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George Stephenson was born in 1781 in a 1. (贫穷的) family.
He had to start work when he was only 2. (八).
When George was fourteen, he became his father’s helper. He spent a lot of time
3. (学习)about engines. And on
holidays he often made one engine to pieces and studied each piece 4. (仔细地). Soon he
became a very good
worker 5. (虽然)he could not read or
write. He began to learn English letters when he was seventeen years old. Every
day after he did twelve hours of hard work, he walked along way to have 6. (功课) from a young school
teacher. On his eighteenth 7.
(生日), he wrote his own name for the first time
in his life. George 8.
(发明) many things in his life. The train was the greatest
one among 9. (他们). Today
when we take trains from one place to 10. (另一个),we’ll think of this great man —George Stephenson.
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| George Stephenson was born in 1781 in a poor family. He had to start work when he was only eight. When George was fourteen, he became his father's helper. He spent a lot of time learning about engines. On holidays, he often took engines into pieces and studied each piece carefully. Soon he became a very good worker though he could not read or write. He began to learn the English letters when he was seventeen years old. Every day after he did twelve hours of hard work, he walked a long way to have lessons from a young teacher. On his eighteenth birthday, he wrote his own name for the first time in his life. George invented many things in his life. The train was the greatest one among them. Today when we watch or take trains from one place to another, we will think of this great man ------George Stephenson. | |||||||||||
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Here in China, queues are normal, too. It is a part of everyday life. People queue most of the time, from buying tickets in the cinema to waiting for seats at a restaurant.But in certain situations, you’ll find yourself in the middle of a rushing crowd, such as getting onto the subway. Even away from the busy subway platform (站台), queues are different. One day I was standing in line at the supermarket.I left a small space in front of me. Within seconds, a girl walked by and took her place in that small space.I was surprised at first, but later I found these experiences very interesting. It is with these small, everyday differences that I get to live and learn within a new culture.
Back in Britain, the average person spends six months of their life waiting in a queue, according to the auction site MadBid. To pass the time, maybe they tell themselves the famous proverb: good things come to those who wait.
小题1:The English are well known for _____.经过时间,
| A.forming an orderly queue | B.being rude and loud |
| C.traveling on subways | D.spending more time waiting in a queue |
| A.annoyed → calm | B.calm → angry |
| C.surprised → interested | D.shocked → angry |
| A.call on people in China to queue more |
| B.compare queuing in two different countries |
| C.praise the English for following good manners |
| D.explain why people rush in some situations |
| A.Sports. | B.News. | C.Culture. | D.Business. |
George helped his children with their homework when they were at school. They read their homework to him. He said this would help them learn better. 小题4: He told them his secret when they started high school. Then they helped keep the secret. When George was 98, he heard about the evening classes near his home. He still had a dream that he would learn to read. 小题5: He said, “A wise man can change, but a fool stays the same.” With the teacher's help, he wrote his book Life Is So Good two years later.
| A.Because food became more important than school at that time. |
| B.George wrote it in 1998 when he was 100 years old. |
| C.He went to class and learned the alphabet(字母) in less than two days. |
| D.He had to ask people things and tried to remember them. |
F. They didn't know their dad couldn't read.