46. I will have several __________________(三明治) instead of rice for lunch today.

45. What does the last sentence in the passage mean?

A. Edison was born to be a great inventor

B. Edison was able to live another 100 years

C. Edison was ready to make his 100th invention

D. Life was too short for Edison to work for human beings

A）根据括号中所给的汉语写出单词，使句子意思完整正确。

44. Was Edison a good thinker or a good worker?

   A. He was a good thinker.

   B. He was either a good worker or a good thinker.

   C. He was a good thinker and he was a good worker, too.

   D. He was neither a good thinker nor a good worker.

43. What could not Edison understand?

A. He couldn’t understand how anybody enjoyed life.

B. He couldn’t understand if anybody loved working.

C. He couldn’t understand why anybody loved thinking.

D. He couldn’t understand why anybody was tired of life.

42. How did Edison always deal with the secrets of nature after exploring them?

A. To write down what he had learned.      B. To carry out a new experiment.

C. To make them useful in life.            D. To share them with others

41. What is genius according to Thomas Edison?

A. Hard thinking.    B. Hard work.     C. Useful ideas.    D. Useful inventions.

40. Which of the following is the best title(标题) of the passage?

A. The Beautiful Island     B. We Are One     C. The Rich Island     D. You and Me

                                  D

People often said Thomas Edison was the greatest genius(天才) of his age. There are only a few men in all of history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light. But Edison could never be pleased only because someone said he was a genius. "There is no such a thing as genius," Edison said. He thought what people called genius was mostly hard work.

     But Edison was a thinker as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child

he wondered about the secrets of nature. He tried to understand them, and then he tried to learn what he could usefully do with them.

     Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people would do almost anything instead of the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking could give men enjoyment and pleasure.

     Edison could not understand why anyone could not be interested in life. As he loved to think, he also loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what idea he had about life. "Work," he answered, "Discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier." He said he had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.

39. What made people on both sides angry?

A. There were no important meetings between the leaders on both sides.

B. There was no business and tourism across the Straits for many years.

C. People on both sides couldn’t visit each other by air.

D. Some top leaders in Taiwan have been trying to make Taiwan an independent country.

38. Why do most Taiwanese celebrate Chinese traditional festivals?

A. Because they like eating traditional Chinese food very much.

B. Because they are Chinese in fact.

C. Because they would rather celebrate Chinese festivals than Western festivals.

D. Because Chinese traditional festivals are popular in the world now.

37. How long does it take to go to Taiwan from Fujian by ship?

A. 56 years.         B. 26 days.       C. 4 hours.     D. 130 hours.