Thomas Edison was born in America. He invente...

Thomas Edison was born in America. He invented plenty of electric appliances(电器) and people from all over the world know him. At that time, there was no electric lamp in the world. And it brought people much trouble. Young Edison decided to invent it. He didn’t know which material was suited to be a lamp filament(灯丝). He failed and failed and he spent a lot of time on it. Some of his friends asked him to stop the experiments, but he didn’t listen to them and tried his best to find the material.

One afternoon, one of his friends came to visit him, he was doing his experiments in the lab when the man came in. But he only asked his friend to sit down and didn’t stop to talk with him. The man sat for a long time and Edison said nothing to him. His friend was angry with him and said, “You’ve done the experiments 1,200 times but you failed 1,200 times too!”

“You’re right, my friend,” Edison went on doing his experiments and said. “But I’ve known 1,200 materials are not suited to be a lamp filament!”

1.Why do many people know Edison?

A. Because he was very clever.　　　　　　

B. Because he worked hard.

C. Because he spent much time on his work.

D. Because he invented many electric appliances.

2.He tried to find a kind of material which was suited to be ______.

A. a lamp                B. a lamp filament            C. a telephone                D. a light

3. Edison was busy with his work, so ____________.

A. he asked his friend to help him

B. he asked his friend to go back first

C. he didn’t stop to talk with his friend

D. he asked his friend to watch him working

4.His friend was angry because ____________.

A. he couldn’t persuade Edison to give up

B. Edison didn’t say hello to him　

C. Edison failed 1,200 times　　　　　

D. he didn’t think Edison was polite to him

5.From the passage, we learn that ___________.

A. Edison was a hard-working person                B. Edison never gave up

C. Edison was rude to friends.                     D. Both A and B

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Thomas Edison was born in 1837. He was a famous American ______. When he was a child, he liked to find out how things worked. He was in school for only three months. He asked his teacher many strange questions. Most of them had ______ to do with his lessons. The teacher thought the boy was not ______ and was not worth ______. When he told this to Edison’s mother, she _____ her son out of school. As she had been a teacher, she taught him at home. The boy read _____, soon he became very interested ______ science when he was ten, Edison had already built a chemistry lab for ______. Ever since then, he never stopped ____ for new and better ways ______ things.

1.A．scientist　　 B．artist　　　　 C．musician　　　　 D．chemist

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

3.A．honest　　　　 B．foolish　　　　 C．clever　　　　　 D．brave

4.A．to teach　　　 B．taught　　　　　 C．teaching　　　　 D．of teaching

5.A．took　　　　　　 B．had taken　　　 C．have taken　　 D．takes

6.A．lots of　　　　 B．of　　　　　　　　 C．a little　　　　 D．a lot

7.A．on　　　　　　　 B．in　　　　　　　　 C．of　　　　　　　　 D．at

8.A．herself　　　　 B．itself　　　　 C．yourself　　　　 D．himself

9.A．searching　　 B．searched　　　　 C．search　　　　　 D．to search

10.A．done　　　　　 B．to do　　　　　　 C．doing　　　　　　 D．to be done

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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

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阅读表达。

Thomas Edison was a great American inventor. He was born on February 11th in 1847 at Milan, Ohio and died on October 18, 1931. When he was a child he was always trying out new ideas.

One day when he was five years old, his father saw him sitting on some eggs. He asked him why he was doing that. Tom did not answer. Instead, he asked his father: “Hens are able to have chicks. Why can’t I?”

Young Tom was in school for only three months. During those three months he asked a lot of questions. Most of these questions were not about his lessons. His teacher did not understand him. The boy had so many strange questions. The teacher could not answer all of them. So he wanted to send Tom away from school. He told Tom’s mother that Tom was not clever, and he asked her to take the boy out of school.

So Tom’s mother took him out of school, and taught him herself. She taught him to read and write, and she found him a very good student. He learnt very fast. Even before he was ten he became very interested in science. He grew vegetables in his garden and sold them. With the money he set up a chemical laboratory in his home in 1857.

Thomas Edison had 1,368 inventions during his lifetime.

His first patented invention was an electrical recorder in 1868.

1876—1877, invented the phonograph (留声机).

1891, invented the camera.

1897, invented the first electric lamp.

1900—1910, invented the storage battery.

根据短文内容,回答下列问题。

1.Did Tom’s teacher like him? Why?

____________________________________________

2.Who taught Tom to read and write out of school?

_____________________________________________

3.When did Tom become interested in science?

_____________________________________________

4.How did he build his science lab?

_____________________________________________

5.What were invented by Tom?

_____________________________________________

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Thomas Edison ______ made 1,093 inventions in his life, was one of the greatest inventors.

A. what                        B. who                    C. which

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Thomas Edison was such a great person who never 　　　　 that he made so many great inventions all his life.

A. took up　　 B. thought up　　 C. made up　　 D. gave up

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In 1914, Thomas Edison,　 at the age of 67, lost his factory.　 _ 1. _He got almost no pay for what was burnt.　 Edison watched his lifetime effort（努力）go up in smoke and said, ''All our mistakes are burnt up.　 I can have a new star2.　　　　 "Just three weeks later after that, he invented the phonograph(留声机).What a man!　 He surprised the whole world !

3.Thomas Edison failed almost 10,000 times while he was working on the light bulb(灯泡).

Henry Ford was as poor as he was young when he reached the age of 40.

Young Beethoven was told that he had no ear for music,　　 4.

5._A setback can make you stand again and also teach you how to face　　 the difficulty. Find a way to encourage yourself while you are sad, and also have confidence in overcoming(战胜)the setback.

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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.

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Thomas Edison's inventions have shaped the world. Read about a few of them in the timeline.

1.In which year did Edison invent the vote-recorder?

A. In 1868. B. In 1875. C. In 1879. D. In 1892.

2.Which of the following inventions did Edison create last?

A. Lightbulb. B. Phonograph. C. Electric pen. D. Kinetoscope.

3.What was the purpose of the lightbulb?

A. It provided light. B. It recorded sound.

C. It helped lawmakers record their votes. D. It made more than one copy of a document.

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1.Can you d　　　　 it in detail? I can’t understand.

2.Thomas Edison invented a lot of useful i　　　　　　 .

3.Many homeless children coulnd’t get a good e　　　　　 .

4.China has developed r　　　　　 in recent years.

5.Litter i　　　　　　 our environment, so people shouldn’t throw it around.

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