做個勇敢的人英語閱讀理解

① 一篇英語閱讀，求解釋~！

截至2020日，太空旅遊將成為現實。你可以與其他330人想在太空中飛行航班。在這個時候，回成本為200，000美元一次飛行，但答預計成本將很快降下來。據估計，2025年約15，000的人會飛到空間的每一年。毫無疑問，這些進展將導致對勇敢的人去嘗試新的極限運動。2025年一個著名的女演員，想給她職業生涯的提升所以試圖乘沖浪板的空間，通過大氣，【然後駛過加利福尼亞的海灘在附近的海洋著陸，然後回到海灘上沖浪。沖浪板將額外的大，它可以控制天氣。】起飛時，她不得不穿太空裝，綁上沖浪板作為保護。但當它得到高度更低，它變得溫暖，她開始脫衣服。世界各地的媒體將觀看並報道她的一舉一動報，看是否它迅速燃燒起來。【當她下滑到沖浪板在洛杉磯附近的海灘上，她將擺脫。她會穿著比基尼在她滑行在海洋上的土地，然後去沖浪海灘。】

翻譯太急了，可能會有錯。望諒解並採納~~

② 急，找三篇常州初中英語閱讀理解

A little Brave Girl
A little Brave Girl

It is a true story.

This story was set in at the end of 2004 Zhejiang, when a ten-year old girl walked on her way to home from school as usual, she was being kidnapped off guard
by three men, whom are over 30 years of age, be tall, strong, and are very experienced in kidnapping. For just a split second, the girl was got in a car and didn』t know where she would head, but she didn』t burst into tears like others probably have done in her age, was unusually sober and figured out what has just happened. After short deliberation, she gave her parents telephone number to three
kidnappers after she was asked twice. Kidnappers shortly send short message to
her parents to tell what they did a moment ago for the ransom of RMB500,000 as they commands, threatened them with their daughter』s life. Her parents were at their wits' end at that moment and later had to dial police for helping. During closely watched by two kidnappers, the girl were pleased to cooperate with them in three meals, water, and spoke something to them for delaying. Luckily, kidnappers are very emotional and were amazed at what the girl said when it comes to money, 「 I know clearly you are impossible to kill me, you need money most of all
, but you should know money doesn』t grow on trees, but on painstaking hands.」
The girl said, 「 Uncle, you have probably had children like me, if you children
are in the danger of kidnapping, how then do you think? …」 Finally, the kidnappers were profoundly moved by her reasonable words, and policemen easily seized them about two days later, now they do their time.

Soon after, a journalist wanted to disclose the reason why such a little young
girl is so wise upon the curious queries from the public, but the girl』s parents definitely rejected to accept visit, because they are afraid of kidnapping again as everyone would probably know her. But her main teacher briefly told that
the school often takes 「 Keep a head ring a crisis, to be wise and brave.」 as a compulsory lesson to ecate pupils, this girl are brave enough to practise
this lesson. Also, the girl said she was sort of scared but must to eat enough to keep energetic so as to fight against the kidnappers as long as she could.

Through this story, I deeply feel that the importance of ecation. Nothing is
more important than to receive ecation. Ecation, is absolutely not complete
with graation, is a lifelong study and bound to exert a great impact on our future. Further, the value of ecation. We should not ecate children only for
the aim of ecation, our foremost purpose is to fit them for life.

We can see bats in almost every part of the world but they can』t live in very hot or very cold places. They live on all continents but do not live on Antarctica. You can find most species of bats in the places where the weather is nice and warm.
On some islands there are only a few kinds of bats. That』s because it』s too far for most bats to get to those islands.
In the United States, the greatest number of bats live in the south-western part of the country. This place has all kinds of places where bats can live and there is a lot of food ring most of the year. For example, Texas has 32 different kinds of bats while Maine has only 8; Arizona has 28 species, but Michigan has just 10.

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Questions:1. The underlined word "species" in the first paragraph means "______"in Chinese.

A. 種類B. 數量C. 天敵D. 棲息地

2. We can learn from the passage that _____.

A. bats like warm places

B. bats live everywhere in the world

C. the US has the most bats in the world

D. bats don』t like living on islands

3. The passage mainly tells us ____.
A. how bats live B. where bats live

C. bats』food D. bats』life

B

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In warm water, there is a kind of sea mammal1 called gongs. They live a comfortable life. They have no natural enemies and never fight2.Dugongs lived in the oceans ring the age of dinosaurs. They have funny faces and no front teeth! Their teeth grow only along the sides of their mouth. Some think they are ugly. Only their mothers may love them, but as we know, they are important and helpful for us!
Dugongs only eat plants. They swim slowly so that they can eat the sea grass. They often dig down into the sand and eat sea-grass roots. Dugongs relax ring the day. During most of the night, they eat. They eat noisily and you can often hear the sounds of their chomping teeth.
Dugongs give birth to only one baby every three to five years. They take the newborn baby to the surface of the water so that the baby can take its first breath of air. It stays with its mother for two years and sometimes rests on its mother』s back. Dugongs feed their young with milk.
Dugongs can live for about 60 years, but every year more and more people move to near the warm coasts and rivers which are also the homes to gongs. They have fewer places to live and feed.

Notes:

1. mammal n. 哺乳動物

2. 意為:在自然界它們沒有敵人,也從不爭斗。

詞數:39處理時間:2′09〃Questions:

1. Which one is the best title for this article?

A. The Kind Animal

B. Dugongs』Lives

C. Dugongs Are Nice
D. Mother Loves Dugongs

2. The underlined words "chomping teeth"mean __________.

A. washing teeth

B. changing teeth

C. eating loudly

D. opening the mouth

3. Which one is TRUE?
A. Dugong babies live with their mother when they are 3 years old.

B. Dugongs eat animals and plants.

C. Dugongs give birth every year.

D. Dugongs can live for as long as 60 years.

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本文詞數:240參考時間:6′00〃

A man was looking for office help. He put a sign1 in the window: "HELP WANTED. Must know how to type2 and speak two languages, and be good at the computer."1 The man was surprised, but led him into the office. Inside, the dog jumped on the chair and looked at him.
The man said, "I can』t give you this job. The sign says you must know how to type." The dog jumped down, went to the typewriter, and typed out a perfect letter. 2 The man was shocked3, but told the dog, "The sign says you have to be good at the computer." The dog went to the computer and wrote out the same letter on it.
The man looked at the dog and said, "You』re a very clever dog. 3 "
The dog looked at the man and said, "Meow!"

Notes:

1. sign n. 標牌

2. type v. 打字

3. shock v.使震驚

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Task: Please put the following sentences in the blanks. 把下列句子還原到文中空白處。

A. He took out the piece of paper and gave it to the manager.

B. However, I still can』t give you the job, because the sign also says that you need to speak two languages.

C. A short time later, a dog came to the window, saw the sign and went inside.

本期閱讀答案

閱讀A 1-3 A A B

閱讀B 1-3 B C D

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1-3 C A B

Thomas Alva Edison was a man of wonderful ability who

had the good luck to be born at a good time. In the period

just after the American Civil War the United States was

growing conditions were right for the talents of a man like

Edison.

The Edison family had come to the United States from Holland

in the early part of the l8th century． Thomas Alva the

youngest of Samuel』s seven children was born in 1847.

Thomas was an unusually curious child． Even at an early age

he loved to read and make experiments． Because he was so

dreamy and quiet a teacher once accused him of being stupid．

Thomas』s mother was so displeased by this remark that she took

her son out of school and never sent him back. She took charge

of his ecation herself and taught him reading history

science and philosophy． Edison was a very quick reader and he

remembered everything． Once he got the idea of starting at the

first shelf of a large library and reading everything in it．

But after reading through fifteen feet of books he gave up

this ambition.

In order to earn money for books and for his scientific

experiments Thomas sold vegetables from the family garden.

This work did not bring in enough money and so he began to

sell newspapers and candy on a train that ran between Port

HuronMichigan and Detroit． Because people were so eager for

the latest news about the CiviI War which was then at its

height Thomas decided in February 1862 when he was fifteen

years old to print a newspaper of his own the Weekly Herald,

in a baggage car of the train where he worked．In four years he

earned two thousand dollars from thisbusiness.

While he worked on the train young Edison continued to

experiment setting up a laboratory in the baggage car. One day

a stick of phosphorus feIl to the floor and set thecar on

fire． The conctor of the train as so angry that he threw Tom

and all his equipment off the train at the next station； he

also struck Tom causing a permanent injury which later made

him deaf in the right ear.

One day not long after he had started his newspaper, EdiSon

saw a child playing on the tracks in front of a train. He

jumped off the station platform and snatched the child from

the wheels of the train. The father who happened to be the

stationmaster was so grateful that he offered to teach Tom to

become a telegraph operator．He gave him lessons four days a

week after the station had closed for the nightand in three

weeks Edison was a better telegrapher than his teacher.

Edison was sober and independent for his age, but hen was

restless and very careless in his dress． He began to wander

from city to city and from job to job． Because his ideas were

too strange to please the men who hired him,they often asked

him to leave． During this time, he worked in Indianapolis,

Cincinnati, Memphis, and Louisville．

Edison went to Boston's where he had been promised work as

adegraph operator, mainly because of the neat handwriting in

his letter of application, When heappeared in that city, he

looked so untidy and strange that the superintendent asked him

to return later in the day to take a test in telegraphy, with

ihe idea of making ihe test so diffcult that the young man

could not possibly pass it, As the rapid message came in,

Edison realized clerks in the station were playing a joke on

him. They had arranged for the new York operator to send him a

message, faster and faster,in an effort to make Edison admit

that he could not write it down at such a rapid pace, But

Edison was not discouraged. He decided to outwit these

fellows, and he began to send a message himself. He said to

the New York operator,「Come on, don』t go to sleep．Get busy!

That ended the joke, and Edison won his job, as weil as the

title of fastest telegraph operator in the Western Union

Company.

In 1869 he borrowed some money and went to New York． During

the first three years he spent there, he nearly died of

starvation. He slept in a room belonging to a company that

sent information on stock prices to the business houses of New

York． One day the machine that printed news about gold

stopped． Six hundred banks and business houses were without

information about what was being bought and sold that day.

Edison succeeded in repairing the machine, and he was then

offered a job as manager for $300 a month． He was soon hard at

work making improvements in the machine and inventing new

parts． His Universal Printer, invented at this time, printed

full information about gold prices, instead of showing them

only by a few letters and numbers． This was his first big

success． GeneraI Marshall Lefferts, president of the Gold and

Stock Telegraph Company, bought this and several other

inventions of Edison's for forty thousand dollars.

Edison then put his new money to work． He opened a factory

in Newark,New Jersey． Soon he had over one hundred and fifty

men building machines to record stock prices, while he himself

continued to work on new ideas. At one time, he had forty-five

separate inventions in his laboratory, including several

important improvements of the telegrilph. He invented a way of

sending two messages at the same time in opposite directions,

and then a way of sending two messages at the same time in the

same direction,In 1874 he invented and sold to Western Union a

system by which four messages could be sent over one wire at

the same time, two in each direction. He also perfected a new

system for sending telegrams. These inventions saved Western

Union milhons of dollars in the cost of wires and telegraph

poles alone.

Western Union then suggested to Edison that he try to

develop a commercially useful telephone, Alexander Graham Bell

had already patented the te1ephone, but Bell's telephone could

be heard only over short distances． Edison added several

improvements, which were adopted, and are still used in the

telephone today． Western Union paid Edison one hundred

thousand dollars for his inventions.

In l876 he built a workshop and laboratory in Menlo Park,

New Jersey． He was known after that as he Wizard of Menlo

Park,because of the wonderful discoveries he made there, He

began to study the attempts of other men to invent an

incandescent electric light． He tried over and over again to

make a soft light that would be suitab1e for use in private

houses． He tested over two thousand materials before

discovering one that would work． He needed something that

would become hot and give off light when electricity passed

through it in a glass container from which the air had been

removed． He spent a hundred thousand dollars searching for the

best material． Men were sent to India, China, Brazil, and

finally, Japan, where a material was finally found.

In Jalluary,1880, the electric light was patented. Edison

then built a factory for the proction of his light in Menlo

Park, and an electric power station in New York City. But it

was fourteen years before the public really accepted the

electric light． After that, the electric light business grew

So great that Edison was able to sell his share in the

electric light for more than one million dollars.

Edison patented over one thousand separate inventions ring

his life, He never stopped trying to learn more about science

and what it could do for man, His discoveries probably

increased the wealth of the world more than those of any other

single man in history.

On October l8,1931,Edison died at the age of eighiy-four at

his home in Orange, New Jersey． Several days later, the whole

United States turned off its electric lights for one minute,

in honor of the man whose discoveries had so changed and

improved the life of people everywhere.

托馬斯.阿爾法.愛迪生是一位誕生在好時代里的天才人物。

南北戰爭以後,美國正在成長壯大,各種條件對於象愛迪生這樣有天才的人都是有利的。

愛迪生一家人在十八世紀早期從荷蘭來到美國。托馬斯·阿爾法生於1847年,是撒繆爾的七個孩子中最小的一個。

托馬斯是一個好奇心特強的孩子。即使還在幼年時代,他就愛讀書和做實驗。因為

他如此愛好空想和不聲不響,以致一位老師有一次罵他愚蠢。托馬斯的母親對這個評語很不高興,她令孩子退學不再返校。母親自己照管孩子的教育,教他閱讀,教他歷史、科學和哲學等。愛迪生讀起書來,領會得快,而且過目不忘。有一次他異想天開,要從一所大圖書館的第一個書架看起,看完書架上每一本書。但在看完了書架上十五英尺厚的書籍後,他放棄了這個野心。

為了掙錢買書和搞科學實驗,托馬斯就出售他家菜園中的蔬菜。這工作掙不到足夠的錢,所以他就開始在一列專跑休倫港、密執安和底特律的火車上賣報紙和糖果。因為人們在南北戰爭的高潮中急於了解戰爭的新情況,托馬斯在1862年2月間,他十五歲時,決定在他所工作的火車行李車上印刷他自己的報紙《先驅周報》。四年之間他從這張報紙上賺了二千美元。

年輕的愛迪生在火車上工作時繼續搞實驗,在行李車上建立了一間實驗室。有一天

一根磷棒掉在地板上使這節車廂著火。列車長十分生氣,在下一個車站把湯姆和他的所有實

驗設備都扔下了火車,還揍了湯姆一頓,造成永久性傷害,使愛迪生右耳聾了。

愛迪生在開辦他的報紙後不久,有一天望見一個小孩在火車前面的鐵軌上玩耍。他急忙從站台上跳下把小孩從火車輪子下搶救出來。這孩子的父親正好是站長,他很感激,主動

提出要教會湯姆成為電報員。他在車站夜晚關門後,每周給他上四次課,三個星期之後愛迪生 便成為比他老師更好的電報員了。

就他的年齡來說,愛迪生很穩重,有獨立性,但他見異思遷,而且對於衣著很不注意。 他開始從一個城市漫遊到另一個城市,從一個

職業換到另一個職業。因為他的想法太離奇,

不能使僱用他的人滿意,僱主們常常叫他卷鋪蓋走路。在這段時間里,他在印地安納波利斯,辛辛那提,孟菲斯和路易斯維爾等城市都工作過。

愛迪生去到了波士頓,在那裡有人答應給他電報員的工作,主要因為他的求職信中字跡寫得工整。當他在波士頓露面時,他是如此的衣冠不整,怪里怪氣,以致主管人叫他當天晚些時候去參加電報技術的考試,目的是要故意出難題,使這位青年考不及格。當電報迅速拍進來時,愛迪生意識到電報局的職工們是在和他開玩笑。他們已經和紐約市的電報員安排好,給愛迪生拍一份電報來,越拍越快,企圖迫使愛迪生承認他抄不下這么快的電報。但愛迪生沒有泄氣。他決心以智取勝,於是他開始自己拍出一份電報。他對紐約市的電報員說：「來吧,別去睡覺,使勁吧！」這就結束了這場玩笑,愛迪生也贏得了他的職位,同時還贏得了西聯電訊公司最快電報員的稱號。

1869年愛迪生借了些錢去到紐約,他在紐約的頭三年裡,幾乎餓死。他睡在一家公司的一間房子里,這公司專給紐約各商行提供股票行情。一天,那台印刷黃金行情的機器不動了。六百家銀行和商行都收不到關於那天買進賣出的商情,愛迪生把這機器修好了,因此人家給了他一個經理的職位,月薪三百美元。他很

快地就努力改進這台機器,並且還發明了許多新部件。他當時發明的萬能印刷機印出了關於金價的全部情報,而不只是以少數字母和數字來顯示行情。這是他第一個巨大的成功,金價和股票電報公司的經理馬歇爾。萊費茲將軍出資四萬美元把這台機器和愛迪生的其他幾項發明買了下來。

愛迪生就拿這新到手的錢做生意。他在新澤西州紐阿克市開了一家工廠。很快地他就雇了一百五十人製造紀錄股票行情的機器了,而他自己則繼續試驗他的一些新想法。有一段時間在他實驗室里共有四十五個不同的發明項目,包括幾項對於電報機的重要改進。他想出了一種方法,可從兩個相反方向同時各拍出一份電報,隨後又想出一種方法,可從一個方向同時拍兩份電報。1874年他發明並售給西聯電訊公司一種裝置,用了它可以在一根電線上拍發四份電報,即從每一方向可同時拍發兩份電報。他還改進了一種拍電報的新方法。使之趨於完善。這些發明,僅在電線和電線竿的成本上就為西聯電訊公司節約了幾百萬美元。

西聯電訊公司又向愛迪生建議：叫他試制一部商用電話,亞歷山大.貝爾已經取得了電話機的專利,但貝爾的電話譏只能在短距

離內聽見。愛迪生增大了幾項改進,被採用了,這些改進直到今天仍然應用在電話上。西聯電訊公司為他的幾項發明付給愛迪生十萬美元。

1876年,愛迪生在新澤西州門洛園建造了一個車間和實驗室,由於他在那裡搞出了許多奇妙的發明,以後他被人們稱為「洛園的巫師」。他開始研究別人為發明白熱電燈所作的嘗試。他一次再一次地試制一種適子家用的柔光燈。在找到,種合用的材料之前,他竟試驗了兩千種以上的材料。他需要某種可放在抽去空氣的玻璃容器內,通過電流後能變熱並發出光來的材料。他花了十萬美元尋找最好的材料。他派人去印度、中國、巴西,最後終於在日本找到了。

在1880年1月,他取得了電燈專利權。愛迪生在門洛園建造了一家生產電燈的工廠,並在紐約市建成了一座發電站。但是直到過十四年公眾才真正接受他的電燈。在那以後,電燈業發展得規模如此之大。以致愛迪生出售他的電燈股票時,竟得了一百多萬美元。

愛迪生一生中得到一千多種發明項

國的專利為了學習更多的科學並使科學為人類服務,他永不停息。他的各種發明為世界增加的財富可能比歷史上任何一個人都多。

1931年10月18月,愛迪生在新澤西州奧蘭奇城的家中去世,終年八十四歲。幾天後全美國都停電一分鍾以紀念這個以他的發明大大改變並改善了各地人民生活的人。