题目内容
阅读并排序 下面的短文由六个段落组成,开头和结尾已给出,其余的四个段落均是随机排列的。请根据段落之间的逻辑关系,用字母A、B、C、 D重新排列这四个段落的顺序,使短文通顺。
Samuel Clemens was born in 1835,Missouri.When he was four,his family moved to the town of Hannibal,a port on the Mississippi River,and Clemens loved to watch the big steamboats going up and down the river.He said that all the boys in his school had one ambition in life:to work on a steamboat. |
1. In 1857, he achieved his ambition and got a job working on a steamboat. He sailed up and down the wide Mississippi River until the American Civil War began.
2. His father died when he was just 12 years old and Clemens then went to work for a printer to help support his family. He traveled around, and worked in many different cities.
3.In 1865,Clemens wrote a story about a jumping frog with his pen-name. The story and the writer became famous. After that, he wrote many books, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It was published in 1876. He also gave many lectures, and became a very famous and popular man.
4. Clemens moved around the USA on the steamboat, and tried several jobs. He was a soldier, and a silver miner. And then he started working as a writer for a newspaper. At this time, he decided to use a pen-name for his stories, and he chose the name "Mark Twain". Samuel Clemens died in 1910. He is considered to be one of the greatest writers in American history
Steven Jobs, the designer of Apple Computer, was not clever when he was in school. At that time, he was not a good student and he always made troubles with his schoolmates. When he went into college, he didn’t change a lot. Then he dropped out(退学). But he was full of new ideas.
After he left college, Steven Jobs worked as a video game designer. He worked there for only several months and then he went to India. He hoped that the trip would give him some new ideas and give him a change in life.
Steven Jobs lived on a farm in California for a year after he returned from India.
In 1975, he began to make a new type of computer. He designed the Apple Computer with his friend in his garage (汽车库). He chose the name “Apple” just because it could help him to remember a happy summer he once spent in an apple tree garden.
His Apple Computer was such a great success that Steven Jobs soon became famous all over the world.
1. Steven Jobs was not a good student in school because he ___________.
A.never did his lessons |
B.was full of new ideas |
C.always made troubles with his schoolmates |
D.dropped out |
2. Steven Jobs designed his new computer _____________.
A.in India |
B.with his friend |
C.in an apple tree garden |
D.by himself |
3.Steven Jobs was famous for his ________ all over the world.
A.new ideas |
B.apple |
C.Apple Computer |
D.video games |
4. From this passage we know ___________
A.Steven Jobs liked travelling in India and California |
B.Steven Jobs could only design video games |
C.Steven Jobs didn’t finish his studies in the college because he hated his schoolmates |
D.Steven Jobs liked trying new things and making his new ideas become true |