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     Thomas Edison was one of ten said to be the greatest genius of his age. There are only a few men in all of the history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric
light.  But Edison could never be happy only because someone said he was a genius. "There is no such
thing as genius, " Edison said. He said that what people called genius was mostly hard work.
     But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child he wondered about
the secrets of nature. Nature, he often said, is full of secrets. He tried to understand them; then, he tried to
learn what could usefully be done with them.
     Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people will do almost anything instead of the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking can give men
enjoyment and pleasure.
     Edison could not understand how anyone could be uninterested in life. As he loved to think, he also
loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what ideas he had about life.
"Work," he answered. "Discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier." He said he had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.
1. The passage is mainly about  _________.
A. great genius in history
B. a great inventor
C. Edison's inventions
D. love for nature
2. Edison thought _______.
A. he could be happy if he was a genius
B. genius plays the most important part in one's success
C. hard work could do better than genius
D. genius could do better than hard work
3. Edison was _______.
A. very much interested in dreaming
B. interested in the secrets of nature
C. interested in changing people's ideas
D. uninterested in making people happier by discovering the secrets of nature
4. In Edison's opinion, _____ .
A. thinking can supply people with enjoyment and pleasure as well as help
B. people's success lies mostly in genius
C. hard work is the second important thing in making people successful
D. there are few secrets for him to discover later
5. The last sentence in the passage most probably implies        .
A. life is too short for Edison to invent more for human beings
B. Edison made 100 inventions in his life
C. Edison was able to live and work for 100 years
D. People of his time were ready to give Edison another 100 years' work
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科目：高中英語 來源：2007年甘肅省張掖二中高考模擬考試、英語 題型：050

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　　I entered St Thoma’s Hospital as a medical student at the age of 18 and spent five years there． I was an unsatisfactory student, for my heart, as you might have guessed, was not in it．I wanted, I had always wanted to be a writer, and in the evening, after my high tea, I wrote and read．Before long, I wrote a novel, called Liza of“Lambeth”, which I sent to a publisher and was accepted．It appeared during my last year at the hospital and had something of a success．It was of course an accident, but naturally I did not know that．I felt I could afford to give up medicine and make writing my profession ; so, three days after I graduated from the school of medicine, I set out for Spain to write another book．Looking back now, and knowing as I do the terrible difficulties of making a living by writing, I realize I was taking a fearful risk．It never even occurred to me．

　　The next ten years were very hard, and I earned an average of ￡ 100 a year．Then I had a bit of luck．The manager of the Court Theatre put on a play that failed ; the next play he arranged to put on was not ready, and he was at his wits’ end．He read a play of mine and, though he did not much like it, he thought it might just run for the six weeks till the play he had in mind to follow it with could be produced．It ran for fifteen months．Within a short while I had four plays running in London at the same time．Nothing of the kind had ever happened before．I was the talk of the town．One of the students at St Thomas’s Hospital asked the eminent surgeon with whom I had worked whether he remembered me．“Yes, I remember him quite well,”he said．“One of our failures, I’m afraid．”

(1)

The author wanted to be a writer because ________．

[　　]

A．

his heart was not in medicine．

B．

he found it easier to make a living by writing

C．

he liked taking risks

D．

he was interested in writing

(2)

Which of the following statements is not true?

[　　]

A．

The author was very pleased to have his book published but he didn’t realize itwas something of an accident．

B．

The success of his first book led the author to think he could afford to makewriting his profession．

C．

The author knew he was running a terrible risk when he decided to become a writer．

D．

The author became a writer after graduation but was not a successful one．

(3)

In the second paragraph,!“he was at his wits’end”means ________．

[　　]

A．

he was having a nervous breakdown

B．

he was out of his wisdom

C．

he did not know what to do

D．

he almost went mad

(4)

The manager of the Court Theatre agreed to put the author’s play on the stage because ________．

[　　]

A．

he thought it would run for fifteen months

B．

he knew it was one of the author’s best plays shown in London

C．

he had just put on a play that failed

D．

the play he had arranged to put on was not ready

(5)

The author became the talk of the town．The reason was that ________．

[　　]

A．

he talked with a great many people in London about his plays

B．

the plays he wrote were excellently performed in London

C．

his performances in the Court Theatre were unexpectedly

D．

he was criticized by an eminent surgeon as one of their failures

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