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I.Read the passage and answer the questions:
Marconi,who invented radio nearly a hundred years ago,was born in Bologna in Northern Italy in 1874.His father was a rich Italian businessman and his mother was a Scot who had lived in Ireland and had gone to Italy to study music .The family lived in a country house,the Villa Grifone,just outside Bologna.
When he was a boy ,people did not think that Marconi was particulary clever.He was a quiet boy who spoke little bot thought a lot.He liked nothing better than to sit and read scientific books in his father is big library.He also loved to do experiments with electricity .For most of his early life ,he was taught at home .He did not go to school.
1.What was Marconi is nationality?
2.Why did Marconi speak little?
II.Read the passage carefully and choose the best option:
No writer in American literature is more famous or more loved than Mark Twain.
When Mark Twain was eleven years old,his father died leaving nothing to his wife and four children.Mark Twain had to leave school and look for a job .His elder brother was working as a printer and he helped the boy to learn printing .For some years,he worked as a printer for the town newspaper and later for his brother ,who at that time had started a small newspaper.The two young man Published it themselves.Mark Twain wrote short humorous stories and printed them for their newspaper.In 1853,Mark Twain decided to leave home.He went to New York ,and then to Philadelphia, where he worked as a printer .when he was a boy ,he dreamed of becoming a sailor .At 20,he found a job on a boat travelling up and down the Mississippi ,but he had to pay 100 dollars to get the job .On that boat he learned the work of a sailor.
"Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn" are considered Twain is best works which provide his readers with an excellent picture of his era .His last book was written in 1909, one year before his death.He was then 74 years old.
1.What is Mark Twain is nationality?
2.What is his job?
3.What did he do in Philadelphia?
4.When did he die?
Marconi,who invented radio nearly a hundred years ago,was born in Bologna in Northern Italy in 1874.His father was a rich Italian businessman and his mother was a Scot who had lived in Ireland and had gone to Italy to study music .The family lived in a country house,the Villa Grifone,just outside Bologna.
When he was a boy ,people did not think that Marconi was particulary clever.He was a quiet boy who spoke little bot thought a lot.He liked nothing better than to sit and read scientific books in his father is big library.He also loved to do experiments with electricity .For most of his early life ,he was taught at home .He did not go to school.
1.What was Marconi is nationality?
2.Why did Marconi speak little?
II.Read the passage carefully and choose the best option:
No writer in American literature is more famous or more loved than Mark Twain.
When Mark Twain was eleven years old,his father died leaving nothing to his wife and four children.Mark Twain had to leave school and look for a job .His elder brother was working as a printer and he helped the boy to learn printing .For some years,he worked as a printer for the town newspaper and later for his brother ,who at that time had started a small newspaper.The two young man Published it themselves.Mark Twain wrote short humorous stories and printed them for their newspaper.In 1853,Mark Twain decided to leave home.He went to New York ,and then to Philadelphia, where he worked as a printer .when he was a boy ,he dreamed of becoming a sailor .At 20,he found a job on a boat travelling up and down the Mississippi ,but he had to pay 100 dollars to get the job .On that boat he learned the work of a sailor.
"Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn" are considered Twain is best works which provide his readers with an excellent picture of his era .His last book was written in 1909, one year before his death.He was then 74 years old.
1.What is Mark Twain is nationality?
2.What is his job?
3.What did he do in Philadelphia?
4.When did he die?