Question

Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17,1706 in Boston，America. In his life he built a successful printing and publishing business in Philadelphia；he conducted scientific studies of electricity and made several important discoveries；he was a diplomat (外交官) and statesman；he helped establish Pennsylvania’s first university and America’s first city hospital；he also organized the country’s first subscription library (收費圖書館)．

Franklin was also unequaled in America as an inventor until Thomas Edison. Ben had poor eyesight  and needed glasses to read. He got tired of always taking them off and putting them back on，so he decided to figure out a way to make his glasses let him see both near and far. He had two pairs of glasses cut in half and put half of them together. Today，we call them bifocals (雙光眼鏡)．Another invention of his，an iron stove，allowed people to warm their homes.

He loved to learn about new things. He also thought it was important to make life better with the things that he invented. Electricity was one of the things he experimented with when he retired from his business. Ben discovered that lightning (閃電) and electricity were the same thing. The lightning rod was an important invention that we still use today to protect buildings and ships from lightning damage.

Franklin preferred to have his inventions used freely for the comfort and convenience of everyone. Thomas Jefferson，the third president of America，called Benjamin Franklin “the greatest man of the age and country in which he lived”．To Benjamin Franklin there was no greater purpose in life than to “l(fā)ive usefully”．

1.Benjamin Franklin was NOT a________.

A．diplomat                              B．scientist

C．businessman                           D．president

2.The underlined word “unequaled” in Paragraph 2 means________.

A．better than any other                    B．worse than any other

C．the same as others                      D．confident as others

3.Which of the following is NOT Benjamin’s invention?

A．Bifocals.                              B．The iron stove.

C．Printing.                              D．The lightning rod.

4.What was Benjamin Franklin’s purpose in life?

A．To live comfortably every day.

B．To be useful to others.

C．To be a famous person in the world.

D．To earn a lot by inventing things.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.D

2.A

3.C

4.B

【解析】

試題分析：本文介紹了富蘭克林的成就、貢獻、人生格言以及美國總統(tǒng)對他的高度評價。

1.根據(jù)he was a diplomat (外交官) and statesman，排除A，根據(jù)he conducted scientific studies of electricity and made several important discoveries；排除B，根據(jù)In his life he built a successful printing and publishing business in Philadelphia；排除 C，故選D。

2.“unequaled”意為無與倫比的，故選A。

3.根據(jù)He had two pairs of glasses cut in half and put half of them together. Today，we call them bifocals (雙光眼鏡)．排除A，根據(jù)Another invention of his，an iron stove，allowed people to warm their homes.排除B，根據(jù)The lightning rod was an important invention that we still use today to protect buildings and ships from lightning damage.排除D，故選C。

4.根據(jù)To Benjamin Franklin there was no greater purpose in life than to “l(fā)ive usefully”．故選B。

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