Frank W．Woolworth was born in Rodman, New York in 1852．His family was very   1   and even there was never enough food to eat．So, Frank decided he would do something else instead of being a farmer．Later, he took a short business training to find a job．As a result, he got a job as a  2   in a large city．

It was not long before Woolworth realized that he had a natural skill(天赋) for displaying goods(商品) to attract the customers’(顾客)   3  , but he also learned something more important later．One day his boss(老板) told him to sell some odds and ends(小商品) for as much as he could get．A fresh idea came into his mind．He put all these goods on one table with a sign, it   4  : FIVE CENTS EACH．Seeing this, people pushed to buy the goods and the   5   was soon cleared．

Soon after that, Woolworth opened his own store, selling five and ten cents．This is the   6   of the famous "five and ten store"．But he had another lesson to learn before he became successful．That is, if you want to make    7   by selling goods at a low price, you have to buy them in large number directly from the factory．For example, Woolworth once went to Germany and placed an order for knives．The order was so large that the factory had to    8   running 24 hours a day for a whole year．In this way, the price of the knives was cut down by half．

By 1919, Woolworth had over l,000    9   in the USA and Canada, and opened his first store in London．He made many millions, and his name became famous throughout (遍及)    10  ．He always ran his business according to strict rules, of which the most important was: "THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT．"

1．A．rich                           B．poor                       C．big                         D．small

2．A．salesman                    B．farmer                    C．teacher                   D．doctor

3．A．feeling                     B．ideas                       C．help                        D．interest

4．A．wrote                         B．said                        C．spoke                     D．talked

5．A．ground                    B．table                       C．room                      D．store

6．A．beginning                   B．end                         C．secret                            D．rules

7．A．friends                    B．mistakes                 C．progress                 D．money

8．A．begin                         B．finish                      C．keep                       D．stop

9．A．dollars                     B．stores                     C．factories                 D．salesmen

10．A．the USA                   B．Canada                   C．Germany                D．the world

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In the 1930s, a lot of people in the USA were out of work. Among these people was a man named Alfred Butts. He always had an interest in word games and so, to fill his time, he planned a game that he called“Lexico”. However, he was not completely satisfied with the game, so he made a number of changes to it and, in time, changed its name from “Lexico”to“Alph”and then to“Criss Cross”.He wanted to make some money from his new game but he didn't have any real commercial(商业性的)success.

In 1939, Butts happened to meet a man called Jim Brunot who showed an interest in the new game. The two men worked together on developing the game and in 1948 it was offered for sale in the United States under its new name-“Scrabble”.

At first it didn't sell very well. In the first year it sold just 2250 sets and by 1952 it had only reached 8500 sets a year.

Then, in 1952 the manager of Macy's department store in New York, Jack Strauss, happened to play“Scrabble”while he was on holiday. He thought it was a wonderful game and, when he went back to work after his holiday, he insisted that Macy's should stock(储备) the game and make an effort(努力) to call the public's attention to it.

As a result,“Scrabble”became a big success in the United States and it soon spread to Australia and then to other English-speaking countries.

The text is mainly about ________.

1. A.
   Lexico
2. B.
   three men
3. C.
   a word game
4. D.
   Alfred Butts

请根据括号中的中文提示、英文释义或句意，写出句中所缺单词，使句子通顺。

1.All of the travelers live together like a big        (家庭).

2.Harry keeps exercising every morning. As a result, he’s a few kilos       (轻的) than he used to be.

3.David is such an        (telling the truth) boy that everyone likes him very much.

4.You have to be        (having or showing patience) if you are waiting at the end of a long queue.   

5.As we know,        is the second day of a week.

请根据括号中的中文提示、英文释义或句意，写出句中所缺单词，使句子通顺。
【小题1】All of the travelers live together like a big        (家庭).
【小题2】Harry keeps exercising every morning. As a result, he’s a few kilos       (轻的) than he used to be.
【小题3】David is such an        (telling the truth) boy that everyone likes him very much.
【小题4】You have to be        (having or showing patience) if you are waiting at the end of a long queue.   
【小题5】As we know,        is the second day of a week.

The car was invented (发明) just a century ago. You may know all kinds of cars’ names, but many people don’t know who was the inventor of the first car. The first car was invented not by a German, but by an American. His name was Henry Ford. Henry was born in a poor family. He was the eldest of six children. When he was a boy, he became interested in mending watches and machines. When he was twelve years old, his mother died. Soon he had to work in a machine shop for two dollars and fifty cents a week. In the evenings he repaired watches for another dollar a week. The hard life made him strong and able.

At that time there was another interest in the life of the young ford. He dreamed(梦想) to make a machine. It could run without a horse, so named “horseless carriage.” He over-came(克服) a lot of difficulties and in April 1893, the “horseless carriage” was finally finished. It was the first car.

Later Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company(福特汽车公司). He was really the first inventor of the car in the world.

1.Who really invented the car first? _____.

2.From this story we can know the car was invented_____.

3. Henry Ford must have_____.

4. How many dollars did young Ford earn(挣) every week? _____.

5.Which is not true? _____.