题目内容
Ballpoint pens have made life easier for millions of people. At one time ____1____ did not like their students to ____2____ with them. Perhaps it was too easy. Pens can leak and it is ____3____ to spill the ink. And it is hard to write on thin or cheap paper with them.Ladislao Brio ____4____ for a newspaper in Budapest. He spent all day ____5____ his desk. Day in and day out, he corrected ____6____ of thin, cheap paper with a pen and ink. He often had to stop to ____7____ his pen and it did not write ____8____ on the thin paper. He and his brother George ____9____ some experiments. They wanted a pen that did not leak, with ink that did not spill. Why not ____10____ a little ball at the end?
Two Englishmen, Henry Martin and Fredrick Miles, liked the ____11____. It was the ____12____of the Second World War. The Air-Forced ____13____ a non-leak, non-spill pen for the men to write with in ____14____. Martin and Miles made and ____15____ many thousands of Biro “writing-sticks” to the Air-Force.
1． ( )A．factories B．schools C．shops D．restaurants
2． ( )A．play B．write C．come D．meet
3． ( )A．easy B．hard C．free D．popular
4． ( )A．left B．waited C．looked D．worked
5． ( )A．on B．near C．at D．in
6． ( )A．mistakes B．books C．pages D．diaries
7． ( )A．mend B．fill C．brush D．change
8． ( )A．well B．down C．out D．up
9． ( )A．kept B．finished C．began D．studied
10． ( )A．find B．wear C．grow D．use
11． ( )A．matter B．result &n b sp; C．meaning D．idea
12． ( )A．day B．time C．break D．year
13． ( )A．bought B．took C．needed D．preferred
14． ( )A．planes B．ships C．trains D．buses
15． ( )A．sold B．lent C．moved D．passed
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You may have never heard of Ladislao Biro, but you have certainly heard of the pen he invented—the ballpoint pen, or biro. Before Biro invented his pen, people wrote with fountain pens. The ink sometimes went out. In the 1930s Biro was a magazine editor in Budapest in Hungary. He noticed that the inks which the magazine’s printers used dried very quickly.Biro wondered if quick-drying ink could be used in pens. He came up with the idea of a tube(管) of ink with a free-moving ball on the end. As a person wrote, the ball collected ink from the rube and rolled(滚动) it on to the paper. The pen would be cheap and could be thrown away when the ink ran out.
Biro began to work on his invention, but the Second World War broke out before he could patent(取得…的专利) it. Biro left war-torn Europe and went to Buenos Aires in Argentina. There, he and his brother George, who was a chemist, began to improve the pen. In the early 1940s Biro began to produce his new pen, the biro. In 1944, he sold his invention to another company, who began to mass-produce the pen for the British and American armed forces(武装部队).
Biro was pleased that his pen was popular, but he did not gain much from his invention. The biro was later sold to the French firm, Bic, who now sell twelve million pens a day. Biro sank into obscurity in South America. His name, however, has become a household word．
（ ）61.Biro is the name of _______.
A. a magazine B. a fountain pen C. a company D. a ballpoint pen
( )62. According to the passage, Biro’s new pen was first produced in ______.
A. Hungary B.France C. Argentina D.America
( )63. Which of the following can be filled in No.3 in the box to show how Biro invented his new pen?
| 1.came up -----2.worked on -------3.? ------4.produded with an idea his invention his pen |
A. improved his pen B. sold his invention
C. worked as an editor D. left for South America
（ ）64. The underlined part “sank into obscurity” is the closest in meaning to”__”.
A. was very popular B. Lost a lot of money
C. lost interest in business D. was unknown to many people
( )65. What does the passage mainly tell us about Biro?
A.He was a popular writer. B.He was a famous magazine editor
C. He was an important inventor D. He was a successful businessman