题目内容
Once printed, this dictionary will be very popular!
解析:
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一旦出版,这本词典将会非常畅销! |
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| Free Admission to Hundreds of Museums Sept.25 What a weekend! This Saturday, Sept.25, hundreds of U.S. museums admission free for the Smithsonian’s annual Museum Day. Unlike previous Museum Day celebrations, you must sign up for a free ticket that admits two people to any of the participating museums. That means filling out a form and having the ticket emailed to you. Not bad for a freebie that will give you admission to museums such as the Adler Planetarium in Chicago and the Air & Space Museum in San Diego. Some participating museums are closed on Saturday, so they offer free admission on Sunday, Sept.26, instead. | |
| Free Admission to National Parks & Public Lands Would you rather visit a National Park for free instead of a museum for free? The choice is yours on Saturday, Sept.25, as all 392National Parks and all other national public lands are admission free for National Public Lands Day. The fee-free day for national parks, forests, monuments and other public lands falls on the same day as the Smithsonian Museum Day, when hundreds of U. S. museums are also admission free. If you love the outdoors, consider signing up or just show up for one of the volunteer projects at the public lands sites on Saturday. Spend the morning helping clean up and restore our national natural treasures, then spend the afternoon just enjoying and exploring them. | |
| Free Books for Kid @ Barnes & Noble! If your kids love to read—and we hope they do!—be sure to sign them up for Barnes & Noble’s summer reading programs so they can earn a free book! It’s easy for kids ages 12 and under to participate. For Barnes & Noble’s Passport to Summer Reading program, just download and print out your passport. Read any eight books, log them into the passport and bring it to any Barnes & Noble by September 7. Choose your free book from the list on the back of the passport. | |
| FREE Night of Theater Across the U. S in October Hark! ‘Tis a chance to see this thing called the play, and not just Mr. Shakespeare’s! It’s the annual run of the Free Night of Theater, when hundreds of theaters in 120 U. S. cities give away thousands of tickets to local productions. While the kickoff date is October 15, many of the theaters start releasing their free tickets by Oct. 1 or in waves during the month of October for performance dates throughout the month. Ticket seekers are limited to two tickets for one performance. Find your city on the Free Night of Theater Website and check the listings for performances, their dates and their ticket giveaway times and locations. | |
| A.People can visit a museum for free | B.Two museums offer free admission |
| C.People will get free tickets online | D.Some museums open for free on Sunday |
| A.It comes on Sept. 25 | B.Visitors may offer help |
| C.All can visit the parks for free | D.Visitors may choose what to do |
| A.By choosing one of the books they have read | B.By downloading and printing out a passport |
| C.By reading eight books at any Barnes & Noble | D.By listening to B & N’s free online stories |
| A.They take place once a year | B.They last for the same length of time |
| C.The tickets can be used in any U.S cities | D.The same number of free tickets is given away |
| A.help people who are very poor | B.introduce ways to save money |
| C.give guidance on how to have some fun | D.provide information about free things to do |
Johann Gutenberg, who worked as a goldsmith(金匠),took what has already been discovered, and created a small invention that changed history. He created a machine that allowed him to move small blocks of letters in such a way that written material could be printed and mass-produced. Few people could read before Johann Gutenberg made the invention, but once books became less expensive, more Europeans could read and write.
Block printing existed long before Gutenberg. The Chinese had been using wood blocks to print books as early as 868, but a new set of woodcuts(木刻印版) had to be made for each book. Producing one book was not easy; producing all kinds of books was more difficult.
Writing ink dates from about 2500 BC in Egypt and China. Johann Gutenberg use an oil-base printing ink that would last longer than other inks used in his time. We don’t know much about Gutenberg because he was not famous during his lifetime. He was born in Germany about 1400. In 1448, Gutenberg developed signatures for each number, letter, and punctuation mark(标点符号). He then built the molds (模型) to hold the signatures in place. Johann Gutenberg published the first mass-produced book: a 1,282 page Bible. To this day, more copies of the Bible have been printed the any other book.
Copies of Gutenberg’s invention spread throughout Europe, but the German goldsmith did not get rich from his invention. Some officials denounced the invention of printing because they feared that it would spread bad ideas. By 1500 there 1,700 printing presses in Europe. The presses had already produced about 20 million volumes of 40,000 different books.
1.What happened after Johann Gutenberg’s invention?
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A.People could afford to read books. |
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B.People became interested in inventing. |
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C.It was still difficult to print all kinds of books. |
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D.Punctuation mark began to be used in printing. |
2.Compared with block printing in China, Johann Gutenberg’s method __________.
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A.was difficult to run. |
B.needed harder paper |
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C.used a new kind of ink |
D.was put into use earlier |
3.The underlined word “denounced” in the paragraph means __________.
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A.fought against |
B.accepted |
C.laughed at |
D.supported |
4.What is the best title for the passage?
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A.A famous 1,282 page Bible |
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B.The life of a famous inventor |
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C.An invention that changed history |
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D.The development of printing |