大学英语三级考试阅读训练
9页1、College English2010.02College English大学英语三级考试阅读训练北 京何 珊Directions: There are 4 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions orunfinished statements.For each of them there are four choices marked A,B,C and D.Youshould decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter with a single line throughthe centre.Passage 11Thomas Alva Edison lit up the world with his invention of the electric light.Withouthim, the world might still be a dark place. However, the electric li
2、ght was not his only in-vention. He also invented the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and over 1,200 otherthings. About every two weeks he created something new.2Thomas A. Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1847. His family movedto Port Huron, Michigan, when he was seven years old. Surprisingly, he attended school foronly two months. His mother, a former teacher, taught him a few things, but Thomas wasmostly self-educated.His natural curiosity led him to start experimenting a
3、t a young agewith electrical and mechanical things at home.3When he was 12 years old,he got his first job.He became a newsboy on a train thatran between Port Huron and Detroit. He set up a laboratory in a baggage car of the train sothat he could continue his experiments in his spare time. Unfortunately, his first work expe-rience did not end well.Thomas was fired when he accidentally set fire to the floor of thebaggage car.4Thomas then worked for five years as a telegraph operator,but he continu
4、ed to spendmuch of his time on the job conducting experiments. He got his first patent in 1868 for a voterecorder run by electricity. However, the vote recorder was not a success. In 1870, he soldanother invention, a stock-ticker, for $40,000. A stock-ticker is a machine that automaticallyprints stock prices on a tape. He was then able to build his first shop in Newark, New Jersey.5Thomas Edison was totally deaf in one ear and hard of hearing in the other,butthought of his deafness as a blessing
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