题目内容
Charles Chaplin was born in London on April 16, 1889. His parents were music hall actors. The Chaplin family were very poor, and life was difficult in London. Charlie, as he was called, used to do his mother’s job in the theatre when she was ill.
When he was only 17 years old, Chaplin got his first real job as an actor. What he did was to do silly things to make people laugh in the theatre. Seven years later he went to the USA. And over the next four years, he formed his own way of art. He developed the character (~J ~, )of a homeless gentleman which became very popular.
From the 1920s to the 1950s, Chaplin made his most famous films. The film Modern Times (1936) shows his care about the modern industry workers. Many of his films describe the poor life and hard time of the working people during that period.
Although Charlie Chaplin was British, he lived in the USA until 1953. But he never got US nationality. Then Chaplin, his wife’ and his five children had to move to Switzerland where he lived until he died. When he was 83 years old, he won his only Oscar for the music he wrote for the film Limelight. He was named Sir Charles Chaplin at the age of 85. Charlie Chaplin died in Switzerland on December 25th, 1975.
【小题1】 Chaplin used to __ when his mother was ill.
| A．look after her | B．do the housework |
| C．do his mother’s job | D．do his father’s job |
| A．Chaplin went to the USA when he was 24 years old ~ |
| B．Chaplin became famous when he was 17 years old |
| C．people liked Chaplin because he was a homeless gentleman |
| D．Chaplin did many silly things to make people laugh in the street |
| A．From 1889 to 1936 | B．From the 1920s to th~ 1950s |
| C．From 1953 to 1975 | D．From the 1950s to the 1980s |
| A．his family | B．his work |
| C．the US government | D．the Swiss government |
| A．the acting | B．the art | C．the film | D．the music |
【小题1】C
【小题1】A
【小题1】B
【小题1】C
【小题1】D
解析
Louis Braille was born in Coupvray, France. He was a very small child. Unluckily, at the age of four, he became blind by accident. Louis began attending school in his town when he was seven years old.
Three years later, Louis and his father traveled to Paris. There, he went to a school for blind children. One day a French soldier, Charles Barbier, visited the school. Barbier invented a system of night-reading. This system used small dots for the letters. Soldiers used this system in time of war. Barbier thought this system could help the blind to read.
Soon Braille discovered that there were some shortcoming (缺点) in Barbier’s system, but it gave Louis a brilliant idea. He improved Barbier’s system. By the age of fifteen, his new system was completed! Now he wanted blind schools to try his system. Luck went against him again. The school refused to use his system. Louis died in 1852 in Paris at the age of forty-three.
Two years after he died, the blind schools began to use his system. Today we call this system Braille in honour of Louis Braille. His system is used for all languages, and for maths, science, writing, music, and computers for the blind.
| Louis Braille | ||
| Time | Place | Events |
| in 【小题1】 | in Coupvray | was born |
| at the age of four | / | became 【小题2】 |
| at the age of seven | in 【小题3】 | started school |
| at the age of【小题4】 | in Paris | studied in a school for blind children |
| by the age of 15 | / | completed his new system |
| in 1852 | in Paris | 【小题5】 |