Ballpoint pens have made life easier for millions of people．At one time 1 did not like their students to  2  with them．Perhaps it was too easy．Pens can leak(漏)and it is  3 to spill(溢出，流出)the ink．But it is hard to write on thin or cheap paper with them．

    Ladislao Biro  4  for a newspaper in Budapest．He spent all day  5  his desk．Day in and day out，he corrected  6  of thin，cheap paper with a pen and ink．He often had to stop to   7  his pen and it did not write  8  on the thin paper．He and his brother George  9  some experiments．They wanted a pen that did not leak，with ink that did not spill．Why not  10  a little ball at the end?

  Two Englishmen，Henry Martin and Fredrick Miles，liked the  11 . It was the  12 in the second World War．The Air Force(空军)  13  a non-leak，non-spill pen for the men to write with in  14 ．Martin and Miles made and  15  many thousands of Biro “writing—sticks” to the Air Force.

1．A．factories                B．schools            C．shops               D．restaurants

2．A．play                      B．write                C．come               D．meet

3．A．easy                      B．hard                 C．free                 D．popular

4．A．1eft                       B．waited              C．looked              D．worked

5．A．on                         B．near                 C．at                    D．in

6．A．mistakes                B．books               C．pages               D．diaries

7．A．mend                    B．fill                    C．brush               D．change

8．A．well                      B．down               C．out                  D．up

9．A．kept                      B．finished            C．began               D．studied

10．A．find                     B．wear                C．grow               D．use

11．A．matter                 B．result               C．meaning           D．idea

12．A．day                     B．time                 C．break               D．year

13．A．bought                 B．took                 C．needed             D．preferred

14．A．planes                  B．ships                C．trains               D．buses

15．A．bought            B．lent                C．moved            D．passed

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1.We can get k________ from not only books but also computers and other printings.

2.Now c________ clothes are more popular. They are good for our health.

3.News s________ much more slowly in the past.

4.Most students don’t write in i________. They like to use ballpoint pens.

5.It is clearer and nicer to take photos with a d________ camera than an ordinary one.

 

根据首字母提示，完成句子

1.We can get k________ from not only books but also computers and other printings.

2.Now c________ clothes are more popular. They are good for our health.

3.News s________ much more slowly in the past.

4.Most students don’t write in i________. They like to use ballpoint pens.

5.It is clearer and nicer to take photos with a d________ camera than an ordinary one.

 

You may have never heard of Ladislao Biro, but you have certainly heard of the pen he invented—the ballpoint pen, or biro. Before Biro invented his pen, people wrote with fountain pens. The ink sometimes went out. In the 1930s Biro was a magazine editor in Budapest in Hungary. He noticed that the inks which the magazine’s printers used dried very quickly.Biro wondered if quick-drying ink could be used in pens. He came up with the idea of a tube(管) of ink with a free-moving ball on the end. As a person wrote, the ball collected ink from the rube and rolled(滚动) it on to the paper. The pen would be cheap and could be thrown away when the ink ran out.

　 Biro began to work on his invention, but the Second World War broke out before he could patent(取得…的专利) it. Biro left war-torn Europe and went to Buenos Aires in Argentina. There, he and his brother George, who was a chemist, began to improve the pen. In the early 1940s Biro began to produce his new pen, the biro. In 1944, he sold his invention to another company, who began to mass-produce the pen for the British and American armed forces(武装部队).

　 Biro was pleased that his pen was popular, but he did not gain much from his invention. The biro was later sold to the French firm, Bic, who now sell twelve million pens a day. Biro sank into obscurity in South America. His name, however, has become a household word．

（ ）61.Biro is the name of _______.

A. a magazine　 B. a fountain pen C. a company　 D. a ballpoint pen

(　 )62. According to the passage, Biro’s new pen was first produced in ______.

A.　　 Hungary　 B.France　　　　 C. Argentina　 D.America

(　 )63. Which of the following can be filled in No.3 in the box to show how Biro invented his new pen?

　　　

1.came up　 -----2.worked on　 -------3.? ------4.produded with an idea　　 his invention　　　　　　　　 his pen

　　　 A. improved his pen　　　　　　 B. sold his invention

　　　 C. worked as an editor　　　　　 D. left for South America

（　 ）64. The underlined part “sank into obscurity” is the closest in meaning to”__”.

A. was very popular　　　　　　 B. Lost a lot of money

C. lost interest in business　　　 D. was unknown to many people

(　 )65. What does the passage mainly tell us about Biro?

A.He was a popular writer.　　　 B.He was a famous magazine editor

C. He was an important inventor　 D. He was a successful businessman

　　　　　　　　

I have two pens. One is red, and       is blue.

A．other

B．the other

C．another

D．others