本篇是介绍大科学家本·富兰克林从小最爱提问的故事，其中心思想是启迪学生：善于思索，开拓发散性思维，富于创造性，是一篇有利于进行素质教育的文章．

　　When Ben Franklin was only a boy, he always wanted to know about things. He was always asking his father and brothers “What?” and “How?” and “Why?”

　　They couldn't always tell him what he wanted to know.

　　When they couldn't tell him, Ben tried to find out for himself.

　　Many times Ben did find out things that no one knew before. The other boys would say, “That Ben Franklin! He's always finding out something new!”

　　Ben lived close to the water. He liked to go there to see the boats. He saw how the wind blew them across the water.

　　One day Ben said to himself, “Why can't the wind help me float(漂浮) across the water?” And I'm going to try. “Ben got his big kite. He took hold of the kite string(线) and ran with it. The wind took the kite up into the air. Then Ben jumped into the water.”

　　The wind blew the kite high into the air. Ben began to float across the water. Soon he was on the other side, and he had not worked at all.

　　One boy shouted, “Look at Ben floating across the water! His kite takes him to the other side without any work!”

　　“Yes,” said another. “He's always finding new ways to do things.”

1．When he was only a child, Ben ________.

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A．liked to fly a kite by himself

B．always asked easy questions

C．always liked to play with water

D．always liked to find out how things worked

2．His father and brothers ________.

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A．couldn't answer all his questions

B．could answer all his questions

C．tried hard to find out something new for him

D．were too busy to answer his questions

3．How did Ben Franklin float across the water?

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A．The other boy took him across it.

B．The water carried him across it.

C．The flying kite took him across it.

D．A boat took him across it.

4．He found out many things that ________.

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A．children didn't know

B．his father and brothers knew

C．people didn't know

D．most people knew

5．In the passage, the sentence “and he had not worked at all.” means ________.

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A．he worked hard to cross the water

B．he didn't go to work that day

C．he didn't cross the water at a11

D．he crossed the water in an easy way

How much of an addict(成癖/嗜好) are you? Are you like any of the people?

①I dislike haircut(理发). I seldom(很少) get a haircut. So when I get one, my hair is really short. My hair gets really long before my next haircut.    --- Harry

②I hardly drink soda(苏打水).I usually drink coffee. I sometimes drink eight cups a day. ---Rose

③I exercise regularly（有规律地）.Sometimes I spend 4 or 5 hours on it in one day.  ---Sam

④I have a bar(条/根) of chocolate sometimes. I can’t eat a lot of it, because it makes me heavy.   ---Kim

⑤I have a TV in my living room, one is in my dining room, one is in my bedroom. I even have one in the bathroom(浴室).  --- John

　    ⑥I spend a lot of time shopping, but I don’t spend a great deal of (大的量)money. I mostly (主要) do window shopping.     ---Jenny

1. How often does Harry get a haircut?

2.How many TVs does John have?

3.How much time does Sam spend on exercise?

4. Kim has chocolate _________ ,while(而) Jenny spends ________ shopping.