阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从1—10各题所给的A、B、C和D项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of one of the country’s greatest machines was actually born in a log cabin,
1 to high school on horse back and without
2 of university degree(indeed, at age 14), thought of the idea of electronic television. In 1906 Farnsworth was born in a community near Beaver City, Utah,
3 by his grandfather.
4 he was 12, his family moved to a ranch (大牧场)in Rigby, Idaho, which was four miles from, the nearest high school,
5 necessitating(使成为必要)his daily horseback rides. Because he was interested in the electron and electricity, he persuaded his chemistry teacher, Justin Tolman, to give him
6 instruction and to allow him to listen to a senior course.
The death of his father forced him to leave at the end of his second year, but, as it
7 , at no great intellectual cost. There were, at the time, no more than a handful of men
8 the planet who could have understood Farnsworth’s idea for building an electronic television system, and it’s
9 that any of them were at this local community. One such man was Vladimir Zworykin who had moved to the US from Russia with a Ph. D in electrical engineering. He went to work for Westinghouse with a dream of building an all-electronic television system. But he wasn’t
10 to do so.
小题1: | A.rode | B.ran | C.drove | D.jumped |
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小题2:
A.sake | B.application | C.benefit | D.significance |
小题3: | A.lived | B.settled | C.inherited | D.occupied |
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小题4: | A.Because | B.When | C.However | D.Until |
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小题5: | A.thus | B.then | C.finally | D.yet |
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小题6: | A.important | B.interesting | C.special | D.vivid |
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小题7: | A.turned out | B.showed up | C.bore out | D.reflected on |
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小题9: | A.necessarily | B.essential | C.false | D.unlikely |
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小题10: | A.possible | B.capable | C.thoughtful | D.able |
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