Mr Clarke works in a middle school. He likes reading and often   36   some books from the library. He keeps   37   to the radio every morning and reading   38   after supper. So he knows much and teaches well. His   39   worship (崇拜)him very much. Mike, Mr Clarke's little son, is only nine. He   40   likes reading books. And he often asks his father some questions. Mr Clarke always thinks he's too   41   to understand him and choose   42   ones to answer. Of course the boy is not satisfied with it.

　　One day Mike read   43   about the electric lights and was   44   it. When his father told him to do some housework, he went on thinking of it. He asked him   45   questions, and his father answered all. Then his father said proudly, “Fathers always know  46  than sons!”

　　The boy thought for a while and said, “  47  !”

　　“ Oh? Why?”

　　Mike didn't answer and   48  , he asked, “Who invented the electric lights?”

　　“Thomas Edison.”  49   Mr Clarke.

　　“ Why didn't his father invent them, then?”

　　Looking at his son, Mr Clarke didn't know   50   to answer!

36. A. finds                  B. sells                        C. buys                D. borrows

37. A. listening             B. watching                 C. going                      D. touching

38. A. newspapers               B. letters                       C. stories              D. messages

39. A. teachers             B. parents                     C. classmates               D. students

40. A. also                   B. never                       C. even                 D. only

41. A. old                    B. clever                      C. young              D. able

42. A. more difficult     B. the most difficult       C. easy                 D. the easiest

43. A. something          B. nothing                     C. everything               D. anything

44. A. worried about     B. interested in              C. afraid of           D. angry with

45. A. few                   B. little                         C. a little               D. a few

46. A. more                  B. most                       C. less                  D. least

47. A. I don't think so. B. Neither am I.            C. I agree.            D. So do I.

48. A. instead               B. carefully                  C. quickly             D. brightly

49. A. asked                 B. answered                  C. told                 D. answers

50. A. when                 B. what                       C. where              D. which

根据短文内容和汉语提示，写出短文空白处各单词的正确形式，每空限填一词。
Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847. When he was a child, he always had a lot of questions and started asking questions about _____1________ (如何)things worked. So his teachers didn’t like him. They thought he was kind of ____2________(笨的) and many people didn’t understand him, either. He was only in school for three months. His mother _____3_____(教)him at home. His parents _____4_____(注意) he loved to read. They introduced him to the ____5______(图书馆). He read many books there. The books _____6______(使…感兴趣) him very much. ________7_____ （在）the help of his parents, he also built his lab by _______8______(他自己). He ______9_____ (发明) more than one thousand things,  ______10______(包括) the first silent film, the light bulb, the record player and so on. He died on October 18,1931 at the age of 84.

单词拼写

根据下列句子及所给单词的首字母，在答题纸上按题号写出各单词的完全形式（每空限填一词）。

1.Have you f______ the dog and cleaned your room yet?

2.Linda and I haven’t met for 10 years, but yesterday I met her by a________ in a crowded bus .

3.The girl was e           when she heard the good result of the final exam.

4.Who helped you to finish the work? We did it all by o__________.

5.Jerry can’t hear anything. She is d___________.

6.In May, the f________ month of the year, we’ll have a long holiday.

7.Thomas Edison was one of the greatest i__________ in the world.

8.He used to be very strong, but now he looks t_____ than before since his illness.

9.Mike likes n_________ of the two books, he thinks they are too boring.

10.We have no kites, so we want to go boating i_______.

 

Thomas Edison was a great American inventor. He was born to a poor family in 1847. His mother taught him at home. He often observed things carefully and he made over 1,300 inventions during his life time. He was often said to be the greatest genius(天才) of his age. There are only a few men in all of history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light. But Edison could never be happy only because someone said he was a genius. “There is no such thing as genius,” Edison said. He also said that what people called genius was mostly hard work. But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child he wondered about the secrets of nature. Nature, he often said, is full of secrets. He tried to understand them; then, he tried to learn what could usefully be done with them.

Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people will do almost anything instead of the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking can give men enjoyment and pleasure.

Edison could not understand how anyone could be uninterested in life. As he loved to think, he also loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what ideas he had about life. “Work, ” he answered back, “discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier.” He said he had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.

1.Edison was______________.

A．interested in changing people’s ideas

B．interested in discovering the secrets of nature

C．very much uninterested in nature

D．uninterested in making people happier by discovering the secrets of nature

2.Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

A．Many other people have changed Edison’s life.

B．Edison has changed the lives of many other people.

C．Only a few men in history can change other people’s lives.

D．Edison invented the electric light.

3.The last sentence in the passage most probably implies(意指)___________.

A．people of his time were ready to give Edison another 100 year’s work

B．Life is too short for Edison to invent more for human beings

C．Edison made 100 inventions in his life

D．Edison was able to live and work for 100 years