From outer space

　　Have you ever seen a falling star? One Thursday night when the sky was __1__ with dotted (小圆点的) stars, Mum and I were together on our front veranda.

　　Mum was lying in a hammock singing and I was sitting on the steps whistling(吹口哨) and chewing(咀嚼) gum at the same __2__.

　　Suddenly we both saw it. Something glittering(闪闪发光) and shiny, with a long golden tail, __3__ across the sky. My mum, who knows all __4__ of things, said, "It's a falling star. Quick Tim, make a wish. "

　　I made a wish in __5__ I wished for all the school teachers to forget it was school the next day.

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From outer space

　　Have you ever seen a falling star? One Thursday night when the sky was __1__ with dotted (小圆点的) stars, Mum and I were together on our front veranda.

　　Mum was lying in a hammock singing and I was sitting on the steps whistling(吹口哨) and chewing(咀嚼) gum at the same __2__.

　　Suddenly we both saw it. Something glittering(闪闪发光) and shiny, with a long golden tail, __3__ across the sky. My mum, who knows all __4__ of things, said, "It's a falling star. Quick Tim, make a wish. "

　　I made a wish in __5__ I wished for all the school teachers to forget it was school the next day.

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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? _____.