The first telephone cards, produced in 1976, were Italian. Five years later the first British card appeared, and now you can buy cards in more than a hundred countries. People usually start collecting cards because they are small and light and you do not need much space for them. It is also a cheap hobby for beginners, although for some people it becomes a serious business. In Paris, for example, there is a market where you can only buy telephone cards, and some cards cost up to ￡4,000.The first Japanese card has a value of about ￡28,000. Most people only see cards with prices like these in their collectors’ magazine.
【小题1】When were the first Italian telephone cards produced?
【小题2】How many countries can produce telephone cards now?
【小题3】Where can we find a market to buy telephone cards?
【小题4】What is the price of the first Japanese telephone card?
【小题5】In which magazine do most people see cards with prices?

—When were you born?
—I was born _________.

Alfred Nobel, a Swedish - born chemist, who died in 1896, at one time believed that his invention of explosives (炸药) could bring wars to an end, But later he found he was wrong.

Nobel was born in Sweden in 1833. With only one year of formal schooling, he became a chemist and inventor by age of 16.

He was also a linguist, speaking English, Russian, German and French besides Swedish. He wrote poetry(诗歌). He began his work with producing liquid nitroglycerin (硝酸甘油) for use in mining and construction. He then discovered that liquid nitroglycerin could be dried. He called it dynamite, after the Greek word dynamis, meaning "power". Then he became rich. When he died, his estate (财产) was worth about 89 million.

Nobel never married, and he left most of his estate to those who have been known as Nobel Prizes. The money is invested (投资) and the interest (利息) is given out as yearly prizes for persons who have done something special for mankind in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine, literature, and peace.

Prizes were first awarded in 1901. Over the years, many great people such as Albert Einstein in physics, Marie Curie in chemistry, Martin Luther King, Jr. for peace and Mo yan for literature got the awards.

1.From the passage we can guess the underlined word "linguist" is a person who_______.

A. can speak a foreign language

B. writes good poetry

C. knows several foreign language well

D. makes many inventions

2.Alfred Nobel believed_______.

A. he would become the richest person of the world

B. his invention could stop wars in the world

C. the Nobel Prizes could be world - famous

D. no one could use his invention to start wars

3.All the questions have been answered Except_______.

A. who chooses the Nobel Prize winners

B. when were Nobel Prizes first awarded

C. who could win Nobel Prizes

D. what else was Nobel interested in besides chemistry