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know the name of the man who invented the television, Philo Farnsworth.
Philo Farnsworth was born in 1906 and grew up on a potato farm. As a boy, he loved to learn about
science, and he read a lot of science books. When he was only thirteen years old, he drew a picture of a
machine that could send pictures as radio sends sounds. He got the idea from the way the potatoes were
planted in the field. The potatoes grew in long lines, side by side. This made a shape in Philo"s mind. This
shape helped Philo think of a way to send the TV picture onto a piece of glass. But he was poor, so Philo
could not try to make his idea into a machine at that time.
Later, Philo worked at many different jobs. He worked with trees. He worked on broken radios. He
worked on trains. He also worked as a street cleaner. At last, two rich men heard about his idea for television,
and they gave him the money to make it. On September 7th, 1927, they watched Philo test the machine he
built. When Philo turned on the machine, a small line could be seen on the glass. Philo said,"There you have it,
electric television."
Later, a big company, RCA, said they had made the first television. Philo had to spend a lot of money on
lawyers to fight them. Finally, he won. Then, World War Two started in 1939. During the war, Philo spent a
lot of money helping the US army instead of building up his television company. After the war, other bigger,
richer companies started making televisions. In the end, Philo had to sell his company.
B. To prove their wisdom.
C. To introduce the topic of the text.
D. To explain their relationships.
B. 21 years old.
C. 33 years old
D. 39 years old
B. science books
C. potato fields
D. a machine
B. sellin
g C. putting up
D. making bigger
a. Two rich men gave Philo money to do experiments.
b. Philo sold his own company.
c. Philo beat RCA in law.
d. Philo fixed broken radios.
e. Philo showed his invention to others.
B. e, d, c, b, a
C. d, c, e, b, a
D. a, c, b, d, e
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Whether they are worn for work or for fashion today. Strauss" invention continues to be popular not only
among Americans but also among people around the world.
Levi Strauss was born in Germany in 1829. 2_____ He grew up in Kentucky before moving to New
York in 1847. Before becoming an American citizen and moving to the West in 1853, Strauss worked in his
brother"s dry goods business. This gave him a chance to produce his famous invention. After the gold rush
of 1949, Strauss decided to move to the West to seek his fortunes.
Strauss did not want to be a person who searched an area for minerals. Instead, he knew he could make
a good living by selling supplies to the miners. At first, he planned to sell sewing supplies and cloth. 3_____
When he heard miners complaining that their clothes were easily broken or they usually tore their pockets
during mining, he decided to use a special fabric to make pants for the miners. These pants proved so popular
that he quickly ran out of materials to make more.
In 1873, Strauss received a letter from a Jewish tailor named Jacob Davis who had invented a process of
connecting pockets with copper rivets (铆钉). This made the pants last a long time. Because Davis did not have
the money to patent his idea, he offered to share it with Strauss if Strauss would agree to pay for the patent.
4_____.
By the time Strauss died in 1902, he had made a great contribution to American fashion.
5_____ The business has been growing ever since and Levi Strauss" company is now one of the largest
clothing companies in the world.
B. Nobody knew what kind of material was suitable.
C. He did and Levi jeans have been made with metal rivets ever since.
D. However, he did not get much business for those products.
E. He also made a great contribution to America"s clothing industry.
F. Since they were invented by Levi Strauss, they have become a symbol of American consumer culture.
G. As the business grew, Strauss got much money from it.
when John was six. He was reaching high school age, but his hometown offered no high school for blacks.
Fortunately (幸运地) he had a strong-willed, caring mother. John remembers that his mother told him
many times, "Son, you can be anything you really want to be if you just believe." She told him not to be
dependent on others, including his mother. "You have to earn success," said she. "All the people who work
hard don"t succeed, but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard."
These words came from a woman with less than a third-grade education.She worked hard as a cook for
two years to save enough money to take her son-then 15-to Chicago.
Chicago in 1933 was not the promised land (乐土) that black southerners were looking for. John"s
mother and stepfather could not find work. But here John could go to school, and here he learned the power
of words-as an editor (编辑) of the newspaper at Du Sable High School. His wish was to publish a magazine
for the blacks.
While others discouraged him, John"s mother offered him more words to live by: "Nothing beats a failure
but a try." She also let him pawn (典当) her furniture to get the $500 he needed to start the Negro magazine.
It is natural the difficulties and failures followed John closely until he became very successful. He always
keeps his mother"s words in mind: "Son, failure is not in your vocabulary." Now John H. Johnson is one of
the 400 richest people in America.
B. John"s father died in his hometown when John was very young
C. there were no high schools for the blacks in their hometown
D. John needed education and he could go to school there
B. a try is always followed by a failure
C. only by trying can you get out of failure
D. a failure is difficult to beat, even if you try
B. thought success only came from working hard
C. thought one could be whatever one wanted to be
D. believed one would succeed without working hard
B. Chicago was the promised land for the whites in 1933.
C. John"s father died in an accident during the war.
D. John"s mother was caring for him.
articles in the world, many were designed by the same architect-Ieoh Ming Pei.
Pei, the 1983 Laureate of the Pritzker, Architecture Prize, is a founding partner of I. M. Pei & Partners
based in New York City. He was born in China in 1917, the son of a banker. He came to the United States in
1935 to study architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard Graduate School of
Design (M. Arch. 1946).
From 1945 to 1948, Pei taught at Harvard. In 1948 he accepted the newly created post of director of
Architecture at Webb & Knapp, Inc., and this association resulted in major architectural and planning projects
in big cities. In 1958, he formed the partnership (合伙人)of I. M. Pei & Associates, which became I. M. Pei
& Partners in 1966. The partnership received the 1968 Architectural Firm Award of The American Institute of
Architects.
Pei has designed over forty projects in the world, twenty of which have been award winners. His
outstanding projects have included the East Building of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Library near Boston; the Fragrant Hill Hotel near Beijing, China.
Pei is now a member of the National Council on the Arts, and before served on the National Council on the
Humanities. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, a member of the Royal Institute of British
Architects, and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a member of the
Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
As a student, he was awarded the MIT Traveling Fellowship, at Harvard. He later won a lot of honors. In
1982, the deans of the architectural schools of America chose I. M. Pei as the best designer of significant
non-residential (非住宅的) structures.
B. Over twenty
C. None
D. Twenty
B. In 1982.
C. In 1968.
D. In 1948.
B. Ieoh Ming Pei studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when he was young.
C. Ieoh Ming Pei got a degree for architecture in 1948.
D. Ieoh Ming Pei got a Harvard undergraduate Degree in 1946.
B. A Famous Professor-Ieoh Ming Pei
C. An Unusual Architect-Ieoh Ming Pei
D. A Great Architect of Residential Structures
felt as she did.
Maria Montessori was born in 1870 in northern Italy. Both her parents were well educated.
While Maria was a student, she took great interest in the study of the particular nature of the child"s mind.
It came to her that small children should have freedom to learn.
Maria became a doctor and a professor at Rome University. In 1907, after working with backward students, she was given a chance to try out her ideas on children. There were sixty children, aged three to six, in the
Children"s House. The rooms were bright and colorful. Maria let the children make their own choice of what
they wanted to do and work with their own speed. They became busy, peaceful and happy.
Maria Montessori was one of the world"s greatest teachers. She traveled in Europe, America and Far East.
She thought that true education, providing (提供) for the real needs of the child, would produce wise and
happy grown-ups and therefore a peaceful world. Her original way of education has changed our whole idea
of what childhood is.
Maria Montessori died in Holland at the age of eighty-two.
B. a new idea of education
C. the importance of proper education
D. the life of Maria Montessori
B. enjoy her life in real nature
C. spread her ideas of teaching
D. study the situation of education
B. She let them learn in a very pleasant way.
C. She taught them by showing them how to do things.
D. She just let them choose the most interesting subjects.
B. Maria didn"t get married
C. Maria"s own parents were her teachers
D. Maria fully understood the child"s mind
seventy-five years,and had taught freshman chemistry to over 40,000 college students. For his life, he had
published a popular chemistry textbook and dozens of articles,had managed the U.S. Olympic ski team, and
discovered a way to allow deep-sea divers to stay underwater longer.In his own way,Dr. Hildebrand was
certainly a genius.
Dr. Hildebrand"s interest in chemistry began at an early age. In an interview, he once said that his interest
had to make his own decision about what to pay attention to.Even as a student in high school, Dr. Hildebrand
had the fame as the one who learned more chemistry than his teacher knew. As a result he was given the keys
to the high school chemistry lab, and there he discovered that the correct formula (公式) for a certain chemical compound was not the one given in his chemistry book but a totally different one. Dr. Hildebrand went on to
teach at the University of California at Berkeley and remained there for almost forty years.
During that time, Dr, Hildebrand discovered that the gas helium (氦)could be combined with oxygen for use
as diving gas to allow divers to dive deeper and take the great pressure of the water without the physical
discomforts that had been experienced when that used another gas, nitrogen. The use of helium for deep-sea
diving is now standard practice.Dr. Hildebrand was also valuable to his country during both world wars. In
World War I he analyzed the poisonous gases used on the battlefield and helped develop a truck that could
clean and treat soldiers" clothes which had been contaminated (弄脏) by poisonous gases during fighting. In
World War II he helped develop a type of snowmobile,a vehicle used to carry the soldiers through the snow in
northern countries. Dr. Hildebrand"s retirement (退休) from teaching at the age of seventy was required by
state law in California.
He objected to this,joking he thought a teacher"s time of retirement ought to be determined not by age but
by how many of that teacher"s students were still awake after the first fifteen minutes of class!
Dr. Hildebrand"s writing career continued,however, and was still feeling strong at the age of 100,when he
published an article on the theory of chemical solutions. Dr. Hildebrand"s love of life and his interest in it were
an inspirations to all who knew him. When asked once how he could have such ageless energy and vigor, he
said,"I chose my ancestors carefully."
B. A favourable means to encourage learning.
C. Something that was not helpful to people"s attention
D. Something that man had to use in their daily life.
B. Could use the chemistry as he liked.
C. His teachers were not so clever as he was.
D. Discovered the formula for some chemical compound(成分)
B. was discovered with the help of Dr. Hildebrand"s teachers.
C. was a great help to the invention of snowmobiles.
D. helped to make the divers love their job.
B. A Well-know Professor of Chemistry
C. A Man Who Lived a Long and Valuable Life
D. The Greatest Discovery of the Century
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