a pen name used by an American writer of short stories. His real name was William Sydney Porter. He was born in North Carolina in 1862. As a young boy he lived an exciting life. He did not go to school for very long, but he managed to teach himself everything he needed to know. When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas, where he tried different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank. When some money went missing from the bank, O. Henry was believed to have stolen it. Because of that, he was sent to prison. During the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and continued writing. He wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because simple as the tales were, they would finish with a sudden change at the end, to the reader’s surprise.
1.In which order did O. Henry do the following things?
a. Lived in New York. b. Worked in a bank. c. Travelled to Texas.
d. Was put in prison. e. Had a newspaper Job. f. Learned to write stories.
A．e. c. f. b. d. a B．c. e. b. d. f. a
C．e. b. d. c. a. f. D．c. b. e. d. a f.
2.People enjoyed reading O. Henry’s stories because__________.
A．they had surprise endings B．they were short
C．they showed his love for the poor D．they were about New York City
3.O. Henry went to prison because__________ .
A．people thought he had stolen money from the newspaper
B．he broke the law by not using his own name
C．he wanted to write stories about prisoners
D．people thought he had taken money that was not his
4.What do we know about O. Henry before he began writing?
A．He was well-educated. B．He was not serious about his work.
C．He was devoted to the poor. D．He was very good at learning.
5.Where did O. Henry get most material for his short stories?
A．His life inside the prison. B．The newspaper articles he wrote.
C．The city and people of New York. D．His exciting early life as a boy.
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