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George Stephenson was born in 1781 in a poor family. He had to start work when he was only eight. When George was fourteen, he became his father’s helper. He spent a lot of time learning about engines. And on holidays he often took one to pieces and studied each piece carefully. Soon he became a very good worker though he could not read or write. He began to learn the English letters when he was seventeen years old. Every day after he did twelve hours of hard work, he walked a long way to have lessons from a young school teacher. On his eighteenth birthday, he wrote his own name for the first time in his life. George invented many things in his life. The train was the greatest one among them. Today when we watch or take trains from one place to another, we will think of this great man -- George Stephenson.
【小题1】 In which year did George Stephenson start to help his father?

A．In 1781.

B．In 1789.

C．In 1795.

D．In 1798.

【小题2】 He learned about the engine ______.

A．through reading and writing

B．by taking it to pieces and studying each piece carefully

C．at lessons from a young teacher

D．by asking a lot of questions

【小题3】 He spent a lot of time learning about engines and soon became ______.

A．a great man	B．a good maker
C．a good worker	D．a good student

【小题4】 George Stephenson ______ in his childhood.

A．didn’t go to school

B．had lessons from a very good teacher

C．lived an easy life

D．invented the train

【小题5】 The passage tells us ______.

A．everybody should work hard for a living

B．one can start studying at school at the age of 18

C．George Stephenson liked working very much

D．hard work leads to success

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Who was Leonardo da Vinci? You may answer without t___1___:“He is the painter of the Mona Lisa.” What e___2___ do you know about him? Da Vinci was more than just a great artist in history. He’s also f ___3___ as a scientist and an inventor.
Leonardo da Vinci was b___4___ to a rich family in Florence, Italy, in 1452. From childhood, Leonardo was given a good e___5___ and he showed talent at painting. By the age of 26, da Vinci had already become a famous p___6___.
He designed many i___7___ machines. Da Vinci’s idea led to the modern tank(坦克). Though da Vinci never b___8___ many of the inventions he designed, some of the things he i___9___  in the late 1400s are in use today.
As a scientist, da Vinci was very interested in the h___10___ body. He spent a whole year c___11___ up dead bodies in hospitals to learn about human anatomy(解剖学). He made more than 200 d___12___ of bodies.

When he was a teenager, Hunter Adams was very unhappy, and he spent many years in the 1960s and 1970s in a special hospital for people with mental health problems.
When he left hospital, Adams decided to become a doctor, so he went to a medical school in Virginia, in America. But when he was there, he did things in different ways. For example, he didn’t like the doctors’ white coats, so he wore shirts with flowers on them when he visited his patients, and he tried to make them laugh. The doctors at the medical school didn’t like Adams very much because he was too different.
Adams believed that people in hospital need more than just medicine. He saw unhappy and lonely people, and he tried to help them, not just as patients, but as people too. He spent a lot of time with children in hospital, and often put a special red nose on his face so he looked like a clown and made the children laugh.
When he finished medical school and became a doctor, Adams opened his own hospital, called The Gesundheit Institute, with some other doctors. They wanted it to be a place with a different way of working with sick people.
Hunter Adams became famous during the 1980s, and in 1998, Universal Pictures made a film about his life. It was very successful. In the film, Robin Williams played Adams. Williams said, “Hunter is a really warm person, who believes that patients need a doctor who’s a friend. I enjoyed playing him”
根据短文内容回答下列问题：
【小题1】Was Hunter Adams a doctor?
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【小题2】Where was the medical school?
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【小题3】How did Hunter Adams make children in the hospital laugh?
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【小题4】What did Hunter Adams do after he finished medical school and became a doctor?
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【小题5】In Hunter Adams’ opinion, what was a good doctor like?
                                                                    

Before Christmas Mr. Smith broke his right leg and had to stay in hospital. When he was there, he always asked his doctor when he could go home. He didn't like to spend Christmas in hospital. Though the doctor did his best, Mr. Smith didn't get better. So on Christmas Day he was still in hospital. He spent a bad day in bed thinking that he missed a lot of fun on such a happy day.
The next day the doctor told him that he might be well enough to leave hospital in time for the New Year. Mr. Smith was very happy to think that he would spend New Year's Day outside hospital. Soon Mr. Smith left hospital and on New Year's Eve he went to a party. He enjoyed himself there. But he drank too much. On his way home that night, he had a fall and broke his left leg. What an unlucky man he was！
【小题1】Mr. Smith spent Christmas Day in hospital because ______.

A．he like to

B．his wife told him to

C．he broke his left leg

D．he had to

【小题2】He had a good time on ______.

A．Christmas’ Eve

B．Christmas Day

C．New Year’s Eve

D．New Year’s Day

【小题3】Because ______, he drank so much on New Year’s Eve.  

A．he was too happy

B．both of his two legs got well

C．he had a fall

D．he was in hospital

【小题4】Mr. Smith would have to spend New Year’s Day ______.
A．at home
B．at a party
C．in hospital
D．outside hospital

Bringing a giraffe into the world is a tall order. A baby giraffe is born 10 feet high and usually lands on its back. Within seconds it rolls over its legs under its body. Then the mother giraffe rudely introduces its children to the reality of life.
In his book, A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson.
The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she puts herself directly over her child. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable thing. She throws her long leg and kicks her baby, so that it’s sent sprawling(四脚朝天).
When it doesn’t get up, the process is repeated again and again. The struggle to rise is important. As the baby giraffe grows tired, the mother kicks it again. Finally, it stands for the first time on its shaky legs. Then the mother giraffe kicks it off its feet again. Why? She wants it to remember how it got up. In the wild, a baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with its group, where there’s safety.
Another writer named Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing stories about such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin.
Stone was once asked if he had found something that runs through the lives of all these great people. He said, “I write about people who sometime in their life have a dream of something. They’re beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere. But every time they stand up again. And at the end of their lives they’ve realized some small parts of what they set out to do .”
【小题1】What does the underlined part “a tall order” in Paragraph 1 mean?

A．A happy thing.	B．A difficult task.
C．A big dream.	D．A beautiful scene.

【小题2】Which of the following statements is True according to the passage?

A．This passage is a description of giraffes’ living habits.

B．Baby giraffes can’t stand up until three months old.

C．Irving Stone spent a lifetime studying and writing stories about great people.

D．The great people can’t stand up after they’re knocked down for years.

【小题3】What would be the best title for the passage?

A．How to keep a baby giraffe.

B．Learning to Get Back Up.

C．Stories about the great people.

D．A mother giraffe and its baby giraffe.