From outer space

　　Have you ever seen a falling star? One Thursday night when the sky was __1__ with dotted (小圆点的) stars, Mum and I were together on our front veranda.

　　Mum was lying in a hammock singing and I was sitting on the steps whistling(吹口哨) and chewing(咀嚼) gum at the same __2__.

　　Suddenly we both saw it. Something glittering(闪闪发光) and shiny, with a long golden tail, __3__ across the sky. My mum, who knows all __4__ of things, said, "It's a falling star. Quick Tim, make a wish. "

　　I made a wish in __5__ I wished for all the school teachers to forget it was school the next day.

　

(1)

[　　]

A. blue

B. black

C. bright

D. high

(2)

[　　]

A. space

B. time

C. level

D. part

(3)

[　　]

A. boiling	B. shooting
C. helping	D. finding

(4)

[　　]

A. kinds

B. places

C. pieces

D. moments

(5)

[　　]

A. start

B. place

C. dream

D. hurry

From outer space

　　Have you ever seen a falling star? One Thursday night when the sky was __1__ with dotted (小圆点的) stars, Mum and I were together on our front veranda.

　　Mum was lying in a hammock singing and I was sitting on the steps whistling(吹口哨) and chewing(咀嚼) gum at the same __2__.

　　Suddenly we both saw it. Something glittering(闪闪发光) and shiny, with a long golden tail, __3__ across the sky. My mum, who knows all __4__ of things, said, "It's a falling star. Quick Tim, make a wish. "

　　I made a wish in __5__ I wished for all the school teachers to forget it was school the next day.

　

(1)

[　　]

A. blue

B. black

C. bright

D. high

(2)

[　　]

A. space

B. time

C. level

D. part

(3)

[　　]

A. boiling	B. shooting
C. helping	D. finding

(4)

[　　]

A. kinds

B. places

C. pieces

D. moments

(5)

[　　]

A. start

B. place

C. dream

D. hurry

The car was invented (发明) just a century ago. You may know all kinds of cars’ names, but many people don’t know who was the inventor of the first car. The first car was invented not by a German, but by an American. His name was Henry Ford. Henry was born in a poor family. He was the eldest of six children. When he was a boy, he became interested in mending watches and machines. When he was twelve years old, his mother died. Soon he had to work in a machine shop for two dollars and fifty cents a week. In the evenings he repaired watches for another dollar a week. The hard life made him strong and able.

At that time there was another interest in the life of the young ford. He dreamed(梦想) to make a machine. It could run without a horse, so named “horseless carriage.” He over-came(克服) a lot of difficulties and in April 1893, the “horseless carriage” was finally finished. It was the first car.

Later Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company(福特汽车公司). He was really the first inventor of the car in the world.

1.Who really invented the car first? _____.

A．A German

B．An American

C．Frenchman

D．Japanese

2.From this story we can know the car was invented_____.

A．more than 100 years ago	B．less than 100 years ago
C．just 100 years ago	D．50 years ago

3.Henry Ford must have_____.

A．five brothers and sisters	B．six brothers and sisters
C．five younger brothers	D．three brothers

4.How many dollars did young Ford earn(挣) every week? _____.

A．2.5 dollars

B．3.5 dollars

C．3 dollars

D．4 dollars

5.Which is not true? _____.

A．He repaired watches in the evenings for fun

B．He enjoyed repairing watches and machines when he was very young.

C．He met with a lot of difficulties in the invention.

D．The first car was invented in 1893.

 

Wood-block printing was invented sometime between the 4th and the 7th c 【小题1】 in Chi­na. The earliest book that we have was p 【小题2】 in 868 and was found in a Dunhuang cave. Wood-block printing took a long time because a new block was needed for every p【小题3】 in z book. By the 1 Ith century printed books could be f 【小题4】all over China. They included books of Confucius' thoughts, dictionaries, and books on maths. In 1340, books could be printed u-sing two c  【小题5】 , black and red.
A 【小题6】 the Chinese learnt about printing so early, printing was not introduced in other parts of the world for hundreds of years. It is thought that when the great Italian traveler Marco Polo visited China in the 13th century, he s 【小题7】printed books. It is possible that Marco Po­lo brought that k 【小题8】 to Europe. But printed books did not come to Europe u 【小题9】1450 when a German called Johann Gutenberg i 【小题10】 a printing machine. Twenty-four years later, in 1474, an Englishman called William Caxton printed the first printed book in English. His second book was about the game of chess. Caxton printed about a hundred books, and some can still be found today in museums.