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     Two strangers were sitting together in a plane. They were on a long journey. One of the man was a

teacher, the other was a farmer.

     They sat without talking for a while, then the farmer said, "Let's do something to pass the time." "What

do you want to do?" the teacher asked. "We can ask each other riddles," the farmer said. "You start." " Let's

make the rules first," the teacher said. "And to make the game more interesting, let's play it for money. If

we don't know the answer to a riddle, we have to pay a dollar." The farmer thought about this for a while,

then he said, "That's not fair(公平). You are a teacher, an educated man. You know more things than I

do. I am just a farmer." "That's true," the teacher said. "What do you think we should do?" the farmer

said, "If you don't know the answer to a riddle, you pay me 100 dollars. If I don't know the answer to

a riddle, I'll pay you 50 dollars." The teacher thought for a while, then he said, "OK. That's fair. Who'll

go first?" "I will," the farmer said. "Here is my riddle. What has three legs when it walks, but only two

legs when it flies?" The teacher thought and thought, "What has three legs when it walks, but only two

when it flies?" Then he said, "That is a good one. I don't know the answer." He gave the farmer 100

dollars and said, "Tell me the answer. What is it?"

      " I don't know, either." The farmer said, and gave him 50 dollars.

1. At first the two men sat there without talking because _____. [ ]

A. the farmer didn't like the teacher

B. the teacher didn't like the farmer

C. the farmer like to tell jokes

D. they didn't know each other

2. The farmer wanted to _____. [ ]

A. make the journey interesting

B. see if the teacher was lucky

C. know if the teacher was clever

D. make friends with the teacher

3. The teacher thought at first that the farmer ______. [ ]

A. would fail the game

B. knew more than he

C. could answer any riddles

D. would win the game

4. From this short story we know that ______. [ ]

A. the teacher was cleverer than the farmer

B. an educated man is not always clever

C. both of the two men could know the answer

D. neither of the two men was clever

5. The best title of this story is ______. [ ]

A. How to Answer Riddles

B. A rich Teacher

C. A Way of Getting Money

D. A Clever Farmer

答案

1-5  D A A B D

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     Thomas Edison was one of ten said to be the greatest genius of his age. There are only a few men in all of the 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 happy only because someone said he was a genius. "There is no such

thing as genius, " Edison said. He said that what people called genius was mostly hard work.

     But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child he wondered about

the secrets of nature. Nature, he often said, is full of secrets. He tried to understand them; then, he tried to

learn what could usefully be done with them.

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

enjoyment and pleasure.

     Edison could not understand how anyone could be uninterested in life. As he loved to think, he also

loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what ideas 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.

1. The passage is mainly about  _________.

A. great genius in history

B. a great inventor

C. Edison's inventions

D. love for nature

2. Edison thought _______.

A. he could be happy if he was a genius

B. genius plays the most important part in one's success

C. hard work could do better than genius

D. genius could do better than hard work

3. Edison was _______.

A. very much interested in dreaming

B. interested in the secrets of nature

C. interested in changing people's ideas

D. uninterested in making people happier by discovering the secrets of nature

4. In Edison's opinion, _____ .

A. thinking can supply people with enjoyment and pleasure as well as help

B. people's success lies mostly in genius

C. hard work is the second important thing in making people successful

D. there are few secrets for him to discover later

5. The last sentence in the passage most probably implies        .

A. life is too short for Edison to invent more for human beings

B. Edison made 100 inventions in his life

C. Edison was able to live and work for 100 years

D. People of his time were ready to give Edison another 100 years' work

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