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Her grandmother makes a living by ________ newspaper.

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　　One day an old man is selling(卖) a big elephant. A young man comes to the elephant and begins to look at it slowly. The old man goes up to him and says in his ear, “Don’t say anything about the elephant before I sell it. Then I give you twenty dollars(美元).”“All right,”says the young man. After the old man sold the elephant, he gives the young man twenty dollars and says, “Now, can you tell me how you seethe bad ears of the elephant?”“I didn’t find the bad ears,”says the young man. “Then why do you look at the elephant slowly?”asks the old man. The young man answers, “Because I never saw an elephant before, and I want to know what it looks like.”

1．________the elephant.

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2．The young man looks at the elephant. He wants to find ________.

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3．The young man ________.

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A．knows the elephant has bad ears

B．wants to buy the elephant

C．looks after the elephant

D．gets some money from the old man

4．The young man looks at the elephant slowly because he ________.

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A．wants to find something

B．likes the elephant

C．helps the Old man

D．doesn’t see an elephant before

5．Hearing what the young man said, the old man will be ________.

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Thomas Edison was a great American inventor He was in school  1  only three months．His teacher didn’t understand   2  this new pupil had so many strange questions．Most of the questions had nothing  3  with his lessons．The teacher didn’t want to teach Tom  4  ．He asked Tom’s mother  5  the boy home．Tom’s mother taught him to read and write and she found him to be a very good pupil．He learnt very fast and became very  6  in science．When he was only ten，he built a chemistry lab for  7 ．

   At the age of 12，he started  8  his own newspaper．He printed it and sold copies on the trains．It was the first newspaper  9  on trains in America．

   One day in August，1862，Edison saw a little boy， 10  on the railway at a station．A train was coming near quickly, and the boy was too frightened  11 ．Edison rushed out and carried the boy to  12 ．The boy’s father was so thankful  13  he taught Edison how to send messages by telegraph．Edison soon became good at it and later left home to work in different  14 ．This gave him a new start in life． 15  ，he was only 16．

1．A．in                      B．since                      C．for                        D on

2．A．what                        B．why                       C．how                             D．when

3．A．to do                        B．do                          C．doing                     D．does

4．A．more                        B．no more                  C．any more                      D．any

5．A．to take                   B．take                        C．takes                     D．took

6．A．interesting                 B．interested                C．interest                  D．interests

7．A．himself                     B．him                        C．his                         D．itself

8．A．writes                   B．wrote                    C．writing                   D．written

9．A．sold                         B．selling                     C．sells                       D．sell

10．A．played                    B．plays                      C．playing                   D．to play

11．A．to move                  B．moved                    C．moves                   D．moving

12．A．safe                        B safety                        C．safer                      D．safely

13．A．what                      B．which                     C．that                       D．when

14．A．city                        B．country                   C．village                     D．cities

15．A．At this time             B．When                     C．At that time             D．Now