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微信IDOver thousands of years, China has produced a large number of inventions. And the four inventions namely paper, gunpowder, the compass and printing, are traditionally referred to as the Four Great Inventions in China.
The invention of paper as we know came in China around 105 AD. The inventor of paper is traditionally considered to be Cai Lun. The great thing about Cai Lun's invention was that his paper was good to write on, cheap, light and easy to carry. However, a recent evidence (证据) shows paper was in u in China two hundred years earlier.
The cond great invention, printing, goes cloly with paper. Building on other printing technology, Bi Sheng invented movable type printing around 1040. Before its invention, people copied down things by handwriting. Today almost everyone in the world us printing. People can u it to print newspapers, magazines and books.
The third great Chine invention is gunpowder. Gunpowder was invented in the Tang Dynasty. Before its invention, people couldn't do some construction like building mountain tunnels (隧道). Today soldiers u it in guns and cannons. Constructors u it to break rocks into pieces. Scientists u it in rockets a
s fuel.
The compass was invented in the Spring and Autumn Period. The circular centre reprents Heaven, and the square plate reprents Earth. The handle of the spoon points south. The spread of the compass to Europe opened the oceans of the world to travel and led to the discovery of the New World.
（1）Cai Lun's paper has many advantages EXCEPT that.
A .it was very expensive
B .it was nice to write on
C .it was very light
D .people could carry it easily
（2）China is going to nd Shenzhou XI spaceship into space in May, 2016 .______will be ud as fuel.
A .Wood
B .Printing
C .Paper
D .Gunpowder
（3）The fifth paragraph is probably about_________.
A .Printing
B .gunpowder
C .paper
cad2007D .the compass
（4）The best title for the passage can be "_______".
A .China, a Country with Long History
B .China, a Country with Many Inventions
党的成就C .China's Four Great Inventions
D .China's Space Dream
【参考答案】ADDC
2.阅读理解
The biggest cret about invention is that anybody can do it! Perhaps this sounds crazy, but it's true. Maybe you have the wrong idea about invention, so read on to discover the truth.
画虎类犬Wrong idea 1: An invention has to be something completely new.
Invention means creating something "new", but the idea could come from something that already exists (存在) . The Wright brothers, for example, got the idea of building a "flying machine" from watching birds.
Wrong idea 2: Inventors are born, not made.
There are a lot of factors (因素) that make invention possible. Take Mozart for example. He was born
with a talent for musical composition. But other factors were also important for his creativity. His father was a music teacher, and Mozart practiced for hours every day, from the time he was four years old. Thomas Edison said that being an inventor was "99% hard work and 1% inspiration"!
Very successful creators don't give up when they get something wrong. As one inventor said, "A failure is the right answer to the wrong question."
Wrong idea 3: Inventors are always old people.
Don't believe that you can't invent anything when you are young. Here are two examples of young inventors: Louis Braille went blind when he was a child. When he was fifteen, he invented a system of reading and writing for blind people that is still ud in most countries today.
As a young man, George Nisn was watching some artists performing in a show. He watched how they fell into the safety net and then jumped back up again. This gave him an idea, and he invented the trampoline (蹦床).
驾校档案怎么注销（1）_____________got the idea of building a "flying machine" from watching birds.
A .Mozart
B .George Nisn
C .Louis Braille
D .The Wright brothers
（2）The underlined word "inspiration" probably means "_____________" in Chine.
A .态度
B .品质
C .灵感
D .能量
（3）The writer wants to tell us _____________in Wrong idea 2.
A .Mozart is a talented musician
B .successful creators keep working hard
C .not to give up the wrong question
D .many successful examples
（4）Which of the following is the writer's opinion?
A .Anybody can do inventing.
B .Inventors are born，not made.
惰气C .Inventors are always old people.
D .An invention has to be something completely new.
（5）The best title for the passage would be "_____________".
A .How to perform in a show
B .Be a compor
C .How to help blind people
D .Be an inventor
【参考答案】DCBAD
3. 阅读理解
Thomas Alva Edison is one of the greatest inventors of all times. One of his most famous achievements is the electric light. He tried thousands of times to make a long-lasting light bulb (灯泡) Although the light bulb is not his invention, he is the only one to have made such a successful light bulb. Many people remember him for the invention of the electric light. He held a lot of patents (专利权) worldwide. Many of them were approved (批准) in the USA.
We can find his inventions in many fields. In fact, many of the advanced inventions were bad on his ideas. He invented a phonograph (留声机), a film picture camera, a ticket recorder and so on.
Edison was not a good student at school. But he loved to do new experiments. When he was still a child, he built his first lab to perform his experiments.
An amazing story of Edison's childhood is that he almost made his rvant die. Edison ud to think that birds ate incts and the incts might make them fly. So he collected the incts and blen
ded them to make juice. He then let his rvant drink the juice. After drinking the juice, the girl lost her n. But luckily, she was saved.
（1）Many of Edison's patents were approved ______.
A .all over the world
B .in England
C .in America
D .in Germany
（2）The ______ is not one of Edison's inventions.
A .phonograph
B .film picture camera
C .ticket recorder
D .television
（3）Edison made inct juice and let his rvant drink becau _________.艾开头的成语
A .he wanted to punish his rvant for her mistakes
B .he wanted to know if the juice could make her fly
C .he hated incts and killed them
D .his rvant liked to eat incts and asked Edison to do that
（4）At last, the rvant ______.
A .was saved
B .lost her sight
C .lost her life
D .became an inventor
（5）Which of the following is TRUE?
A .Edison tried once to make the first light bulb.
B .Edison was a very popular student at school and loved by his teachers.
C .The light bulb is not Edison's invention, but he is remembered for it.
D .Edison preformed his first experiment when he grew up.
【参考答案】CDBAC
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Who invented toys? It's hard to believe millions, maybe billions of people have invented toys. Most of the people are kids. Kids invent toys from all kinds of materials, such as stones, sticks, paper, even clothes. And the toys are in different shapes; round, square, and so on.
Sometimes adults invent toys, too, but in many cas (在许多情况下) , they don't actually invent the toy but take a toy that has been invented somewhere before and make it popular. Take the yo-yo for example. Yo-yos have been around for thousands of years. We know this becau yo-yos have been found in ancient graves (坟墓) in some countries. This is how we know that stone yo-yos were
ud back in ancient Greece. In the 1800s, they became very popular as children's toys, first in England and then in the United States. Then people got tired of them for a while until Donald Duncan went into the yo-yo business. He hired"yo-yo men" to demonstrate
(示范) and ll yo-yos door to door. This way, yo-yos got popular little by little. Today the name Duncan still goes with yo-yos, one of the most popular toys around the world.
Another example is teddy bears. Teddy bears, one of the most popular toys, were named after a president of the United States, although he didn't invent them. President Teddy Roovelt was a hunter (猎人) . He was good at hunting and on one of his hunting trips he had met a bear. That led to editorial (社论) cartoons showing pictures of President Roovelt and a cute little bear. Somehow that led to cute, wed (缝制的) bears for little kids to play with.
（1）According to the passage，most toys were invented by ___________.
A .mistake
B .accident
C .children
D .adults
（2）The underlined word "hired" probably means "___________" in Chine.
A .支持
B .反对
C .雇佣
D .销售
（3）From the cond paragraph we can know yo-yos___________.
A .were popular first in the United States
儒林外史读后感800字B .were taken to England from America
C .were always popular in the United States
D .were popular again becau of Duncan
（4）Teddy Roovelt ___________.
A .was a president of the United States
B .invented teddy bears
C .was a cartoon editor
D .took photos of a bear
（5）Which of the following is WRONG?
A .Yo-yos were not popular in the United States for a while.
B .Yo-yos were popular in England.
C .Teddy Bear was a president's name.
D .Children can invent toys with almost all kinds of things.
【参考答案】CCDAC
5.阅读理解
An invention in front of your eyes
What is the most important invention of all time? Is it the written word that helps us to record
