Question

When the Farnsworth family moved to their new farm in 1919, eleven-year-old Philo was surprised to find it wired for electricity. This unusual circumstance contributed to his fate — to become an important inventor of the twentieth century.

    By thirteen, Farnsworth had become a self-taught electrical engineer. He was able to fix the farm’s generator（發(fā)電機(jī)）when none of the adults could. In 1922, he read an article about a new idea of John Baird, a Scottish scientist, who had been working with the cathode ray tube (陰極射線管) for the transmission of electronic pictures and wanted to attempt it himself.

    Farnsworth studied everything he could find on the subject. Although many older engineers with money backers were already developing television, Farnsworth made a bold decision — he was going to perfect a working model of it before anybody else.

    In college, Farnsworth continued his research with cathode ray and vacuum tubes, but the death of his father, the only money maker in the family, forced him to give up this research and find a job. His first job was for George Everson, with whom Farnsworth discussed his dream of television. While acknowledging the achievements of those who came before, Farnsworth thought that he could get closer. Everson agreed to risk $6,000 for the research.

    Backers came in 1927 to see the first American television, one year after Baird’s. They were astonished to see the image of a single white line resolve itself on the screen before them, and agreed that this new invention was worth putting money into.

    In 1930, Farnsworth won a patent (專利權(quán)) for his all-electronic TV. By the time he died, he had earned over 300 American and foreign patents for electronic and mechanical devices.

1.When Farnsworth was at a young age, he _______

A. had to drop out of school to help on the family farm

B. was sent to school to study electrical engineering

C. wanted to be the first person to invent the television

D. had shown a surprising ability in the electrical field

2.What difficulty did Farnsworth meet when he first began his research on the television?

A. His parents didn’t support his work.

B. He didn’t have enough knowledge in this field.

C. He didn’t have enough money for his research.

D. No one was interested in this research.

3.How old was Philo Farnsworth when he invented the first American television?

A. 11.                 B. 13.        C. 19.       D. 22.

4.From the passage, we can learn that Farnsworth is ______.

A. the first person who worked for the transmission of electronic pictures

B. an inventor who improved on somebody else’s idea

C. an inventor who always came up with an original idea

D. a person who earned over 300 American patents for electronic devices   

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.D

2.C

3.C

4.B

【解析】

試題分析：他在少年時(shí)代就在電氣方面顯現(xiàn)出了不凡的才能，13歲就通過自學(xué)成為了電機(jī)工程師，這就是本文介紹的二十世紀(jì)最重要的發(fā)明家之一------費(fèi)羅•法恩斯沃斯。他是一名多產(chǎn)的發(fā)明家，除發(fā)明了第一臺(tái)能傳輸圖像的機(jī)械式電視機(jī)外，他還發(fā)明了一百多種裝置。

1.D推理判斷題。文章第二段提到他在13歲的時(shí)候通過自學(xué)成為了電機(jī)工程師，而且能夠修理農(nóng)場(chǎng)的發(fā)電機(jī)，由此可知本段講述了法恩斯沃斯在少年時(shí)代就表現(xiàn)出的不凡才能，故答案選D。

2.C細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第四段可知當(dāng)他在研究改進(jìn)電視機(jī)時(shí)，家里唯一掙錢的父親去世了，他沒錢進(jìn)行研究，所以正確答案為C。

3.C細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第一段When the Farnsworth family moved to their new farm in 1919, eleven-year-old Philo was surprised to find it wired for electricity. 和倒數(shù)第二段Backers came in 1927 to see the first American television,可以判斷當(dāng)他發(fā)明一臺(tái)美國(guó)電視機(jī)的時(shí)候是19歲，故答案選C。

4.B細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由文章第三段he was going to perfect a working model of it before anybody else.可知他是在別人研究的基礎(chǔ)上進(jìn)行了改進(jìn)完善，由此可知答案選B。

考點(diǎn)：考查人物類短文閱讀。