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engined aeroplane. At midnight, several hours after she had left Newfoundland, she ran into bad weather.
To make things worse, her altimeter (高度表) failed and she didn"t know how high she was flying. At night,
and in a storm, a pilot is in great difficulty without an altimeter. At times, her plane nearly plunged (冲) into
the sea.
Just before dawn, there was further trouble. Amelia noticed flames (火焰) coming from the engine.
Would she be able to reach land? There was nothing to do except keep going and hope.
In the end, Amelia Earhart did reach Ireland, and for the courage she had shown, she was warmly
welcomed in England and Europe. When she returned to the United States, she was honored by President
Hoover at a special dinner in the White House. From that time on, Amelia Earhart was famous.
What was so important about her flight? Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly the Atlantic Ocean
alone, and she had set a record of fourteen hours and fifty-six minutes.
In the years that followed, Amelia Earhart made several flights across the United States, and on each
occasion she set a new record for flying time. Amelia Earhart made these flights to show that women had
a place in aviation (航空) and that air travel was useful.
America to England?
B. The altimeter went out of order.
C. Her engine went wrong.
D. She lost her direction.
B. She changed her direction and landed in Ireland.
C. She continued flying.
D. She lost hope of reaching land.
B. To be the first woman to fly around the world.
C. To show that aviation was not just for men.
D. To become famous in the world.
B. Amelia Earhart-Pioneer in Women"s Aviation.
C. A New Record for Flying Time.
D. A Dangerous Flight from North America to England.
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试题【阅读理解。 The year was 1932. Amelia Earhart was flying alone from North America 】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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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
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
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