题目内容
Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17,1706 in Boston，America. In his life he built a successful printing and publishing business in Philadelphia；he conducted scientific studies of electricity and made several important discoveries；he was a diplomat (外交官) and statesman；he helped establish Pennsylvania’s first university and America’s first city hospital；he also organized the country’s first subscription library (收费图书馆)．
Franklin was also unequaled in America as an inventor until Thomas Edison. Ben had poor eyesight and needed glasses to read. He got tired of always taking them off and putting them back on，so he decided to figure out a way to make his glasses let him see both near and far. He had two pairs of glasses cut in half and put half of them together. Today，we call them bifocals (双光眼镜)．Another invention of his，an iron stove，allowed people to warm their homes.
He loved to learn about new things. He also thought it was important to make life better with the things that he invented. Electricity was one of the things he experimented with when he retired from his business. Ben discovered that lightning (闪电) and electricity were the same thing. The lightning rod was an important invention that we still use today to protect buildings and ships from lightning damage.
Franklin preferred to have his inventions used freely for the comfort and convenience of everyone. Thomas Jefferson，the third president of America，called Benjamin Franklin “the greatest man of the age and country in which he lived”．To Benjamin Franklin there was no greater purpose in life than to “live usefully”．
【小题1】Benjamin Franklin was NOT a________.
| A．diplomat | B．scientist |
| C．businessman | D．president |
| A．better than any other | B．worse than any other |
| C．the same as others | D．confident as others |
| A．Bifocals. | B．The iron stove. |
| C．Printing. | D．The lightning rod. |
| A．To live comfortably every day. |
| B．To be useful to others. |
| C．To be a famous person in the world. |
| D．To earn a lot by inventing things. |
【小题1】D
【小题2】A
【小题3】C
【小题4】B
解析试题分析：本文介绍了富兰克林的成就、贡献、人生格言以及美国总统对他的高度评价。
【小题1】根据he was a diplomat (外交官) and statesman，排除A，根据he conducted scientific studies of electricity and made several important discoveries；排除B，根据In his life he built a successful printing and publishing business in Philadelphia；排除 C，故选D。
【小题2】“unequaled”意为无与伦比的，故选A。
【小题3】根据He had two pairs of glasses cut in half and put half of them together. Today，we call them bifocals (双光眼镜)．排除A，根据Another invention of his，an iron stove，allowed people to warm their homes.排除B，根据The lightning rod was an important invention that we still use today to protect buildings and ships from lightning damage.排除D，故选C。
【小题4】根据To Benjamin Franklin there was no greater purpose in life than to “live usefully”．故选B。
考点：本文为一篇人物传记。
点评：这篇阅读文章非常简单，可以根据问题，在文章找到讲述相关内容的段落，从中寻找有效信息，可以使用排除法来解答此类题目。
字词句篇与同步作文达标系列答案| A. Try to know more about your child. B. Being a daddy is your top priority. C. Value your child for what he is. D. Let your child teach you. E. Time is of the essence. F. Look for the good and praise it. |
Seven Simple Rules for Dad
My main object in life is to make sure I do the best possible job raising Tommy, now aged ten. That means I have to be the best possible father I can be. I am no psychologist, but I do see what succeeds with my son and me. I also observe other fathers. Here is what I have found works best in the dad department.
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2. Share your strengths and fears.
You are your child's ally, not his adversary. The child who knows that his father was once afraid of the dark, and is still afraid of needles, gets to know that his own weaknesses are part of mankind, not a unique shame.
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4. Do not allow your children to be rude.
My son is expected to share, answer others when they greet him and congratulate those who succeed. By teaching him about politeness, I make sure he realizes that others' feelings are worth taking into account. If he can get that into his little towhead, he will have learned the most basic foundation of human interaction.
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—benjamin j. stein in The Washingtonian
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A. Necessity for developing adult education B. Early days of adult education C. Ways of receiving adult education D. Growth of adult education E. Institutions of adult education F. Functions of adult education |
1.Voluntary learning in organized courses by mature men and women is called adult education. Such education is offered to make people able to enlarge and interpret their experience as adults. Adults may want to study something which they missed in earlier schooling, get new skills or job training, find out about new technological developments, seek better self—understanding, or develop new talents and skills.
2.This kind of education may be in the form of self-study with proper guidance through the use of libraries, correspondence courses, or broadcasting. It may also be acquired collectively in schools and colleges, study groups, workshops, clubs, and professional associations.
3.Modern adult education for large numbers of people started in the 18th and 19th centuries with the rise of the Industrial Revolution. Great economic and social changes were taking place: people were moving from rural areas to cities; new types of work were being created in an expanding factory system. These and other factors produced a need for further education and re-education of adults.
4.The earliest programs of organized adult education arose in Great Britain in the 1790s, with the founding of an adult school in Nottingham and a mechanics’ institute in Glasgow. The earliest adult education institution in the United States was founded by Benjamin Franklin and some friends in Philadelphia in 1727.
5.People recognize that continued learning is necessary for most forms of employment today. For example, parts of the adult population in many countries find it necessary to take part in retraining programs at work or even to learn completely new jobs. Adult education programs are springing up constantly to meet these and other needs.