阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。
inventor,use,rain,improve,wet,wear,chance,hold,invent,work，clean,dry |
It has been more than two thousand years since we began to use an umbrella on rainy days. However，people often felt it not convenient to 1 an umbrella while working. Then the rubber raincoat was 2 by an;Englishman named Macintosh in 1823.
In 1492,Columbus,a well-known Italian voyager, discovered the New World—the America. He brought a lot of things to Europe from South America. Rubber was \ one of them,but people didn’t know the use of rubber at that time. In 1770,people found that the rubber could I be 3 as erasers.
Macintosh was a 4 in an eraser factory in Scotland. One day he spilled the rubber liquid over his j clothes carelessly when making erasers. He was too busy to 5 it and went back home wearing the dirty clothes. On the way home,it 6 heavily. Having no umbrella,Macintosh had to run home quickly. When he — got home,he took off the 7 clothes. To his surprise, the area of the clothes with rubber wasn’t wet. “ Why not 1 make a rubber raincoat?” Macintosh thought. The next day he brushed the rubber liquid all over a coat. He 8 the “rubber coat” on rainy days and took a walk in the field to test if it could really keep off the rain. \ Surprisingly,the clothes inside the “ rubber coat ” weren’t wet at all. The rubber raincoat was created in i this way by 9
The rubber raincoats soon appeared on the market. However,they were sticky in summer and hardened in winter. Year after year,people kept on 10 the raincoats. Today raincoats are widely used in our daily life.
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1. hold 2. invented 3. used 4. worker 5. clean
6. rained 7. wet 8. wore 9. chance 10. improving
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( ) 5. The number of workers in this factory 1,500. A number of them from the countryside. A. is;are B. are; is C. is; is D. are; are |
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阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。
no,not,few,little,leave,give,invention,begin,interested,invent,inventor,finish |
There are many 1 in our life. The car is one of the most important inventions in the world. The 2 ， Henry Ford,was an American. The first car was invented more than a century ago.
Henry Ford was a clever boy when he was a child. He was always 3 in machines. He was always experimenting with them. He was always dreaming of machines to make his work easier. He enjoyed fixing clocks. And he helped repair for equipment. When Henry was sixteen years old,he 4 the family farm. He went to Detroit to learn more about machines.
At this time,there were a 5 “ horseless carriages” on the roads,but most of them were driven by electricity of steam. He dreamed that he could 6 a machine which could run without a horse. He tried to work everything out for himself and he had to work at night since he had a full-time job with the Edison Electric Company in Detroit. He met a lot of difficulties,but he didn’t 7 up. At last,in 1896,he succeeded in inventing the first Ford car. It was like a box placed on four big bicycle wheels. In 1898，his new car was 8 . The motor car was starting to attract attention and people were 9 to see that “horseless carriages” were 10 just a joke.
Later,Henry Ford founded the first Motor Company.
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Every morning my father buys a newspaper on his way to work. 1 Sure. Zhang Heng,Bi Sheng. And every night,I look at the posters with photos of David Beckham and Yao Ming on my bedroom wall before I go to sleep. Can we imagine life without paper or print?
Paper was first created about 2,000 years ago,and has been made from silk,cotton,bamboo,and since the 19th century,from wood. 2 Sure. Zhang Heng,Bi Sheng. Sure. Zhang Heng,Bi Sheng. But in those days,books could only be produced one at a time by hand. As a result,they were expensive and rare. And because there weren’t many books,few people learned to read.
3 When printing was developed greatly at the beginning of the 11 th century,books could be produced more quickly and cheaply. As a result,more people learned to read. 4
Today information can be received online,downloaded from the Internet rather than found in books,and information can be kept on CD-ROMs or machines such as MP3 players.
Computers are already used in classrooms,and newspapers and magazines can already be read online.
5 No，I don’t think the Yao Ming poster on my bedroom wall will ever be replaced by a computer two metres high!
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A. After that,knowledge and ideas spread quickly.
B. So will books be replaced by computers one day?
C. Every evening my mother looks through magazines at home.
D. Then printing was invented in China.
E. People learn to write words on paper to make a book.
1.__ 2. 3. 4. 5.
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The umbrella is a very common object. 1 Most umbrellas can be folded up (折叠），so it is easy to carry them.
However,the umbrella has not always been as common as it is now. 2 Some African countries still use umbrellas in this way. Someone carries an umbrella and walks behind the king or important person.
Umbrellas are very old. People in different parts of the world began to use umbrellas at different times.
3 From then,umbrellas traveled to India and Egypt.
In Greece and Rome,men wouldn’t use them. They believed umbrellas were only for women.
England was probably the first country in Europe where common people used umbrellas against rain. 4
5 The next time you carry one,thinking that .
for centuries only great men and women used them, you’ll feel you are important people,too.
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A. The weather there is very rainy and umbrellas are very useful.
B. It keeps the rain and the sun off the people.
C. Everybody uses umbrellas today.
D. In the past,it was a symbol of importance.
E. The Chinese had them more than 3,000 years ago.
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