George Stephenson was born in 1781 in a poor family. He had to start work when he was only eight．When George was fourteen, he became his father's helper．He spent a lot of time learning about engines（发动机）．And on holidays he often made one engine to pieces and studied each piece carefully．Soon he became a very good worker though he could not read or write．He began to learn English letters when he was seventeen years old．Every day after he did twelve hours of hard work, he walked a long way to have lessons from a young school teacher. On his eighteenth birthday，he wrote his own name for the first time in his life．George invented（发明） many things in his life．The train was the greatest one among them．Today when we take trains from one place to another，we'll think of this great man---George Stephenson．
【小题1】In which year did George Stephenson start to help his father？________．

— Kate! Let’s go to work right now. We’ll be late.
— _____. We still have 20 minutes left.

单词拼写

根据下列句子及所给单词的首字母，在答题纸上按题号写出各单词的完全形式（每空限填一词）。

1.Have you f______ the dog and cleaned your room yet?

2.Linda and I haven’t met for 10 years, but yesterday I met her by a________ in a crowded bus .

3.The girl was e           when she heard the good result of the final exam.

4.Who helped you to finish the work? We did it all by o__________.

5.Jerry can’t hear anything. She is d___________.

6.In May, the f________ month of the year, we’ll have a long holiday.

7.Thomas Edison was one of the greatest i__________ in the world.

8.He used to be very strong, but now he looks t_____ than before since his illness.

9.Mike likes n_________ of the two books, he thinks they are too boring.

10.We have no kites, so we want to go boating i_______.

We'll try our best to do the work better with ________ money and ________ people.

1. A.
   few; little
2. B.
   a few; a little
3. C.
   less; fewer
4. D.
   fewer; less